Southeastern District Games: May 2-7 (Week 8)

What time is the Hickory - Great Bridge game?

see below...the newspaper is wrong.

It is after the JV Game that starts at 5pm.

**edit**

I talked to a Hickory parent who said it starts at 7pm (or thereabaouts).

GAME: DC vs. OS * 5/3/11 @ OS Field *

Cols: // 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 // R H E //
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DC // 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 4 / 1 / 0 // 5 9 1 //
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OS // 2 / 0 / 0 / 2 / 0 / 0 / 0 // 4 6 1 //
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WP: STEWART - LP: M. FOREMAN

Grassfield 10, King's Fork 0.

Western Branch 8, Lakeland 0. Bobby Barefoot (3-3 w/DB) and Garrett Brooks (3-4) led the Bruins’ hitting. Others with multiple hits were Kenny Cassidy (2-4) and Nick Thompson (2-4 w/DB). Nathan Meeks and Daniel Fenton each had a single for Lakeland. Nathan Meeks threw the first 3 innings for Lakeland and Lance Smith, who held the Bruins scoreless, threw the last 3. Thompson pitched the complete game for WB, with 2 hits, 1 BB and 15 Ks.

GB thumped Hickory 12-5 by outplaying them in every phase through 4 1/2 innings to lead 10-1. At that point the bench was emptied.

Nansemond River 9, Indian River 7

IR opened the first inning with 2 runs on an errant pickoff move that scored a runner from third base and a base hit that scored the 2nd run. NR came back in the bottom of the 1st scoring 3 runs on a Zach Vann bases loaded triple to deep CF bouncing on the warning track in front of the 410' sign. After a dropped 3rd strike, hit batter and back to back walks starting pitcher Josh Howard was relieved by Tyler Brown in the 2nd. Brown gave up 2 hits between strikeouts before getting out of the inning with a K for the 3rd out. After two, IR 6 NR 2. In the 4th, NR added another run on an RBI single by Tyler Brown. IR answered in the top of the 6th with back to back doubles by #10 CF and #7 Catcher.

In the bottom of the 6th NR had runners on 2nd and 3rd with 1 out ofter a sac bunt by Brown. Josh Howard followed with a line drive to RF scoring both runs. After Howard stole 2B he was driven in by Vann tying the game at 7. then with two outs and two on a wild pitch advanced runners to 2B and 3B and Travis Johnson hit a high pop fly in short right CF that appeared would be caught for the 3rd out only to fall between the CF, 2B and RF scoring both runners and giving NR a 9-7 lead. IR threatened ealry in the 7th with a pair of hits, but Brown was able to get back to back ground balls to end the game.

Nansemond River
Tyler Brown 2-3 5.2 innings in relief 1 ER 8 K
Brandon Lowe 2-4
Zach Vann 2-4 triple 4 RBI


Indian River
#6 2-3 2 RBI
#21 2-3

Nansemond River 12 Great Bridge 11

Lots of offense here with both teams combining for 27 hits (14 NR, 13 GB). Hunter Higgerson led things off with a HR in the top half of the 1st. NR answered with 2 in the bottom of the 2nd when Hayden Champigny doubled home Kyle Moore and Blake Eure's fielder's choice scored Travis Johnson. In the 3rd, Jimmy Cody hit a 3 run HR which was followed in the bottom half by Brandon Lowe's solo shot. After 4 the two teams were tied at 7 with GB scoring 3 runs on the strength of doubles by Brian Beard and Austin Owens and NR scoring 4 runs on a 2 RBI single by Josh Howard and a 2 RBI double by Brandon Lowe.

GB came back in the top of the 5th to score 3 for the 3rd consecutive inning after a single by #5 and doubles from Austin Owens and Charlie Cody. After the teams each scored a run in the 6th GB led 11-9 going into the 7th. Josh Howard retired the top of the order 1,2,3 setting the stage for an exciting finish. After an opening 4 pitch walk to Travis Johnson, Connor Walzak struck out the next two batters. Blake Eure then hit a single between 3rd and SS moving Johnson to 2B. That was followed by an RBI single in the same hole by Tyler Brown. Eure and Brown were able to move to second and third on the left fielders throw that almost left the park. Josh Howard then hit the game winner in the same hole as the previous two hits scoring Eure and Brown to win the game.

Nansemond River
Tyler Brown 2-4 with 2B and RBI
Josh Howard 3-5 with 5 RBI
Brandon Lowe 2-4 HR and 2B 3 RBI
Travis Johnson 2-4
Hayden Champigny 2-4

Great Bridge
Hunter Higgerson 2-5 with HR
Jimmy Cody 1-4 with HR and 3 RBI
#7 3-4 with 2B
Austin Owens 2-4 with 2 2B

Western Branch 4, King's Fork 2

Hickory / Grassfield game is currently 8-8 in the 11th inning.

GAME: OS vs. Lakeland * 5/3/11 @ Lakeland Field *

Cols: // 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 // R H E //
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OS // 0 / 4 / 0 / 0 / 3 / 0 / 0 // 7 11 5 //
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Lakeland // 0 / 3 / 5 / 0 / 0 / 1 / - // 9 7 2 //
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WP: D. WATERFIELD - LP: T. APPLIN // HR: (OS) M. FOREMAN

Hickory / Grassfield now 9 to 9 in the 13th.

Hickory scored 1 in the top of the 13th to make it 10-9. Now in the bottom of 13th. Grassfield's lead off batter has walked.

Final Hickory 10, Grassfield 9. After Tyler Best walked Grassfield's lead off batter, he picked up the win by striking out 2 batters and getting a ground out from a 3rd.

Congrats to NR. That's the second number 1 that they have knocked off.

Go Dawgs, #5 for Great Bridge is Preston Grissom.

Ya know, it's a shame that such an exciting game is not reported in the Pilot. These kids deserve to be recognized for the work that they did. 13 innings in a back and forth game that lasted 5 hours. A coach and a player get ejected, outstanding pitching on both sides, clutch hitting by both teams.

Congrats to both Grassfield and Hickory players in this hard fought battle.

So Grassfield gave up 13 runs in its first 13 games, and then 10 runs in a single game?

It would be interesting to know how that happened.

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Originally posted by Midlo Dad:
So Grassfield gave up 13 runs in its first 13 games, and then 10 runs in a single game?

It would be interesting to know how that happened.

Last night, they threw Outman, Ingraham and White. Hickory can swing the bats.

IMO, their staff was overperforming earlier in the year. Ingraham (W&M commit) is a top arm in the Region. He knows how to pitch. You can match him up against anyone in the state and he will keep you in the game.

You will get an idea of the entire staff next week when they play Western Branch and Nansemond River in the same week.

Red,

Amazing how one game and all of a sudden the pitching staff is overperforming. Ill try to recap the game later. Oh BTW white did not pitch that game, it was walker.

Maybe they are "overperforming" but IMO, in the final 3 or so games left to go in the regular season, ill take one bad outing by one pitcher!

The JV pitcher, Andre Ovalle, which Grassfield brought up to pitch against Western Branch "performed" well tonight. He pitched a complete game, threw approx 82 pitches, issued 4 walks, 1 of which was intentional. Two of the walks were in the 5th and he managed to get out of the inning with no score. Ovalle held WB to 2 hits and scoreless until the bottom of the 7th inning when WB managed 3 hits and the game's only run, as reported under Week 9.

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Originally posted by redbird5:

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Originally posted by Midlo Dad:
So Grassfield gave up 13 runs in its first 13 games, and then 10 runs in a single game?

It would be interesting to know how that happened.

Last night, they threw Outman, Ingraham and White. Hickory can swing the bats.

IMO, their staff was overperforming earlier in the year. Ingraham (W&M commit) is a top arm in the Region. He knows how to pitch. You can match him up against anyone in the state and he will keep you in the game.

You will get an idea of the entire staff next week when they play Western Branch and Nansemond River in the same week.

10 runs in a game yes....but it was a 13 inning game.

indian river 11 lakeland 0

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Originally posted by GF:
Red,

Amazing how one game and all of a sudden the pitching staff is overperforming. Ill try to recap the game later. Oh BTW white did not pitch that game, it was walker.

Maybe they are "overperforming" but IMO, in the final 3 or so games left to go in the regular season, ill take one bad outing by one pitcher!

Overperforming =
a) they had not done it before...at ANY level
b) they performed better than their coaches expected

I guess I should have said overachieving. My apologies.