Deer Isle-Stonington has been on the road for two straight, but on Friday they'll finally head home. They will take on the Mattanawcook Lynx at 4:30 p.m. on Friday. Both teams are strolling into their matches after big wins in their previous games.
Deer Isle-Stonington's pitching crew heads into the contest hoping to repeat the dominance they displayed on Wednesday. Everything went their way against Central as Deer Isle-Stonington made off with a 17-0 victory. The high-flying hitting performance was a huge turnaround for Deer Isle-Stonington considering their two-run performance the game before.
Meanwhile, Mattanawcook can now show off four landslide victories after their most recent matchup on Wednesday. They were the clear victor by a 15-1 margin over Calais. While fans of Mattanawcook might be used to big wins, the 14-run margin marked the team's biggest one yet.
Isaac Ritchie tossed a big game, not allowing a single earned run and only one hit while striking out six over five innings pitched.
At the plate, Mattanawcook got a massive performance out of Owen Harper, who scored three runs while going 3-for-4. The team also got some help courtesy of James Trott, who scored four runs and stole a base while going 3-for-3.
Deer Isle-Stonington now has a winning record of 2-1. As for Mattanawcook, their win bumped their record up to 6-1.
Deer Isle-Stonington came up short against Mattanawcook in their previous matchup two weeks ago, falling 5-2. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of Trott, who struck out nine batters over 4.1 innings while giving up just one earned run off two hits. Now that Deer Isle-Stonington knows the damage he can cause, will they be able to stop him this time? There's only one way to find out.
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