ECU Junior and former Northern Nash baseball player Tyler Joyner with his team on the verge of elimination from the NCAA Regional in Chapel Hill came in and pitched 4.1 innings of one hit relief  and saved the Pirates and let them play another day.

Joyner entered the game in the 6th with the Pirates leading 7-6 but Cornell had the lead runners on base but Joyner snuffed out the sixth inning rally and the Pirates managed to add three more as they stay alive beating Cornell 10-6  They play the first game Sunday and they will meet the host team UNC Tar Heels who were stunned with a three run homer in the bottom of the ninth and lose to St Johns 5-4. One or the other will go home a loser when they meet in the first game in Chapel Hill Sunday and the winner will meet St Johns at 6.00pm and have to beat them twice to go to the Super Regional.

N C State was cruising along leading 8-3 in the bottom of the eighth inning when with two out the third out reached base on a strike out wild pitch and before Vanderbilt was through score five times and then added one in the bottom of the ninth to shock the Wolfpack 9-8.  State now falls to the losers bracket and plays UNC Wilmington and the winner of that game plays Vandy at 7PM.

Coleman Pitt Post 58 played a double header in Windsor tonight and scored 29 runs in both games and lost one of them.  Post 58 won the opener 20-3 but in the night cap lost their first game of the year 10-9.  That is six games in seven days for Post 58.  That many games puts a whole lot of tired arms in action as five runs had been the most runs scored against Post 58 in their five wins and there lone lost they give up ten.

In the category of this is a small world:  Yesterday "Baseball" Britt Johnson was in Chapel Hill watching the Chapel Hill Regional but there was one player that Johnson wanted to meet on the Cornell roster.  Who does Cornell have that "Baseball" wanted to talk to.  Jeeter Ishida.  Who in the world is that.  Ishida played for the Honolulu Hawaii team that beat Nash County in the Babe Ruth World Series in 2004 when the games were in Wilson.  Ishisa pitch for Hawaii  in that game and Britt was the coach for Nash County.