The Columbia Cougars will venture away from home to face off against the Carteret Ramblers at 4:00 p.m. on Thursday. Columbia's pitching crew has only allowed four runs per game this season, so Carteret's hitters will have their work cut out for them.
Columbia is headed in fresh off scoring the most runs they have all season. They walked away with an 11-7 victory over Montclair on Monday. That's two games straight that the Cougars have won by exactly four runs.
Meanwhile, Carteret might've scored the first runs on Wednesday, but it was South River who claimed the real prize. The Ramblers came up short against the Rams, falling 13-4.
Drexler Rodriguez was cooking despite his team's loss, scoring a run while going 1-for-3. That run marked the first that he scored this season.
The win made it two in a row for Columbia and bumps their season record up to 3-1. Those victories came thanks in part to their hitting performance across that stretch, as they averaged 9.0 runs over those games. As for Carteret, their defeat ended a seven-game streak of wins at home dating back to last season and dropped them to 2-3.
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