The St. Albans Red Dragons have the luxury of staying home for another game and will welcome the Oak Hill Red Devils at 1:30 p.m. on Friday. St. Albans is strutting in with some hitting muscle, as they've averaged 7.7 runs per game this season.
St. Albans is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of West Virginia's top teams: Nitro, who was ranked 24th in their home state at the time (St. Albans was ranked 13th). St. Albans skirted past Nitro 5-4. That's two games straight that St. Albans has won by just one run.
Gavin Comer was excellent, scoring a run while going 2-for-3. The team also got some help courtesy of Brogan Samms, who got on base in three of his four plate appearances with a stolen base and an RBI.
Meanwhile, Oak Hill was not able to break out of their rough patch on Saturday as the team picked up their third straight loss. They wound up on the wrong side of a tough 12-2 walloping at the hands of Nicholas County.
St. Albans is on a roll lately: they've won seven of their last eight matches, which provided a nice bump to their 11-4 record this season. As for Oak Hill, they now have a losing record at 2-3.
Everything went St. Albans' way against Oak Hill when the teams last played back in April of 2023 as St. Albans made off with an 8-0 win. Does St. Albans have another victory up their sleeve, or will Oak Hill turn the tables on them? We'll have the answer soon enough.
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