2006 NC American Legion State Tournament

Pineville 4 Morehead City 3...12 innings

Per the Charlotte Observer:
http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/sports/15150826.htm

Pineville wins in 12th inning...Mauney goes 4-for-6, Rollison earns victory

It took 12 innings, but Pineville Post 337 pulled out a 4-3 victory against Morehead City Post 46 on the first day of the eight-team, double-elimination N.C. American Legion Championship Series.

Pineville (31-9) scored once each in the second and third to go ahead 2-0, before Morehead City (19-5) added a run in the third and fourth to tie the game.

Pineville responded with a run in the fifth before Morehead City tied the game again, this time in the eighth, and the game went into extra innings.

Keith Mauney, who starred at Providence and will play at Wake Forest next spring, went 4-for-6 and scored twice to lead Pineville at the plate.

Two South Meck pitchers, Matt Layman and Reid Rollison, carried Pineville on the mound.

Layman (6-1), who will play at Spartanburg Methodist next spring, pitched the first nine innings. He struck out 13, walked two and gave up three runs on seven hits. Rollison (6-0), who will play at Western Carolina next spring, pitched the final three innings to earn the victory. He gave up one hit, struck out one and walked two.

Pineville, trying to become the first Mecklenburg County team to win a N.C. title since Newell won its second straight in 1977, will play Kannapolis (32-8) today at 7 p.m. Morehead City will play Pitt County at 1 p.m.

Other games

KANNAPOLIS 3, PITT COUNTY 2: Kannapolis (32-8) scored with two outs in the bottom of the 12th to beat defending N.C. champion Pitt County (19-11).Blake Ketner, who starred at Northwest Cabarrus, struck out 12 in nine innings before Brian Little pitched the final three innings to earn the victory. Pitt County's Alex White, who has signed with North Carolina and was the N.C. high school co-player of the year, struck out 16 and allowed one walk in 10 innings.

Garrett Sherrill (2-for-5, RBI) was the only Kannapolis player to have more than one hit.

CALDWELL COUNTY 10, FAYETTEVILLE 4: Madison Bumgarner, who has committed to North Carolina and is a rising senior at South Caldwell, struck out seven in seven innings and went 2-for-4 with three RBIs, two runs scored and a home run to lead Caldwell (24-15) against Fayetteville (15-9).

Brad Chavis (1-for-4, 2 runs scored, RBI) and Brad Hardee (2-for-3, 2 runs scored, 2 RBIs) also homered for Caldwell County, which won its fourth straight.

GARNER 10, HIGH POINT 0: Adam Hamrick (3-for-4, 2 RBIs) and Bear Martin (2-for-4, RBI) led Garner Post 232 (27-5) at the plate, and Zach Bingham (6 1/3 innings, 8 Ks) and Jeremy Hall combined to pitch a one hitter against host High Point.

Tyler Hickernell (1-for-3) had High Point's lone hit.

TODAY'S GAMES
Game 5: High Point (3-20) vs. Fayetteville (15-9), 10 a.m.;
Game 6: Pitt County (19-11) vs. Morehead City (19-5), 1 p.m.;
Game 7: Garner (27-5) vs. Caldwell County (24-15), 4 p.m.;
Game 8: Kannapolis (32-8) vs. Pineville (31-9), 7 p.m.

SUNDAY
Game 9: High Point/Fayetteville winner vs. Kannapolis/Pineville loser, 1 p.m.;
Game 10: Pitt County/Morehead winner vs. Caldwell/Garner loser, 4 p.m.;
Game 11: Caldwell/Garner winner vs. Kannapolis/Pineville winner, 7 p.m.

MONDAY
Game 12: Winner 9 vs. Winner 10, 4 p.m.;
Game 13: Winner 12 vs. Loser 11, 7 p.m.

TUESDAY
Game 14: Winner 11 vs. Winner 13, 4 p.m.;
Game 15 (if necessary): 7 p.m

 

Radio Coverage

They said yesterday on 1340 WJRI that they will have an in-stadium frequency of 87.9 FM for all of Caldwell's games. Plus www.foothillsradio.com has scores and recaps of the games.

 

Alriiiiight. Here we go

"The Lynch at the Finch" or "The Kill at Thomasville"

"The Gladiators"

Keep women and children away from this one:1peekdoor

Caldwellvs Garner



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Hmmm...am I hyping this game up too much?......



















Nah

 

We need somebody with a computer to do a running thread of the games for TBR

 

Wow, it was HOT yesterday!!! About the "frothy beverages" not being sold, don't know how that rumor got started, but they weren't.

The Kannapolis/Pitt County game was just the typical pitcher's duel where neither team should've lost, but fortunately for us we came out on top. Alex White was still being clocked at 92/93 in the 10th inning, he will be awesome at Carolina, especially after adds about 20 more lbs. of muscle which he will. For us, Blake Ketner was just his same ole consistent big-game pitcher for us, Blake knows no pressure. His only mistake thru 9 innings was a ball that he left up for the Pitt kid who hit the 2-run homer to tie the game. Blake was great and this was a big win for Ktown.

Looking forward to seeing some great crowds there tonight as you have Garner/Caldwell locking horns at 4pm and then Pineville/Kannapolis at 7pm. I actually thought we had a great crowd on a work-day for a 4pm game yesterday with folks who had to drive an hour, but the crowd on Saturday night at 7 should be awesome.

Again, congrats to all the winning teams, and hopefully the weather will cooperate where we can have another great night of baseball.

Braves and Dbacks20, hopefully I'll see you guys tonight at the game...

 

I'll be there...unless the weather doesn't co-operate

and dbacks will definitely be there. Look for a man in an ill fitting uniform with a "P" on his hat.................he's easy to spot

 

Whats the weather lookin like out that way? I think I'm gonna ride out there this afternoon with the family (remember who is in my family, GO GARNER!) and girlfriend.


Let's go... Post 232 vs Post 29 in the State Tourney



LET'S GO GARNER!

 

50% or 60% chance of rain this afternoon, depending on who you listen to.

 

TJ...make sure you run me down...I will be the ugly guy wearing #35 for Pineville....Braves is just the ugly guy