Week Two Results

Hopewell 14
Ragsdale 10 8 innings


A long, long, not very pretty game. Score was tied 9-9 at the end of seven. There were 21 walks rung up tonight. More from the umps ridiculous strike zone than poor pitching. I've never seen so many 3-2 10 pitch at bats in my life.

I'll post a little more later. Bad news for Ragsdale was Soph DeSean Anderson hit the wall in the second inning and left the game with concussion. Tough to lose your lead off man ( and leading hitter). Hope he can make it back soon.

 

Hopewell did a lot of good things. Very good hitting team. Very good team, period. Doesn't surprise me they beat Providence. Coach Brown is loaded. 4 hour game. They brought a big crowd and as nice as ever been in our joint. Fun night. Knowledgable baseball people.

Umpires did make themselves the stars of the show but they called it both ways. Umpires don't swing the bat or throw and field. Congratulations on the win for Hopewell. Hopefully we get to go down there next year.

 

West Henderson 5, Madison 1

WH 0-0-1-0-2-1-1 5-10-0
Madison 0-0-0-1-0-0-0 1-4-3

WP, Tyler Austin, 7in, 1run, 1er, 4hits, 1bb, 13 k's
LP, Zeth Ball, 7in, 5 runs, 2er, 10 hits, 4bb, 9 k's

For WH:
Josh Moore, 3/3, HR(2)
Casey Allison, 2/4
Forrest Koontz, 1/3, double

For Madison:
Devin Payne, 1/2, HR

WH is now 3-0

 

Southern Alamance (2 games today)

Game 1
Southern Alamance 12
Chatham Central 2
(5 Innings)

Winning Pitcher: Jason Groce (2-0)
Leading Hitter: Cameron Crawford 3-3 and 6 RBI's

Game 2
Southern Alamance 9
High Point Central 0

Winning Pitcher: Matt Murphy (1-0) 11 K's
Leading Hitter: Tyler Wilson 2 singles

Southern Alamance moves to 3-1. Southern is at Northern Guilford on Saturday (weather permitting). Then, the Patriots move on to next week with quite a challenging week: Tuesday at North Davidson, Thursday at Ragsdale, and Friday Home vs Grimsley.

 

unofficial box score

Hopewell 061 0200 5 14 16 ?
Ragsdale 160 1100 1 10 10 ?

LP Andrejco 1-1
WP Auten


I was very impressed with the crowd Hopewell brought with them considering both the distance and the late change in the play date. Hopewell really did hit the ball well. 16 hits in total. The catcher Fisher was I believe 4-6 3 singles and an inside the park HR ( that was the shot to straight away center that DeSean tracked down but hit the wall as he was trying to make the catch). Prouse? was 3-4 with a 2 run homer and 2 singles. Several other players had a multi hit game.

For Ragsdale - they had 10 hits ( all singles) Billy Stone was 2-4, Ben Fultz and Cody Myers were 2-5.

The ump had a postage stamp size strike zone early but then got very inconsistent. I'm sure Hopewell wasn't very happy with him (and the 13 walks) either.

 

South Meck vs Charlotte Catholic

South Meck ... 7
Catholic ... 5

Tyler Woods pitched four strong innings, gave up one hit and one unearned run.
Matt Youtsey had another big hit early in the game that put SM ahead to stay. He had 2 RBI's.
Spencer Shuey had two hits and two RBI. One hit was a bullet over the left center field wall.
Caleb Cunningham (2010) had two hits as well.

 

Knights Win

Northern Nash 5 South Central 3 in extra innings

Tyler Clark's two run bases loaded single in the 8th wins the game.

Mike Williams picks up the win in relief of Tyler Joyner.

 

Polk County 3, Asheville Christian Academy 2
Enka 4, AC Reynolds 3
Erwin 4, Pisgah 3
Swain County 11, Smoky Mountain 1
McDowell 7, Owen 2
North Henderson 4, Hendersonville 3

A few comments:
It looks as if Enka is ready to challenge for the MAC this year. North Henderson is now 3-0 under their 1st year coach. Swain continues to roll.

 

Charlotte Christian: 9 Clover: 4

Charlotte Christian moved to 4-0 on the year with a 9-4 win over Clover. Senior Mason Bradley had a big night pitching 5 innings and giving up 4 runs on 5 hits. Only one of the runs were earned as the Knights struggled a bit on defense, committing 5 errors on the night. Soph. Jake Watson threw a 1,2,3 sixth with 2 K's and Jr. Pookie Caldwell followed with a 1,2,3 seventh.

The Knights were led in hitting by Junior LF Luke Bard 4-4, 2b, Soph. Ty Linton 2-4, 2b and Mason Bradley 2-2, 3 run HR.

Charlotte Christian is scheduled to play Northwest Guilford on Saturday at 3:00pm at Charlotte Christian.

 

JH Rose @ Eastern Wayne

JH Rose 5
E. Wayne 0

WP Mark Wilder

JV

JH Rose 14
E. Wayne 4

WP Bryan Quintard