The Mountain View Bears will face off against the Mill Creek Hawks at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday. Mountain View is coming into the game on a five-game losing streak.
Mountain View came up short against Buford on Tuesday, falling 19-4.
Meanwhile, winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Mill Creek). Everything went their way against Jackson County on Wednesday as Mill Creek made off with a 17-4 win. The result was nothing new for the Hawks, who have now won seven matches by eight runs or more so far this season.
Mill Creek got a massive performance out of Ronnie Wade, who went 3-for-5 with a home run, three runs, and two RBI. That home run marked the first that Wade's launched this season. The team also got some help courtesy of Ava Brookshire, who scored two runs while going 2-for-4.
Perhaps unsurprisingly given the score, Mill Creek was getting hits left and right and finished the game having posted a batting average of .531. That was just more of the same: they've now posted a batting average of .333 or higher in five consecutive matchups.
Mountain View's defeat dropped their record down to 6-8. As for Mill Creek, they pushed their record up to 11-3 with that victory, which was their seventh straight on the road.
Mountain View might still be hurting after the 12-3 loss they got from Mill Creek in their previous meeting back in August. Can Mountain View avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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