The Murray County Indians's road trip will continue as they head out to face the North Cobb Christian Eagles at 5:30 p.m. on Monday. Murray County's pitching crew has only allowed 2.7 runs per game this season, so North Cobb Christian's hitters will have their work cut out for them.
Murray County is headed into the matchup fresh off scoring the most runs they have all season. Everything went their way against Northwest Whitfield on Friday as Murray County made off with a 15-4 win. Considering the Indians have won three games by more than five runs this season, Friday's blowout was nothing new.
Alyssa Barnett tossed a big game, tossing five innings while giving up just one earned (and three unearned) runs off six hits.
At the plate, Murray County got a massive performance out of Blakelee Ledford, who scored three runs while going 2-for-4. The team also got some help courtesy of Charlsey Richards, who went 2-for-4 with four RBI, two runs, and a double.
Perhaps unsurprisingly given the score, Murray County was getting hits left and right and finished the game having posted a batting average of .486. The last time their batting average was this high was back in September of 2023.
Meanwhile, North Cobb Christian came up short against North Murray on Thursday and fell 7-4.
Murray County's record is now 5-1. As for North Cobb Christian, their defeat dropped their record down to 3-2.
Murray County suffered a grim 13-5 defeat to North Cobb Christian in their previous meeting back in October of 2023. Can Murray County avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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