Clintonville is 2-8 against Fox Valley Lutheran since May of 2017 but they'll have a chance to close the gap a little bit on Thursday. The Clintonville Truckers will head out on the road to take on the Fox Valley Lutheran Foxes at 4:30 p.m. The two teams each escaped (but just barely!) with wins against their previous opponents.
Clintonville's pitching crew heads into the matchup hoping to repeat the dominance they displayed on Monday. They skirted past Wrightstown 2-0. The victory made it back-to-back wins for Clintonville.
Not much got past Claire Papendorf, who gave up just six hits to keep Wrightstown off the board.
At the plate, Clintonville's win was truly a team effort as five different players contributed at least one hit. One of them was Natalie Sunita, who scored a run while going 1-for-3.
Meanwhile, Fox Valley Lutheran entered their tilt with Notre Dame Academy with two consecutive wins but they'll enter their next game with three. They came out on top in a nail-biter against the Tritons on Wednesday and snuck past 4-2.
Madison Babcock made a big impact while hitting and pitching. On the mound, she struck out 15 batters over seven innings while giving up just one earned (and one unearned) run off six hits (and only one walk). Babcock has been consistent recently: she hasn't tossed less than five strikeouts every time she's pitched this season. Babcock was also solid in the batter's box, going 2-for-2 with a double and an RBI.
In other batting news, Melayna Sokulski was excellent, scoring a run while going 2-for-4.
Clintonville's victory ended a six-game drought at home and bumped them up to 6-14. As for Fox Valley Lutheran, their win was their fifth straight on the road, which pushed their record up to 16-5.
Clintonville might still be hurting after the 13-0 loss they got from Fox Valley Lutheran in their previous matchup two weeks ago. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of Babcock, who kept things locked down with no earned runs or hits while striking out ten over five innings pitched. Now that Clintonville 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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