Legion Road To Wilson Starts Tonight

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 The playoff series for Post 58 against  Edenton Post 40 is over before it starts.  Post 40 has forfeited the series to Rocky Mount after they did not have enough players to make the trip tonight to Rocky Mount.  Rocky Mount advances to round two which will start Wednesday night at Rocky Mount.

Those kids that started back in mid May hoping to play Legion ball will finally get to do what all of them want, play in the State Tournament in Wilson on July 21st.  Coleman Pitt Post 58 the top seed from Area One East will open at home against Edenton Post 40 a team they tried to play a doubleheader with last Saturday only to have eight players show up for Post 40.

Coleman Pitt opens against a team in their own conference that they have not played due to all the weather misery Eastern North Carolina has endured this summer.  The first level of the playoffs will be three sets of two out of three games with those from Area One East.  It will take six wins to advance to play the Area One West winner.  All of the weather problems that Legion ball has had this season Post 58 will have to win as many games in the next ten days that they won on the field all year. Yes, Post 58 won six games the old fashion way they earned them.

Game time is 7pm at Legion Field.  Should Post 58 earn victories to make it to the State Tournament that will be held at Fleming Stadium in Wilson starting July 21-27.  Wilson Post 13 as the host team is automatically is in the field so they do not have to win to get in.  But they could keep somebody else from getting in.

Under the category of bombshell from left field:  The Boston Celtic announced that they have hired Brad Stevens the up and coming college coach from Butler University.  Stevens in less than ten years has taken Butler from not even being considered a mid major to one of the powerhouse mid majors in college basketball.  Of all the coaches in waiting to take over the shoes of Coach K as the best college coach in America Stevens 36 leaves that for still the best known franchise in the NBA.

All the hub bub is over.  Dwight Howard tweeted last night that he has decided to play for the Houston Rockets.  Howard the ring leader  for those teenagers that the NBA gives millions of dollars to that never grow up.  He is part of the generation  of people we have in this world now that every thing was given to him and has never had to really make a decision on what his family was going to eat tonight.  He is another of those reasons that I don't watch the NBA anymore.