The Middletown Islanders will be playing at home against the Westerly Bulldogs at 12:00 p.m. on Saturday. Both teams come into the contest bolstered by wins in their previous matches.
Middletown's pitching crew heads into the match hoping to repeat the dominance they displayed on Thursday. They walked away with a 5-0 win over Woonsocket.
Evan Levasseur made a big impact while hitting and pitching. He looked comfortable on the mound, not allowing a single earned run while striking out 13 over 6.2 innings pitched. Levasseur has been nothing but reliable: he hasn't given up more than two walks in four consecutive pitching appearances. Levasseur was also big at the plate, scoring two runs and stealing four bases while going 3-for-4.
Levasseur wasn't the only one making solid contact as five players wound up with at least one hit. One of them was Caleb Cinquegrana, who went 2-for-3 with an RBI.
Meanwhile, Westerly faced East Greenwich in a battle between two of the state's top teams on Thursday. Everything went Westerly's way against East Greenwich as Westerly made off with a 7-1 victory. Westerly might be getting used to big wins seeing as the team's won five games by six runs or more this season.
Nick Tria and Grayson Simmons did most of the damage at the plate: Tria went 2-for-3 with two RBI, while Simmons scored two runs while getting on base in three of his four plate appearances.
Middletown's win ended a three-game drought on the road and puts them at 6-7. As for Westerly, the victory made it two in a row for them and bumps their season record up to 9-3-1.
Middletown skirted past Westerly 7-6 in their previous meeting back in May of 2023. Does Middletown have another victory up their sleeve, or will Westerly turn the tables on them? We'll have the answer soon enough.
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