Mercyhurst Prep is 1-7 against North East since April of 2017 but they'll have a chance to close the gap a little bit on Friday. The Mercyhurst Prep Lakers will head out on the road to challenge the North East Grape Pickers at 4:30 p.m. Neither of those teams managed to put together many runs in their previous contests, so the offenses might be a little more motivated than usual.
Mercyhurst Prep is is headed into Friday's match looking for a big change in momentum after dropping their 20th straight game dating back to last season last Thursday. They suffered a tough 15-0 defeat at the hands of Fort LeBoeuf.
Meanwhile, North East fell victim to a rough 12-1 loss at the hands of Fairview on Thursday. The defeat unfortunately continues a disappointing trend for North East in their matchups with Fairview: they've now lost five in a row.
North East saw five different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Cadence Jones, who went 1-for-2 with an RBI.
Mercyhurst Prep's loss dropped their record down to 0-5. As for North East, their defeat dropped their record down to 4-7.
Mercyhurst Prep suffered a grim 14-2 defeat to North East when the teams last played last Monday. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of North East's Sydney Wittman, who struck out eight batters over three innings while giving up no earned runs off two hits (and not a single walk). Now that Mercyhurst Prep 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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