Southeastern District Games: March 22-27 (Week 2)

Biggest Game this week looks to be Grassfield @ Great Bridge. The winner there is in a good early season spot with each having a win over Indian River already in thier pocket and a 3-0 start.

IR could steady itself if they win at Hickory and Western Branch has a full week. Nansmond River might have the toughest week with WB and IR sandwiched around Oscar Smith. Pitching depth sure to be tested there.

After this week is finished (NO RAIN PLEASE!) things should start to take shape. After Friday it's only 10 days into the season but almost 25% of the district games will be played.

WB Reporter... any idea on the WB-NR game today? How's it looking out there?

Smith, Coach Wright just sent a text that as of now the game is still on. However, it is getting overcast again so not sure Mother Nature will cooperate. Will try to post if something changes.

WB 10 NR 0

WB outhit NR 13 to 3 with Bobby Barefoot leading the way, going 4 for 4 (3S, 1DB). Alex Hunt (FR) recorded his first hit, a double, as a Varsity player. Shane Johnsonbaugh picked up his first win of the season and Kenny Cassidy closed for the save.

NR turned a nice 5-4-3 DP in the bottom of the 5th.

Josh Howard, Kyle Moore and Kevin Miller had hits for NR.

Thanks for the update and info!

WB plays DC at DC tomorrow both teams are 2-0 right ?
Friday night- DC 11 KF 7
Mike Cole and Arron Nardon both hit homeruns an Matt Wilder got the win and Cole the save.

should be a close game
WB is pitching Thompson and DC is pitching Stewart, both teams ace

im pulling for deep creek they will surpize people tomorrow

Grassfield 7 Great Bridge 3 Cox gets the win Ingraham gets the save Jason Carter and Cody Cox both hit HR's

Hickory 1 Indian River 0.

The lone run of the game was scored in the bottom of the seventh. Todd Freeman, the #9 batter, led off with a triple, the next batter popped up, and Matt Campbell drove in the winning run with a hit between short and third. Lighton for Hickory allowed only 3 hits.

Hickory 1 Indian River O.

Great job...TJ Lighton winning pitcher for Hickory. Went the distance for the Hawks against Dean Ali. Lead off Triple by Todd Freeman (LF) in the bottom of the seventh and a single by Matt Campbell (SS) for the winning RBI. Key defensive plays made the difference for the Hawks. A grat game for both teams and the for the fans watching.

Western Branch 14 Deep Creek 5

Kenny Cassidy was the star of the game. He caught 5 innings, pitched the final 2 innings without allowing a run, and went 3 for 3 at the plate with 4 rbis. WB had 12 hits. In addition to Cassidy, Alex Hunt, Shane Johnsonbaugh and Nick Thompson had multiple hits. Garrett Brooks, Brandon Doggett and Bobby Barefoot also had hits. Nick Thompson picked up his second win of the season.

Five different Deep Creek players had hits.

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Hickory 1 Indian River O.

Great job...TJ Lighton winning pitcher for Hickory. Went the distance for the Hawks against Dean Ali. Lead off Triple by Todd Freeman (LF) in the bottom of the seventh and a single by Matt Campbell (SS) for the winning RBI. Key defensive plays made the difference for the Hawks. A great game for both teams and for the fans watching.

Wow - sounded like another great game by two pitchers.......Hickory and Indian River.

Congrats to Hickory......but what can you say about a pitcher losing back to back games 1-0. Congrats to Dean as well for another outstanding performance.

The only thing you can say is, he is a stud! He mixes his pitches well, has great command and the college that lands him will be very lucky.

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Originally posted by DCHEAT:
Grassfield 7 Great Bridge 3 Cox gets the win Ingraham gets the save Jason Carter and Cody Cox both hit HR's

Cody pitched another great game. GF's defense let down the pitchers at times and allow 3 unearned runs. A point about you never know who is watching: I have been told a seattle scout was there to watch stokes, but was impressed with Cody (who i am told was throwing 89).

King's Fork 9 Lakeland 4

TEAM------R H E
Nans. River 6 8 3
Oscar Smith 1 4 4

WP: O'Hara
LP: Foreman

Brandon Lowe was 2-for-2, with 2 BB, 2 R, RBI, SB (The kid - c/o '12 - looks smooth at the dish) for NR. Josh Howard and Travis Johnson had 2 hits each as well. After pitching the 1st four innings, O'Hara went to CF where he made a very nice catch on a dead sprint 5-10 feet from the fence in right-center.

Quiet bats & four unearned runs hurt Smith. Two freshmen, Michael Foreman & Conner Smith, pitched well combining for 5 IP, 3 H, 0 ER, & 6 Ks.

wb im suprised about that.wb,did u get the score from a fan of king's fork or lakeland i didnt see it in paper.

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Originally posted by Indian River Braves:
wb im suprised about that.wb,did u get the score from a fan of king's fork or lakeland i didnt see it in paper.

Two sources (always good to have multiple sources!) (1) Scorekeeper for King's Fork and (2) article in the newspaper - Suffolk News-Herald.

Some info on the game - Travis Cherry pitched the first half of the game for KF and Nick Bowman the second half. Bowman struck out 6 in the final three innings. David Waterfield, the starting pitcher for LL, threw approximately 126 pitches. KF jumped out to a 6-0 lead in the first inning and never looked back. Sounds like the whole line-up was hitting the first inning with two batted balls hopping over the fence.

DC- 15 OS- 0

Notice has been sent out that the Hickory at Great Bridge game has been postponed from Friday, March 26 to Wednesday, March 31.

Lakeland at Western Branch has been postponed from Friday, March 26 to Monday, March 29.

Notice has been sent out that the Indian River at Nansemond River game scheduled for Friday, March 26 has been postponed to Monday, March 29.

I heard Kings Fork/Grassfield game pushed to Sat. (tomorrow) at 3:00

Grassfield 10 KF 0.

Congrats to Matt Outman (JR, Grassfield) on winning (pitcher) his first varsity game.

How come GF played their game on Saturday when everyone else waited until the next week?