Legion Playoffs soggy

Area One American Legion playoffs were to begin last night in both the eastern and western division.  Tuesday-Wednesday and Thursday the four and five seeds were squaring off in a two out of three playoff.  The Eastern front those games will be Kinston  traveling to Ahoskie in game one. Kinston hosting Ahoskie Wednesday and if needed back in Ahoskie Thursday.  The four/ five game out west is Cary the five seed at Durham for game one, game two in Cary and if needed game three back in Durham.  I do know that Cary and Durham were rained out Tuesday so Wednesday night's game is vital for the winner.  So far I have seen no score of the Kinston Ahoskie game.

Those two winners will then tangle with the tops seeds in each division.  East that's Pitt County who will host the Ahoskie/Kinston winner in game one.  The western division number one Garner will host the Cary/Durham winner.  These games will start Friday night.

Since these first round games are Tuesday through Thursday and the second round starts Friday that leaves no rainout dates in these 4/5 games.  If there should be a one game all tie with a rainout involved then the team that wins game one will advance.  That would throw Ahoskie and Durham as the two home teams in game one of those two out of three series with home field advantage in more ways than one.  You would think being the higher seed they should be better that the five seeds.  Add home to that an any advantage should always go to the home team having any advantage in any series.
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The other semi final series also starts Friday night in the east Wayne County Host Wilson while in the west division Apex will provide the home field against Rocky Mount. This is a three out of five series  so the road team Friday will host Saturday back and forth until one has won three or if rain plays a factor the winner of game one  advances if no one wins three by the start of the Area one finals.  The weather is suppose to be steamy right on through the middle of next week so steamy most of the time brings storms.

Syracuse beat the Durham Bulls for the second night in a row and Brian Goodwin went 1-3 with a run scored.  The last couple of weeks Syracuse has used Trea Turner in centerfield with Brian playing left or right.  If I were a betting man I would say that Trea Turner is close to being called up to the Washington Nationals and will play outfield and infield. A player that can play multiple positions is more valuable than one that only plays the outfield.

It didn't take long to decide.  Hunt High School has picked Jon Smith the Hunt baseball coach to take over as athletic director and baseball coach.  The new football coach is Keith Bynum who for the past 17 years has been a coach in the Hunt Football program.  They take over for Stevie Hinnant who retired a couple of weeks back.

I reported maybe a month ago that the job of baseball coach at Nash Central was open.  Once Tony  Guzzo retired at Christmas Willie Langley was named interim baseball coach.  It was a formality but Langley is now officially the head baseball coach at Nash Central.