The Bonduel Bears will square off against the Pacelli Cardinals at 12:00 p.m. on Saturday. The two teams have allowed few runs on average (Bonduel 2.7, Pacelli 2.3) so any runs scored will be well earned.
For some reason, the away team has come away with the win the last three times Bonduel and Amherst have met, but the home crowd finally got their W on Friday. The Bears fell just short of the Falcons by a score of 5-4.
Meanwhile, Pacelli came tearing into Friday's contest with 11 straight wins (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 9.3 runs), and they left with even more momentum. Their pitchers stepped up to hand the Panthers a 1-0 shutout. The one-run effort marked the Cardinals' lowest-scoring matchup of the season, but in the end it didn't matter.
Pacelli got a great performance from Keltin Opper as he didn't allow a single earned run while striking out nine over six innings pitched. Opper has been nothing but reliable on the mound: he hasn't given up more than one earned run in six consecutive appearances.
Pacelli pushed their record up to 13-2 with the win, which was their fourth straight on the road. Those road victories came thanks in part to their pitching effort, having only surrendered 0.8 runs on average over those games. As for Bonduel, their defeat dropped their record down to 7-6.
Bonduel beat Pacelli 6-3 in their previous matchup back in May of 2024. Do the Bears have another victory up their sleeve, or will the Cardinals turn the tables on them? We'll have the answer soon enough.
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