The Roosevelt Roughriders will venture away from home to take on the McKay Royal Scots at 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday. The two teams have had a bumpy ride up to this point with five consecutive losses for Roosevelt and ten for McKay dating back to last season.
On Tuesday, Roosevelt didn't have quite enough to beat Forest Grove and fell 2-1.
Dean Fillinger was a force to be reckoned with on the mound despite the final result: he didn't allow a single earned run while striking out six over six innings pitched. The dominant performance also gave him a new career-low in earned runs (zero).
On the hitting side, Roosevelt saw three different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Ezra Arp, who went a perfect 2-for-2 with one stolen base.
Meanwhile, McKay lost 12-2 to Milwaukie/Milwaukie Academy of the Arts on Tuesday.
McKay's defeat dropped their record down to 0-2. As for Roosevelt, their loss dropped their record down to 2-5.
Roosevelt came up short against McKay when the teams last played back in March of 2017, falling 8-5. Can the Roughriders avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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