A Banging Good Start

Collins Cuthrell is off to the start that every player playing baseball and getting paid wants to have.  You show up get inserted into the lineup to DH and after Saturday and Sunday action Collins is 5-10 hitting a cool 500.  We all know that it only takes an 0-4  this early in a season and you average drops 150 points.  As great as 500 is that is only 57 points higher than his season average playing for UNC Pembroke this season.

Brian Goodwin has pushed his average up to 222 since last week which is a welcome site.  He does have a new teammate that has joined him in Harrisburg Pa.  Trea Turner the former NC State shortstop who was traded last December by San Diego to Washington and named as the player to be named later finally got traded on the 15th and has reported to Harrisburg with the AA team.

Hobbs Johnson is now 4-3 in Buloxi Ms.  His ERA is at 3.12.  He has struck out 54 batters in 56 innings pitched.

Wilson Post 13 is now 8-1 on the season and Rocky Mount's Blake Helms 2-0.  Derrick Carter  of Northern Nash  is still 1-0 and RMA's  M J Jones are all making contributions to make Wilson the top team in the  the east at this point at 8-1.

Spent the last four days at the Outer Banks.  Watched a very interesting  race on the beach at Jennette's Pier.  Teams of runners ran a 3.1 mile obstacle course down the beach.  They had to crawl  through a pipe, run a rope  course, crawl on the sand  and all of this was in the heat that we have had the last several days.    I had a hard enough time watching it from the comfort of leaning on the pier and watching from afar.  I don't know how people from five years old to 80 had enough to do what they did.  Three cheers for every one that even tried and about 99 percent finished the race.