Grovetown entered their tilt with Newton with two consecutive wins but they'll enter their next game with three. Their pitcher stepped up to hand the Newton Rams a 12-0 shutout on Monday. With that win, the Warriors brought their scoring average up to 6.8 runs per game.
Maddy Harl made a splash no matter where she played. She looked comfortable on the mound, keeping things locked down with no earned runs or hits while striking out 11 over five innings pitched. Harl was also big at the plate, going 4-for-5 with a double and an RBI.
In other batting news, Grovetown got a massive performance out of Sam Story, who scored four runs while going 3-for-4. Story also put up three hits, which wereher first of the season. Alaura Cox was another key contributor, going 3-for-3 with four RBI and a stolen base.
Perhaps unsurprisingly given the score, Grovetown didn't let batters stay on the plate for long and finished the game with 11 strikeouts. That's the most strikeouts they've earned since back in September of 2023.
Grovetown pushed their record up to 3-1 with that victory, which was their seventh straight on the road dating back to last season. As for Newton, they are on a five-game losing streak (dating back to last season) that has dropped them down to 0-4.
Grovetown will have a chance to go back-to-back against Newton: the pair will be back at it again later today.
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