The 2014 Rocky Mount baseball season is over. It was a season in which they beat every team in the league but one. Three times they tried but not nary a victory over Nash Central. Tonight Rocky Mount out hits the Bulldogs nine to four but when it counted failed to get any the last three innings and in the seventh they had the bases loaded but failed to get the big hit. Nash Central advances to the semi finals of the Big East Baseball tournament with a 5-3 victory over the Gryphons.
Rocky Mount scored three in the second on a Will Edwards single after Blake Helms and David Harrison had reached with singles. Andy Morris doubled with the bases loaded and after the three runs had runners on second and third that didn't score any more.
Nash Central tied it up in the bottom of the third after three walks, two errors and a wild pitch allowed the Bulldogs to cross the plate without getting a hit. The fourth Nash Central plated two runs on a walk and a hit by Khalil Macklin. Kyle Taylor's double scored the two runners and that would prove to be the winning runs. The Bulldogs chased Gryphon starter Cody Smith who allowed three hits but walked six and four of the walks scored. Smith struck out six Nash Central batters. Blake Helms in relief gave up a hit to the first batter he faced but that was it for the Bulldogs as Helms pitched two and one thirds innings striking out four of the seven outs he registered.
Kalalil Macklin went four innings for the Bulldogs and was rocked for all three runs and nine hits that the Gryphons got. Macklin gets the win because he walked but one batter and his defense didn't give away runs. David Sutton pitch the last three innings didn't give up a hit didn't walk any one until the seventh when he walked one and hit two batters and his only strikeout of the night was the last batter of the game.
The Bulldogs only other batter to get a hit was a first inning single by Matt Askew. Andy Morris collect three hits for the Gryphons leading the hitting parade. Forest Bell, Josh Carter, Blake Helms Ben Yates, Will Edwards and up from the jv's David Harrison got his first varsity hit playing as the DH.
Nash Central returns to the diamond Thursday night as they advance to play Northern Nash at Northern. Also tonight Fike beat Southern Nash 10-5 so they play at Hunt Thursday. That sets up a Wilson County-Nash County finals against the two winner Saturday at the highest seeded teams remaining.
Wednesday, May 7, 2014
There's Only One Thing To Do Win It
Two teams meet tonight in the 4/5 matchup in the Big East Baseball tournament that at this moment the losers season ends tonight. Every team dreams of playoff victories but for 5-5 Nash Central and 5-5 Rocky Mount a victory still will not put them in the playoffs. They must turn around Thursday and play the top seeded team Northern Nash 7-3 and should somehow they win that they still must win against probably the survivor of the Wilson County semi final game between Hunt 6-4 and Fike 6-4.
Should either Rocky Mount or Nash Central accomplish that feat they would then draw the second spot behind Northern Nash and would drop Hunt to third and Fike would then fall off the map of the playoffs.
Both the Bulldogs and Gryphons took opposite maps to find the 5-5 destination. Nash Central started out winning four of their first six conference games including beating Rocky Mount twice. Rocky Mount lost their first three conference affairs but finished 5-2 over the last seven games.
The way this season has gone when it seems that there is not a dominate team in this league, when there is not a team in the league sure they can score enough to win any game why isn't this year the year that one of those teams Nash Central or Rocky Mount can pull off the unthinkable and win the tournament. Over the last seven games Rocky Mount is 5-2 and that is just as good as anybody else.
If either Nash Central or Rocky Mount do run the table and win three games this week it would give them the an overall record by winning the tournament at 8-5. If one knocks off Northern Thursday Northern would be 7-4 and if one beats Hunt Friday they would be 7-5 and if it was Fike on Friday they would be 8-5.
The way this season has gone there is no guarantee that Southrrn Nash at 1-9 could scare the whole lot to death by taking the title. If the season were over as of right now Northern gets a home game next week in the state playoffs. and due to the fact the overall record of any team that gets the second or third I would doubt they would rate a high enough seed to get a home game.
Nash Central won four games against Southern Nash and Rocky Mount against the top three could only win one of six games. Rocky Mount beat Southern twice and lost to the Bulldogs twice. Against the top three they were 3-3. So if there is a team tonight that should think they can win it all is Rocky Mount, they played chest to chest against this leagues best. Their only problem is they need to figure out how to beat the Bulldogs so they can take on the top three. The top three where The Gryphons have been on even footing.
Should either Rocky Mount or Nash Central accomplish that feat they would then draw the second spot behind Northern Nash and would drop Hunt to third and Fike would then fall off the map of the playoffs.
Both the Bulldogs and Gryphons took opposite maps to find the 5-5 destination. Nash Central started out winning four of their first six conference games including beating Rocky Mount twice. Rocky Mount lost their first three conference affairs but finished 5-2 over the last seven games.
The way this season has gone when it seems that there is not a dominate team in this league, when there is not a team in the league sure they can score enough to win any game why isn't this year the year that one of those teams Nash Central or Rocky Mount can pull off the unthinkable and win the tournament. Over the last seven games Rocky Mount is 5-2 and that is just as good as anybody else.
If either Nash Central or Rocky Mount do run the table and win three games this week it would give them the an overall record by winning the tournament at 8-5. If one knocks off Northern Thursday Northern would be 7-4 and if one beats Hunt Friday they would be 7-5 and if it was Fike on Friday they would be 8-5.
The way this season has gone there is no guarantee that Southrrn Nash at 1-9 could scare the whole lot to death by taking the title. If the season were over as of right now Northern gets a home game next week in the state playoffs. and due to the fact the overall record of any team that gets the second or third I would doubt they would rate a high enough seed to get a home game.
Nash Central won four games against Southern Nash and Rocky Mount against the top three could only win one of six games. Rocky Mount beat Southern twice and lost to the Bulldogs twice. Against the top three they were 3-3. So if there is a team tonight that should think they can win it all is Rocky Mount, they played chest to chest against this leagues best. Their only problem is they need to figure out how to beat the Bulldogs so they can take on the top three. The top three where The Gryphons have been on even footing.
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