The Buena Bulldogs will venture away from home to take on the St. Bonaventure Seraphs at 4:00 p.m. on Thursday. Buena is strutting in with some hitting muscle as they've averaged 6.1 runs per game this season.
Buena is probably headed into the contest with a chip on their shoulder considering Ventura just ended the team's four-game winning streak on Tuesday. They lost 11-1 to the Cougars.
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Buena saw five different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Elijah Garcia, who went 2-for-3 with two doubles. The dominant performance gave Garcia a new career-high in doubles. Isaac Speer also deserves some recognition as he hit his first double of the season.
Meanwhile, winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask St. Bonaventure). They blew past de Toledo 13-0 on Wednesday. Perhaps unsurprisingly given the team's high-flying offense, the game also marked the team's biggest victory of the season.
Ricky Estrada looked comfortable as he tossed two innings while giving up no earned runs or hits. He also tossed no earned runs, which is notable because St. Bonaventure is undefeated when he allows at most two earned runs, but 1-3 otherwise.
At the plate, Collin Barker and Luc Beauchemin did most of the damage at the plate: Barker scored two runs while getting on base in all four of his plate appearances, while Beauchemin scored three runs and stole a base while going 2-for-3. Another player making a difference was Aaron Byrd, who scored two runs while going 2-for-3.
St. Bonaventure always had someone on base and finished the game having posted an OBP of .600. That's the best OBP they've posted all season.
The win made it two in a row for St. Bonaventure and bumps their season record up to 4-3. A key ingredient in that success has been their performance when it comes to hits: they averaged an imposing 9.5 hits in those games compared to only 3.6 in the others. As for Buena, the defeat was their first at home , dropping their record down to 4-3.
Buena came up short against St. Bonaventure in their previous meeting back in April of 2024, falling 10-5. Can Buena avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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