The Southern Lehigh Spartans will head out on the road to challenge the Pleasant Valley Bears at 4:00 p.m. on Monday. Southern Lehigh is strutting in with some hitting muscle as they've averaged 9.2 runs per game this season.
Southern Lehigh lost 13-3 to Palmerton on Thursday. The loss continues a trend for Southern Lehigh in their matchups with Palmerton: they've now lost three in a row.
Lila Padden was cooking despite her team's loss, going 2-for-3 with a home run and three RBI. The team also got some help courtesy of Isabelle Witt, who went 2-for-2 with a double.
Meanwhile, after a string of seven wins, Pleasant Valley's good fortune finally ran out on Friday. They fell just short of Parkland by a score of 3-2.
Pleasant Valley saw seven different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Brianca Pridham, who went 1-for-3 with two RBI.
Southern Lehigh's defeat ended a three-game streak of away wins and brought them to 7-7. As for Pleasant Valley, their loss ended a four-game streak of away wins and brought them to 10-4.
Fans could be in store for some top-tier slugging on Monday. Southern Lehigh hasn't had any problems when it comes to power this season, having averaged 0.6 home runs per game. However, it's not like Pleasant Valley struggles in that department as they've been averaging 1.1. With so much power on both teams, it'll be down to the pitchers to keep the mound locked down.
Everything went Southern Lehigh's way against Pleasant Valley in their previous meeting back in April of 2015 as Southern Lehigh made off with a 9-1 win. The rematch might be a little tougher for Southern Lehigh since the team won't have the home-field advantage this time around. We'll see if the change in venue makes a difference.
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