Weird Legion Season Gets Weirder

I know it is June but the snow ball keeps getting bigger and bigger for Hank Jones and Coleman Pitt Post 58.  Jones who during high school season is an assistant under Pat Smith at Rocky Mount Academy.  Rocky Mount Academy played for the 2-A Private school title  and no one can fault Hank for paying attention to what RMA was doing.  Even through all the success of RMA Jones still had his invites to try out for Legion when try outs occurred.

Post 58 had two games with Cary vanish from the schedule the first week and I don't think anybody really care that much because it gave Post 58 another week to practice before the season started.  Post 58 won their opening game 10-5 over Apex only to find out one of the players from Corinth Holder was ineligible because of age and CP 58 had to forfeit.

This past weekend was graduation for the private schools in the area so Hank took a depleted squad to Garner for three games over the weekend  and to say the least in two of the three Post 58 got plastered.  Friday against Randolph County and Sunday against Garner in which Hank Jones says that Garner is the best looking Legion team he has ever seen and you got to remember Hank played Legion back in the 80's.  As the weekend passed three players have been injured and by the Saturday night game Post 58 only had eight healthy players to put on the field against Kernersville.  Another forfeit had to be made but this one in the eighth inning down by one run.

Alright so the so called preseason games are over and Hank is not ashamed to try to play the best teams he can find in order to get his team prepared for conference play which started Monday night.  Oh no a rain out with Windsor Post 37 so tonight looks like we will not only have our first conference game of the season but we are still searching for the first win of the season.  Wouldn't you know it Albemarle the team from Elizabeth City is a no show so there was no game tonight.  Yes Post 58 did get in their infield practice but Post 84 thought this game was later in the season so here we are 0-4 and in the middle of one of those seasons that you will be able to tell your grand children about later in life.  It can't get any worse can it?  Post 58 will travel to Windsor Thursday night to make up Monday night's rain out.

It is nice to hear when student athletes excel on the playing field and it is even better when those athletes do even better in the class room.  Rachel Pearce Nash Central Softball Player and David Williams a Northern Nash Baseball player will be the high schools Valedictorians when they graduate this weekend at their own high school.  You see the class room and the ball field can get along together when you try to make it happen.   Rachel and David proved that.