It is a Saturday and it is not a conference game so today's non conference tilt is not a live and die conference game but nobody ever wants to lose any game.
A team still needing to find quality pitching the Gryphons sent Joernest Petway to the hill. He has a couple of inning under his belt but on those tough nights when it may take four pitchers to pull out a victory can we count on Joe?
The answer is yes as Petway gets a five inning complete game as Rocky Mount puts away Tarboro 10-0. Petway gives up just one hit. He was just wild enough to walk five and struck out seven. He become the third Rocky Mount pitcher to throw a shutout this week and the 6th Gryphon shutout of the season.
The Gryphons wasted little time plating three runs in the first as Jake Philbeck rejoined the lineup after injury laced a single scoring two runs. Philbeck later scored on a wild pitch.
The second saw two walks and an infield single by Logan Pearce. Spencer Ramsey gets credit for and rbi walking with the bases loaded. A run scored on a Jamar Ellis center field sac fly and David Harrison knocked home a run. Ben Seracki doubles home two runs and its 8-0 after two.
Rocky Mount started the fourth with back to back hits from Ellis and a David Harrison double. Ellis scored on an pitcher error and Harrison on a Victor Ward single. That would give the Gryphons a 10-0.
Petway set the Vikings down in the fifth. Justin Webb recorded the only Tarboro single with a lead off single in the third. Rocky Mount has two conference road games at Northern Nash Tuesday and at Nash Central Thursday night. The Gryphons jump their overall record to 8-3.
The NCAA basketball championship will have a Carolina in the finals the North Carolina Tar Heels. As long as Kennedy Meeks touched the ball inside Carolina controlled the game but when they go shooting threes and Meeks doesn't touch it they kept Oregon in the game. Carolina certainly cannot hold the ball without attacking the basket. They get a chance Monday to win their sixth title.
Saturday, April 1, 2017
Can This Marvelous Pitching Contine?
There has been no mistake or rainouts so for the Rocky Mount Gryphon baseball team schedule. Coach Pat Smith planned it this way. These new pitching rules he had no idea if he would have more than one arm David Harrison to pitch when day one came. He had to find somebody who could get it across the plate and with the lack of pitching depth three games a week was pushing too many pitches for a pitching staff that was unknown. So while others have played three games a week Rocky Mount has not.
Smith was limited for pitching arms he even brought up a freshman Ben Seracki who had been a dominant pitcher in Junior high but this is big boy ball now he had no idea what to expect from him. Zack Keeter had thrown innings last season but he is your main stay behind the plate guy. To this point Centerfielder Josh Pittman has a few innings and Joe Petway a couple. What Smith has found that the five players who have pitched for the Gryphons to date have more that given what anyone could have expected.
The Gryphons on the season have score 37 runs in 10 games or 3.7 per outing. Take away a 13-0 victory which most of the runs scored because of walks and errors the Gryphons have scored 24 in nine game. That is not a winning combination scoring 2.66 per game unless you can throw 5 shutouts in your ten games. The last time I looked it up a shutout will win 100% of every game you play.
Runs have been hard to come by but just as scarce as hits in any game. Thursday night shutout was won with three hits. Fike 1-0 game the Gryphons had three hits. The Gryphons in their 7-1 loss to Hunt only scratched two hits. The pitching in this game was ok but four errors caused seven runs to score to blow this game out of proportion.
I don't know what happen but opening night against Nash Central the Gryphons produced 13 hits but it took ten innings to get them and a 7-6 thriller. The non conference slate a 9-6 victory over Cleveland was another double digit day with 11 hits. A 2-0 shutout of South Johnston had only one hit. The Gryphons got five hits in a 6-1 loss to Bunn but the defense cost the Gryphons four runs. A 0-0 game in the fourth inning at South Johnston walks poured 13 runs in for the Gryphons on eight hits. Opening day seven hits were part of a 2-0 shutout of Roanoke Rapids.
Rocky Mount has given up only 27 runs or 2.7 per game. 13 of the 27 six came by Nash Central in a 7-6 victory and 7-1loss to Hunt as all seven Hunt runs came off the Gryphon Defense. How good could this team be if they started hitting the ball? How good could this team be if they tighten up their defense? I mean two of the losses are defense related.
We haven't quite made it to the halfway point in conference play with the Easter break coming with three games in Wilson. Only four more weeks before the end of the of the regular season and then the Big East tournament.
Today for the first time Rocky Mount plays a third game in one week as they host Tarboro in an endowment game. Here again it is no mistake by Pat Smith that this game is on Saturday after they already have their two conference games for the week out of the way. Game time is 1pm
Smith was limited for pitching arms he even brought up a freshman Ben Seracki who had been a dominant pitcher in Junior high but this is big boy ball now he had no idea what to expect from him. Zack Keeter had thrown innings last season but he is your main stay behind the plate guy. To this point Centerfielder Josh Pittman has a few innings and Joe Petway a couple. What Smith has found that the five players who have pitched for the Gryphons to date have more that given what anyone could have expected.
The Gryphons on the season have score 37 runs in 10 games or 3.7 per outing. Take away a 13-0 victory which most of the runs scored because of walks and errors the Gryphons have scored 24 in nine game. That is not a winning combination scoring 2.66 per game unless you can throw 5 shutouts in your ten games. The last time I looked it up a shutout will win 100% of every game you play.
Runs have been hard to come by but just as scarce as hits in any game. Thursday night shutout was won with three hits. Fike 1-0 game the Gryphons had three hits. The Gryphons in their 7-1 loss to Hunt only scratched two hits. The pitching in this game was ok but four errors caused seven runs to score to blow this game out of proportion.
I don't know what happen but opening night against Nash Central the Gryphons produced 13 hits but it took ten innings to get them and a 7-6 thriller. The non conference slate a 9-6 victory over Cleveland was another double digit day with 11 hits. A 2-0 shutout of South Johnston had only one hit. The Gryphons got five hits in a 6-1 loss to Bunn but the defense cost the Gryphons four runs. A 0-0 game in the fourth inning at South Johnston walks poured 13 runs in for the Gryphons on eight hits. Opening day seven hits were part of a 2-0 shutout of Roanoke Rapids.
Rocky Mount has given up only 27 runs or 2.7 per game. 13 of the 27 six came by Nash Central in a 7-6 victory and 7-1loss to Hunt as all seven Hunt runs came off the Gryphon Defense. How good could this team be if they started hitting the ball? How good could this team be if they tighten up their defense? I mean two of the losses are defense related.
We haven't quite made it to the halfway point in conference play with the Easter break coming with three games in Wilson. Only four more weeks before the end of the of the regular season and then the Big East tournament.
Today for the first time Rocky Mount plays a third game in one week as they host Tarboro in an endowment game. Here again it is no mistake by Pat Smith that this game is on Saturday after they already have their two conference games for the week out of the way. Game time is 1pm
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