The Heritage Hills Patriots will challenge the Evansville Memorial Tigers at 6:00 p.m. on Wednesday. Expect the scorekeeper to be kept busy: if their previous games are any indication, these teams will really light up the scoreboard.
Heritage Hills is on a roll after a high-stakes playoff matchup on Monday. They didn't even let Mt. Vernon on the board, marking the Patriots' second-straight 15-0 shutout. The Patriots have beaten the Wildcats the last eight times they've met, but they better watch out: this was the closest the Wildcats has come to flipping the script.
Meanwhile, Evansville Memorial made easy work of Evansville Central on Monday and carried off a 15-1 victory. Considering the Tigers have won nine contests by more than nine runs this season, Monday's blowout was nothing new.
Cypress Aliotta was a standout: she went a perfect 4-for-4 with four RBI and one double. Those four hits gave her a new career-high. The team also got some help courtesy of Teagan Davis, who got on base in all four of her plate appearances with three runs and one RBI.
Evansville Memorial always had someone on base and finished the game having posted an OBP of .568. They easily outclassed their opponents in that department as Evansville Central only posted an OBP of .238.
Evansville Memorial has been performing incredibly well recently as they've won seven of their last eight matches. That's provided a nice bump to their 16-7 record this season. Those wins came thanks in part to their pitching effort, having only surrendered 1.9 runs on average over those games. As for Heritage Hills, their record now sits at 21-7.
Heritage Hills came out on top in a nail-biter against Evansville Memorial in their previous meeting on Tuesday, sneaking past 3-1. Will the Patriots repeat their success, or do the Tigers have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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