The Northern Burlington Greyhounds will look to defend their home field on Thursday against the Shawnee Renegades at 3:45 p.m. Both teams come into the game bolstered by wins in their previous matches.
Northern Burlington is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of New Jersey's top teams: Cinnaminson, who was ranked 20th in their home state at the time (Northern Burlington was ranked 16th). Northern Burlington never let Cinnaminson onto the board and left with a 3-0 win on Wednesday. The victory made it back-to-back wins for Northern Burlington.
Not much got past Mikayla Fontana, who gave up just three hits and racked up eight Ks to keep Cinnaminson off the board. Fontana has been consistent recently: she hasn't pitched less than five innings in ten consecutive pitching appearances.
At the plate, Northern Burlington's victory was truly a team effort as five different players contributed at least one hit. One of them was Haley MacArthur, who went 1-for-3 with two stolen bases and an RBI. MacArthur has been hot recently, having posted at least one stolen base the last three times she's played. Another player making a difference was Amelia Rebadavia, who scored a run and stole a base while getting on base in two of her three plate appearances.
Meanwhile, Shawnee was able to grind out a solid win over Cherokee on Tuesday, taking the game 7-3.
Northern Burlington is on a roll lately: they've won five of their last six contests, which provided a nice bump to their 12-3 record this season. As for Shawnee, their victory bumped their record up to 2-10.
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