The Tar Heel Midget 9/10-year-old Little League State Championships got under way tonight in Erwin. Erwin, the host team, was given an automatic spot in the state championships. Erwin, as the championship host, went head-to-head with Rocky Mount in the opening game as Rocky Mount ripped Erwin 12-1 in four innings.
Coach Wayne Pridgen used three pitchers in those four innings trying to save his pitchers inning totals for later in the tournament. Jacob Pridgen pitched the first two innings and he gave way in the third to Josh Daniels. Noah Shrock pitch the fourth and final inning that Rocky Mount had to play in the field.
Shrock led the hitting attack getting three hits. Logan Pearce collect two hits. I am sure there were plenty more, but this is all I know about.
There is little time for celebrations as they will have to travel right back to Erwin Friday afternoon for a 2 p.m second-round game.
Last night in the 61st Annual NCCA East-West All-Star Football Game in Greensboro, the East managed to score one touchdown on a 5-yard scamper by Chapel Hill's Steven Moore in a 6-0 victory. Rocky Mount's Nick Hahula had the game's only PAT attempt blocked.
In the second half, the East found running room behind Rocky Mount's Torey Lee as almost every run in the second half was behind "Pork Chop". Due to a low scoring game, Hahula punted six times in the game and had just under a 32-yard average. His kickoff following the touchdown sailed in the end zone like more than half of his kicks did for the Gryphons last season.
The American Legion teams will start to gather in Greenville Friday. Six of the eight teams will bed down in motels in Greenville, while the home team Post 39 and the Area I champ Post 58 will ride back and forth each day.
There is a dinner tomorrow night where all the teams will be honored for making it to the state championship.
Just got back from going over to Ben Fish's house and the Doughties picked up our Post 58 T-shirts that has a nice logo on the front that says "2009 Nash County Post 58." The back says "Nash County Coleman- Pitt Post 58 2009 Area I Champions." It lists all the players and coaches and down at the bottom, it has two shovels making it into a "Y" and says in big letters "YA DIG!"
This is, of course, in reference to the Babe Ruth 14-year-old team - a squad that many of these players were on and its assistant coach Jammy Mitchell had a shovel and told the guys to keep digging.
Thanks Ashley (Mama Fish) for getting the T-shirts together and I will be wearing mine Saturday and Sunday.
I hope this is no factor at all for us but the loser's brackets games on Sunday have been moved to Guy Smith Stadium. Instead of starting at 9.30 a.m. on Sunday, they will start at 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. at the same time the winner's bracket games will be played at Clark-LeClair at ECU.
A win on Saturday against Mooresville will keep us at ECU Sunday.
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Can Post 58 hit its way to a title?
All along this American Legion baseball season we have talked about this team being a hitting machine - a lineup of all-star hitters. Yesterday, Joe Bell sent out the stats on this team and the hitting numbers are unreal.
There are 13 players on this squad that batted at least 40 times during their 24 games to date. Not one of those players hit less than .300.
This team had a total of 330 hits in its 24 games. That mathematically works out to over 13 hits per game. Here is a figure that is out of this world. They had 271 RBI with 330 hits which is over 11 per game. That works out to .82 RBI per hit.
This team hit 47 home runs in 24 contests. That is a smidgen less than two per game.
The team batting average is .387. That is almost .400 for the entire team.
Ben Fish leads the way hitting nearly .500 at .489. Right on his heels is Collins Cuthrell at .486.
Xavier Macklin did not start playing until the last regular season game. He hit 10 homers to tie Ben Fish for the team lead. Macklin hit his 10 in 15 games.
Fish had 45 hits and lead the team with 45 RBI. If you look at Ben's high school career and now Legion ball, he may be the most clutch hitter I have ever seen. He is the all-time rbi king at Rocky Mount High. - man (Xavier Macklin) has 26 RBI in his 15 games.
Alex Pearce and Brandon Denton share the wins leadership having won five games each. Dillon Cockrell added four wins. Bill Clark, T.J. Taylor and Nick Hahula added two wins each.
This pitching staff improved every game. The entire season the defense gave up only 5.5 runs per game. If we had the ERA totals, I am sure that the staff ERA was around four per game.
Post 58 begins its quest for the second state title in Post 58 history Saturday afternoon at 4:30 against Mooresville.
ECU is not that far away. If you want to watch an entertaining team, then this could be it. None of us have any idea of how good the competition is. We may lose two straight and come home happy to have just made the tournament. Regardless, this team will be fun right to the end.
The midget 9-10 year old Little League All-Stars start their state tournament tonight in Erwin. They play at 6 p.m. Good luck to them.
There are 13 players on this squad that batted at least 40 times during their 24 games to date. Not one of those players hit less than .300.
This team had a total of 330 hits in its 24 games. That mathematically works out to over 13 hits per game. Here is a figure that is out of this world. They had 271 RBI with 330 hits which is over 11 per game. That works out to .82 RBI per hit.
This team hit 47 home runs in 24 contests. That is a smidgen less than two per game.
The team batting average is .387. That is almost .400 for the entire team.
Ben Fish leads the way hitting nearly .500 at .489. Right on his heels is Collins Cuthrell at .486.
Xavier Macklin did not start playing until the last regular season game. He hit 10 homers to tie Ben Fish for the team lead. Macklin hit his 10 in 15 games.
Fish had 45 hits and lead the team with 45 RBI. If you look at Ben's high school career and now Legion ball, he may be the most clutch hitter I have ever seen. He is the all-time rbi king at Rocky Mount High. - man (Xavier Macklin) has 26 RBI in his 15 games.
Alex Pearce and Brandon Denton share the wins leadership having won five games each. Dillon Cockrell added four wins. Bill Clark, T.J. Taylor and Nick Hahula added two wins each.
This pitching staff improved every game. The entire season the defense gave up only 5.5 runs per game. If we had the ERA totals, I am sure that the staff ERA was around four per game.
Post 58 begins its quest for the second state title in Post 58 history Saturday afternoon at 4:30 against Mooresville.
ECU is not that far away. If you want to watch an entertaining team, then this could be it. None of us have any idea of how good the competition is. We may lose two straight and come home happy to have just made the tournament. Regardless, this team will be fun right to the end.
The midget 9-10 year old Little League All-Stars start their state tournament tonight in Erwin. They play at 6 p.m. Good luck to them.
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