Northwood waltzed into their contest on Wednesday with seven straight wins... but they left with eight. Everything went their way against the Portola Bulldogs as they made off with a 10-4 victory. That's more bragging rights for Northwood, who also won the pair's last head-to-head.
Carter Liu and Paul Grossman were a major factor while hitting and pitching. Throwing, Liu pitched 2.1 innings while giving up no earned runs off one hit. Meanwhile, Grossman struck out 12 batters over 4.2 innings while giving up three earned (and one unearned) runs off five hits. He has been nothing but reliable on the mound: he hasn't given up more than two walks in three consecutive pitching appearances. At bat, Liu scored two runs while getting on base in three of his four plate appearances, while Grossman scored three runs while getting on base in all four of his plate appearances.
In other batting news, the team relied heavily on Luke Hansen, who scored a run while going 3-for-4.
On Portola's side, they saw five different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Rider Cooper, who scored a run while going 2-for-4.
Northwood has been performing incredibly well recently as they've won nine of their last ten matches, which provided a nice bump to their 19-5-1 record this season. As for Portola, this is the second loss in a row for them and nudges their season record down to 11-12-1.
Northwood will have a chance to go back-to-back against Portola: the pair's next game is a rematch scheduled at 3:30 p.m. on Friday.
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