Midgets Advance in Hickory

The Tar Heel Midget 10U team from Rocky Mount has advanced to the third round in the winners bracket after they won their 10am game Friday Morning 15-6.  This will send them to a noon time game on Saturday where they will play West Raleigh.  The winner of that game will automatically make it to the championship series which will be a 2.00pm Sunday and if they lose the 2.00pm game play again at four for the title.If the Saturday winner wins the 2.00pm game Sunday they will win the Midget State Title.

The news is not quite as good for the Little league 12U team from Rocky Mount as they lost their 10.00am game Friday morning   and played Shelby in a losers bracket game  at 2.00pm Friday and won that game 7-1.  They now must play at noon Saturday against Williamston and if they win that meet the loser of the winner's bracket game which will also be at noon Saturday.  If they can win twice Saturday they would be down to the top two teams and they would have to win twice Sunday to win state title.

Just to show you the difference in a losers bracket compared to being undefeated all the way in an eight team tournament.  The Rocky Mount Midgets if they were to go undefeated in this tournament they can win the title in four games.  The Rocky Mount Little League team will have to play a total of seven games to win the title.  Big advantage to  the winners bracket team as they can save pitching while in the losers bracket you can't save any pitching for the next game cause there just might not be one.

Like to say congratulations to Greg Clifton who was named the new head baseball coach at Faith Christian School this week.  I have head the pleasure to know Greg and his family as their daughter is in the Tar River Childrens Chorus along with Morgan.   I think this is a good hire for Faith as they try to replace Joe Morrow.

 I have scoured the internet and can not find any evidence  where any NFL team has signed Terrell Hudgins, Stephan Virgil or JJ Arrington.  All three are free agents and can be picked up by any team that invites them to camp.  Travis Cobb the 2005 Gryphon graduate has signed a free agent deal with the Chicago Bears and as a 2010 Receiver/ kick specialist for University of Arizona I think Travis has an excellent chance of making the team.  Any time you can do more than one thing like be a receiver or kick returner and you are good at it he just might make the Bears despite having Devin Hester as their kick returner.

I reported yesterday than Greenville was playing for the Williamsport Little League State title Friday night and they beat Kernersville 7-1 to earn a trip to the Southeastern Regional with a 7-1 victory.

Something Did Go On Thursday besides Carolina

Thursday night the Rocky Mount Parks and Recreation crowned their softball Co-Rec champs as Southside Baptist Church beat Twin County Motor Sports to take the tournament crown and went through the tournament with out a loss.  If you don't know what Co-Rec it's the mixed league ladies and gentleman.

Both sides played good enough defense and neither side hit the ball early and it took the fourth inning before Southside could  put together a four run inning high lighted by a two rbi at bat by the oldest player on the field 57 year old Danny Reams.  Danny pitches for Southside but his first time at bat pull a hamstring running to first.  He struggled running the bases for the rest of the game but still got three hits and drove in two more runs in the sixth inning.  Twin County Motor sports finally cracked the score board in the bottom of the sixth with three runs but by the seventh inning they still needed three more to force a second game Thursday night..  Southside Baptist takes the title 6-3 over Twin County Motor Sports.

Across the State in Hickory the Rocky Mount National League Midget (9/10) All Stars  opened play in the Tar Heel Little League Tournament and find out that the field they will play on is a larger than regulation field than the 200 foot fence of a normal Tar Heel Little league games.  So what do they do?   The lead off batter knocks the first pitch of the game off the 250 foot wall and RM coast to a 15-3 four inning  victory over Caldwell County.  Not much time to celebrate for Johnny Ramsey's squad as they will be in the winner's bracket game at 10.00am this morning against host Hickory.

The National League Senior Little league (11/12) opened up their play in the State Tar Heel Tournament also in Hickory by playing the host team in the opener.  I don't have a score but was told that they did beat Hickory last night and they also play in a winners bracket game at 10.00am.

I know this really is of no interest to many of you but the Greenville Little League team is undefeated in the Williamsport North Carolina  State title and plays tonight and will have to lose twice in order not to make it to the Southeast Regional. The State tournament is being played in Cherryville about 30 miles where Rocky Mount two teams are playing in Hickory. Should they make it to the Regional Final ESPN carries that on TV where the winner gets invited to Williamsport Pennsylvania.