Creek Wood waltzed into their match on Wednesday with five straight wins... but they left with six. They beat the Lexington Tigers by the very same score they won with in their prior game: 6-3. That result was just more of the same for these two, as Creek Wood also won the last time the pair played on Wednesday.
Elizabeth Martin spent all seven innings on the mound, and it's clear why: she surrendered three runs (all of which were unearned) on three hits. She has been consistent recently: she hasn't pitched less than five innings in 13 consecutive pitching appearances.
On the hitting side, Allison Bradford was excellent, going 1-for-3 with a home run and two RBI. The team also got some help courtesy of Zoey England, who scored a run while going 2-for-2.
On Lexington's side, they saw three different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Carly Williams, who went 2-for-3 with an RBI.
Creek Wood pushed their record up to 26-8 with that win, which was their ninth straight at home. As for Lexington, this is the second loss in a row for them and nudges their season record down to 33-16-1.
Creek Wood has the luxury of staying home for another game and will welcome Macon County on Friday. Creek Wood is strutting in with some hitting muscle as they've averaged 7.5 runs per game this season. As for Lexington, they will head out on the road to take on Greenbrier at 6:05 p.m. on Friday. One thing working in Greenbrier's favor is that they have posted big run totals in their last four games.
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