The Pleasant Valley Vikings will square off against the Stevenson Pirates at 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday.
Pleasant Valley came into their game on Monday off a hard-fought close win, but unfortunately suffered a serious change of fortune. They lost 13-3 to Templeton. The Vikings' loss signaled the end of their three-game winning streak.
Pleasant Valley saw five different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Brayden Wynkoop, who went 1-for-2 with two stolen bases.
Meanwhile, Stevenson won against Alisal on Friday with five runs and they decided to stick to that run total again on Monday. The Pirates beat Garfield by the very same score they won with in their prior game: 5-4.
Stevenson also got a great performance from Flint Dickson as he didn't allow a single earned run over 6.1 innings pitched. The dominant performance also gave Dickson a new career-high in strikeouts (two).
At the plate, Reggie Bell was excellent, going 2-for-4 with two runs and one triple. He has become a key player for Stevenson: the team is undefeated when he posts at least two runs, but 2-3 otherwise.
Stevenson has been performing incredibly well recently as they've won seven of their last eight matches. That's provided a nice bump to their 8-3 record this season. Those victories came thanks in part to their pitching effort, having only surrendered 3.8 runs on average over those games. As for Pleasant Valley, their defeat dropped their record down to 10-8.
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