Pomeroy entered their tilt with Garfield-Palouse with eight consecutive wins but they'll enter their next game with nine. Their pitchers stepped up to hand the Garfield-Palouse Vikings a 14-0 shutout in Saturday's second game. Pomeroy might be getting used to big wins seeing as the team's won nine games by seven runs or more this season.
Trace Roberts made a splash no matter where he played. He struck out nine batters over three innings while giving up no earned runs or hits. Roberts has been nothing but reliable on the mound: he hasn't tossed less than five strikeouts in five consecutive pitching appearances. Roberts was also big at the plate, going 1-for-3 with two runs, a triple, and two RBI.
In other batting news, Pomeroy let Nick Bryson and Kyzer Herres loose on the outfield. Bryson scored three runs while going 1-for-3, while Herres scored a run while going 2-for-3. Another player making a difference was Peyton Cannon, who got on base in three of his four plate appearances with a triple, a run, and an RBI.
Pomeroy pushed their record up to 11-2 with that win, which was their ninth straight at home dating back to last season. As for Garfield-Palouse, they haven't won a game yet this season and fell to 0-7.
Pomeroy will have a chance to go back-to-back against Garfield-Palouse: the pair's next game is a rematch scheduled at 4:00 p.m. on Tuesday.
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