The Mountain View Mountain Lions will challenge the Catalina Foothills Falcons at 4:00 p.m. on Monday. Neither Mountain View nor Catalina Foothills posted many runs in their last games, so it might be the pitching crews that decide this one.
Mountain View is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of Arizona's top teams: Canyon del Oro, who was ranked fifth at the time (Mountain View was ranked 25th). The Mountain Lions fell 5-1 to the Dorados on Thursday. The game snapped a strange streak: the last five times these teams have met, it?s been the away team that?s taken home the W.
Mountain View saw four different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Samantha Blasko, who went 1-for-3 with one run.
Meanwhile, Catalina Foothills was not able to break out of their rough patch on Thursday as the team picked up their seventh straight loss. They came up short against Casa Grande, falling 19-2.
Catalina Foothills' defeat dropped their record down to 1-17. As for Mountain View, their loss ended a six-game streak of away wins and brought them to 18-6.
Mountain View took their win against Catalina Foothills in their previous meeting back in March by a conclusive 15-3 score. Will the Mountain Lions repeat their success, or do the Falcons have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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