For the second straight game, Heritage will face off against Freedom. The Patriots will head out to take on the Falcons at 4:00 p.m. on Thursday.
Heritage had been on a three-game streak of scoring at least ten runs, but Freedom put an end to it on Tuesday. The Patriots lost 15-0 to the Falcons. The shutout was out of character for the Patriots seeing as the last time the team failed to score was back in February.
For Freedom's part, Riley Moon tossed a big game, not allowing a single earned run over five innings pitched. Moon has been consistent recently: she hasn't given up more than one earned run in four consecutive appearances.
On the hitting side, Freedom got a massive performance out of Terralynn Delauter, who went 3-for-4 with three RBI, two doubles, and one run. Those two doubles gave Delauter a new career-high. The team also got some help courtesy of Yasmeen Sanchez, who went a perfect 4-for-4 with three runs and two RBI.
Freedom kept the outfield on their toes and finished the game with 16 hits. That's a new trend for them: they were averaging 5.4 hits per game earlier this season, but in their last 15 matchups they've averaged 16.4.
The victory (which was Freedom's fifth in a row) raised their record to 6-7-1. The wins came thanks in part to their pitching effort, having only surrendered 0.8 runs on average over those games. As for Heritage, their defeat ended a three-game streak of wins at home and dropped them to 12-7.
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