Area 1 Finals...

from the past

RD, I remember a Wayne County player R.T. Pejera in Babe Ruth ball. Did he play in college?

 

Louisburg

 

Correct.

RT set a record I don't think anyone here will break: 12 triples in a season. We've never had another team with that many. It helps to play in a college park.

 

after?

did he play anywhere after Louisburg or still there?

 

I'll check for you. You might see the answer on one of the threads related to Wayne County.

He went to Mount Olive and quit. In the Coast Guard.

 

MOC

wow might could've been on the national champs.............

at some point you have to get on with your life unless you are of the chosen few who make a living in sports.

sounds like he chose a great cause if you enjoy the seas.

 

Update on Pejera. It seems he quit in order to help his mother. I remember she was going through tough times.

It seems that we actually didn't beat Clayton Thursday night. The lost because they had to fix the field after the rain delay. Okay.

Something else to feed the fire: The Clayton coach turned on the sprinklers despite knowing of the approaching rain.

 

Never has the Clayton coaching staff said we lost the ball game due to fixing the field. We give all the credit to a good solid Wayne County Team. They played harder then we did. It might have been said the our boys were tired and rightfully so after working on the field for almost 3 hours.

And just for the record the sprinklers were not turned on by Post 71 coaching staff, the high school baseball coach had turned them on earlier. An honest mistake after you fertilize your field and do not want it to burn up.

 

I don't think one team played harder. That denigrates your players and gives too much credit to Wayne's. All it took was one more hit for Clayton to have won the title. Then we wouldn't be talking about someone not having played hard enough. We would be talking about how Wayne wasn't able to bounce back from its worst playoff loss ever. Either way, it would have amounted to nothing more than mumbo jumbo.

The teams had the same number of runners. Wayne just happened to have scored one more.

As far as the field is concerned, I know the high school coach turned on the sprinklers. But he had to known about the forecast, and he could have prevented the field from getting fertilizer.

Why this shot at the coach? As one of your players told me, this man, like so many other Triangle coaches, cares about his program first and to the bowels of Hades with American Legion baseball. How many of your juniors and sophomores played Legion? It's often remarked on this board about how controlling these HS coaches are. Somehow, they missed class the day the teacher went over the Thirteenth Amendment. Why not let the best players go against better competition?

If none of this applies to the Clayton coach, I take back my remarks.

 

I have heard some of the same BS from various coaches, ours included, thorughout the years on this subject. "We didn't come to the park to play." "Our minds were't in it." "They wanted it more."

I believe that games are won or lost on the field. The teams that competed at SSS Thursday night weren't analyzing the "significance" of the game; they were playing to win because there was a game to be won.

Let's leave all the psychobabble to Dr. Crane and Bob Newhart.