Seventh-inning Comeback For Baseball

It looked as if Benton Moss' six innings of two-hit baseball was going to be wasted. But a three-run seventh inning propelled the Baseball Gryphons to their second win of the season. Jeremy Trevathan pitched the bottom of the seventh to earn the save.

The baseball schedule has been shifted due to the fact the baseball team was scheduled to play Saturday afternoon at home. There is a very important game going on in Chapel Hill Saturday night in which the baseball team would like to see since they have had their own cheering section during Gryphon home basketball games.

Friday's Riverside game has been moved to Wednesday afternoon, which will now be the home opener for the Gryphons. Then Friday afternoon the Saturday game will be played. Both games start at 4 p.m. Friday's game will be against Webb High School from Oxford.

No comeback for softball as they were beaten by Farmville Central 18-1 in five innings.

I am glad to be able to announce that the State Championship basketball game will be live on the radio Saturday night on WZAX Jammin 99.3 FM. Our pregame show will start at 6.30 from Dean's Dome.

I got home from doing the Relay for Life show on Monday night and I had a voice message from Mike Pearce. Mike left me a message to tell me that Alex, his son and former Nash Central Bulldog and now a sophomore at UNC Pembroke, had the game of his college career Saturday afternoon. Alex started behind the plate and went 3-for-3 and all three hits were doubles and three RBI..

The past few years I have done radio and TV baseball games and PA announcing and there is something about baseball where there is more time before and after games to get with the families that follow their children. I have done many games that Alex has played in and his family both his parents and grandparents have followed him all over the east coast playing ball.

It is a joy for me to hear the excitement and pride that I heard in Mike's voice as I listened to the phone message. Mike, call me any time and let me know how Alex is doing. I hope the next time you call I will be able to talk live with you and not have you on Memorex.

If any of you have any thing that you want me to pass on to others I would love to do it. I hope you can tell I don't report negative stories about our young people and coaches. Call me on the phone, fax me, e-mail me or tell a friend to tell me, but I love it when I hear from you on things I haven't heard yet. Yes , I will fuss about high paid college coaches and such but our local coaches are just like me and you trying to make it pay check to pay check because they love working with our kids.

One day last week I went online to the Greensboro News and Record seeing what I might find out about last week's Regional semifinal opponent Northern Guilford. What did I see as the headline? Deloatch sinks Aggies. Michael Deloatch, formally of Northern Nash and Norfolk State, scored 37 points including the game-winning shot to beat the Aggies of North Carolina A&T. If you remember Deloatch made the ESPN top ten plays of the day in another game. Could the NBA be waiting on Michael Deloatch?