The Blackman Blaze will take on the Northwest Vikings at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. The teams are on pretty different trajectories at the moment (Blackman has seven straight wins, Northwest has six straight losses), but none of that matters once you're on the field.
Northwest's hitters are going to have their work cut out for them on Friday: Blackman hadn't allowed a single run the last three times they've hit the field. Blackman never let Cleveland get on the board and left with a 10-0 victory on Thursday. The game marked the Blaze's most dominant win of the season so far.
Kenneth Colon and Daffy Norment did most of the damage at the plate: Colon scored two runs and stole a base while getting on base in all four of his plate appearances, while Norment went 2-for-3 with two runs, one triple, and one stolen base. Those runs marked the first that Colon scored this season. Another player making a difference was Jacob Adamson, who scored a run and stole a base while going 1-for-2.
Meanwhile, Northwest fell victim to Stewarts Creek and their airtight pitching crew on Thursday. They came up short against the Red Hawks, falling 10-0.
Blackman's victory was their sixth straight at home dating back to last season, which pushed their record up to 6-0. The wins came thanks in part to their pitching effort, having only surrendered 1.0 run on average over those games. As for Northwest, their defeat dropped their record down to 0-6.
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