The Westlake Chaparrals will head out to square off against the East View Patriots at 1:00 p.m. on Saturday. The two teams are sauntering into the matchup backed by comfortable wins in their prior games.
East View will be up against a hot Westlake team: the squad just extended their winning streak to four. Everything went Westlake's way against Austin on Friday as Westlake made off with an 11-2 win. The Chaparrals might be getting used to big wins seeing as the team has won 13 contests by six runs or more this season.
Meanwhile, while East View put up plenty of runs on Friday, the same can't be said for Pflugerville. East View blew past Pflugerville 11-0. That 11 run margin sets a new team best for the Patriots this season.
Andres Uzcategui was a major factor no matter where he played. He looked comfortable on the mound, not allowing a single earned run while striking out six over five innings pitched. He also tossed no earned runs, which is notable because East View is 2-1 when he allows at most one earned run, but 3-8-2 otherwise. Uzcategui was also solid in the batter's box, going a perfect 1-for-1 with two RBI.
In other batting news, Brandt Eastman was excellent, scoring a run while going 1-for-2. The dominant performance also gave him a new career-high in RBI (two). Josh O'Malley also deserves some recognition as he brought in his first RBI of the season.
East View was getting hits left and right and finished the game having posted a batting average of .385. That was just more of the same: they've now posted a batting average of .304 or higher in three consecutive matchups.
Westlake pushed their record up to 18-2-1 with the victory, which was their sixth straight at home dating back to last season. The wins came thanks in part to their pitching effort, having only surrendered 2.3 runs on average over those games. As for East View, their record is now 5-9-2.
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