Brantley County waltzed into their game on Tuesday with four straight wins... but they left with five. They never let the Fitzgerald Purple Hurricane onto the board and left with a 13-0 win. The Herons might be getting used to big wins seeing as the team has won six contests by eight runs or more this season.
Mary Hall was a major factor no matter where she played. On the mound, she didn't allow a single earned run over four innings pitched. The dominant performance gave her a new career- in strikeouts. Hall was also big at the plate, going 2-for-3 with a double and an RBI.
In other batting news, Rilee Story was incredible, scoring two runs and stealing two bases while going 1-for-2. Another player making a difference was Lexi Byrd, who scored two runs while going 2-for-2.
Perhaps unsurprisingly given the score, Brantley County was getting hits left and right and finished the game having posted a batting average of .455. That's a new trend for them: their average batting average was 0% earlier this season, but in their last five matchups they've averaged 43.4%.
Brantley County pushed their record up to 10-5 with that victory, which was their fourth straight at home. As for Fitzgerald, they are on a ten-game losing streak that has dropped them down to 2-15.
Brantley County will have a chance to go back-to-back against Fitzgerald: the pair's next game is a rematch scheduled at 4:00 p.m. on Thursday.
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