Softball Preview: A Rolling Hillgrove Meets a Wounded Paulding County

The Hillgrove Hawks will take on The Paulding County Patriots at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday. Hillgrove will be strutting in after a victory while Paulding County will be coming in after a defeat.

Coming off a road loss, Hillgrove was happy to be home on Thursday where their crowd gave them all the motivation they needed. Their pitchers stepped up to hand McEachern an 8-0 shutout.

Meanwhile, Thursday just wasn't the day for Paulding County's offense. They lost 6-0 to Walton.

Even though they lost, Paulding County pitchers prevented the big hits and finished the game with no home runs allowed. They have not allowed that few home runs since the 25th, when they also allowed zero home runs.

Hillgrove is now 2-8, having gone 2-1 since their 8-game losing streak ended. As for Paulding County, their loss ended a three-game streak of away wins and brought them to 9-6.