Heritage has won seven straight games at home, while Lawrence County has won seven straight on the road, but those streaks won't matter much on Friday. The Mountaineers will welcome the Wildcats at 5:00 p.m. Heritage is strutting in with some hitting muscle as they've averaged 7.8 runs per game this season.
Heritage's pitching crew heads into the match hoping to repeat the dominance they displayed on Wednesday. Everything went their way against Lenoir City as they made off with a 10-0 win. That's two games straight that the Mountaineers have won by exactly ten runs.
Not much got past Katelyn Russell, who gave up just three hits to keep Lenoir City off the board. Russell has been consistent recently: she hasn't given up a single earned run in four consecutive appearances.
On the hitting side, Heritage got a big performance out of Amity Layne, who went 2-for-3 with two runs and one RBI. That's the most runs Layne has posted since back in March. The team also got some help courtesy of Carly Smith, who went 2-for-4 with two runs and one double.
Heritage was getting hits left and right and finished the game having posted a batting average of .407. That was just more of the same: they've now posted a batting average of .314 or higher in four consecutive games.
Meanwhile, it was a proper cat-fight when Lawrence County challenged DeKalb County on Wednesday. The Wildcats lost 11-1 to the Tigers. For those keeping track at home, that's the biggest defeat the Wildcats have suffered since April 5th.
Heritage has been performing incredibly well recently as they've won nine of their last ten contests. That's provided a nice bump to their 26-8 record this season. The victories came thanks in part to their pitching effort, having only surrendered 2.7 runs on average over those games. As for Lawrence County, their loss dropped their record down to 15-11.
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