It may have taken eight innings to finish the job, but South County ultimately got the result they hoped for on Tuesday. They had just enough and edged out the Fairfax Lions 4-3. The game snapped a strange streak: the last five times these teams have met, it?s been the away team that?s taken home the W.
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William Middleton looked comfortable as he pitched two innings while giving up no earned runs or hits. South County is undefeated when Middleton allows one or fewer hits, but 2-3 otherwise.
On the hitting side, South County let Caden Behan and Jack Fitzgerald run wild. Behan got on base in three of his four plate appearances with two runs, while Fitzgerald went 2-for-4 with one run, one double, and one RBI. That double marked the first that Fitzgerald has hit this season.
South County's record is now 5-3. As for Fairfax, this is the second loss in a row for them and nudges their season record down to 2-4.
South County will have a chance to go back-to-back against the Lions: the pair's next game is a rematch scheduled at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday.
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