The Moorpark Musketeers will head out on the road to take on the Liberty Patriots at 4:00 p.m. on Saturday. Moorpark is looking to tack on another W to their seven-game streak on the road.
Moorpark is on a roll after a high-stakes playoff matchup on Thursday. They came out on top against Ayala by a score of 6-3. Six seems to be a good number for Moorpark as the team scooped up a victory with the same number of runs in their previous game.
Moorpark got a great performance from Derek Nickels as he didn't allow a single earned run over five innings pitched.
At the plate, Moorpark saw six different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was AJ Mai, who scored a run while going 1-for-1. Another player making a difference was Greg Lareva, who went 3-for-4 with an RBI.
Meanwhile, Liberty had already won 18 in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 5.4 runs), and they went ahead and made it 19 on Thursday. They had just enough and edged the Titans out 4-3.
Brock Thompson made a big impact no matter where he played. He pitched an inning while giving up no earned runs off one hit. Thompson was also big at the plate, scoring a run while getting on base in four of his five plate appearances.
In other pitching news, Liberty got a great performance from Evan Churchman as he tossed seven innings while giving up three earned runs off ten hits.
Back at the plate, Davis Goodwin was excellent, going 1-for-3 with a home run.
Moorpark is on a roll lately: they've won 13 of their last 14 matches, which provided a massive bump to their 21-11-1 record this season. As for Liberty, their record now sits at 31-4.
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