Baseball Game Preview: South View Tigers vs. Scotland Fighting Scots

The South View Tigers will venture away from home to square off against the Scotland Fighting Scots at 1:00 p.m. on Saturday. South View is strutting in with some hitting muscle as they've averaged 7.6 runs per game this season.

South View's pitching crew heads into the match hoping to repeat the dominance they displayed on Friday. Everything went their way against Seventy-First as South View made off with a 12-0 victory. The win made it back-to-back victories for the Tigers.

Logan Read made a big impact while hitting and pitching. He looked comfortable on the mound, not allowing a single earned run while striking out seven over five innings pitched. The dominant performance also gave him a new career-low in earned runs (zero). He was also big at the plate, scoring a run while going 1-for-3.

Trey Ray

Runs

03/28/25 @ Seventy-First	2
03/25/25 @ Jack Britt	2
03/07/25 vs Douglas Byrd	2
03/18/25 @ Gray's Creek	1
03/06/25 vs Western Harnett	1
+ 2 more games

In other batting news, Trey Ray was a standout: he scored two runs and stole two bases while getting on base in three of his four plate appearances. South View is undefeated when Ray posts two or more runs, but 4-6 otherwise. Another player making a difference was Isaiah Alford, who scored two runs and stole four bases.

South View hit smart and finished the game with only one strikeout. They easily outclassed their opponents in that department as Seventy-First struck out seven times.

Meanwhile, Scotland had already won three in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 4.3 runs) and they went ahead and made it four on Monday. They came within a single run of losing the streak, but they secured a 5-4 W against the Hawks. That's two games straight that the Fighting Scots have won by just one run.

Scotland's win was their third straight at home, which pushed their record up to 8-3. The victories came thanks in part to their hitting performance across that stretch, as they averaged 8.0 runs over those games. As for South View, they now have a winning record of 7-6.

South View skirted past Scotland 8-6 when the teams last played back in April of 2023. The rematch might be a little tougher for South View since the team won't have the home-field advantage this time around. We'll see if the change in venue makes a difference.