Area 1 Playoffs Thread

Durham 10
Clayton 9

Durham advances to face Garner. Should be a good match-up with former player coaching against former coaches.

 

"Wanda" coming back to Garner. Will be fun.

 

High School Leagues

Couple of things here:
1) The high school leagues do not "rent" their fields, the high schools themselves are sponsoring the teams.
2) The county does own the ball parks which goes back to my original point of some coaches thinking they are the ones who own these fields- not the taxpayers of said county. Which is why it doesn't make any sense that these coaches are so unwilling to allow Legion to play on the high school fields. Some of these coaches' former and current players are the ones trying to find a field to play on while they're on the Legion team.

1. It is my understanding that so called HS summer leagues are not allowed to be sponsored by the High School. The school athletic club may donate to the cause but how much does baseball ever rate. These teams make application to the county (Community Schools) for the use of fields and are treated as any other organization wanting to rent school grounds tis includes lights, scoreboard, and sound system. Teams are not allowed to wear HS uniforms or use any HS equipment.

2. Application for field use igoes through the AD at the school not the coach. As for high school coaches that is a topic for lenghtly discussion.

 

Wayne will get the first two games at home, then travel to NB Saturday for a 2 o'clock game.

I would assume that all but the UNC fans understand that the game is in the afternoon.

 

Area I fans - we're trying to team up enough volunteers to blog States with expertise from all areas and good balance to our reporting. You can see our Area III work from past month or so over here:

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Wayne County scores three in the bottom of the eighth and survives a bases-loaded threat in the top of the ninth to defeat New Bern 4-1. Read about it later tonight after I've had my popcorn.

http://post11baseball.blogspot.com/

 

Durham Post 7 takes game 1 in Durham:

Durham 11
Garner 4

Game 2 in Garner 7pm, 7/27

 

Missed it tonight. Heard Garner had the base runners but just couldn't capitalize.

Can't wait for Game 2.

 

I miss legion ball after all of this summer hs league stuff, is this match up worth going out to watch.

 

if you're in the area then definitely. the western series draw more crowds, but its still great baseball around here. in my opinion, only high school baseball can take the place of legion baseball. legion baseball IS summertime.

durham's coach played for the garner coaching staff a few years ago so that makes the storyline interesting.

both teams are already in the state tourney due to garner hosting it, but it should be a great series.

definitely not a bad way to spend a few hours of your friday night.