The Horizon Hawks will be staying on the road on Tuesday to face off against the Skyline Falcons at 4:00 p.m. Horizon is strutting in with some hitting muscle as they've averaged 6.9 runs per game this season.
Horizon is headed in fresh off scoring the most runs they have all season. They put the hurt on Longmont with a sharp 18-3 win on Monday. Considering the Hawks have won six matchups by more than five runs this season, Monday's blowout was nothing new.
Kaiya Barela made a splash while hitting and pitching. She struck out eight batters over four innings while giving up just one earned (and two unearned) runs off five hits. She has been consistent recently: she hasn't given up more than one earned run in five consecutive pitching appearances. She was also stellar in the batter's box, going 3-for-4 with five RBI. The dominant performance also gave her a new career-high in batting average.
In other batting news, Tessa Munsch was a standout: she scored four runs while going 2-for-3. What's more, she also posted a .750 OBP, which is the highestshe's posted since back in August. Another player making a difference was Adrianna Jaramillo, who scored four runs while going 2-for-3.
Perhaps unsurprisingly given the score, Horizon always had someone on base and finished the game having posted an OBP of .618. That's the best OBP they've posted all season.
Meanwhile, Skyline was not able to break out of their rough patch on Saturday as the team picked up their 13th straight defeat. They lost 26-4 to Jefferson Academy.
Horizon's record is now 9-10. As for Skyline, their loss dropped their record down to 1-16.
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