Shasta has enjoyed the comforts of home their last five games, but now they'll head out on the road. They will challenge the Red Bluff Spartans at 4:00 p.m. on Friday. Shasta will be hoping to continue their three-game streak of scoring more runs each game than the last.
On Thursday, everything went Shasta's way against Enterprise as Shasta made off with a 17-5 victory.
The team relied heavily on Haley Salkeld, who scored three runs and stole a base while getting on base in all four of her plate appearances. The team also got some help courtesy of Anna Pena, who scored three runs and stole a base while getting on base in three of her four plate appearances.
Meanwhile, Tuesday just wasn't the day for Red Bluff's offense. They lost 9-0 to Pleasant Valley on Tuesday. Having soared to a lofty 11 runs in the game before, Red Bluff's shutout was a dramatic turnaround.
Shasta's win ended a five-game drought at home and bumped them up to 6-15-1. As for Red Bluff, their loss dropped their record down to 14-8-1.
Shasta couldn't quite finish off Red Bluff when the teams last played back in April and fell 5-3. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of Red Bluff's Mattison Kwarta, who struck out 14 batters over seven innings while giving up just two earned (and one unearned) runs off five hits (and only one walk). Now that Shasta knows the damage she can cause, will they be able to stop her this time? There's only one way to find out.
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