If This Legion Season Was A Movie

If this Legion season was a movie would it be classified as a sports movie or a horror flick?  The rainy trend continues as tonight's two games with Albemarle is rained out again.  Remember that Albemarle was suppose to come play Post 58 about three weeks ago and was a no show.  The arrangement was made to play a double header with them and we were in the eighth inning of the first game of a seven inning double header when we were washed away about two weeks ago.

Wednesday Post 58 travels to Kinston to play a game there that was rained out the first week once we started playing conference game.  Friday they travel to Wayne County to make up a game washed out last Friday.  The regular season ends Saturday and there are still teams with six games left to play.  We only have four to play so it is still doable for us but it will totally depend on Albemarle's schedule whether they have games on tap for either Thursday or Saturday when we are free.  I just don't see how with this mess everyone is going to get all the games in and if they play some teams with 12 or 13 games played and others with 14 somebody is going to get left out by percentages which is not good for who ever get dropped from the playoffs.  By the way the weather forecast for Wednesday is a repeat of today.

I have a suggestion.  Let's just play a double elimination tournament based on games play and percentage determine seeding on games played through Saturday. 1/8, 2/7, 3/6 45 play Sunday night.  Monday play winners bracket and loser bracket.  After Monday two teams are out.  There will be two undefeated team left.  Let the four teams with one loss play another night to get the two winners and then take those four teams and play a two out of three.  The way the playoffs are set up this year it will take six wins to win the Area One East so this  system will take seven.  Just a thought!

There are many Proud  Gryphon fans who like to keep up with those players who have moved on and there are not many who are Gryphon graduates with the opportunities  that have come the way of Benton Moss.  He is attending the University of North Carolina on the highest academic scholarship offered by the University.  His summer of his freshman year he spent in the Rocky Mountains, last summer he went to Africa which is all part of the enrichment of the scholarship.  This summer Benton once again has gone to a foreign country where he is learning the trade of baseball.  He is interning for the New York Yankees in the Bronx NY.  If Benton chooses to play pro baseball after graduation and there is a good chance he might.  We just might see one day that he is the president of a major sports franchise or president of the United States.  He can probably make more money in sports.

Brian Goodwin as of Monday night was hitting 252 in Scranton Pa but as we have talked recently he needs to cut down on strike outs.  He has played 78 games and struck out 82 times.  This is a major improvement for at one time it was about 1.25 per game.  He has ten doubles, seven triples and six home runs.

Nash Central's Xavier Macklin has played four games in Vermont and has four hits and of those four three are doubles.  He's hitting 308.  If X can stay healthy he is going to start moving up.

As of Monday night Hobbs Johnson was not yet listed on the roster of Helena Montana.  I'll keep looking.