The Vanden Vikings will challenge the River City Raiders at 4:00 p.m. on Friday. The teams are on pretty different trajectories at the moment (Vanden has ten straight wins, River City has five straight losses), but none of that matters once you're on the field.
Vanden's pitching crew heads into the game hoping to repeat the dominance they displayed on Wednesday. They put the hurt on Wood with a sharp 6-0 victory. The Vikings might be getting used to big wins seeing as the team has won nine matchups by six runs or more this season.
Meanwhile, River City lost 18-2 to Wood on Friday.
River City saw five different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Hailey Flint, who scored a run while going 2-for-3. Azzy Mendez was another, going 1-for-2 with one double and one RBI.
Vanden pushed their record up to 14-4 with the win, which was their fifth straight on the road. Those road victories came thanks in part to their hitting performance across that stretch, as they averaged 10.0 runs over those games. As for River City, their defeat dropped their record down to 3-14.
Everything went Vanden's way against River City in their previous meeting back in March, as Vanden made off with a 19-1 win. Will the Vikings repeat their success, or do the Raiders have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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