Scotch Plains-Fanwood's found some homefield redemption this week after a tough overtime loss to Westfield on Wednesday. The Scotch Plains-Fanwood Raiders came out on top against the Dayton Bulldogs by a score of 5-4 (the very same score they lost by in their prior game). That's more bragging rights for Scotch Plains-Fanwood, who also won the pair's last head-to-head.
Scotch Plains-Fanwood got a great performance from Matt Capozzolo as he struck out eight batters over five innings while giving up just one earned run off two hits (and only one walk).
On the hitting side, Joe LaRosa was excellent, scoring two runs and stealing two bases while going 1-for-3.
On Dayton's side, they saw four different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Michael Ramirez, who scored a run while getting on base in all three of his plate appearances.
Scotch Plains-Fanwood's win was their fourth straight at home, which pushed their record up to 6-4. As for Dayton, this is the second loss in a row for them and nudges their season record down to 2-4.
Scotch Plains-Fanwood will head out on the road to take on Roselle Catholic at 4:30 p.m. on Friday. Scotch Plains-Fanwood is facing Roselle Catholic at the right time seeing as Roselle Catholic is stuck on a six-game losing streak. As for Dayton, they will look to defend their home field on Friday against Summit at 4:00 p.m. The last four games Summit has played have been within two runs, so don't be surprised if it's a close one.
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