The Pioneer Valley Regional Panthers have the luxury of staying home for another game and will welcome the Hull Pirates at 4:00 p.m. on Sunday. Neither Pioneer Valley Regional nor Hull posted many runs in their last games, so it might be the pitching crews that decide this one.
Last Tuesday, Pioneer Valley Regional didn't have quite enough to beat Ware and fell 2-1. The result shouldn't come as a shock considering that's the fewest runs Pioneer Valley Regional has scored all season.
Pioneer Valley Regional saw five different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Ben Werner, who went 3-for-5 with an RBI. Ethan Mauthe was another key contributor, scoring a run while getting on base in three of his five plate appearances.
Even though they lost, Pioneer Valley Regional didn't let batters stay on the plate for long and finished the game with 13 strikeouts. That's the most strikeouts they've managed all season.
Meanwhile, Hull owes their pitching crew a big pat on the back after their performance on Friday. They came out on top in a nail-biter against Boston Collegiate and snuck past 2-0.
Pioneer Valley Regional's defeat dropped their record down to 16-5. As for Hull, their win was their seventh straight at home, which pushed their record up to 14-7.
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