College Baseball Nash County Style

North Carolina is known as the hot bed of college basketball but this weekend it has become the hotbed of college baseball.  The ACC has been holding it's tournament in Durham at the DBAP and this weekend the NCAA has started the Division II College World Series in Cary.  Mount Olive college is the host school and has won their opening in the tournament which will last all week.


The home front there is only one college player still playing from this spring as Hobbs Johnson and the North Carolina Tar Heels await whether they will host an NCAA Regional next Weekend.  There is no reason why they should not.  Hobbs appeared in six games so far this season  for the Tar Heels and has pitched 3.2 innings.  He has become this season a pitch to one batter especially lefty hitters.  He did not give up a run this season.


The highly tauted Brian Goodwin at Miami Dade hit 382 on the season scoring 42 runs in 47 games and knocked in 37 rbi and most folks think he will go in the first round of the upcoming MLB draft in June.


Xavier Macklin hit 22 home runs this season which tied him for second in the nation in homers.  How many homers was that this year with the softer aluminum bat.  N C State as a team this year only hit 32.  X man's batting average was 355 this season and now having finished his junior year he is eligible for the draft and he may go in the top ten rounds as well.


Ben Fish started 35 of his teams 45 games and hit a solid 327.   He hit two homers and drive in 25 runs.  Last summer Ben spent playing ball in Wilmington but this year he is helping out with Post 58 Legion Ball.


Tyler Clark finished up his second college season hitting 336 and started every game behind the plate.  Tyler has joined Ben in helping out on the baseball field for Post 58 this summer.

Looking back to the 14 year old Babe Ruth Team that played in the World Championship game in Quincy Massachusetts in 2005  Brian Goodwin was the center fielder/pitcher.  Xavier Macklin was the right fielder,  Tyler Clark leftfielder/Catcher and Ben Fish catcher. If it were not for an extra inning semi final game in which Nash County had to pitch all the pitchers they had to win that game they may have won the world title. We will look at rest of this years college players tomorrow. 

Post 58 game in the Baseball classic hosted by Durham Post 58 was postponed yesterday by rain.  weather permitting they are playing tonight.