The Harrisburg Cougars will head out on the road to take on the Middletown Blue Raiders at 4:15 p.m. on Wednesday. Harrisburg has a tough task ahead: they'll enter the match with 15 straight defeats, while Middletown will come in with three straight victories.
Harrisburg came up short against Bishop McDevitt on Tuesday, falling 19-1.
16 must be Middletown's lucky number: they beat Trinity with that score not once but twice on Monday. The Blue Raiders beat the Shamrocks by the very same score they won with in their prior game: 16-6. The result was nothing new for the Blue Raiders, who have now won six contests by ten runs or more so far this season.
Middletown got a massive performance out of Delaney Fitzpatrick, who went 3-for-4 with two runs, two RBI, and one double. Another player making a difference was Meghan O'Brien, who went 2-for-3 with three RBI and two runs.
Middletown always had someone on base and finished the game having posted an OBP of .579. They easily outclassed their opponents in that department as Trinity only posted an OBP of .375.
Middletown's win was their fifth straight on the road, which pushed their record up to 10-3. The road victories came thanks in part to their hitting performance across that stretch, as they averaged 17.2 runs over those games. As for Harrisburg, their loss dropped their record down to 0-9.
Harrisburg suffered a grim 21-2 defeat to Middletown in their previous meeting on April 8th. Can the Cougars avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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