The Blue Ridge Yellow Jackets will square off against the ALA - Ironwood Warriors at 4:00 p.m. on Friday. The teams are on pretty different trajectories at the moment (Blue Ridge has four straight wins, ALA - Ironwood has three straight defeats), but none of that matters once you're on the field.
Blue Ridge is headed in fresh off scoring the most runs they have all season. They blew past Monument Valley 21-2 on Tuesday. Perhaps unsurprisingly given the team's high-flying offense, the game also marked the team's biggest victory of the season.
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Justin Carpenter made a splash while hitting and pitching. He tossed two innings while giving up just one earned run off one hit. Blue Ridge is undefeated when Carpenter allowsone or fewer hits, but 2-3 otherwise. Carpenter was also big at the plate, scoring two runs and stealing Two bases. while going 2-for-4. He also put up two RBI, which were his first of the season.
In other batting news, Matthew Rooney and Karson Rosenthal did most of the damage at the plate: Rooney scored three runs and stole Three bases. while going 3-for-5, while Rosenthal scored three runs and stole a base while going 2-for-2. That's the most runs Rosenthal has posted since back in February of 2024. The team also got some help courtesy of Brenton Newcomb, who scored two runs while getting on base in three of his four plate appearances.
Blue Ridge always had someone on base and finished the game having posted an OBP of .526. That's the best OBP they've posted all season.
Meanwhile, ALA - Ironwood suffered their closest loss since April 18, 2024 on Wednesday. They fell just short of Northwest Christian by a score of 5-3.
Liam Wood made the most of his time at bat despite the final result and scored a run and stole a base while going 2-for-3.
ALA - Ironwood's defeat dropped their record down to 1-7. As for Blue Ridge, their win bumped their record up to 5-3.
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