Softball Preview: Maryville Spoofhounds vs. Worth County Tigers
The Maryville Spoofhounds have the luxury of staying home for another game and will welcome the Worth County Tigers at 5:00 p.m. on Monday. Worth County took a loss in their last match and will be looking to turn the tables on Maryville, who comes in off a win.
Last Thursday, everything went Maryville's way against St. Pius X as Maryville made off with an 11-4 win.
Emma Sprague was a major factor no matter where she played. On the mound, she pitched seven innings while giving up four earned runs off nine hits. The dominant performance also gave her a new career-high in strikeouts. She was also big at the plate, going 2-for-4 with two runs and a triple.
In other batting news, Maryville got a big performance out of Alyssa Cunningham, who scored a run while going 2-for-4. Another player making a difference was Marriah Williams, who scored two runs and stole three bases while going 2-for-3.
Perhaps unsurprisingly given the score, Maryville was getting hits left and right and finished the game having posted a batting average of .375. That's the best batting average they've posted all season.
Meanwhile, Worth County was not able to break out of their rough patch last Thursday as the team picked up their fourth straight defeat. They might be feeling deja-vu: they lost 5-4 to Pattonsburg, which was the same score (and result) they got the week prior.
Maryville is on a roll lately: they've won three of their last four games, which provided a nice bump to their 6-14 record this season. As for Worth County, their loss dropped their record down to 6-6.
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