The Soquel Knights will take on the Piedmont Hills Pirates at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday. The two teams are strolling into their matchups after big wins in their previous games.

Soquel’s pitching crew heads into the contest hoping to repeat the dominance they displayed on Friday. They put the hurt on Scotts Valley with a sharp 10-0 victory. The Knights might be getting used to big wins seeing as the team has won three games by seven runs or more this season.

Jake Escalante was a major factor while hitting and pitching. On the mound, he tossed one inning while giving up no earned runs or hits. He has been nothing but reliable: he hasn’t given up more than one earned run in six consecutive appearances. He was also solid in the batter’s box, going 2-for-4 with one triple, two RBI, and one run.

Luke Shoemaker

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In other pitching news, Soquel got a great performance from Luke Shoemaker as he didn’t allow a single earned run and allowed only one hit while striking out ten over five innings pitched. Those ten strikeouts gave Shoemaker a new career-high.

Meanwhile, Piedmont Hills hadn’t done well against Cupertino recently (they were 0-3 in their previous three matchups), but they didn’t let the past get in their way on Tuesday. The Pirates blew past the Pioneers 6-0. That six-run margin sets a new team best for the Pirates this season.

Piedmont Hills’ win was truly a team effort as eight different players contributed at least one hit. One of them was Dario Negrete, who went 2-for-3 with one run and one double. Travis Linane was another, going 2-for-4 with one run and one double.

Piedmont Hills kept the outfield on their toes and finished the game with 11 hits. The team’s really been improving in that area: they’ve now improved their hit total in three consecutive matchups.

Soquel pushed their record up to 6-1 with the victory, which was their 11th straight at home dating back to last season. The home wins came thanks in part to their hitting performance across that stretch, as they averaged 7.1 runs over those games. As for Piedmont Hills, the victory got them back to even at 3-3-2.

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