Pleasant Valley is 10-0 against Shasta since April of 2019, and they'll have a chance to extend that success in Tuesday's first game. The Pleasant Valley Vikings will be playing in front of their home fans against the Shasta Wolves at 2:00 p.m. The teams are on pretty different trajectories at the moment (Pleasant Valley has four straight wins, Shasta has three straight losses), but none of that matters once you're on the field.
On Friday, it was close, but Pleasant Valley sidestepped Red Bluff for a 4-3 victory. Four seems to be a good number for Pleasant Valley as the team scooped up a win with the same number of runs in their previous game.
Domenic Borges spent all seven innings on the mound, and it's clear why: he surrendered only one earned (and two unearned) runs on six hits. He has been consistent recently: he hasn't pitched less than five innings in three consecutive pitching appearances.
On the hitting side, the team relied heavily on Nick Anderson, who went 1-for-3 with a home run. Another player making a difference was Jacob Ortega, who went 2-for-3 with two RBI.
Meanwhile, Shasta didn't have quite enough to beat Chico on Friday and fell 4-2. That's two games in a row now that Shasta has lost by exactly two runs.
Shasta saw seven different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Eli Kennedy, who scored a run while going 2-for-4. The team also got some help courtesy of Jack Peterson, who scored a run while going 2-for-2.
Pleasant Valley has been performing incredibly well recently as they've won six of their last seven contests, which provided a nice bump to their 12-5-1 record this season. As for Shasta, their defeat dropped their record down to 9-7-1.
Everything went Pleasant Valley's way against Shasta in their previous meeting back in April of 2023 as Pleasant Valley made off with a 13-7 victory. Does Pleasant Valley have another victory up their sleeve, or will Shasta turn the tables on them? We'll have the answer soon enough.
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