The Spring Valley Vikings will challenge the Irmo Yellow Jackets at 6:30 p.m. on Friday. Spring Valley has a tough task ahead: they'll enter the matchup with three straight defeats, while Irmo will come in with three straight wins.
Thursday just wasn't the day for Spring Valley's offense. They lost 10-0 to Sumter on Thursday.
While Irmo didn't have the best season last year (they finished 7-16), it's starting to look like those struggles are a thing of the past. They blew past Newberry 8-1 on Thursday. The result was nothing new for the Yellow Jackets, who have now won four games by seven runs or more so far this season.
Irmo got a great performance from Cooper Starling as he pitched 5.1 innings while giving up just one earned run off three hits. Starling has been consistent : he hasn't given up more than one earned run in five consecutive appearances.
At the plate, the team relied heavily on Elliott Graham, who scored a run while getting on base in all four of his plate appearances. The team also got some help courtesy of Jayllen Fray, who scored a run while going 1-for-3.
Irmo's victory was their fifth straight at home, which pushed their record up to 6-2. Those victories came thanks in part to their pitching effort, having only surrendered 1.4 runs on average over those games. As for Spring Valley, their loss dropped their record down to 2-4.
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