Down And Out

There are those times when you line up to play certain teams that they look good in their uniforms.  Muscular but most of all when they swing the bat they look well coached.  Every swing their heads stay on the ball and when they make outs they hit it hard.

Tonight Northern Nash opened the state playoffs and ran into Eastern Guilford a team that executed fundamental baseball and out pitched Northern in winning at Northern 3-0.  Andrew Robinson popped the mitt all night in the high eighty miles an  hour range and held Northern to two singles and a double and Northern never got a runner past second.  Robinson did not walk a batter and when your team mates don't make errors three base runners by Northern never threaten  to score.

EG got all the runs they needed in the second when the first two batters stroked singles and following a sac bunt third baseman Stephan  Dressin stroked another hard hit ball for the third hit of the inning and two runs crossed the plate.  Northern Starter Tyler Barrett pitched the first three innings and EG scored again in the third when with one out Barrett walk the only base on base all night by either side.

A grounder to short left Northern no chance to get the lead runner but got an out at first. The next batter UNC bound catcher Luke Robinson laced a single driving in the last run of the night.  Whit Casper pitch the 4th-5th-6th innings for Northern and held EG to a single.

Down 3-0 Leonard Allen made a class move as he brought Derrick Carter to pitch the seventh inning when it looked like Carter would not be pitching the second round playoff game. Carter pitch his final inning and Carter like his career for four years for Northern he struck out the first two he faced Gave a a single which was only the 6th hit on the night for EG but that was enough. Northern pitched well to win most nights but not tonight.

Northern was the only Big East team playing Tuesday as Fike host E Wayne on Wednesday night at 7:00.  Hunt travel at 4:30 Wednesday to Cardinal Gibbons and Rocky Mount travels to play Southern Lee at Lee County High School at 7:00.