For the second straight game, Canyon Ridge will face off against Highland. The Riverhawks will venture away from home to challenge the Rams at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday.
Canyon Ridge fought the good fight in their extra-innings match against Highland on Friday but wound up with a less-than-desirable result. They fell just short of the Rams by a score of 5-4. The Riverhawks have struggled against the Rams recently, as the game was their fourth consecutive lost meeting.
For Highland's part, they got a great performance from Porter Burrows as he pitched six innings while giving up just one earned run off four hits. Burrows is becoming a predictor of the Rams' success: when he allows at most one earned run the team is 4-1 (and 6-7 when he doesn't).
At the plate, Highland saw seven different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Lana Alvarico, who went 1-for-3 with one run and one double.
The win (which was Highland's fifth in a row) raised their record to 10-8. The victories came thanks in part to their pitching effort, having only surrendered 2.4 runs on average over those games. As for Canyon Ridge, their loss dropped their record down to 4-12.
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