Just two years from being told to stay home and go to summer school while UNC baseball goes to the College World Series Former Rocky Mount Gryphon and now Former Tar Heel from North Carolina Hobbs Johnson has signed a Pro baseball contract with the Milwaukee Brewers and Johnson has been assigned to play this summer in Helena Montana.
His sophomore and Junior years for the Tar Heels he had a 12-2 record and in 2012 an ERA of 1.56 and this season 2.37. This year in 87 plus innings pitching for the Tar Heels he did not allow a home run. The rumor mill has been circulating after Johnson was drafted in the 14th round in early June that he would not be back but after his pitching performance in the College World Series last Thursday night I think the Brewers knew they had better get him now.
Hobbs teammate at both Rocky Mount and Carolina Benton Moss has been named All ACC Academic team for the second year in a row. Last year Moss made All Academic All American and with a two year grade point average of 3.98 there is no reason to believe he won't be an All American again.
Former Gryphon basketball player Tashawn Mabry fresh off graduation from Mesdesto Junior College in Modesto California where he averaged about 17 points this past season has signed with Tarleton State University in Stevenville Texas. Tarleton is part of the Texas A&M system and they play in the Lone Star Conference which is a Division II League. The college has about 10,000 students and is located about an hour from Fort Worth.
The baseball comeback of Xavier Macklin the former Nash Central Bulldog is underway again. X man spent the 2012 season in rehab after having to have shoulder reconstruction surgery. He is back in the New York-Penn League with Vermont where he started two years ago. So far in just two games played he has one hit which was a double in seven at bats.
Brian Goodwin is hitting 252 in in AA baseball. He has 71 hits on the season but of those 22 have been a double or more. 10 Doubles, 7 triples and 5 home runs. He seems to have leveled off striking out as he is getting close to only one per game. Right now that is the area where he has to get better somehow making contact with two strikes. He has stolen 13 bases in 21 tries but with his speed that percentage needs to be more like 19 of 21. The learning process continues.
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