The Bloomfield Hills Black Hawks will square off against the De La Salle Collegiate Pilots at 4:30 p.m. on Friday. The two teams have allowed few runs on average (Bloomfield Hills 3.8, De La Salle Collegiate 2.6) so any runs scored will be well earned.
Bloomfield Hills is coming in off a wild two-game stretch: after soaring to 11 runs on Saturday, they were much more limited against Royal Oak on Wednesday. They fell 4-1 to the Ravens.
Meanwhile, it may have taken eight innings to finish the job, but De La Salle Collegiate ultimately got the result they hoped for on Wednesday. They had just enough and edged out Brother Rice 5-4. The game snapped a strange streak: the last five times these teams have met, it?s been the away team that?s taken home the W.
Mason Pilarski spent all eight innings on the mound, and it's clear why: he surrendered three earned (and one unearned) runs on nine hits and racked up 11 Ks. He has been nothing but reliable: he hasn't tossed less than seven strikeouts in three consecutive appearances.
On the hitting side, De La Salle Collegiate's win was truly a team effort as four different players contributed at least one hit. One of them was Zackary Wagner, who went 1-for-3 with one stolen base and one run. Another was Dane Debbrecht, who got on base in three of his four plate appearances with one run and one RBI.
Bloomfield Hills' defeat dropped their record down to 11-9. As for De La Salle Collegiate, their victory bumped their record up to 14-4.
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