After flying high against White River Valley in Saturday's second game, Cloverdale came back down to earth. The Cloverdale Clovers took a 10-7 hit to the loss column at the hands of the West Vigo Vikings on Tuesday. The defeat unfortunately continues a disappointing trend for Cloverdale in their matchups with West Vigo: they've now lost five in a row.
Layton Allen put in work while hitting and pitching. He struck out six batters over 3.1 innings while giving up no earned runs off one hit (and only one walk). Allen was also big at the plate, scoring three runs and stealing a base while going 2-for-4.
In other batting news, Ben Campbell was cooking despite his team's loss, getting on base in all four of his plate appearances with a stolen base and two RBI.
Having lost for the first time this season, Cloverdale fell to 2-1. As for West Vigo, the win (which was their third in a row) raised their record to 3-3.
Cloverdale will face off against Greencastle at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday. Greencastle has struggled to contain batters this season (they've allowed 13 runs per game on average), something Cloverdale will no doubt try to take advantage of. As for West Vigo, they are on the road again on Friday to play Bedford North Lawrence at 7:30 p.m.
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