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| 05/07/22 - Away | 3-5 L |
| 05/06/22 - Neutral | 1-3 L |
| 03/24/18 - Away | 12-2 W |
| 02/24/18 - Neutral | 11-4 W |
| 04/29/17 - Neutral | 3-2 W |
| + 5 more games |
New Hope is 8-2 against Neshoba Central since April of 2015 and they'll have a chance to extend that dominance on Thursday. The Trojans will take on the Rockets at 6:00 p.m. New Hope's pitching crew has only allowed 3.2 runs per game this season, so Neshoba Central's hitters will have their work cut out for them.
New Hope is probably headed into the contest with a chip on their shoulder considering Starkville just ended the team's three-game winning streak on Tuesday. They took a 5-1 hit to the loss column at the hands of the Yellowjackets. The game snapped a strange streak: the last four times these teams have met, it?s been the away team that?s taken home the W.
15 must be Neshoba Central's lucky number: they beat Columbus with that score not once but twice on Tuesday. The Rockets blew past the Falcons 15-0. The Rockets might be getting used to big wins seeing as the team has won ten matches by eight runs or more this season.
Neshoba Central is on a roll lately: they've won seven of their last eight games. That's provided a nice bump to their 18-10 record this season. Those victories came thanks in part to their hitting performance across that stretch, as they averaged 11.0 runs over those games. As for New Hope, their defeat dropped their record down to 14-8-1.
New Hope couldn't quite finish off Neshoba Central in their previous meeting back in May of 2022 and fell 5-3. Can the Trojans avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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