The Heritage Hawks are taking a road trip to challenge the Valley Lutheran Chargers at 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday. Both come into the game bolstered by wins in their previous matches.
Heritage can't be too worried about heading out to take on Valley Lutheran: they just beat Garber at home, who had been dominant on their own field up to that point. The Hawks' pitchers stepped up to hand the Dukes a 4-0 shutout on Thursday.
Meanwhile, Valley Lutheran had already won nine in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 8.8 runs) and they went ahead and made it ten on Friday. They beat the Bulldogs by the very same score they won with in their prior game: 17-2. The result was nothing new for the Chargers, who have now won 14 matchups by seven runs or more so far this season.
Varsity Isaac Rupprecht was a standout: he went a perfect 3-for-3 with six RBI, one triple, and one run. Those six RBI gave him a new career-high. Another player making a difference was Varsity Hugh Ruff, who went a perfect 2-for-2 with three runs, three RBI, and one triple.
Valley Lutheran was getting hits left and right and finished the game having posted a batting average of .500. That was just more of the same: they've now posted a batting average of .312 or higher in ten consecutive contests.
Heritage's record is now 8-16. As for Valley Lutheran, their record now sits at 22-5.
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