NEW-6'S Top Three Advance

When ever the playoffs begin you never know how good your conference is until you meet the others in the playoffs.

Rocky Mount was 10-1 in conference play this year. They scored 84 runs to average almost eight runs per game. They gave up only six which is a paltry half a run per game. How will that compare when the playoffs start.

Remembering back to 2006 the entire conference went down in the first round. In 2007 Northern Advance to the eastern Finals. Last year Fike and Rocky Mount met in the third round with Rocky Mount winning it all. I think how good the league is can be judged by the opening round.

If it can be judged by what happened in the opening round then the last edition of the NEW-6 is a good baseball league.

Nash Central not even knowing they were playing until Wednesday faced Coastal Foe D H
Conley and as expected the Bulldogs fell to the Vikings 14-4.

Southern Nash playing as the #four seed traveled to Triton high and gave a good showing before falling 4-0.

A couple of days ago I told you that if you have that one pitcher who can beat any body you can be dangerous. Fike has that pitcher William Prince. Last night Prince pitched a one hitter and that hit never left the infield while he struck out 13 batters. Fike scored four times in knocking off C B Aycock 4-0. It was only the fourth win of the season for Prince who also has four losses.
He has lost twice to Rocky Mount and twice to Northern.

Fike upset victory gets them a home Game Tuesday against Washington who is the #4 from the Coastal who shocked Hertford County 2-1.

Northern Nash's 6-0 victory on Thursday over Bartlett Yancy will not be as rewarding as they must now travel to Southern Alamance the #1 seed from the Mid State.

Rocky Mount's 4-1 victory over Southern Wayne gives them one more home game as they will now defend the home turf against South Central who took out White Oak Friday night 8-1.

So the top three are alive in the NEW-6 and will play another day.

Friday in Burlington Alex Durham playing in the quarter finals in the state singles tennis championship was part of what was the best match of the day. In the end Alex fell 0-6,7-6, 6-7
to Jared Bryant of Western Alamance. Set two and three were settled in sudden death after they were even in regulation.

The doubles team of Ross Bradley and Kayshap Kaul also lost in the quarters 6-1,6-1 to Burlington Williams.

All other spring sports teams are now finished and only baseball is left to finish the playoffs. The defending state champs are still alive.