Softball Preview: East Hamilton Hurricanes vs. Cleveland Blue Raiders
East Hamilton is 9-1 against Cleveland since April of 2019, and they'll have a chance to extend that success on Monday. The East Hamilton Hurricanes will head out on the road to challenge the Cleveland Blue Raiders at 6:00 p.m. Both teams have allowed few runs on average, (East Hamilton: 3.2, Cleveland: 3.9) so any runs scored will be well earned.
East Hamilton can now show off six landslide victories after their most recent game on Tuesday. Their pitcher stepped up to hand Ooltewah an 8-0 shutout. The win made it back-to-back victories for East Hamilton.
The team relied heavily on Bailey Poschke, who scored a run and stole two bases while going 3-for-4. She has been hot recently, having posted at least one stolen base the last three times she's played. The team also got some help courtesy of Madilyn Evans, who scored two runs and stole a base while going 1-for-4.
Walker Valley typically has all the answers at home, but on Wednesday Cleveland proved too difficult a challenge. They had just enough and edged the Mustangs out 6-5.
East Hamilton pushed their record up to 11-8 with that victory, which was their eighth straight at home. As for Cleveland, they are on a roll lately: they've won four of their last five contests, which provided a nice bump to their 22-14 record this season.
East Hamilton suffered a grim 8-0 defeat to Cleveland in their previous meeting back in April. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of Cleveland's Lily O'Bryan, who kept things locked down with no earned runs or hits over five innings pitched. Now that East Hamilton knows the damage she can cause, will they be able to stop her this time? There's only one way to find out.
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