Softball Recap: Brantley County Herons vs. Fitzgerald Purple Hurricane
Brantley County waltzed into their game on Tuesday with four straight wins... but they left with five. They never let the Fitzgerald Purple Hurricane onto the board and left with a 13-0 win. The Herons might be getting used to big wins seeing as the team has won six contests by eight runs or more this season.
Mary Hall was a major factor no matter where she played. On the mound, she didn't allow a single earned run over four innings pitched. The dominant performance gave her a new career- in strikeouts. Hall was also big at the plate, going 2-for-3 with a double and an RBI.
In other batting news, Rilee Story was incredible, scoring two runs and stealing two bases while going 1-for-2. Another player making a difference was Lexi Byrd, who scored two runs while going 2-for-2.
Perhaps unsurprisingly given the score, Brantley County was getting hits left and right and finished the game having posted a batting average of .455. That's a new trend for them: their average batting average was 0% earlier this season, but in their last five matchups they've averaged 43.4%.
Brantley County pushed their record up to 10-5 with that victory, which was their fourth straight at home. As for Fitzgerald, they are on a ten-game losing streak that has dropped them down to 2-15.
Brantley County will have a chance to go back-to-back against Fitzgerald: the pair's next game is a rematch scheduled at 4:00 p.m. on Thursday.
Article generated by infoSentience based on data entered on MaxPreps
