The ten years that I have done PA for Post 58 there have been many changes that have occurred. Lance Peck was the coach my first year and it had been decided that Legion baseball needed to be politically correct and they started rotating high school fields to play the games. The first year I started at Nash Central. Year two called Rocky Mount Academy home.
Year three a young wipper snapper named Matt Bryan coached two years and by 2009 lead Post 58 to their first ever Legion State Championship State Tournament. Post 58 has one state Championship ship to it credit but the title was won when the teams play series against each other not eight teams in a double elimination style.
2010 Hank Jones was now in charge and he returned Coleman Pitt back to the state Tournament. 2013 Rocky Mount High School no longer uses Gryphon Stadium as they have on site field now so Post 58 leases the stadium and changes the name to Legion Field. 2015 is a dry year as Post 58 failed to field a team. 2016 back at Legion field.
The Last several years teams through out eastern North Carolina have plenty of trouble keeping teams in tact all season and many games are lost by teams failing to have enough players to travel. Oddly enough after sitting out a year Post 58 has a full compliment of players again but still others have trouble getting their teams to scheduled games.
It happened again tonight as Durham called and since this was an extra game that would not count as a conference game they reneged and said they didn't have enough players to make the trip. Rain outs cancellations and Post 58 has a real nice ball club. Here we have reached almost a week left in June and Post 58 has played only nine games.
Four of their final five games left on the schedule are on the road at Apex, Durham, Garner and Cary. Next Tuesday they play their final regular season home game hosting Garner. Standing at 3-0 there is a good chance in a three out of five first round series they should get two home games. They will need to win three of the five games left on the schedule. Anything less and they might not have the home field advantage.
These 11 years I have witnessed some great players who have played for the teams P 58 have played. Many who have been on P58's side have played college and some even more. There have been rain delays, rainouts, cancellations and at least two out of ever three games have been P 58 wins. I hope this year's team still has many playoff wins ahead. The pressbox has been a good place to be all these years. I hope there are more playoff wins left for this year's team than games that they have played.
Wednesday, June 22, 2016
Open Letter To Sherrod Greene
NO LEGION GAME TONIGHT! Durham has cancelled on their trip for a non conference game here tonight. Our final regular season home game is June 28th 7pm against Garner
We have recently had several athletes in the Twin Counties that have been able to obtain schlorship offers from some very high caliber division one schools. Todd Gurley from Tarboro found the University of Georgia for his college home for football. Montrezl Harrell went to Louisville in basketball and started out in high school at North Edgecombe. Both Hobbs Johnson and Benton Moss played baseball at Carolina after pitching at RMHS. All four were good enough that they are all playing professional sports.
We all that watched Todd Gurley at Tarboro all could see he was a man child and if healthy he was going to make it big. He has been as he was offensive rookie of the year in the NFL even after finishing his college career in a cast with a knee injury.
Montrezl was just plain bigger than anyone else around here but it surely looked like he had a real chance in pro basketball after a successful three years in Louisville and he was rewarded by being a top 35 pick in the NBA draft and property of the Houston Rockets.
Both Hobbs and Benton as good as they were in college are plodding along in minor league baseball trying to each year step up to another level. What this is all leading up too as all these players were highly sought after in high school just like what is happening to you Sherrod Greene right now. Scouts have rated you at least a grade three prospect and in some cases a four. You have been invited to all kinds of football camps including a recent trip to Bama who in turn after watching you offered you a football free ride.
I know it is a dream come true to hear from all these schools that you watch on tv every Saturday and they play in major Bowl Games or even in National Championship games. Remember this where ever you go there are going to be a whole freshman class full of players just like you rated a three or four. Then you have the other sixty players with more college experience than you already on the team.
Remember your family if you go out of state they can drive to Greenville, Raleigh, Chapel Hill, Durham or Winston six weekends out of the year to watch you Play. It will be hard to ever go to
Tuscaloosa once a season and Bama closes game to Rocky Mount over the next five years is Columbia SC or Knoxville Tennessee.
There is no doubt you are a special football player and plenty of people in the football world know about you. My only advise go to a school where you can make a difference in the team. Would you rather be on the kickoff team for a team that might play for the national championship or be known as a player that helped turn a program around. Boy when I was in high school I would have loved to have your decisions.
Tonight Coleman Pitt is home against Durham Post 7. Until the playoffs Post 58 is down to tonight a another home game next Tuesday with Garner and four road games left. If you haven't seen them yet you are running out of Opportunities.
Last Night John Haggerty was behind the plate in the losers bracket game between Florida and Texas Tech. It has to be the biggest night of John's life in his baseball umpire life. He had a really good game. How does and umpire have a good game? When it is over he walks off the field and during the tv high lights they make mention of you making the right call on one of the biggest plays of the game.
We have recently had several athletes in the Twin Counties that have been able to obtain schlorship offers from some very high caliber division one schools. Todd Gurley from Tarboro found the University of Georgia for his college home for football. Montrezl Harrell went to Louisville in basketball and started out in high school at North Edgecombe. Both Hobbs Johnson and Benton Moss played baseball at Carolina after pitching at RMHS. All four were good enough that they are all playing professional sports.
We all that watched Todd Gurley at Tarboro all could see he was a man child and if healthy he was going to make it big. He has been as he was offensive rookie of the year in the NFL even after finishing his college career in a cast with a knee injury.
Montrezl was just plain bigger than anyone else around here but it surely looked like he had a real chance in pro basketball after a successful three years in Louisville and he was rewarded by being a top 35 pick in the NBA draft and property of the Houston Rockets.
Both Hobbs and Benton as good as they were in college are plodding along in minor league baseball trying to each year step up to another level. What this is all leading up too as all these players were highly sought after in high school just like what is happening to you Sherrod Greene right now. Scouts have rated you at least a grade three prospect and in some cases a four. You have been invited to all kinds of football camps including a recent trip to Bama who in turn after watching you offered you a football free ride.
I know it is a dream come true to hear from all these schools that you watch on tv every Saturday and they play in major Bowl Games or even in National Championship games. Remember this where ever you go there are going to be a whole freshman class full of players just like you rated a three or four. Then you have the other sixty players with more college experience than you already on the team.
Remember your family if you go out of state they can drive to Greenville, Raleigh, Chapel Hill, Durham or Winston six weekends out of the year to watch you Play. It will be hard to ever go to
Tuscaloosa once a season and Bama closes game to Rocky Mount over the next five years is Columbia SC or Knoxville Tennessee.
There is no doubt you are a special football player and plenty of people in the football world know about you. My only advise go to a school where you can make a difference in the team. Would you rather be on the kickoff team for a team that might play for the national championship or be known as a player that helped turn a program around. Boy when I was in high school I would have loved to have your decisions.
Tonight Coleman Pitt is home against Durham Post 7. Until the playoffs Post 58 is down to tonight a another home game next Tuesday with Garner and four road games left. If you haven't seen them yet you are running out of Opportunities.
Last Night John Haggerty was behind the plate in the losers bracket game between Florida and Texas Tech. It has to be the biggest night of John's life in his baseball umpire life. He had a really good game. How does and umpire have a good game? When it is over he walks off the field and during the tv high lights they make mention of you making the right call on one of the biggest plays of the game.
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