Legion Takes Two / Carolina Ousted

Coleman Pitt Post 58 swept a double header from Windsor Post 37 tonight 11-1 in five innings and 9-6.  Spenser Ramsey scattered seven hits over over his five innings of work but even though he had base runners on he didn't compound the problem with base only balls.  He only had one for the night.

Adam Bayless was the hitting hero as as he collected two hits and one left the park with the bases loaded.  He had five rbi's in game one.  David Williams and Chase Roupp also had two hits for the game.  Linwood Jones,Brock Waynick, Nick Vester and Andy Morris all had a hit and Morris' double drove in the final two runs of a 7 run fifth to get the game to a ten run mercy rule.

The night cap Hank Jones started David Williams on the mound and lasted only one inning as P37 playing in the night cap as the home team scorched Williams for three hits in the first but three base on balls a hit batter found the Coleman Pitt bunch down 5-1 at the end of one.  Enter Pascal Ammons  a pitcher for Cornith Holder in Wendell and Ammons shuts down P37 for the next four inning holding them  hit less.  He walked three but never giving up the big hit P58 clawed back taking a 7-5 lead into the 6th inning when P37 got a single and a triple to cut the lead to 7-6 but Ammons put out the fire in the 6th and  manged to face four batters in the seventh.

P 58 scratched a run home in the second after two outs a walk to Andrew Weatherly and a triple by Linwood Jones.  They score one in the third without a hit.  Finally the fifth they pushed across  four runs on a rbi by Brock Waynick and an error helped move runners all over the place.  Just for good measure P 58 added two more in the 7th to win 9-6. Post 58 is now 5-1 in conference play and as of tonight they have squared their record at 5-5 on the year.

North Carolina in their fifth elimination game during the NCAA playoffs waited to the ninth inning to score against UCLA Friday night and they join N C State in the eliminated category as UCLA dumps Carolina 4-1.  The Tar Heels finish 3rd in the CWS going 2-2.   In what I would  consider a classy move by Mike Fox  he brought in Gryphon Benton Moss in the game to pitch to the last batter for UCLA with two outs.  Realizing that Carolina's second best pitcher during the regular season had not stepped on the mound and looking as if tonight was it for Carolina Moss proceeded to strike out his only batter he face.

UCLA has given up just two runs in three games and will now play Mississippi State for the CWS Championship starting Monday night.

H O B B S

North Carolina got the last laugh on N C State at the College World Series and they did it on the back of former Rocky Mount Gryphon pitcher Hobbs Johnson.  Johnson pitching the game of his career goes eight and one third innings allows five hits strikes out six but only allowed two runners to reach base with a walk.

Mike Fox let the cat out of the bag during his TV interview where he stated that Johnson to that point in the fifth inning when the between innings interview occurred that Johnson had thrown nothing but fast balls all game.  Late in the eighth inning TV used a stat at the time when Johnson was nearing 120 pitches for the game that all 120 of them had been between 87-92 miles per hour.  To say the least a masterful gem  for Carolina and Hobbs Johnson.

Carolina scratched two runs off Carlos Rodon  who was a surprise starter in the game  in the first five innings but put the game away scoring one in the eighth and four in the ninth to win 7-0. Mike Fox gave Hobbs the ball in the ninth to get a complete game shutout but two back to back hits after one out doomed the complete game idea.  North Carolina has no time to gloat as they will be right back on the Omaha baseball diamond Friday night taking on UCLA a team they have to beat Friday and if they do that beat them again Saturday night just to win this bracket.

Mike Fox could come back with Kent Immanuel who for most of the season was Carolina's ace but during the NCAA has seemed tired.  Fox could come back with another former Gryphon Benton Moss who has yet to pitch in the CWS.  Carolina lives to play another day sending N C State home to Raleigh where the WolfPack will finish fifth in the College World Series.

The weather forecast seems to look favorably on Coleman Pitt Post 58 getting two games in Friday night as they host Windsor.  First pitch will take place about five at Legion Field.