The Laguna Beach Breakers will square off against the Portola Bulldogs at 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday. The two teams each escaped (but just barely!) with wins against their previous opponents.
The scorekeeper got an easy start on Monday as neither Laguna Beach nor Laguna Hills made it on the board until the fifth inning. The Breakers narrowly escaped with a win as the squad sidled past the Hawks 3-2.
Laguna Beach's victory was truly a team effort as four different players contributed at least one hit. One of them was Jackson Arrasin, who went 1-for-3 with one run, one double, and one RBI.
Meanwhile, it may have taken ten innings to finish the job, but Portola ultimately got the result they hoped for on Friday. They won by a run and slipped past Irvine 2-1. The win was a breath of fresh air for the Bulldogs as it put an end to their four-game losing streak.
Portola also got a great performance from Yoshi Tsuge as he tossed seven innings while giving up just one earned run off eight hits.
On the hitting side, the team relied heavily on Cooper Marinelli, who got on base in all five of his plate appearances with two runs. He is becoming a predictor of Portola's success: when he posts at least two runs the team is 3-1 (and 5-11 when he doesn't).
Laguna Beach's victory was their eighth straight on the road, which pushed their record up to 19-3. Those road wins came thanks in part to their pitching effort, having only surrendered 0.9 runs on average over those games. As for Portola, their victory bumped their record up to 8-12.
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