The Olympic Heights Lions will head out on the road to challenge the Piper Bengals at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday. Olympic Heights has a tough task ahead: they'll enter the match with 15 straight defeats, while Piper will come in with five straight victories.
On Monday, Olympic Heights came up short against Forest Hill and fell 7-2.
Olympic Heights saw six different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Camilo Castellon, who scored a run while going 2-for-3. That's the most hits Castellon has posted since back in April of 2024. Bodhee Williams also deserves some recognition as he got his first hit of the season.
Meanwhile, Piper put their dominant pitcher on display in the team's fourth consecutive shutout on Monday. They never let Boyd Anderson get on the board and left with a 17-0 win. The Bengals might be getting used to big wins seeing as the team has won six games by ten runs or more this season.
Beckett Noll was a major factor while hitting and pitching. On the mound, he tossed two innings while giving up no earned runs or hits. Noll was also big at the plate, scoring two runs while getting on base in all three of his plate appearances.
In other batting news, Piper got a massive performance out of Joel Arroyo, who went a perfect 1-for-1 with one home run and three RBI. Another player making a difference was Montrial Thomas, who scored two runs and stole a base while going 2-for-2.
Piper was getting hits left and right and finished the game having posted a batting average of .600. That was just more of the same: they've now posted a batting average of .409 or higher in five consecutive contests.
Piper's victory was their third straight on the road, which pushed their record up to 8-2-1. They've dominated over that stretch too, winning by an average of 17.3 runs. As for Olympic Heights, their loss dropped their record down to 0-11.
Olympic Heights suffered a grim 10-0 defeat to Piper when the teams last played back in February. Can Olympic Heights avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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