The Emerson Cavaliers will face off against the Hackensack Comets at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday. Emerson has a tough task ahead: they'll enter the game with four straight defeats, while Hackensack will come in with three straight victories.
Emerson managed to slip by New Milford the last time these teams faced off, but didn't have those same answers this time around. The Cavaliers came up short against the Knights on Thursday, falling 14-5. That's two games in a row now that the Cavaliers have lost by exactly nine runs.
Meanwhile, Hackensack sure made it a nail-biter, but they managed to escape with a 4-3 win over Eastside on Wednesday.
Luis Hernandez looked comfortable as he pitched 2.1 innings while giving up no earned runs off two hits. The dominant performance also gave him a new career-high in strikeouts (five).
On the hitting side, Hackensack saw six different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Darius Pemberton, who got on base in three of his five plate appearances with one stolen base and one RBI. Another was Jose Urena, who went 2-for-3 with one run and one double.
Emerson's loss dropped their record down to 0-4-1. As for Hackensack, their victory bumped their record up to 3-1.
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