Roosevelt put another one in the bag on Wednesday to keep their perfect season alive. They never let the Severance Silver Knights onto the board and left with a 1-0 victory. The one-run effort marked the Roughriders' lowest-scoring contest of the season, but in the end it didn't matter.
Not much got past Lilly Rosenthal, who gave up just four hits and racked up 14 Ks to keep Severance off the board. The dominant performance gave Rosenthal a new career-high in strikeouts.
At the plate, Roosevelt saw four different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Molly Vetter, who went 2-for-3 with a double.
Roosevelt didn't let batters stay on the plate for long and finished the game with 14 strikeouts. That's the most strikeouts they've managed all season.
Roosevelt pushed their record up to 10-0 with that win, which was their sixth straight at home dating back to last season. As for Severance, their defeat ended a six-game streak of away wins dating back to last season and brought them to 10-2-1.
Roosevelt will challenge Berthoud at 4:00 p.m. on Thursday. The two teams have allowed few runs on average, (Roosevelt: 2.2, Berthoud: 3.4) so any runs scored will be well earned. As for Severance, they will take on Thompson Valley at 4:00 p.m. on Thursday. Severance is strutting in with some hitting muscle as they've averaged 12.2 runs per game this season.
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