For the second straight game, Hillcrest will face off against Thompson. The Patriots will head out to square off against the Warriors at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday.
Hillcrest is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of Alabama's top teams: Thompson, who was ranked 15th at the time (Hillcrest was ranked sixth). The Patriots fell 8-3 to the Warriors on Tuesday. The Patriots haven't had much luck with the Warriors recently, as the team has come up short the last three times they've met.
The victory (which was Thompson's eighth in a row) raised their record to 27-11. Those wins came thanks in part to their pitching effort, having only surrendered 3.0 runs on average over those games. As for Hillcrest, their defeat dropped their record down to 21-10.
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