The Princeton Tigers will venture away from home to square off against the Point Pleasant Big Blacks at 10:00 a.m. on Friday. Princeton has a tough task ahead: they'll enter the game with four straight losses, while Point Pleasant will come in with three straight victories.
Princeton is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of West Virginia's top teams: James Monroe, who was ranked 22nd at the time (Princeton was ranked 19th). Princeton fell just short of James Monroe by a score of 13-12 on Thursday. Tigers fans who chose to attend the game sure picked the wrong one: it was the first time the team's lost against the Mavericks since on Thursday.
Landon Dillon was cooking despite his team's loss, scoring three runs and stealing two bases while going 1-for-2. Those two stolen bases gave him a new career-high. The team also got some help courtesy of Zack Jenkins, who scored two runs while going 1-for-4.
Meanwhile, winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Point Pleasant). They came out on top against Brooke by a score of 8-5 on Thursday. While the Big Blacks didn't have the best season last year (they finished 11-15), it's starting to look like those struggles are a thing of the past.
Princeton's defeat dropped their record down to 2-4. As for Point Pleasant, their win bumped their record up to 5-1.
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