Hunt Takes Control

The battle for the Big East lead in baseball was won by the  team that already had the lead but with this victory has a two game lead with three conference games to play.  Hunt 5 Rocky Mount 3

David Harrison took the hill for the Gryphons and the first two batters will give you an indication of how his night went. He hit the first batter and walked the second. A wild pitch with one out sent base runners moving and a wild throw to third scored the first run.  A sharp grounder to first just maybe was hit hard enough to get the runner coming but instead the Gryphons got the man out at first and a 2-0 Hunt lead after one.

The first time these two met all 7 runs scored by Hunt were unearned and the first two tonight were the same.  Hunt pitcher Bryson Worrell kept the Gryphons under control until the sixth inning with No hits.  David Harrison kept the game close through the fourth but the fifth two hit batters and a walk led to a good piece of luck for the Warriors.

Runners on first and second and bunting so the Gryphons thought.  The Gryphons ran the wheel play with 1st and third charging toward the bunt, short covering third and second going to cover first the Hunt batter bounced  A hit over Harrison's head and without any one covering second rolled harmless for a hit.  Three runs crossed the plate before Joe Petway relieved Harrison and stopped the bleeding.

The top of the sixth with two outs Jamar Ellis had a solid single to get the Gryphons their first hit.  David Harrison led off the top of the 7th with a double.  Ben Seracki singled to right but Harrison stopped on third but a wild throw from right scored Harrison and moved Seracki to second.  Chase Miller walked and the Hunt  faithful are now getting jittery.  Lane Butler singled to load the bases.  The tying run is coming to the plate.

Isaiah Stewart is hit by a pitch and it is 5-2 with one out.  Spencer Ramsey grounds out to second scoring a run making it 5-3 which will be the final.

Hunt had four hits three off Harrison and one off Petway.  The Gryphons finished with four hits all came off Harrell.  Harrison loses for the first time all year.  He allowed three earn runs and now his total for the year is five earned run.

Hunt jumps to 7-0 while the Gryphons fall to 5-2.   They will not have much time to recover as they have a home game Wednesday night against Fike.  Game time 7pm.

Scores

Southern Nash 8 Northern Nash 3. Southern Nash 4-3. Northern 0-7
Fike 9 Nash Central 4. Fike 3-4   Nash Central 2-5

WHIG FIlming Little League Games

Those of you who watch Rocky Mount's community TV station WHIG already know for years Sunday nights at 8pm has been reserved for any local sporting event that the station chose to record.  The last events done were during football season when they had a high school football game of the week.

Edward Green who was the sports director left the station around the first of the year.  Long time local announcer Wes Bradshaw has changed jobs which prevents him to doing  games so there were no basketball after football ended.

Recently the station contacted me to see if I was interested in doing some little league games this spring.  The city of Rocky Mount little league began their season last night.  It is the plan to tape games on Wednesday night and play that game back on Sunday night at 8pm.

The plan will be to do 10 games which include maybe 8  regular season games and maybe the city championship game.  So if you have a child that plays on the Wesley Men's Yankees, Breakfast Optimist Diamondbacks,  Chambliss and Rabil Braves, Hester and Tucker Attorneys Phillies, Pizza Inn Marlins and the Evening Optimist Orioles you might see you child or grandchild on TV this spring.

The Rocky Mount Gryphons home baseball game this week is  scheduled for Wednesday not Thursday.  I could not swear to you whether that has been that way all season   an I had not noticed it.  Makes good sense to me because some schools are out of school Friday as well as off all next week.  Should a rain out occur Thursday may not be able to make the game up until week after next because of all the Easter Tournaments next week.  No team wants to play three conference game the final week.

This pitch count deal is hard enough just two games a week and throwing  A third game the final week could cause all types of pitching issues for those teams in the battle for playoff spots.

A couple of days ago we spoke about college players from his area and how they did this year and I asked if you knew  of any player missed let me know and a name has popped.  Former Rocky Mount Gryphons guard Alexus Cooper who is a senior at Eastern Kentucky.

Cooper played in all 32 games and was the third leading scorer averaging 12.1 points per game.  She led the team in steals with 51.   She lead the team in minutes played 34.3.  She made 146 field goals on the season.

If you think of someone still feed me the name and I'll find the stats on that local player.