Oddly enough the fifth player in North Carolina high school history was in the Southern Nash Dugout watching Pittman and his feat. Ricky Howard while as a senior did it for Southern earlier this decade. Howard is now an assistant for the Firebirds.
Eight runs batted in, in one game WOW, what a feat but Pittman also had a double during his dream game. What more could Pittman possibly do?, maybe hit a two run homer in has last at bat to give him ten rbi's in one game which is one run short of the state record.
I guess the question to ask Pittman is what did he have to eat before the game that caused this to happen? It may not have been anything he ate but Tom Suiter and the Extra Effort Award team from WRAL-TV earlier in the afternoon had been at Hunt recording Kyle Pittman as the Extra Effort award winner.
Talk about pumping a player up. Glad Hunt didn't play the Gryphons that night.
Lady Gryphon softball lost number fifteen on the year tonight at Southern Nash.
Varsity baseball won at Southern Nash 7-0. Benton Moss pitched your basic complete game shutout striking out sixteen. We need to get Charles Alston to search the baseball record book and see what the record is for strikeouts in back to back games in Gryphon history. Hobbs Johnson struck out only 13 Tuesday. (Trying to be funny there) The two conference games this week the defense other than the pitchers and Thomas Berry were only involved in 13 defensive outs. The pitching did the rest.
This is victory #15 for the Gryphons and they play at home Tuesday night against Northern
