For the second straight game, Hamilton will face off against Basha. The Huskies will welcome the Bears at 3:45 p.m. on Thursday. The two teams have allowed few runs on average (Hamilton 3.4, Basha 4) so any runs scored will be well earned.
Hamilton is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of Arizona's top teams: Basha, who was ranked second at the time (Hamilton was ranked eighth). The Huskies fell just short of the Bears by a score of 2-1 on Wednesday. Having soared to a lofty 12 runs in the game before, the Huskies couldn't push the score so high this time.
For Basha's part, Josie Karpenski spent all seven innings on the mound, and it's clear why: she surrendered a run (which was unearned) on five hits.
On the hitting side, Basha saw four different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Makaila Quinney, who went 1-for-3 with one RBI.
Basha is on a roll lately: they've won ten of their last 12 matches. That's provided a nice bump to their 17-4 record this season. The victories came thanks in part to their pitching effort, having only surrendered 3.8 runs on average over those games. As for Hamilton, their loss dropped their record down to 16-7-1.
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