Dodging Rain Drops

All four teams from the State Of North Carolina who made it to the NCAA baseball playoffs played today and they were all in the Triangle. UNC Wilmington and ECU lose while State and Carolina do what they had to do.

We are all creatures of habit and Mike Fox has so many good pitchers  you have to find a place to use them.  Since Carolina didn't make it last weekend to the ACC Championship game Hobbs Johnson got left out as the guy who only pitched an inning.  Today Fox gave Hobbs the ball and Johnson for four innings held Cornell to only one hit.  Then not pitching in two weeks  reared it head.  Johnson gave up a two run homer in the fifth and then gave up a single to start the sixth and Mike Fox took him out of the game.  Carolina already lead by that time 5-2 and the Heels went  on to win their opening round game 7-4 and Hobbs wins the first game of the NCAA Tournament for Carolina.  Carolina plays St Johns on Saturday afternoon in the Chapel Hill Winners bracket game.

ECU never was in their game with St Johns as they trailed 8-1 going into the eighth inning when the Pirates put up their only crooked number on the score board and then turned around and gave up three more runs in the ninth to lose 11-3.  ECU faces elimination Saturday afternoon when they play Cornell.

They could score but seven runs in three games of the ACC Tournament but tonight the Pack trounced Sacred Heart 16-5 to advance to the winners bracket in Raleigh.  The final outs of the game were played in a driving rain as the umps tried to get the game in because the way the rain was coming they probably would not have been able to finish tonight.  State meets Vanderbilt a team that made it to the College World Series last year Saturday night.  UNC W now in the losers bracket takes on Sacred Heart Saturday afternoon.

The ACC went 5-1 opening day with Virginia rained out.  I just have a feeling the ACC is finally going to win the WS this year.  Don't know who but this is their year.

Post 58 plays a double header against Windsor Saturday afternoon at five.  These are conference games.  Heading into Saturday Post 58 is 4-0 and have started four different pitchers who have gone at least five innings in every game.