The opening two conference games of the year for the Rocky Mount Gryphons have been at home. Last week they lost 2-0 to Nash Central and tonight a 0-0 game in the fifth inning turns into a six nothing Hunt win.
Sophomore David Harrison got the Gryphon start and through four innings you can't blame the pitching for the Gryphons two losses. Four innings tonight and seven against Nash central eleven innings in conference play and the Gryphons had given up just two runs and one of those was unearned.
The Hunt fifth started with two easy outs and the dreaded base on balls put a runner on first. The Warriors pitcher Jacob Williamson hits a ball in the gap between Center and left field which Gryphon centerfielder Channing Green cuts it off from going all the way to the wall. He then throws to his cutoff man shortstop Forest Bell who throws a strike to home where the ball is waiting on the runner who was rounding third and heading home. The play at the plate the ball is dropped by the catcher and Hunt has their first run with Williamson advancing to third on the throw home. The next batter a slow grounder is hit at shortstop Forest Bell and his throw to first is a one hopper which got by first baseman Wesley Drake and the second Hunt run scored.
The only real threat all night for the Gryphons happened in the sixth after one out Forest Bell and Tyler Brown got back to back singles but Williamson struck out a batter and a lazy fly ball to center to end the inning. Hunt added four runs in the seventh on four base on balls and a single and double and Williamson completed the 6-0 shutout with a three up and three down in the seventh.
Hunt could only collect five hits but they were timely to go along with miscues by Rocky Mount. Rocky Mount also had five hits but none got a runners past second base. Hunt is now 1-1 while Rocky Mount drops to 0-2 in conference play. Since this was last Friday nights rainout makeup the Gryphons get on the bus and travel to Fike Tuesday and host Southern Nash Thursday this week in conference play.
So far this year in two conference games the pitching has been better than expect from Blake Helms and David Harrison. The hitting and run scoring when you have not scored in two games is awful. If you can't score runs then the defense has to be perfect and every little mistake by the defense is compounded when a run scores just one run and you are in trouble.
Tarleton State where former Gryphon TaShaun Mabry was playing basketball made it all the way to the semi finals of DII basketball where they lost last Thursday to Indiana of Pennsylvania 72-68. Indiana lost the championship game Saturday. Tarleton was 31-4 on the season and it was only the second time in school history to make it to the final four of DII. Mabry on the season averaged 12.4 points per game.
Monday, March 30, 2015
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