This weekend, the City of Rocky Mount sent its three Little League divisions and lower teams to a tournament in Smithfield as a warmup for the upcoming state tournaments. The Pee Wee's, the seven and eight year old who have played all season with a pitching machine, lost today to knock them out of the finals in the 7/8-year-old championship bracket for Monday.
The nine- and ten-year-olds, the Midgets, both the American and National League, have made it to the finals of the Smithfield tournament and will play each other for the title Monday night.
The Senior Little League, the 11/12-year-olds, also played and the National League team got knocked out on Saturday, but the American League team plays for the championship Monday night in Smithfield against a team from Raleigh, the Capitols. The National league won a consolation game Sunday afternoon to win the consolation bracket.
This Wednesday night at the sports complex, the Midget American League team and the National League square off again in a two out of three against each other. This comes after just playing each other on Monday night in Smithfield.
The senior 11/12 will also square off against each other Wednesday in a two of three against each other. If either wins a game on Wednesday night, and this includes the Midgets they meet in a third game Thursday night at Stith Talbott Park who decides who is the best all star team in Rocky Mount in each age group.
All of these games are a preliminary to the Tar Heel State tournaments which start July 6 with district tournaments and if any Rocky Mount team wins the district, they will advance to the State Tournament.
Post 58's Legion team has just beaten Edenton Post 40 in the first game of a doubleheader to take first place in the conference for the season. Parker Helms pitched into the fifth inning and Jeremy Sloop and Bill Clark finished off on the mound for 58. Collins Cuthrell and Thomas Berry provided the home run power for Post 58.
Edenton lost last night to Wilson and in doing so, pretty much eliminated it from any possible first place if they could have swept 58 Sunday night. The victory runs Post 58 to 14-4 on the year and 7-1 in league play. Wilson is 7-2, but both of those losses have come at the hands of Post 58 so regardless of the outcome of game two 58 is in first play when the playoffs start. We believe they start July 6 at Gryphon Stadium.
Post 58 plays a meaningless game Monday night at Wayne County, which it might very well may face at some point in time in the playoffs.
