The Mt. Vernon Yellowjackets will head out to take on the Licking Valley Panthers at 5:00 p.m. on Friday.
Mt. Vernon is probably headed into the game with a chip on their shoulder considering Heath just ended the team's four-game winning streak on Wednesday. They fell just short of the Bulldogs by a score of 4-3.
Mt. Vernon saw three different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Hayden Higgins, who went 1-for-3 with one run and one double.
Meanwhile, Licking Valley had already won four in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 6.3 runs) and they went ahead and made it five on Wednesday. They came out on top against the Green Wave by a score of 9-4.
Licking Valley pushed their record up to 9-2 with the victory, which was their third straight on the road. The road wins came thanks in part to their hitting performance across that stretch, as they averaged 11.0 runs over those games. As for Mt. Vernon, their loss dropped their record down to 7-6.
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