Time was running out and there were to many games to make up and all eight teams of Area One American Legion Baseball decided Wednesday that as of end of play Wednesday the regular season would be over. Then it preceded to rain everyone out Wednesday night. Regardless of how many games you have played that will be your record for the regular season.
The original schedule called for the top four teams to play three out of five games against each other but the vote Wednesday was all eight teams will take part in the playoffs with 1/8-2/7-3/6-4/5 meeting in the first round which will start Saturday night instead of Sunday. Under this format Coleman Pitt Post 58 will be seeded #1 and will play Edenton Post 40 at home Saturday night at 7:00pm. Game Two will be Sunday in Edenton and game three if needed back in Rocky Mount Monday night.
I would be in favor next year of Albemarle, Edenton, Windsor and Ahoskie if all come back to play Legion to be in a league. Rocky Mount, Wilson, Greenville, Kinston and Wayne County be in another and at the end of the year the top two teams from each division play each other and the winners advance.
The extensive travel involved for say Wayne County to go to Albemarle and having to leave so early in the afternoon and the way the weather has been this year there has been lots of travel only to turn around and go back home to come play another day. The cost of putting a team on the field each summer the least of the cost should be travel but this summer of rain travel and umpires never getting on the field is killing the viability of Legion Baseball.
The way the playoffs are now set up you will have at least one more chance to see Coleman Pitt Post 58 play this season. Post 58 history over the years of making long runs in the playoffs that is where with building crowds the Legion can get back some of the losses taken in the pocketbook so they need your support starting Saturday night at Legion Field at 7:00pm.
The weather forecast after tomorrow looks as if we might be able to play three or four days in a row without concern for rain. I think everyone around here needs a day off from the rain.
Thursday, July 4, 2013
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