American Legion Baseball Area I Playoff Schedule, Cary Post 67 Roster

AMERICAN LEGION BASEBALL AREA I EAST FINALS
(best of three)

CARY POST 67 (19-6) vs. ROCKY MOUNT POST 58 (23-6) - Series tied 1-1

GAME 1 - Rocky Mount Post 58 9, Cary Post 67 6

GAME 2 - Cary Post 67 6, Rocky Mount Post 58 3

GAME 3 - Rocky Mount Post 58 @ Cary Post 67 (Cary HS), Wednesday, July 21, 7 p.m.

CARY POST 67 ROSTER

No. - Player, Class, School, College

1 - David Josam, 2010, Green Hope, will attend UNC-Charlotte

2 - Caleb Clark, 2010, Home schooled, will attend Liberty University

3 - Dillon Rudio, 2010, Athens Drive

4 - Grant Shambley, 2010, Green Hope. signed with Wake Forest

6 - Gerrit VanGenderen, 2010, Athens Drive, will attend Appalachian State

7 - David Hamm, 2010, Athens Drive, will attend N.C. State

9 - Daniel Sondag, 2011, Green Hope

11 - Daniel Mason, 2010, Athens Drive, will attend Appalachian State

12 - Will Yoder, 2011, Green Hope

13 - James Todd, 2009, Cardinal Gibbons, plays for Rhodes College (Memphis, Tn.)

15 - Drew Woodall, 2009, Athens Drive, plays for Charleston Southern

16 - Stephen McKinney, 2010, Cary, signed with UNC-Pembroke

17 - Joe Pistacchio, 2010, Green Hope, will attend Appalachian State

23 - Anthony Colantino, 2011, Green Hope

25 - Blair Betts, 2010, Athens Drive, signed with Indiana

Head coach - Neil Woodall
Assistant coaches - Bryan Booth, Clay Council, Robert Stephenson
Athletic Officer - Don Daniels

Follow Post 58 in Game 2 and, or Game 3 on the Internet

CARY - Rocky Mount Post 58 fans who may not be able to make the trip to Cary for the team's Area I title series with Cary Post 67, may listen to Game 2 and, if needed, Game 3 of the American Legion Baseball Area I title series on the Internet.

Cary High School's David Maney, who is the webmaster of Cary High's iHigh.com site, will handle the play-by-play broadcast of the game(s) from Cary High School on North Carolina.iHigh.com beginning at 7 p.m. Tuesday and, if necessary 7 p.m. Wednesday.

Go to NorthCarolina.iHigh.com - click on the following link - http://northcarolina.ihigh.com, then click on the game in the list of iHigh broadcasts at the top of the page.

For a direct link to Game 2, click here! Game 1 will be played at Gryphon Stadium Monday at 7.

Game 1 will be played at Gryphon Stadium Monday at 7 p.m. There was a conflict Post 67 had with Cary High School's Summer League team, which plays its last home game of the regular season at home Monday. So, the best-of-three series will start for the defending Area I champion at home and conclude on the road.

Look for more on the State Tournament on the NorthCarolina.iHigh.com site later this week! p.m.

There was a conflict Post 67 had with Cary High School's Summer League team, which plays its last home game of the regular season at home Monday. So, the best-of-three series will start for the defending Area I champion at home and conclude on the road.

RM Post 58 finishes off Kinston Post 43; next up is Cary Post 67

For the second straight season, Rocky Mount Post 58 is the Area I East baseball champion.

It earned the title after a 9-5 win over Kinston Post 43 Friday at Gryphon Stadium that earned it a 3-0 sweep in a best-of-five series over the team from Lenoir County.

Post 58 will now host Cary Post 67 Monday in Game 1 of the Area I championship series (best of three). Due to a conflict for the use of Cary High's baseball field with the school's Summer League team, the series will begin at Gryphon Stadium Monday at 7 p.m.

Game 2, and if necessary, Game 3 will be played at Cary High Tuesday and Wednesday, respectively.

Cary comes into the series at 18-5, while Post 58 sports a 22-5 record.

Hobbs Johnson moved to 3-0 on the season in recording the win. He logged five innings on the mound. He gave up three runs on six hits, walked three and struck out six.

NOTES:

• Two Kinston Post 43 errors in the first two innings opened the door for five Post 58 runs with starter Scottie Ginn on the mound .


• Post 58's Matthew Berry stole home in the third on Post 43 reliever Landon DeBruhl to put it up 6-0


• Post 43 got on the board in the fifth with three runs - biggest hit was Tyler Potter's triple.


• Ty Eason hit a solo home run to left center in the eighth off Post 58 reliever Trellis Ashley.


• Kinston hit into three double plays to end several big inning possibilities for Post 43.


• Post 58 has gone 7-0 in the postseason.
  

Rocky Mount Post 58 9
Kinston Post 43 5

Post 43 000 120 002 — 5 12 3
Post 58 321 001 02x — 9 14 1

WP- Hobbs Johnson (3-0, 5IP, 3R, 3ER, 6H, 3BB, 6K)
LP - Scottie Ginn (2IP, 6R, 2ER, 4H, 1BB, 0K)

Top hitters -
Post 43 - Tyler Potter 3-4, 2B, 3B, R; Ty Eason 2-4, HR, 2 RBI, R; Everett Charlton 2-4, R; Brad Hunter 1-4.

Post 58 - Thomas Berry 3-4, 4 RBI; T.J. Taylor 2-4, 2 RBI; Kyle Norville 1-3, 2B, 2 RBI

Records: Post 43 14-9. Post 58 22-5