After three games on the road, Nitro is heading back home. They will take on the Sissonville Indians at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday.
Nitro is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of West Virginia's top teams: St. Albans, who was ranked 13th in their home state at the time (Nitro was ranked 24th). Nitro fell just short of St. Albans by a score of 5-4 on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, Sissonville can now show off six landslide victories after their most recent matchup on Tuesday. They never let Point Pleasant onto the board and left with an 8-0 victory. Eight seems to be a good number for Sissonville as the squad scooped up a win with the same number of runs in their previous game.
Isiah Hicks was a major factor while hitting and pitching. On the mound, he didn't allow a single earned run over seven innings pitched. Hicks was also solid in the batter's box, scoring two runs and stealing a base while going 1-for-4.
In other batting news, Eli Simonton was excellent, scoring two runs and stealing a base while going 2-for-4. He is on a roll when it comes to stolen bases, as he's now stolen at least one in the last five games he's played. Another player making a difference was Jacob Coleman, who scored a run while going 2-for-2.
Nitro has been struggling recently as they've lost three of their last four matches, which put a noticeable dent in their 7-6 record this season. As for Sissonville, their victory was their third straight on the road, which pushed their record up to 8-3.
Nitro suffered a grim 8-1 defeat to Sissonville when the teams last played on Wednesday. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of Hicks, who struck out six batters over 6.1 innings while giving up just one earned run off two hits. Now that Nitro knows the damage he can cause, will they be able to stop him this time? There's only one way to find out.
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