The Cedar Hill Longhorns will face off against the Lancaster Tigers at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday. Cedar Hill is coming into the matchup hot, having won their last six games.
If Cedar Hill beats Lancaster with 15 runs on Tuesday, it's going to be the squad's new lucky number: they've won their past two contests with that exact score. Cedar Hill beat Skyline on Friday by the very same score they won with in their prior game: 15-1.
Monte Dismuke tossed a big game, striking out nine batters over five innings while giving up just one earned run off two hits (and only one walk). The dominant performance gave him a new career-high in strikeouts.
At the plate, Cedar Hill let Jacob Gonzalez and Brayden Boyd run wild. Gonzalez went a perfect 4-for-4 with one home run, three runs, and two RBI, while Boyd went a perfect 2-for-2 with three RBI, two runs, and one triple. Those two RBI gave Gonzalez a new career-high. The team also got some help courtesy of Reginald Samuel, who scored three runs while going 1-for-3.
Cedar Hill kept the outfield on their toes and finished the game with 11 hits. They easily outclassed their opponents in that department as Skyline only managed three hits.
Meanwhile, Lancaster fell victim to Horn and their airtight pitching crew on Friday. They took a 3-0 hit to the loss column at the hands of the Jaguars. The Tigers' loss signaled the end of their five-game winning streak.
Cedar Hill's victory bumped their record up to 11-2-1. As for Lancaster, their defeat dropped their record down to 9-5.
Cedar Hill came out on top in a nail-biter against Lancaster when the teams last played back in February of 2024, sneaking past 6-4. Does Cedar Hill have another victory up their sleeve, or will Lancaster turn the tables on them? We'll have the answer soon enough.
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