Whiteoak and Fairfield are an even 5-5 against one another since April of 2016, but likely not for long. The Whiteoak Wildcats have the luxury of staying home for another game and will welcome the Fairfield Lions at 5:00 p.m. on Thursday. The two teams have allowed few runs on average, (Whiteoak: 3.1, Fairfield: 2.2) so any runs scored will be well earned.
Whiteoak's pitching crew heads into the contest hoping to repeat the dominance they displayed on Wednesday. They walked away with a 3-0 victory over Symmes Valley.
Meanwhile, Fairfield put the finishing touches on their sixth blowout victory of the season on Tuesday. Everything went their way against Ripley-Union-Lewis-Huntington as Fairfield made off with a 17-0 win. While fans of Fairfield might be used to big wins, the 17-run margin marked the team's biggest one yet.
Wyatt Wiley made a splash while hitting and pitching. On the mound, he didn't allow a single earned run and only one hit while striking out eight over five innings pitched. Wiley was also solid in the batter's box, scoring two runs and stealing a base while going 2-for-4.
In other batting news, the team relied heavily on Blaine Fauber, who scored four runs while going 3-for-3. Cody Frost was another key contributor, scoring three runs and stealing a base while going 1-for-3.
Whiteoak's victory bumped their record up to 8-3-1. As for Fairfield, they are on a roll lately: they've won eight of their last nine matches, which provided a nice bump to their 10-3 record this season.
Whiteoak couldn't quite finish off Fairfield in their previous matchup two weeks ago and fell 2-0. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of Fairfield's Gabe Fouch, who didn't allow a single earned run while striking out 14 over six innings pitched. Now that Whiteoak 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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