Halifax and Susquenita are an even 5-5 against one another since April of 2018, but likely not for long. The Halifax Wildcats will head out on the road to face off against the Susquenita Blackhawks at 4:30 p.m. on Friday.
Halifax is coming in off a wild two-game stretch: after soaring to 25 runs on Monday, they were much more limited against East Juniata on Wednesday. They lost 14-2 to the Tigers. Halifax has not had much luck with East Juniata recently, as the team's come up short the last two times they've met.
Meanwhile, Susquenita waltzed into their contest on Thursday with two straight wins... but they left with three. Their pitchers stepped up to hand the Squires a 5-0 shutout.
The team relied heavily on Kaydon Brandt, who scored two runs while going 2-for-3. The team also got some help courtesy of Braelyn Printz, who scored a run while going 1-for-4.
Halifax's loss dropped their record down to 4-9. As for Susquenita, their win bumped their record up to 13-2.
Halifax suffered a grim 16-0 defeat to Susquenita when the teams last played back in April. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of Susquenita's Ayahna Fleisher, who struck out six batters over three innings while giving up no earned runs or hits (and not a single walk). Now that Halifax 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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