The Grovetown Warriors have the luxury of staying home for another game and will welcome the South Gwinnett Comets at 6:00 p.m. on Monday. Grovetown is strutting in with some hitting muscle as they've averaged 11.9 runs per game this season.
On Saturday, Grovetown sure made it a nail-biter, but they managed to escape with a 3-2 win over South Effingham.
Maddy Harl made a splash no matter where she played. She looked comfortable on the mound, striking out ten batters over eight innings while giving up just two earned runs off five hits (and not a single walk). That's the most strikeouts she has posted since back in August. She was also big at the plate, going 2-for-4 with a double and an RBI.
Harl wasn't the only one making solid contact as four players wound up with at least one hit. One of them was Treasure Story, who went 2-for-3 with an RBI.
Grovetown hit smart and finished the game with only two strikeouts. That strong performance was nothing new for the team: they've now struck out at most five strikeouts in 15 consecutive games.
Meanwhile, South Gwinnett was not able to break out of their rough patch on Thursday as the team picked up their seventh straight defeat. They lost 16-4 to Newton.
Grovetown's victory was their seventh straight at home, which pushed their record up to 21-1. As for South Gwinnett, their loss dropped their record down to 3-12.
Everything went Grovetown's way against South Gwinnett in their previous meeting back in August as Grovetown made off with a 22-4 win. Will Grovetown repeat their success, or does South Gwinnett have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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