The Mountain Ridge Mountain Lions will venture away from home to face off against the Valley Vista Monsoon at 6:00 p.m. on Monday. The two teams have had a bumpy ride up to this point with four consecutive losses for Mountain Ridge and nine for Valley Vista.
Mountain Ridge is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of Arizona's top teams: O'Connor, who was ranked fifth at the time (Mountain Ridge was ranked 24th). The Mountain Lions lost 10-3 to the Eagles on Thursday.
Mountain Ridge saw five different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Daisy Herrera, who went a perfect 3-for-3 with two doubles, one stolen base, and one run. Italia Carpio was another, going 1-for-4 with two runs and one stolen base.
Meanwhile, Valley Vista came up short against Shadow Ridge on Thursday, falling 26-1.
Valley Vista's defeat dropped their record down to 5-17. As for Mountain Ridge, their loss dropped their record down to 14-9.
Mountain Ridge couldn't quite get it done against Valley Vista when the teams last played back in March of 2018 as they fell 10-6. Can the Mountain Lions avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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