The Palo Verde Panthers will square off against the Foothill Falcons at 4:00 p.m. on Monday. Palo Verde is strutting in with some hitting muscle as they've averaged 6.2 runs per game this season.
Palo Verde is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of Nevada's top teams: Arbor View, who was ranked fourth at the time (Palo Verde was ranked second). The Panthers took a 5-2 hit to the loss column at the hands of the Aggies on Wednesday. Having soared to a lofty 13 runs in the game before, the Panthers couldn't push the score so high this time.
Palo Verde saw five different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Luke Herrera, who went 1-for-3 with one triple and one run.
Las Vegas hit Foothill with a four-run sixth inning on Wednesday, which goes a long way in explaining the final result. The Falcons fell just short of the Wildcats by a score of 7-5. For those keeping track at home, that's the closest defeat the Falcons have suffered against the Wildcats since April 27, 2019.
This is the second loss in a row for Foothill and nudges their season record down to 19-10-1. Even worse, they were so close both times: the losses came by an average of only 1.5 runs. As for Palo Verde, their defeat ended a four-game streak of away wins and brought them to 21-8.
Palo Verde skirted past Foothill 7-6 in their previous matchup back in May of 2024. Will the Panthers repeat their success, or do the Falcons have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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