The Durant Cougars will take on the Bartow Yellow Jackets at 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday. The two teams have allowed few runs on average (Durant 3.7, Bartow 3.3) so any runs scored will be well earned.
Durant is on a roll after a high-stakes playoff matchup on Monday. They came out on top against Bloomingdale by a score of 3-0. The win was nothing new for the Cougars as they're now sitting on four straight.
Not much got past Betty Oderio, who gave up just two hits and racked up eight Ks to keep Bloomingdale off the board. Oderio has been consistent for a while: she hasn't given up more than one walk in ten consecutive appearances.
On the hitting side, the team relied heavily on Lennox Ullrich, who got on base in three of her four plate appearances with two runs and one double.
Meanwhile, Bartow entered their tilt with Tampa Bay Tech on Monday with two consecutive wins, and they'll enter their next game with three. They blew past the Titans 16-1. That's two games straight that the Yellow Jackets have won by exactly 15 runs.
Bartow pushed their record up to 20-6 with the victory, which was their sixth straight at home. The home wins came thanks in part to their hitting performance across that stretch, as they averaged 10.0 runs over those games. As for Durant, their victory bumped their record up to 13-8.
Durant came out on top in a nail-biter against Bartow in their previous meeting back in May of 2021, sneaking past 2-1. Do the Cougars have another victory up their sleeve, or will the Yellow Jackets turn the tables on them? We'll have the answer soon enough.
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