Temperatures soaring into the 60's the Rocky Mount Gryphons got Pitching, timely hitting especially from left fielder Ben Yates batting ninth in the lineup had two straight hits driving in four runs as the Gryphons beat Corinth Holders a team that beat the Gryphon opening day 7-2 but today the Gryphons win 5-1.
Cody Smith who all of a sudden is a dominate pitcher at home as in his last ten innings pitched at Gryphon Stadium has allowed only one run pitched four innings allowed two hits, walked six batters, but sent seven batters back to the dugout strike out victims. He gave way in the fifth to Sam Lilley who puts zeros on the board for the Pirates as he allowed only one hit, hit a batter and struck out three.
Two other Gryphons added two hits to their batting average as Logan Smith and Rashawn Harris leaving the Gryphons 7-8-9 hitters going 6-9 in the game. Forest Bell, Micah Varnell, Sam Lilley and Will Edwards collected base hits.
The Gryphons travel tomorrow to Tarboro and then starting Tuesday conference play starts with road games at Nash Central Tuesday and Hunt on Friday. Today's win is the Gryphon second on the season against four losses. Every team has this issue with the weather as the Gryphons will start conference play with only seven games under their belts as they have loss five games due to weather and now that conference is cranking up I doubt those five will be made up. No coach wants to play two conference games in a week and find space for a non conference affair. It depletes your pitching.
Most of the times games are lost and not won and I have just witnessed the Wolfpack miss 17 second half free throws and the are out of the NCAA. There is no clear cut dominate team in the tournament. Most years there are really only 8-12 teams that truly win it. This year since so many teams are about equal there is a chance that maybe 25 teams can win this thing
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