The Oak Hill Raiders will square off against the Sacopee Valley Hawks at 4:00 p.m. on Wednesday. Oak Hill has a tough task ahead: they'll enter the matchup with six straight defeats, while Sacopee Valley will come in with five straight wins.
Oak Hill came up short against Maranacook on Monday, falling 8-1.
Oak Hill saw two different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Braden New, who went 2-for-3 with one RBI.
The scorekeeper got an easy start on Monday as neither Sacopee Valley nor Buckfield made it on the board until the sixth inning. The Hawks' pitcher stepped up to hand the Bucks a 2-0 shutout. That's two games straight that the Hawks have won by exactly two runs.
Not much got past Chase Parker, who gave up just a hit and racked up eight Ks to keep Buckfield off the board.
Sacopee Valley's victory was their third straight on the road, which pushed their record up to 6-3. The road wins came thanks in part to their pitching effort, having only surrendered 0.0 runs on average over those games. As for Oak Hill, their loss dropped their record down to 1-7.
Oak Hill beat Sacopee Valley 3-0 when the teams last played back in April of 2024. Do the Raiders have another victory up their sleeve, or will the Hawks turn the tables on them? We'll have the answer soon enough.
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