Pine-Richland entered their tilt with Butler with three consecutive wins but they'll enter their next game with four. They put the hurt on the Butler Golden Tornado with a sharp 9-1 victory on Sunday. Nine seems to be a good number for Pine-Richland as the squad scooped up a win with the same number of runs in their previous game.
Pine-Richland got a great performance from Keegan Deihl as he didn't allow a single earned run while striking out ten over six innings pitched.
At the plate, Jake Waddell and Logan Plummer did most of the damage at the plate: Waddell went 2-for-3 with a home run, two RBI, and a double, while Plummer scored a run while getting on base in all four of his plate appearances. Ryan Grebinoski was another key contributor, scoring a run and stealing a base while going 2-for-2.
On Butler's side, they got a good showing from Preston Richter, who tossed 3.1 innings while giving up no earned run off three hits.
On the hitting side, Butler saw two different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Noah Kollinger, who went 2-for-2 with a stolen base.
Pine-Richland pushed their record up to 5-1 with that victory, which was their fourth straight at home. As for Butler, this is the second loss in a row for them and nudges their season record down to 2-2.
The teams didn't have to wait long for a rematch: they beat Pine-Richland by a score of 8-4 later that day.
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