New Albany easily dispatched Pine Grove on Friday, but unfortunately both the margin and the ultimate result were a different story in this one. The New Albany Bulldogs fell just short of the Alcorn Central Bears by a score of 5-3 on Friday. The Bulldogs were not able to make up for their defeat to the Bears from their previous meeting back in March of 2023.
New Albany saw four different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Riley Anderson, who went a perfect 1-for-1 with one RBI.
New Albany's loss dropped their record down to 2-2. As for Alcorn Central, they have been performing well recently as they've won five of their last six games. That's provided a nice bump to their 7-6 record this season.
New Albany will get a bit of extra time to process the defeat as their next game is a ways off. They'll take on Independence at 6:30 p.m. on April 7th. As for Alcorn Central, they will square off against Walnut at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday. Walnut is strutting in with some hitting muscle as they've averaged 8 runs per game this season.
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