Amphitheater is 1-9 against Douglas since April of 2018 but they'll have a chance to close the gap a little bit on Wednesday. The Amphitheater Panthers will be playing at home against the Douglas Bulldogs at 5:00 p.m.
Amphitheater was not able to break out of their rough patch on Tuesday as the team picked up their seventh straight loss. They wound up on the wrong side of a rough 12-2 walloping at the hands of Walden Grove.
Amphitheater saw four different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Ian Varela, who got on base in all three of his plate appearances with an RBI. Miguel Estrada was another key contributor, scoring a run while going 2-for-2.
Meanwhile, Douglas stacked a seventh blowout win onto their ever-increasing hoard on Thursday. They never let Amphitheater onto the board and left with a 16-0 win. While fans of Douglas might be used to big wins, the 16-run margin marked the team's biggest victory yet this season.
Douglas got a massive performance out of Jose Ivan Higuera, who scored three runs and stole two bases while going 1-for-2. Higuera has been hot recently, having posted at least one stolen base the last five times he's played. The team also got some help courtesy of Benjamin Munguia, who went 2-for-2 with four RBI, two runs, and a stolen base.
Amphitheater's defeat dropped their record down to 1-8. As for Douglas, their win was their fourth straight at home, which pushed their record up to 13-5.
Amphitheater suffered a grim 16-0 defeat to Douglas when the teams last played on Thursday. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of Douglas' Isidro Hoyos, who didn't allow a single earned run and only two hits while striking out 13 over five innings pitched. Now that Amphitheater knows the damage he can cause, will they be able to stop him this time? Check MaxPreps.com after the match to find out.
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