Piketon and Paint Valley are an even 3-3-1 against one another since March of 2017, but likely not for long. The Piketon Redstreaks will be playing in front of their home fans against the Paint Valley Bearcats at 5:15 p.m. on Wednesday. The teams are on pretty different trajectories at the moment (Piketon has three straight wins, Paint Valley has 15 straight defeats), but none of that matters once you're on the field.
On Monday, Piketon narrowly escaped with a victory as the team sidled past Huntington 8-7. That's two games straight that Piketon has won by just one run.
Laney Brown was a standout: she scored three runs while going 1-for-5. Another player making a difference was Aubrey Heath, who scored two runs and stole a base while getting on base in three of her five plate appearances.
Meanwhile, Paint Valley fell victim to Zane Trace and their airtight pitching crew on Monday. They lost 12-0 to the Pioneers.
Paint Valley saw three different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Sophi Stauffer, who went 1-for-3 with a triple.
Piketon has been performing well recently as they've won ten of their last 13 games, which provided a nice bump to their 15-8 record this season. As for Paint Valley, their loss dropped their record down to 2-19.
Everything went Piketon's way against Paint Valley in their previous meeting on April 15th as Piketon made off with a 13-1 win. Will Piketon repeat their success, or does Paint Valley have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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