Legion Had Excellent Season.

The start was auspicious. Northern's playoff run went almost to June. Matt Bryan Post 58 head coach who is an assistant at Eastern Wayne played right up to the last game of the playoffs. Several scheduled games had to be cancelled or moved until finally the season got under way around the 5th of June.

Lost the very first game with by the ten run rule with only one practice as a team. There on this team play like champs.

I spoke early that I didn't see that the pitching staff was strong enough. I visualized that there would be playoff games where the ace of other teams would shut down our hitting and our pitching would not win the 5-4 or 3-2 playoff games which we didn't this past weekend.

If there was a strong point in Greenville it was our pitching. It was the hitting that lead us to a quick exit from the State Tournament.

You know we went further in the playoffs than what I thought we could, even the Cary series in which we saw better pitching than we had seen all year our hitting was better than their pitching.

Our hitting was not better than the two pitchers we saw in the State Tournament in Greenville.

When we look at the facts this team won four playoffs series. Three of them they won three games to none. In the only series to go five we were down zero games to two and came back and won the series. In fact game five we were down two runs in the bottom of the ninth and won.

So this team displayed magic and had a fine season at 20-6. Made it to the Area one finals for the first time since 1995 and back to the Championship finals for the first time since Post 58 won it all in 1973.

We can all complain of what could have been if all the all stars from this area had of played Legion ball. I think not having all of the all stars of the area really shows you how good this team was with what we had.

I enjoyed being th PA man following this team.

I think everyone should thank Joe Bell as he is the master mind behind keeping Post 58 alive with baseball. He didn't have a child on the team, but he was dedicated to keep it alive so when Spencer gets there next year there will be a team.

Without him there may not have even been a team this year to enjoy.