Hobbs Johnson starts on the mount and pitches six innings of two run ball and when he leaves Post 58 enjoys a 4-2 lead. A Jeremy Sloop home run ran the lead to 5-2. Parker Helms pitched a solid seventh inning but found nothing but trouble in the eighth as Wilson Post 13 plated five runs to take the lead 7-5. Bill Clark was able to extinguish the eighth inning rally.
T J Taylor lead off the top of the ninth with a towering home run which hit off the third row of advertising in right field. You could just feel that hit lift the entire team as still trailing 7-6 Matthew Berry walked reached third on a single by Kyle Norville. Michael Whitehead walked to load the bases still with one out. Jeremy Sloop hit a grounder to first who threw home to force Berry out at home. That made two outs and the bases still loaded and Fuller Weatherly walked on a 3-2 count to tie the game at 7.
Bill Clark held Wilson in the bottom of the ninth to send the game into extra innings. Rocky Mount was going quietly in the tenth inning until Thomas Berry stepped to the plate and hit a shot that last report was still sailing over the wall in right center field and heading to down town Wilson and post 58 had retaken the lead 8-7. Bill Clark retire the side in the tenth inning and Post 58 had done it to Wilson again winning 8-7.
If you remember last playoff season Rocky Mount and Wilson went to a fifth game and Post 58 was trailing by two runs in the bottom of the ninth inning and scored three runs to take victory away from Wilson then and moved on to Play Cary for the right to go to the State Tournament.
If you got to this game late and didn't see but the last two and a half innings you saw a game right there tonight.
Post 58 will take a break for the high school graduations scheduled this weekend and will not return to action until Monday night when Wilson comes to Rocky Mount. Rocky Mount is now 1-0 in conference play while Wilson dropped to 1-1. Tarboro does not have a Legion team this season so the conference is made up of Rocky Mount, Wilson Greenville Post 39, Ahoskie and Edenton. The top four make the playoffs.
