Baseball Recap: Service Extends Winning Streak to 20

Cougars

Previous Games

04/26/25 vs Eagle River	5-3
04/25/25 @ West Valley	11-0
04/24/25 vs Colony	6-2
04/23/25 @ Soldotna	15-7
04/21/25 @ Bartlett	13-0
+ 15 more games

Service put another one in the bag on Saturday to keep their perfect season alive. They skirted past the Eagle River Wolves 5-3. The five-run effort marked the Cougars' lowest-scoring matchup of the season, but in the end it didn't matter.

Rilen Niclai made a splash while hitting and pitching. On the mound, he didn't allow a single earned run and allowed only two hits while striking out nine over five innings pitched. Those nine strikeouts gave him a new career-high. He was also big at the plate, going 1-for-4 with one home run. That home run was his first of the season.

Niclai wasn't the only one making solid contact as five players wound up with at least one hit. One of them was Palmer Dalton, who went 1-for-3 with two RBI and one double. That double marked the first that Dalton has hit this season.

Service's victory bumped their record up to 7-0. As for Eagle River, their defeat was their first of the season and makes their record 4-1-1.

We've got plenty of inter-conference action coming up soon. Service is set to square off against their familiar foe West Anchorage at 5:15 p.m. on Tuesday. Meanwhile, Eagle River will challenge rival South Anchorage at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday. The two teams have allowed few runs on average (the Wolves 3.3, the Wolverines 2.2) so any runs scored will be well earned.