The Cedar Cliff Colts will look to defend their home field on Monday against the Cumberland Valley Eagles at 4:15 p.m. Both teams have allowed few runs on average, (Cedar Cliff: 2.6, Cumberland Valley: 3.7) so any runs scored will be well earned.
Cedar Cliff is probably headed into the contest with a chip on their shoulder considering Central Dauphin just ended the team's three-game winning streak on Saturday. They fell just short of the Rams by a score of 2-1. Having soared to a lofty ten runs in the game before, Cedar Cliff couldn't push the score so high this time.
Cedar Cliff saw three different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Luke Minium, who went 1-for-3 with an RBI. Minium has been consistent recently: he hasn't tossed less than five strikeouts in four consecutive pitching appearances.
Meanwhile, in what's become a running theme this season, Cumberland Valley gave their fans yet another huge win on Saturday. Everything went their way against North Allegheny as Cumberland Valley made off with a 13-3 victory. The win was nothing new for Cumberland Valley as they're now sitting on three straight.
Curtis Shinn looked comfortable as he pitched 3.2 innings while giving up just two earned runs off four hits.
On the hitting side, Caden Lloyd was incredible, getting on base in all four of his plate appearances with a home run and four runs. The team also got some help courtesy of Tanner Boyd, who went 1-for-3 with two RBI and a double.
Cedar Cliff's loss dropped their record down to 5-4. As for Cumberland Valley, they pushed their record up to 7-3 with that victory, which was their third straight at home.
Cedar Cliff couldn't quite finish off Cumberland Valley in their previous matchup back in March and fell 7-5. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of Cumberland Valley's Kaden Schoenly, who didn't allow a single earned run and only one hit while striking out eight over 5.2 innings pitched. Now that Cedar Cliff 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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