Summer Baseball About To Come To A Close

The Area One East final series got under way Monday night, yes it was suppose to start Sunday but you know it, got rained out in Wilson.  The fifth seed Wilson Post 13 led 6-0 after five innings and gave up five runs in the top of the ninth and Pitt County Post 39 takes a 1-0 lead in the series  with a 9-7 win..

Should Wilson win this series with Pitt County then the area One West winner will also qualify for the State Tournament regardless of who was to win the Wilson-Area One West winner. If Pitt County wins then the winner of the Garner/Johnston County game qualifies for the State Tournament.  You see the East only gets two teams in and Wilson as the host is one of them.

Going into Monday night the Junior Legion qualifying Tournament that has been held this weekend at Legion Field and RMA and with all the rain it was extended into Monday.  The top two teams qualify for the next round of the Junior Legion playoffs and Rocky Mount Post 58's team was already out of the  tournament.  They join the Senior Legion at the beach for the summer.

Also Monday night  the Rocky Mount Parks and Recreation hosted Tar Heel District Tournament was also pushed into Monday and Tuesday.  Even with all the rain if they had of played later in the night Saturday and Sunday the tournament could have been almost finished Monday.  Tar Heel pitching rules dictate that a team can only play so many games in one day so that tournament was going strong Monday night.

One field had the Rocky Mount Pee Wee 7/8 year old team playing for the district title on Monday.  It was tied 10-10 going extra innings.  I hope to up date the winner later this morning.

Another field had a losers bracket 9/10 year American League Rocky Mount was winning that game.  If they won that game at 8pm they were playing the National league Rocky Mount  team for the district title.  Should the American win they play again Tuesday .  If the National League All Stars won they are the champs.

Then on another field the 11/12 year old National League team was playing needing to win to play again at 8pm.  Should they win both games then they play the Rocky Mount 11/12 year old American league team Tuesday and must beat them twice.  WHIG-TV just might have the cameras there for that one.