The Jasper Vikings will head out to challenge the Tuscaloosa County Wildcats at 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday. Each of these teams will be fighting to keep a win streak alive as Jasper comes in on eight and Tuscaloosa County on ten.
Jasper proved they can win big on Friday (they won by six) and on Monday they proved they can win the close ones too. Their pitchers stepped up to hand Hamilton a 2-0 shutout.
Jasper saw five different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was America Montgomery, who scored a run and stole a base while going 2-for-3.
Meanwhile, Tuscaloosa County is ranked highly in their home state and on Wednesday they took on another highly ranked team in the form of Walker Valley. Tuscaloosa County was the clear victors by a 9-1 margin over Walker Valley. The Wildcats might be getting used to big wins seeing as the team has won nine matches by seven runs or more this season.
Tuscaloosa County pushed their record up to 18-3 with the victory, which was their sixth straight at home. Those victories came thanks in part to their pitching effort, having only surrendered 0.7 runs on average over those games. As for Jasper, their win bumped their record up to 9-6.
Jasper suffered a grim 12-5 defeat to Tuscaloosa County in their previous matchup back in February. Can Jasper avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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