The Morristown-Hamblen East Hurricanes will head out on the road to face off against the Morristown-Hamblen West Trojans at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. Both teams come into the game bolstered by wins in their previous matches.
On Thursday, Morristown-Hamblen East was able to grind out a solid victory over Chuckey-Doak, taking the game 7-4.
Landry Winstead looked comfortable as he pitched 2.1 innings while giving up no earned run off two hits.
On the hitting side, Jonah Carden and Isaac Greene did most of the damage at the plate: Carden scored two runs while going 2-for-3, while Greene went 2-for-3 with three RBI, a stolen base, and a double. Another player making a difference was Blake Creech, who scored a run and stole a base while going 1-for-2.
Meanwhile, Morristown-Hamblen West can now show off eight landslide victories after their most recent match on Thursday. They put the hurt on Gatlinburg-Pittman with a sharp 13-3 win. The victory made it back-to-back wins for Morristown-Hamblen West.
The team relied heavily on Malakhi Isom, who scored two runs and stole five bases while going 2-for-3. The team also got some help courtesy of Gavin Mitchell, who scored a run and stole a base while going 3-for-4.
Morristown-Hamblen East's victory ended a seven-game drought at home and bumped them up to 8-17. As for Morristown-Hamblen West, they are on a roll lately: they've won ten of their last 12 contests, which provided a nice bump to their 14-6 record this season.
The pitchers for both teams better look sharp on Friday as neither team is afraid to steal. Morristown-Hamblen East has been swiping bases left and right this season, having averaged 2.8 stolen bases per game. However, it's not like Morristown-Hamblen West struggles in that department as they've been averaging 3.2. The only question left is which team can snag more.
Morristown-Hamblen East might still be hurting after the 18-0 defeat they got from Morristown-Hamblen West in their previous meeting on April 2nd. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of Isom, who didn't allow a single earned run and only one hit over five innings pitched. Now that Morristown-Hamblen East knows the damage he can cause, will they be able to stop him this time? There's only one way to find out.
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