Post 58 Advances

I like this Post 58 team a lot. They have a great hitting team. I have told you in the past that pitching was the weak link for this team. Looking at the roster there is not a #1 starting pitcher from any of our local high schools on the roster. If you consider that an American Legion team should full of all stars from our local area we have all the all star hitters except for Brian Goodwin.

This week in the opening round of the State legion playoffs our pitching staff has tried to make me look like I don't have any idea what I'm talking about. Monday night Brandon Denton pitch six strong innings and Bill Clark pitch the last three in getting Post 58 off to a 1-0 in games beating Post 39 from Pitt County 9-3..

Tuesday Dillon Cockrell pitch six inning of three hit ball and Mike Williams finished off Post 39 in seven innings 10-0. Tonight Alex Pearce goes the distance in this case seven inning allowing four hits and striking out ten Post 39 batters as Coleman Pitt Post 58 nails Pitt County 12-2. Post 39 runs score on a home run other wise Pearce was in control leading Nash County to round two of the state playoffs.

Post 58 scored in five of the six innings they batted and in three of those inning put up crooked numbers on the board scoring Two in the first,a Single run in the second, went three up and three down in the third, a lone run in the fourth, four scored in the fifth and added three in the sixth enough to give them a ten run lead.

Pearce who is one of the few players in a hitting slump came alive tonight hitting a homer and added an RBI single. Wesley Joyner went three for three. T J Taylor had two hits, Xavier Macklin two,Grant Johnson two. Gabe Brown had a single.

All toll seven different players had at least one RBI. Macklin,Fish,and Mike Williams had one. Johnson,Joyner, Brown had two each and Pearce had three.

Coleman Pitt awaits the winner of the Wayne County Post 11 and Edenton Post 40 winner. Going into tonight they were tied a game a piece but in the seventh inning Edenton was winning game three 15-4

Post 58 will be the higher seeded team regardless of who they play and will begin round two Monday night at Northern Nash. Junior Legion regular season ends Friday so game time Monday should be 7.00pm.

Coleman Pitt is now 11-2. they have scored double digits in ten of their thirteen games. If you like high scoring games they have scored 171 runs in thirteen games. For you English Majors out there that is just over thirteen runs per game.