Playoff Primed

The ideal game for any coach is get seven innings from your starting pitcher and let the bullpen finish it off.  Tonight Coleman Pitt Post 58 got seven strong innings from starter Jeremy Sloop as he went  seven innings and was ready to give the ball to Jeremy Trevathan in the eighth but Post 58 put seven runs on the board in the bottom of the seventh to sent every one home early with a 10-0 whitewash of Pitt County Post 39.

Sloop allowed three hits struck out five and only let two batters get on base with either a base on ball or hit batter.  P58 scored three times in the second when Jeremy Lucas single went to third on a Khalil Macklin double.  Lucas score on a ground out by Kyle Pratt.  Two more runs scored when Andy Morris who was brought up from Junior Legion just to catch tonight's game singled down the right field line to get two rbi in his first Legion at bat.

The scoreboard had zero's for both teams until the seventh when Macklin, Kyle Pratt singled after Jeremy Lucas had been hit by a pitch. Then three straight walks pushed the lead to 6-0 and with the bases loaded Jay Aparicio hit a grand slam home run to end the game 10-0.

Post 58 lead batters were Khalil Macklin who had three hits.  Jay Aparicio had two hits and four rbi when one of those hits left the park with the bases loaded.  Jeremy Lucas had a couple of hits Kyle Pratt had a hit and one rbi while Andy Morris had one single and three rbi.

Post 58 wins game number 18 on the season and this was a good test tonight since Pitt County Post 39 is in a battle for first in the area one Southern Division and just might be a second round playoff foe in the future. If you own a printed Legion schedule there is suppose to be a home game Thursday night but that is done for.  Hank Jones has done some scrambling today since he found out about the Thursday game being dropped and didn't want tonight to be the last game of the regular season and then wait nine days to start the playoffs so P58 will travel to Apex Saturday night and Apex will return to Rocky Mount on Monday night July 9th.

  First round playoff action starts Thursday July 12 at home in what now looks like New Bern will be the playoff foe.  You might remember we were suppose to play New Bern in the playoffs last year but they forfeited and we advanced to the second round without playing.