The Ooltewah Owls will face off against the Marion County Warriors at 4:00 p.m. on Friday. Ooltewah will be looking to extend their current five-game winning streak.
Marion County's hitters are going to have their work cut out for them on Friday: Ooltewah hadn't allowed a single run the last four times they've hit the field. Ooltewah's pitcher stepped up to hand Tyner Academy a 13-0 shutout on Thursday. The Owls might be getting used to big wins seeing as the team has won nine games by six runs or more this season.
Nobody will forget Hailey Schmidt's heroic performance anytime soon (especially Tyner Academy's batters): she turned in a perfect game. The dominant performance also gave Schmidt a new career-low in hits (zero).
Addilyn Watts
| 03/27/25 vs Tyner Academy | 4 |
| 03/11/25 vs East Ridge | 3 |
| 03/12/25 vs Signal Mountain | 2 |
| 03/03/25 @ McMinn County | 2 |
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On the hitting side, Ooltewah let Addilyn Watts and Jaeda Tucker run wild. Watts went a perfect 2-for-2 with one home run, four RBI, and two runs, while Tucker went 1-for-2 with one home run and four RBI. Those four RBI gave Watts a new career-high. The team also got some help courtesy of Savannah Mayse, who scored two runs while going 1-for-1.
Ooltewah was getting hits left and right and finished the game having posted a batting average of .556. That was just more of the same: they've now posted a batting average of .312 or higher in six consecutive matches.
Meanwhile, Marion County didn't have quite enough to beat Boyd-Buchanan on Saturday and fell 7-5. The Warriors have now taken an 'L' in back-to-back games.
Ooltewah's victory was their third straight at home, which pushed their record up to 11-3. The wins came thanks in part to their pitching effort, having only surrendered 1.7 runs on average over those games. As for Marion County, their defeat dropped their record down to 3-5.
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