Post 58 Rolls Again

There is good news with a ten run win in seven innings and I need to let  you know there is bad also.  Tonight Coleman Pitt Post 58 met Albemarle Post 84 for the first meeting ever between the two Posts since this is the first year of ball for P84.  P58 now goes to 7-1  in conference play but the bad news is this.  Our division this year is not very good at all.  Only Wilson Post 13 can be rated as a good team and the other four Albemarle, Edenton, Ahoskie and Windsor are not very good at all.

The problem is this, we are not really getting enough good competition  to get prepared for the playoffs,  Not one of the bottom four has any quality pitching at all.  Tonight P58 collected nine hits and received ten walks and hit batters to put Post 84 away in seven innings 13-3.  That's not Post 58 fault but they need some 3-2 games that go nine innings just to get the feel of the competition.  If you remember our division got knocked out of the playoffs quickly last year and the teams in our league were better last season.  You can only play the teams on the schedule  but we need a real test Friday night when Post 13 from Wilson returns to play Post 58.

Between last night and tonight Post 58 scored in all six innings that they batted in last night and they started tonight scoring in the first five innings to plate 12 runs. There is no way to check that but I would bet that is a record for consecutive innings scored in 11.

Kyle Pratt had three hits  and three rbi while Matthew Berry had three and two rbi.  Spires Miller has gotten a hit in each game last night and tonight but has walked seven times to reach base nine times in a row. Jeremy Lucas a hit and rbi.  Jay Aparicio had a hit and two rbi.

There was a forty minute rain delay in the bottom of the first as Jeremy Sloops was the starting pitcher and he did not come back to pitch in the second. Coach Hank Jones used as many as he could trying not to use up any arms waiting on Post 13 Friday night.  Chase Johnson, Tyler King and Jeremy Trevathan all threw two innings each.

That opening night rainout against Pitt County Post 39 has been added to the schedule as that game will now be played in Rocky Mount on July 3rd.  That is a week before the playoffs starts and that is really a needed game against a quality team.