Facing the loser bracket on Sunday the Rocky Mount Midget (9/10 Year old Tar Heel Little League team) won their first game of the day beating Hickory 10-0 in a four inning game.
Logan Pearce and Landon Roup hit homers in the first inning that proved to be all the runs the Rocky Mount All Stars would need.
The advantage of being in the winners bracket is while others are out on the field playing in the hot sun just to be able to play in the next game the winners bracket team and in this case that was Lee County can just sit back in a motel room and wait in the air conditioning.
Beating Hickory gave the Rocky Mount Midgets the chance to play Lee County again and the results were worse that the 9-7 score yesterday. Lee county wins the State Tar Heel Midget Championship with a 11-0 win in four innings.
The Rocky Mount Midget all stars bring home a second place trophy.
Coleman Pitt Post 58 also found themselves in the losers bracket and the punishment for being in the losers bracket is playing on Sunday at Guy Smith Stadium instead of the brand spanking new 4,500 seat Clark-LeClair Stadium at ECU.
Guy Smith is the home of Rose High school and compared to Northern Nash which has short fences Guy Smith is even smaller.
I figured with the wind blowing out that the losing team would probably score ten today. Not so fast My Friend, as Shelby threw a submarine pitcher and Brandon Denton took the hill for Post 58.
The final score Shelby 3 and Post 58 2. Shelby hit two homers to Post 58 one. Each team had a two run homer and Shelby had a solo shot which was the difference.
Shelby hit their solo homer in the first inning to take a 1-0 lead. There was a thirty minute rain delay while we were batting with two outs in the fifth inning. Once the game resumed Collins Cuthrell walked after having a three balls and one strike count on him when the rains came. Xavier Macklin then hit a home run which was last seen rolling toward Memorial Drive near the hospital and Post 58 lead 2-1.
Shelby would get all the runs they needed in the seventh when they got a single and then one of those bloop Guy Smith home runs and they took the lead 3-2. Post 58 got one single in the eighth and ninth but never threatened.
Adam Izokovic pitched complete game six hitter. Both days of this tournament Xavier Macklin got three of our six hits and hit a home run each day.
Brandon Denton went all the way for Post 58 which was eight innings and like yesterday for Alex Pearce the pitching for Post 58 was good but the other sides pitching was better. Denton gave up nine hits but walk only won batters. He struck out five but didn't get enough help from his hitting mates.
Post 58 finishes the season 20-6 and made it to the State finals for the first time in 36 years.
Sunday, July 26, 2009
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