The Heritage Mountaineers will challenge the Lakeway Christian Academy Lions at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday. The teams are on pretty different trajectories at the moment (Heritage has six straight victories, Lakeway Christian Academy has three straight defeats), but none of that matters once you're on the field.
Heritage's pitching crew heads into the match hoping to repeat the dominance they displayed on Monday. Everything went their way against McMinn County as they made off with a 17-0 win. The Mountaineers might be getting used to big wins seeing as the team has won nine contests by eight runs or more this season.
Heritage got a massive performance out of Emma Lonas, who went 2-for-3 with one home run and one stolen base. That home run marked the first that Lonas launched this season. The team also got some help courtesy of Portlyn Bennett, who scored a run while getting on base in all four of her plate appearances.
Heritage always had someone on base and finished the game having posted an OBP of .600. They easily outclassed their opponents in that department as McMinn County only posted an OBP of .250.
Meanwhile, Saturday just wasn't the day for Lakeway Christian Academy's offense. They lost 6-0 to Gibbs on Saturday.
Heritage's victory was their third straight on the road, which pushed their record up to 17-5. Those road wins came thanks in part to their pitching effort, having only surrendered 1.7 runs on average over those games. As for Lakeway Christian Academy, their loss dropped their record down to 7-5.
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