It's hard to turn regular season success into postseason wins, a fact North Stanly can now relate to. They fell just short of the Southwestern Randolph Cougars by a score of 2-0 on Friday. North Stanly has now taken an 'L' in back-to-back games.
For Southwestern Randolph's part, not much got past Macie Crutchfield, who gave up just five hits to keep North Stanly off the board. Crutchfield has been nothing but reliable on the mound: she hasn't tossed less than five strikeouts in 15 consecutive pitching appearances.
On the hitting side, Southwestern Randolph saw four different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Madelyn Smith, who scored a run and stole two bases while going 2-for-3.
North Stanly's loss ended a four-game streak of wins at home and dropped them to 21-5-1. As for Southwestern Randolph, they have been performing incredibly well recently as they've won nine of their last ten contests, which provided a nice bump to their 21-7 record this season.
As of now, neither North Stanly nor Southwestern Randolph have any future games scheduled.
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