Moss Picked By Giants

The third year in a row a Rocky Mount High School baseball player had been drafted by a Major League Baseball team.   Benton Moss  a junior at the University of North Carolina has been drafted by the San Francisco Giants in the 15th round.

According to MLB.com Moss is believed to be a relief pitcher  in his future if baseball is his future.
The junior at Carolina is on the Morehead Cain scholarship  which has sent him the the Rocky Mountains his freshman year, to Africa his sophomore year and last summer in the office of the New York Yankees.

Moss from Enfield was enrolled in the I B Program while at Rocky Mount High School and his grades at Rocky Mount were so good that several classes at Carolina he got credit for and now at the end of his junior year  he is just short of qualifying for graduation from UNC.

The big question now is will Moss sign and play pro ball this summer and go back to Carolina in the fall to finish his business degree or do the rules of the Morehead allow him to leave the scholarship early?  Regardless it is a nice situation to find yourself and I don't know of many people who wouldn't love to have his decision to make.

Great start for Coleman Pitt Post 58 as the are undefeated with four victories and a tie.  Pitching and the defense have been outstanding so far as they have given up only 16 runs in five games while the offense hasn't been bad scoring 45.

Post 58 is in a new division this season playing with the Raleigh area teams and we don't have to wait long to find out  whether this 4-0 start will hold up in the new division as they host Apex and perennial power Garner Tuesday and Wednesday night.  The two home games so far there was an outstanding crowd at the opener against Wayne County.  The crowd was good against Pitt County since the threat of rain persisted the entire game. We will find out a lot about this years Post 58 who has a double header at home Saturday at 3pm hosting Roxboro.