The Desert Heights Prep Yote have the luxury of staying home for another game and will welcome the Antelope Rams at 1:30 p.m. on Friday. Both teams come into the game bolstered by wins in their previous matches.
On Tuesday, Desert Heights Prep was able to grind out a solid victory over Maryvale Prep, taking the game 8-3.
Darron Flores was a standout: he scored three runs and stole two bases while going 2-for-3. The team also got some help courtesy of Jesse Aguon, who scored two runs and stole two bases while getting on base in three of his four plate appearances.
Meanwhile, it may have taken eight innings to finish the job, but Antelope ultimately got the result they hoped for on Tuesday. They sure made it a nail-biter, but they managed to escape with a 6-5 win over Salome. Six seems to be a good number for Antelope as the squad scooped up a victory with the same number of runs in their previous game.
Desert Heights Prep pushed their record up to 4-5-1 with that win, which was their third straight at home. Those good results were due in large part to their hitting performance across that stretch, as they averaged 9.7 runs per game. As for Antelope, their victory ended a four-game drought at home and bumped them up to 5-5.
Everything went Desert Heights Prep's way against Antelope when the teams last played back in March of 2023 as Desert Heights Prep made off with a 7-0 win. Will Desert Heights Prep repeat their success, or does Antelope have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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