Tar Heel All Stars Survive Twice

The Rocky Mount Tar Heel 11/12 year old all stars have survived their second day of loser bracket games winning twice today in Valdese in the North Carolina Tar Heel little league tournament.

Nothing was easy today in the first game against Clayton as the game went eight innings before the Rocky Mount all stars put three on the board and shutout Clayton in the bottom of the eighth to win 6-3.

This made the third straight game that Rocky Mount has won since their opening game lost to Coates 4-3 when Coates scored in the last inning on Thursday.

Friday Rocky Mount won twice beating Hildebrand 12-2 and last night they beat Ahoskie 7-5. Playing twice in the same day for the second day in a row tonight Rocky Mount beat North Raleigh 5-4 after trailing 4-2 as they headed to the sixth inning.

My source on the scene in Valdese is Robert Morris who's son Andy is one of the players. Rocky Mount won on a three run homer in the sixth but there was so much whooping and hollering from the players in the back ground I didn't hear the name of the player who hit the home run.

For all of this work playing four games in two days, it is now down to two teams. The undefeated team is Jacksonville and Rocky Mount must beat them twice Sunday afternoon in order to win the State title.

Just a reminder this team won six in a row in Zebulon after they lost the first game of the districts. So this team knows they can do it.

Pitching will be a major question mark Sunday, but so far in the five games that Rocky Mount has played the pitching has only allowed twenty runs so to this point pitching has been a strong point .

Good luck Sunday.. First game starts at 2.00pm

All Stars Still Alive

Friday The Rocky Mount Tar Heel Little league all stars started the day off in the losers bracket after a heart breaking opening day loss of 4-3 to Coates in mountains of North Carolina at Valdese.

The first game of the day the Rocky Mount all stars took out one of the local teams Hildebrand by a 12-2 score. When ever you make it to the losers bracket that automatically means every one of your players needs to be able to pitch because as soon as Rocky Mount had disposed of Hildebrand, there stood the Ahoskie team awaiting.

Ahoskie lead 5-2 going into the fifth inning when the Rocky Mount all stars exploded for five runs and held on to win 7-5.

Today Rocky Mount is faced with in order to make it to Sunday's final game they must win two more games. They start this afternoon with Clayton who last night knocked Coates out with a 7-5 win. The Rocky Mount-Clayton winner will then meet the undefeated team and if the losers bracket team wins will play for the championship Sunday afternoon.

This 11-12 year old all star team lost their first game in the district tournament and fought their way back to win that tournament and go to the state tournament in Valdese.

Another name has popped up on that Court ordered sealed list of names of pro baseball players and drug testing. David Ortiz is the lastest name that failed a drug test in 2003 in which no names were ever to be made public.

We now know about seven of the names. I have several questions about the list. If their names were never to be used why were their names put on the test bottles to begin with? Who is suppose to have this sealed list now? Why not throw away the list and burn it so no other names can be listed, or go ahead and tell all the names and let's end all of this every three months a name popping up that nobody can prove anyway.

I think the fans have proven that we don't care who's on the list since these test were done before Major league baseball had any testing in place.

Let's just play ball !