With a playoff game on the line, East Providence rose to the challenge on Sunday. Their pitchers stepped up to hand the Westerly Bulldogs a 2-0 shutout. The win made it back-to-back victories for East Providence.
For Westerly's part, they got a good showing from Jack Zerbarini, who pitched two innings while giving up no earned runs off one hit.
On the hitting side, Westerly saw five different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Andrew Bozek, who went 2-for-4 with a double.
East Providence has been performing incredibly well recently as they've won eight of their last nine games, which provided a nice bump to their 21-5-1 record this season. As for Westerly, their loss dropped their record down to 19-5-1.
The teams didn't have to wait long for a rematch: East Providence beat Westerly by a score of 2-0 later that day.
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