Post 58 Clinches Title

Coleman Pitt Post 58 needed tonight's win to take home first place in eastern division of American Legion Baseball. It took no more than the third batter of the game to get the ball rolling.

Xavier Macklin who has spent the last month playing for the Wilson Tobs joined Post 58 today which is the last day until playoff rosters are turned in. Macklin first at bat he sent a line drive down the left field line which was ruled fair and a home run gave post 58 a 2-0 lead over Tarboro Post 316. Leading off the third inning Macklin launched a drive that cleared the scoreboard at Northern Nash. Batting again in the third X hit a majestic fly ball high and deep in the left center gap that was caught by the center fielder leaning on the wall.

Tarboro pitching walked 11 batters and Post 316 defense committed six errors. This put ducks on the pond every inning and Coleman Pitt Post 58 slams Tarboro Post 316 26-1 in seven innings.

Macklin went three for five with four RBI's. Ben Fish was 2-4 with a homer and three RBI's and reach base six times.. Tyler Clark had two hits and a RBI. Mike Smith did not play the first half of the game but still collected two singles in four at bats. Gabe Brown had a triple and a single with a run batted in. Mike Williams had only one hit but it left the park giving him two rbi's. Collins Cuthrell,and Alex Pearce had singles.

Tonight closes out the regular season for Post 58. They finish at 8-2 overall and 7-1 in division play. Having started late due to the Northern Nash playoff run and coach Matt Bryan assisting coaching Eastern Wayne in the State championships Post 58 made their opposition pay as they tried to score runs for the games they didn't play. Post 58 scored 129 run in eight division games a whopping 16.2 runs per game. In the ten regular season games Coleman Pitt hit twenty home runs.

Brandon Denton pitched the first three innings by design as coach Matt Bryan had decided to give everyone a chance tonight to pitch an he almost did. Bill Clark pitched the fourth and fifth. T J Taylor the sixth and Alex Pearce got two outs in the seventh when Ben Fish came on to get the save HA HA. He struck out the only batter he face in pitching for the first time since he was in high school.

This is a really good Legion team that can go far in the playoffs. I would have no problem at all saying if this team had Tyler Joyner and Hobbs Johnson pitching they would be odds on favorites to win the state American Legion title.

Even without them they are going to go farther than any Post 58 team in quite a while. But when they finally lose out it will be because they don't have enough pitching against some team that is going to shut down our hitting.

Playoffs start Wednesday night at Northern Nash. It will be a two out of three first round.

Come watch this team play. They are fun to watch!