The Palisades Pirates will square off against the Lehighton Indians at 4:00 p.m. on Monday. The teams are rolling into the game with opposing streaks: Palisades has struggled recently with three defeats in a row, while Lehighton will arrive with six straight wins.
On Saturday, Palisades didn't have quite enough to beat Jim Thorpe and fell 2-1.
Palisades saw two different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Anderson Hsu, who scored a run while going 1-for-2.
Meanwhile, Lehighton made easy work of Salisbury Township on Saturday and carried off a 13-3 victory. The result was nothing new for the Indians, who have now won four games by seven runs or more so far this season.
Jayse Lawrence and Cody Snyder did most of the damage at the plate: Lawrence scored a run while going 3-for-5, while Snyder scored two runs and stole two bases while going 2-for-3. The dominant performance also gave Lawrence a new career-high in RBI (three). Keyden Ahner also deserves some recognition as he got his first hit of the season.
Lehighton always had someone on base and finished the game having posted an OBP of .541. They easily outclassed their opponents in that department as Salisbury Township only posted an OBP of .385.
Lehighton pushed their record up to 6-0 with the win, which was their fourth straight on the road.the team's perfect season has a lot to do with their hitting performance: the team won's by an average of 7.2 runs thus far As for Palisades, their loss dropped their record down to 1-3.
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