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| 02/24/24 - Home | 3-6 L |
| 03/17/23 - Away | 12-4 W |
| 03/16/23 - Away | 12-4 W |
| 03/08/22 - Home | 7-0 W |
| 04/20/17 - Away | 13-3 W |
| + 2 more games |
Mayfair is 6-1 against Valley Christian since March of 2015 and they'll have a chance to extend that dominance on Saturday. The Mayfair Monsoons will challenge the Valley Christian Defenders at 12:00 p.m. The two teams have allowed few runs on average, (Mayfair: 2.4, Valley Christian: 1.8) so any runs scored will be well earned.
Mayfair proved they can win big on Wednesday (they won by six) and on Friday they proved they can win the close ones too. They narrowly escaped with a victory as the team sidled past Ramona 2-1. While the Monsoons didn't have the best season last year (they finished 10-13), it's starting to look like those struggles are a thing of the past.
Meanwhile, Valley Christian owes their pitching crew a big pat on the back after their performance on Friday. They walked away with a 5-0 win over Saint Joseph. The five-run effort marked the Defenders' lowest-scoring match of the season, but in the end it didn't matter.
Valley Christian got a great performance from Rachel Zhang as she didn't allow a single earned run over five innings pitched. Zhang has been consistent recently: she hasn't given up a single earned run any time she's pitched this season.
At the plate, Valley Christian let Molly Douglas and Peyton Kingery run wild. Douglas went a perfect 2-for-2 with one home run, two runs, and two RBI, while Kingery went 1-for-3 with one home run and three RBI. Another player making a difference was Choyce Chambers, who scored a run while going 3-for-3.
The victory keeps them at an undefeated 5-0. Those victories came thanks in part to their hitting performance across that stretch, as they averaged 11.4 runs over those games. As for Mayfair, the win was the fourth in a row for them, bringing their record for this year to 4-1.
Mayfair came up short against Valley Christian in their previous meeting back in February of 2024, falling 6-3. Can Mayfair avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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