Heels fall Into Losers Bracket

D H Conley's Alex White may have saved his best two starts of his career, might wind up being his last two starts for the Tar Heels. White pitched nine innings of seven hit ball striking out twelve Sun Devils which tied his record set just last weekend but when he left the game having pitched nine inning the score was tied 1-1.

A miss play in the field and a three run homer in the tenth send Carolina to the losers bracket after a 5-2 loss to Arizona State. Now in the losers bracket Alex White may not get the chance to pitch again for the Tar Heels unless his team mates fight through and don't lose again until it Alex's turn to pitch again maybe Friday.

Carolina plays Tuesday at 2.0opm in the losers bracket game at 2.00pm.

Coleman Pitt Post 58 opened their conference play this afternoon at Bauer Field on the campus of N C Wesleyan and took out Edenton Post 40 15-6.

After having played a double header in Cary yesterday and splitting the two games Post 58 brought their hit bats to the game today pounding out 18 hits lead by Mike Williams who had four hits in six trips and three rbi's. Tyler Clark and Alex Pearce had two hits each with Clark collecting a rbi and Pearce two ribbies.

Nick Hahula pitched the first four innings giving up two runs on six hits. Bill Clark came in the fifth gave up four runs but settled down and pitched three shutout inning after that to get the win.. Mike Williams closed out the ninth for Post 58.

Post 58 is now 3-2 and 1-0 in conference play. Their next game is Wednesday night at Tarboro. Their next home game is Thursday at Northern Nash against Wilson Post 13.

Heard today at the Legion game that Cameron Ramsey tried out for Wake Tech who will field their first ever baseball team next year and made the team.

There is a possibility tha Xavier Macklin will play Legion before the season is over. Right now he is on the Wilson Tobs team.

Tyler Joyner was named New-6 baseball player of the year.

Ben Fish, Collins Cuthrell, Hobbs Johnson and Brian Goodwin made all conference from Rocky Mount.

All Star Results

I don't know a lot about the NC/SC all star baseball classic but here is what I know.

Rain forced the Thursday night game to be stopped in the sixth inning with the Sandlappers leading 8-3. The game which was played at Coastal Carolina, however the game was finished in Myrtle Beach on Friday at 2.00pm and no further scoring occurred and the final was 8-3.

The second game in the series was played at the conclusion of the first game and the results are better for the Tar Heels as they are lead by Eastern Wayne's John Wooten who goes 2-4 and drives in three runs as the stars from North Carolina win game two 9-2.

Nash Counties three players in both game Tyler Joyner, Ben Fish and Brian Goodwin returned home in order to graduate today from high school.

The Tar River Children's Chorus sang the National Anthem at the Mudcats game Friday night so you know where I was. Mudcats had a no- hitter going into the 7th inning but they won 4-0. Afterwards was fireworks night and I hope the 4th Of July fireworks at the sports complex by the city of Rocky Mount will be half as good as these were.

To my surprise the Pittsburgh Penguins won the Stanley Cup in Detroit last night 2-1. I was pulling for the Pens but I really thought Detroit would win last night.

The University of Virginia plays in their first ever college world series game tonight against LSU. I think most experts favor LSU to win the world series.

Carolina begins at 2.00pm Sunday against Arizona State.

Coleman Pitt Post 58 plays their first home game of the season Sunday afternoon at Bauer field at NC Wesleyan College. The senior legion team is off to a 1-1 record so far this season. I'll be doing the PA. Come on out

Loose Ends

This week has been mainly the baseball draft so now is a good time to catch up on items left dangling.

I will be so glad for today to pass. Today is the day that television goes to all digital broadcasting. I think every station in the world has had something on their station about the change over every day for two years. Please don't delay it again like they did in February. Enough already.

My cousin Lauren Doughtie who at Christmas time in her final year of golf at N C State had planned after graduation to try to make both the amateur public Links and US Amateur before turning pro. Last week Lauren decided to start her career on the Futures tour in Iowa and cash her first check as a pro. A whopping $925.

The futures tour plays 17 events during the year and since she qualified last fall she had retained her college eligibility but in order to stay qualified for next year she must finish in the top 100 on tour or go back to qualifying school. The Iowa tournament is the 7th event of the year so she had already missed one third of the season.

When we look at what she made last week she is 122nd in money earnings so she is off to a good start after having shot 74-74-70 in her first tournament. It is not like the futures tour is going to make any body a millionaire as last weeks winner made $11,000. If they develop on the futures tour the millions wait on the LPGA tour.

American Legion Post 58 won their first game of the season last night at they beat Kinston 6-2. Dillon Cockrell got the win pitching six strong innings. Nash Central's T J Taylor and Northern's Mike Williams lead the attack with two hits each.

Looks like LA can now coast to the NBA Championship after taking a three one lead in the NBA playoffs. It could easily be three /one Orlando but it's not.

Tonight is the seventh game of the Stanley Cup . So far the home ice has won every game.

UNC is in Omaha Nebraska as they make their fourth straight trip to the college world series. Carolina starts in their bracket Sunday at 2.00pm against Arizona State.

Joyner Drafted By Indians

Tyler Joyner Northern Nash's top pitcher of all time was taken in the 50th round by the Cleveland Indians the same team that picked Alex White of Carolina.

Joyner joins Brian Goodwin as with ideas to ponder even though both seem headed for Joyner to Greenville and ECU and Goodwin to Carolina.

If you look at the pitchers who were drafted Tyler doesn't fit the first rounders mold. Six feet three and two hundred twenty five pounds.

But neither does a Mike Hampton. Tyler at five feet eleven is not what a scout looks for until they see him pitch. Three years from now Tyler very well could be the Alex White in waiting.

Chad Womble who has spent the last two seasons in Darlington South Carolina will spend the next two with Charlie Long at N C Wesleyan. Womble graduated from RMHS in 2007.

The Nash County American Legion will try again tonight to get a game in . They have only played once so far this year and rained out Tuesday in Tarboro. They are in Kinston tonight.

If you can make it to Myrtle Beach today and Friday the North Carolina/ South Carolina baseball all star games are going on.

Tyler Joyner, Ben Fish and Brian Goodwin are representing Nash County.

Now The Temptation

The Chicago White Sox picked Brian Goodwin in the 17th round of the second day of the MLB draft.

I have had one of those days today. My step mother had back surgery yesterday at Pitt Memorial in Greenville. Unable to watch any of the second round of the draft today I had not heard that Brian was picked by the Pale Sox.

I had my computer on MLB.com and when I arrived home about 6.00pm I could hear talking and this is no lie. The first recognizable thing I heard when I got into range on my computer was a recap of the White Sox day two draft and Brian Goodwin was a 5 star player who could have easily gone on day one but whether he could be signed or go to college was the big issue. Being a five star player the only question is how well he will hit in the majors. MLB compared him to Kenny Lofton who played for nearly 20 years in the majors.

If you remember just three years ago D H Conley's Alex White had made it known all spring in High school that unless someone gave him a million dollars he was going to Carolina. He was drafted in the 14th round. He also went to Carolina and was the 15th pick in the entire draft yesterday.

Brian Goodwin, Ben Fish and Tyler Joyner are in Myrtle Beach for two days of all star games Thursday and Friday between North Carolina and South Carolina.. John Wooten of Eastern Wayne and the son of former Rocky Mount High star Sonny Wooten is also playing for North Carolina.

Brian,Ben and Tyler will be back home Saturday morning to graduate fro Rocky Mount and Northern Nash.

The New-6 has had a policy of depending on where you finished in the league determined how many players could make all conference. The all conference softball team has been announced and Laura Alford has made the first team. Cary Mosher is second team and Clytesia Garner is honorable mention.

Hope to have news tomorrow about Chad Womble former Gryphon pitcher. Stay tuned

MLB Draft Day One Is Over

The first three rounds of the major league draft is over and no local names were called.

For all of us who pull for for either Northern Nash or Rocky Mount we all wanted to hear their names called.

I have heard all spring that the Joyner family were sending vibes to scouts that they wanted to send Tyler to college and were not that interested in signing and playing minor league baseball at this time. Tyler has committed to the Nash County American Legion team this summer before Billy Godwin gets him in the fall at ECU.

I think even the Goodwin family had told scouts that Brian would have to be a high, high pick in order to sway him from Mike Fox and Chapel Hill.

When Charles Alston sent out the e-mail that Brian had decided to play select baseball this summer in Ohio I kind of thought that the Goodwin's after hearing what scouts were telling them where they thought Brian might go in the draft that they put out the word that they would spend the next three years in Chapel Hill.

I suspect we will hear their names called before the week is over since there are 50 rounds of players picked. 1600 players will get drafted by end of the day Thursday.

Major league teams don't have many quality picks and when family's send out messages that we are not interested most teams look in the direction of those that are. By the time the 10th round rolls around teams will start taking shots in the dark just to see if they can lure players to pro ball.

Round four starts at Noon on Wednesday.

The Tar Heels of North Carolina had three player drafted. As expected Dustin Ackley went as the second player taken to Seattle and D H Conley's Alex White was the fifteenth player taken. Carolina was the only school with two players taken in the first round. Kyle Seager was taken in the third round. As it turned out they were the only college players taken from any North Carolina College.

There was one thing very obvious in the draft. If you were six three and could throw ninty miles and hour or faster you got drafted. The ninty fifth pick in the draft was the first pitcher less than six feet three. Almost half of the draft were pitchers.

MLB Draft Starts Today

I think it is 6.00pm tonight the major league baseball draft begins. If either Brian Goodwin or Tyler Joyner go in the first round I will come back on this blog and announce where they were taken.

The preliminary draft experts are not showing Brian in the first round. As long as it takes to complete the first round and if neither player is drafted tonight then It will be late Wednesday before I know myself. I am limited on line during working hours.

It is my guess Brian will go about round two or three and Tyler may be in the top five rounds.

You know both have invites to play college ball next year so not going high in the draft as everyone thinks is not the end of the world for either.

If something pops I will post as soon as I know.

Carolina plays Sunday in the college world series. They are matched up with Arizona State the team that beat Clemson two straight in the super regional.

Virginia plays Saturday against LSU. Both Carolina and Virginia are in different brackets so they will not play each other unless the both make the championship series two out of three next weekend.

The Nash County American legion game for tonight at Northern Nash has been moved to Tarboro. The new Legion team started Saturday at New Bern and lost 14-4. When we look at the roster I think they have a good team it is sometimes a matter playing together and it falls into place. We will see. First home game is scheduled for 3.00pm Sunday afternoon at Wesyelan's Bauer Field.

Game time is 7.00pm tonight at Northern Nash. They also play at Northern Wednesday night and have another home game Sunday afternoon at NC Wesleyan