More Runs Than Hits

• It was cold, windy.  The Thermometer read 45 degrees but felt like 35.  Got a call from Pat Smith around 11am that today's game had been moved up to 3:30 trying to beat the impending rain due near 6pm.

So a raw day like today the ball doesn't fly very well for the pitcher his curve ball may not break like it would under normal weather so today if you were Pat Smith who would you throw today. The fastest best pitcher you have David Harrison.

Harrison goes the distance giving up five hits three fail to get out of the infield.  He walked two batters and struck out nine Trojans of South Johnston.   His only true hard inning was the 7th and the Gryphons defense made it suspenseful making two errors by putting the tying runs on base.  Harrison ended the threat with a strikeout.

The Gryphons scored their first run after Jake Philbeck was hit by a pitch.  Then Isaiah Stewart, Ben Seracki and Lane Butler walked and Butler got and rbi for his walk.  One run on no hits.

Run number two came in the fourth when Zack Keeter walked advance to second on a ground out.  Advanced to third on a wild pitch and scored on a sac fly by Ben Seracki to center field.  2-0 Rocky Mount after four innings and the Gryphons have no hits yet.

They would get their only hit in the fifth on a ground ball infield single and it will be their only hit in the game.  GRYPHONS win 2-0 over South Johnston to win their third game in five tries.

Friday will be the last  warm-up before conference play next week.   The Gryphons travel to 4-A  Cleveland in Clayton.  The Gryphons have shown to date they have the pitching to hang in during conference play but as of yet have not shown capable of scoring enough runs to be a threat for the conference crown.