After four games on the road, West Johnston is heading back home. They will take on the South Johnston Trojans at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday. Both teams come into the contest bolstered by wins in their previous matches.
Last Tuesday, it was close, but West Johnston sidestepped Hunt for a 4-2 win.
Gianna Williams spent all seven innings on the mound, and it's clear why: she surrendered only one earned (and one unearned) run on three hits and racked up ten Ks. She has been consistent recently: she hasn't given up more than one earned run in three consecutive pitching appearances.
At the plate, West Johnston saw five different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Calli Stephenson, who scored a run while going 2-for-3. The team also got some help courtesy of Casey Baird, who went 1-for-1 with a triple and a run.
Meanwhile, South Johnston entered their tilt with Cleveland with 14 consecutive wins but they'll enter their next game with 15. They came out on top against the Rams by a score of 4-1 on Wednesday.
West Johnston has been performing incredibly well recently as they've won six of their last seven matches, which provided a massive bump to their 10-10 record this season. As for South Johnston, their victory was their ninth straight on the road, which pushed their record up to 18-1.
West Johnston suffered a grim 11-0 defeat to South Johnston when the teams last played back in April. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of South Johnston's Ava Strickland, who didn't allow a single earned run and only one hit over five innings pitched. Now that West Johnston knows the damage she can cause, will they be able to stop her this time? There's only one way to find out.
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