The Westerly Bulldogs will take on the Moses Brown Quakers at 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday. The two teams are strolling into their contests after big wins in their previous games.
Westerly is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of Rhode Island's top teams: North Kingstown, who was ranked 20th at the time (Westerly was ranked ninth). The Bulldogs never let the Skippers get on the board and left with a 6-0 win on Saturday. The Bulldogs might be getting used to big wins seeing as the team has won six matches by six runs or more this season.
For some reason, the away team has come away with the win the last four times Moses Brown and St. Mary Academy-Bay View have met, but the home crowd finally got their W on Monday. The Quakers put the hurt on the Bengals with a sharp 17-7 victory. The Quakers haven't had any issues with the Bengals recently, as the game was their third consecutive win against them.
Celia Bodurtha made a splash while hitting and pitching. On the mound, she pitched two innings while giving up no earned runs off one hit. Bodurtha was even better at the plate, getting on base in three of her four plate appearances with three runs, one double, and one RBI.
In other batting news, Abby DeWolf was a standout: she went a perfect 3-for-3 with one home run, three runs, and three RBI. She is on a roll when it comes to hits, as she's now got three or more in each of the last three games she's played. The team also got some help courtesy of Emmy Monchik, who went 2-for-4 with one home run and five RBI.
Moses Brown lost a few balls and finished the game with two home runs. That's the most home runs they've posted since back in May of 2024.
The victory (which was Westerly's fourth in a row) raised their record to 9-7. The wins came thanks in part to their hitting performance across that stretch, as they averaged 11.0 runs over those games. As for Moses Brown, their victory bumped their record up to 5-7.
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