Softball Recap: Portola Has No Trouble Against CORE Butte

Tigers

Margin (Wins)

03/17/25 @ Wooster	19
03/01/25 vs Hug	17
03/21/25 vs Weed	15
03/07/25 vs Loyalton	13
03/21/25 vs CORE Butte	7

Portola's game on Friday was a loss, but they didn't let that memory haunt them on Friday. They put the hurt on the CORE Butte Lynx with a sharp 11-4 win. Considering the Tigers have won five matchups by more than six runs this season, Friday's blowout was nothing new.

Portola let Chloe Williamson and Ainsleigh Pruitt run wild. Williamson scored two runs while going 3-for-4, while Pruitt went 3-for-4 with three runs and one triple. That triple marked the first that Pruitt hit this season. The team also got some help courtesy of Jaleyah Sigala, who went 2-for-4 with three RBI and one double.

They weren't the only ones working in the hit department: Portola kept the outfield on their toes and finished the game with 14 hits. They easily outclassed their opponents in that department as CORE Butte only managed five hits.

Portola is on a roll lately: they've won three of their last four games. That's provided a nice bump to their 5-3-1 record this season. The victories came thanks in part to their hitting performance across that stretch, as they averaged 12.0 runs over those games. This is the second loss in a row for CORE Butte and nudges their season record down to 2-4.

Portola didn't take long to hit the field again: they've already played their next contest, a 15-12 win against Trinity on the 22nd. As for CORE Butte, they also wasted no time getting back out on the field and have already played their next match, a 7-2 loss against Oroville on the 24th.