After three games on the road, Skyline is heading back home. They will welcome the Horizon Hawks at 4:00 p.m. on Tuesday.
Skyline came up short against Jefferson Academy on Saturday, falling 26-4.
Meanwhile, winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Horizon). Everything went their way against Longmont on Monday as Horizon made off with an 18-3 victory. Considering the Hawks have won six games by more than five runs this season, Monday's blowout was nothing new.
Kaiya Barela made a big impact while hitting and pitching. She looked comfortable on the mound, striking out eight batters over four innings while giving up just one earned (and two unearned) runs off five hits. The dominant performance also gave her a new career-high in batting average. She was also stellar in the batter's box, going 3-for-4 with five RBI.
In other batting news, Horizon got a massive performance out of Tessa Munsch, who scored four runs while going 2-for-3. What's more, Munsch also posted a .750 OBP, which is the highestshe's posted since back in August. Another player making a difference was Adrianna Jaramillo, who scored four runs while going 2-for-3.
Perhaps unsurprisingly given the score, Horizon hit smart and finished the game with only two strikeouts. They easily outclassed their opponents in that department as Longmont struck out eight times.
Skyline dropped their record down to 1-16 with the loss, which was their seventh straight on the road. As for Horizon, the win was the third in a row for them, bringing their record for this year to 9-10.
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