Onward 7/8 Year Old All Stars

The Rocky Mount Parks and Recreation Department 7/8 year old All stars have swept through their third round robin game in the state championships in Wilson at Gillette Park after a 14-1 victory over Mountaineer.  The three games in round robin play the kids from Rocky Mount won by scoring 42 runs while giving up only 7 runs.

They play with a pitching machine which allows that the two things each team has to be good at is hitting and defense.  14 runs per game show this team can hit and giving up only 7 shows they know how to play defense.

The tie breaker system is base on total runs given up in the number of innings played.  The Rocky Mount team has given up seven runs in 15 innings played which is less than a run that should get the seeded as the number two team in the final four.  The semi finals start 5pm Monday and the second game follows at 7pm.  The two winners meet at 4pm Tuesday for the State title in the 7/8 year old machine pitch state title. Rocky Mount will play in the second game at 7pm against Winston Salem. 

Tonight in Apex Coleman Pitt Post 58 season came to an end losing in seven innings 10-0 to be swept three games to none in the semi finals of the Area One western division.  Apex pounded out 13 hits holding P 58 to just four.  Josh Pittman, Zack Keeter, Cameron Taylor and Tyler Sherrod collected. The hits.  Only one Post 58 runner reached second off starting pitcher James Hooks who pitched all seven innings for Apex.

Other Legion playoff scores:
Garner-Cary no score reported as of this posting tied 1-1 pending Sunday outcome
Apex 10 Rocky Mount 0 Apexs wins series 3-0
Pitt County 10 Kinston 3 Pitt County wins 3-0
Wayne County 8 Wilson 1. Wayne County wins3-0