Frontier is 1-9 against Orchard Park since April of 2019 but they'll have a chance to close the gap a little bit on Saturday. The Frontier Falcons will head out on the road to square off against the Orchard Park Quakers at 12:00 p.m.
Frontier is coming in off a wild two-game stretch: after soaring to 13 runs on Wednesday, they were much more limited against Clarence on Thursday. They fell just short of the Red Devils by a score of 3-2.
Meanwhile, Orchard Park had already won nine in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 4.9 runs), and they went ahead and made it ten on Tuesday. They skirted past the Flames 3-2. Three seems to be a good number for Orchard Park as the team scooped up a win with the same number of runs in their previous game.
Reese Politowski spent all eight innings on the mound, and it's clear why: she surrendered just two earned runs on seven hits and racked up eight Ks. Those eight innings set a new season-high mark for her.
At the plate, Orchard Park saw six different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Evelyn Wozniak, who scored a run while going 2-for-4.
Frontier's loss ended a three-game streak of away wins and brought them to 7-4. As for Orchard Park, they pushed their record up to 11-2 with that victory, which was their sixth straight at home.
Frontier suffered a grim 16-4 defeat to Orchard Park in their previous meeting back in April. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of Orchard Park's Ava Farina, who struck out eight batters over six innings while giving up just two earned (and two unearned) runs off four hits. Now that Frontier knows the damage she can cause, will they be able to stop her this time? There's only one way to find out.
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