Bits And Pieces From All Over

Did you hear this at the Men's US Open?  A state highway patrolman while directing traffic in Pinehurst on Saturday directed an NBC golf cart carrying equipment use by the on course commentator Roger Maltby  to stop while on one of the streets in Pinehurst  but the golf cart failed to yield and hit the patrolman.

The man contracting out to NBC  is from Wilmington and he received a ticket for Felony assault of a officer, hit and run, and the big one DWI.  Luckily no players were hit while he was following Maltby during third round.

Did you know that all those Wire Grass bushes growing on the course were planted by the NC State University Golf Turf and Golf Management school at the Lonnie Poole Golf Course at NC State.

This weekend's golf coverage of the Women's US Open will be the last for NBC.  Starting next year Fox Sports  will do all the Golf coverage of the USGA championships.  Fox has never cover a golf tournament anywhere so this will be interesting.

Coleman Pitt Post 58 gets going big time with Legion baseball starting Wednesday.  They stand 4-2-1 & 0-2 in division and the last regular season game is July 1st.  The way the playoffs are set this year since we are in a different division than what we have been in the past. The top five of the six teams get in. The sixth seed is out of the playoffs.  The four and five seeds play a two out of three July 3-4-5 and the winner will join the top three teams in a four team bracket starting July 7th.

This weeks games start Wednesday against a team without a home field Garner. Thursday Cary is here and look for a hot day Saturday as a double header starts at 3pm.  Our two conference losses we have been very competitive so the outlook there is no reason if this team plays good defense we can beat anybody.  If we continue to make 5 and 8 errors every game we may not to be able to beat anybody.  Let's go defense.

This weekend the Syracuse Chiefs will be in Durham to take on the Bulls.  Those of you who want to see Brian Goodwin play there will be there Friday and Saturday at 7:05 and Sunday at 5:05.  The Chiefs starting tonight are at Norfolk through Thursday.