Area 1 Playoffs thru the semifinals...

Clayton-Durham series got another round of rain last night. Here is an adjusted schedule

Game 1 Thursday 7:00 Clayton High School - (Thanks Coach Hauser)
Game 2 Friday 7:00 Riverside
Game 3 Saturday 7:00 SSS
Game 4 Sunday 7:00 Riverside (if needed)
Game 5 Monday 7:00 Riverside (if needed)

 

You're right. As with Dick Cheney, this young man had "other priorities."

Just don't put me in a foxhole with him.

 

The missing NB pitcher went to an AAU camp in Florida. He is going to a prep school to get his grades up and is considered a DI prospect. Just in case anyone is wondering.

Both pitchers went the distance but Wayne had a little better offense as it took the Area I East title series opener at home against New Bern 5-1.

 

Clayton Post 71 6
Durham Post 7 5

Another Clayton/Durham game, another one run ball game.
This was the story of the 1st inning- Durham goes 1,2,3 in the top of the first, and Clayton scores 4 with the aid of a couple of hits, and 4 Durham errors in the bottom of the inning. After that, it was a typical 3rd round Legion game (minus the humidity tonight): good plays defensively, solid pitching, and scratching out runs offensively.

If you haven't seen the way these 2 teams match up, come out to one of the games in this series- you won't be disappointed.

Game 2 @ Riverside (Durham) 7/25, 7pm.

 

http://post11baseball.blogspot.com/

Pitching-starved New Bern got what it needed from Gabe Brown in the opening game of the Area I East title series with Wayne County Thursday night at Mount Olive College. Brown provided an eight-inning performance that would have won many of the games his team played.

But not this one. Not with Michael Douglas getting the starting nod in the other dugout.

Douglas continued his hot streak on the mound by going the distance on a six-hitter as Wayne (20-5) inched closer to a berth in the state tournament in Gastonia with a 5-1 win. The series moves to New Bern High School tonight. Adron Hollowell is slated to start on the mound for Wayne.

In the Area I West series, Clayton Post 71 scored four runs in the bottom of the first and went on to defeat Durham Post 7 6-5.

Since the Durham outing in game 17, in which he gave up six runs, seven hits and two walks without a strikeout in 2 1/3 innings, Douglas has had three starts. The line: 21 2/3 innings, 16 hits, four runs, none earned with seven walks and 13 strikeouts.

"Michael Douglas did us a big favor tonight, keeping everybody fresh in our bullpen," said Wayne coach Brad Reaves, who hadn't planned to allow Douglas to go the distance. "He came in (the dugout) in the eighth under a hundred pitches and said he wanted to finish it. He's good for about 100-110. He doesn't hurt himself up there. He hits his spots and changes speeds. He wasn't laboring at all."

Brown allowed nine hits, walked two and hit two while striking out eight. "I thought he did a great job," Post 24 coach Gary Smith said. "He threw three different pitches for strikes and limited them to five runs. You can't ask for him to do much more than that."

New Bern's only run came in the seventh with Wayne holding a four-run lead, and it resulted from one of four Post 11 errors. After Douglas retired the first two batter, Bobby Dorman reached on a throwing error and Chris Dorman bunted safely down the third base line. Sam Sanders singled home a run, but Douglas retired the next batter on a ground. He got a double play in the eighth and set down the side in order in the ninth for his team-leading sixth win.

Wayne got Douglas all the support he would need in the fourth with a dose of "small ball," although it started with a bang. Brown got ahead of John Wooten 0-2, but Wooten drilled a 1-2 pitch over the head of the center fielder for a triple. One out later, Zach Wright was hit by a pitch.

Thomas Pilkington bunted down the first base line, and Wooten was called safe on a bang-bang play at the plate. Wright ended up at third. Nolan Lancaster's drag bunt toward line resulted in a hit and another run. Brown got another out on a liner to short, but Casey singled to center to make it 4-0.

 

Area One Baseball

I guess in posting on this board it is unimportant and / or irrelevant to get one's facts straight but I would strongly suggest you "reseach before writing" as the previously described "Missing" New Bern pitcher is going to a prep school to get his grades up....this is hardly the case. And the basketball camp attendance was planned and scheduled some months ago well prior to the legion season or playoff schedule being formulated. The players do not deserve "rampant speculation" especially when someone arbitrarily (and inaccurately) decides he "needs to get his grades up." Or maybe he heard the Pitt-Wayne winner was destined to the State Tournament and decided it wasn't worth the effort. Please check your facts before your post.

 

Clayton Post 71 - 6
Durham Post 7-5

Game 2 tonight 7:00 @ Riverside.

 

Take it up with the New Bern Post 24-based source I got it from.

I fail to see where you come up with the word "arbitrarily." I didn't make this up just because I felt like it or have animus against New Bern. Then there is the term "rampant speculation." I'm going by what I was told.

Helping New Bern win its first league title was not high on his list of priorities. That's the truth of the matter. It's his decision, but it's not the route I would have gone.

 

Area One

When the "source" is published, we shall indeed take it up wtih the source...until the "source" is published, we will consider it "rampant speculation" on the part of the writer. I guess it is important to separate fact from fiction...from a less than impartial source, especially when you are in the dugout....cheerleading.

 

I don't do any "cheerleading" from the dugout. Furthermore, it makes me no never mind where he's going. I know what I was told. Take it up with someone in the Post 24 dugout. You do seem a little sensitive considering we haven't mentioned any names.

And that is my final comment on the subject. Be sure to come by and visit tonight. I might buy you a hot dog.