Sam Herring turned in his biggest game of the season on Friday, striking out 13 batters over 7.1 innings while giving up just one earned run off two hits (and only one walk). As if that's not impressive enough, the pitching appearance was his fourth in a row with less than one earned run. On the year, Herring has an ERA of 1.46 over 33.7 innings pitched.
Herring and Murphysboro will head out on the road to square off against DuQuoin at 4:30 p.m. on Monday. Murphysboro will be headed into this one with a pretty big disadvantage in the rankings (they're ranked 199 places lower in Illinois), but they're not letting that get them down. Will they be able to pull off an upset behind Herring? Check MaxPreps after the action for a full breakdown of the game and more baseball content.
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