Carolina Acceleration High School Baseball and Softball Games Tonight(5/7/19):Round One of the NCHSAA Playoffs are your Next Top Recruits Games of the Day

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Baseball Tonight with Round One of the NCHSAA Playoffs:
#21 Grimsley(12-11) at #12 Page(13-6) in the 4-A West 7pm
#24 Ragsdale(12-12) at #9 South Mecklenburg(20-5) in the 4-A West
#3 Northwest Guilford(18-6) (BYE)
CLICK HERE to see the Complete 4-A Baseball Bracket…..

#25 Triton(11-9) at #8 Southeast Guilford(18-7) in the 3-A East 7pm
#28 Parkwood(11-13) at #5 Northern Guilford(18-6) in the 3-A West 6:30pm
#18 West Rowan(18-5) at #15 Western Guilford(18-5) in the 3-A West….This matchup looks about as even as you can get going in….7pm
#25 North Buncombe(11-10) at #8 Southwest Guilford(18-7) in the 3-A West 6pm
CLICK HERE to see the Complete 3-A Baseball Bracket….

Also area:
#18 East Forsyth Eagles(12-13) at #15 Lake Norman(21-5)
#22 Western Alamance(17-9) at #11 Rockingham County(18-6)
#31 Eastern Alamance(12-9) at #2 DH Conley(21-3)

Softball Tonight:
4-A West
#4 Northwest Guilford(19-3) (BYE)…
#21 Glenn(11-13) at #12 Page(11-6) 6pm
#22 High Point Central(13-7) at #11 Charlotte Independence(15-6) 5:30pm

3-A West
#26 North Gaston(12-7) at #7 Southwest Guilford(16-6) 6pm
#25 Northern Guilford(6-13) at #8 Morehead(14-5) 6pm
#28 Northeast Guilford(7-13) at #5 North Buncombe(17-4)
#30 Eastern Guilford(9-11) at #30 Cape Fear(21-1)

Also area:
#28 Lee County(7-8) at #5 Southern Alamance(21-5) 6pm

from May 9, 2018 at Grimsley High School:
Looking back at the Page vs. Grimsley NCHSAA Round One Playoff Baseball Game one year ago…….

Round One NCHSAA Baseball Final from Grimsley HS:
Grimsley 1, Page 0…(13 Innings)
Grimsley wins with a Bases-loaded Walk-off Walk in the Bottom of the 13th Inning…Nile Harris scored the Game-Winning run for Grimsley and Rob Dalton credited with the Game-Winning RBI….
*****Can’t say enough about the defensive effort coming from both of these schools/teams on this Wednesday night…*****
WP:Gus Hughes/LP:McKinnon Martinelli

Starters Jake Knapp and C.J. Neese both reached their 105 pitch count….Outstanding starts from Neese and Knapp…
More on this game….
The Grimsley-Page game tonight, for sure, “One for the Ages”….
End of 1st Inning:Grimsley 0, Page 0…End of 2nd:Page 0, Grimsley 0…End of 3rd:0-0…End of 4th:0-0….End of 5th:0-0…..End of 6th:0-0……End of 7th:0-0…….End of 8th:0-0……..End of 9th:0-0………End of 10th:0-0……….End of 11th:0-0………..End of 12:0-0…………End of the 13th Inning and the Final:Grimsley 1, Page 0………….Grimsley hitting:Rob Dalton 1-5/BB/RBI(Game-Winning RBI)…Gus Hughes 0-5…C.J. Neese 1-4/BB/Double/SB…Jake Bloss 0-5…Eli Willen 0-4/IBB…Nile Harris 1-5/Run(Scored the Game-Winning Run)…Luke Jenkins 0-3/BB/IBB…Greffin Albright 0-4/SAC Bunt…Will Caveness 0-4/BB…
Page hitting::Brody Meachum 0-5/HBP…Garrett Willett 1-5…Jake Knapp 0-5…Luke Pegram 0-4/BB…Cade Darnell 0-4/HBP…Coby Phillips 2-4/BB/Double…C.J. Arnold 0-3/BB/SAC…McKinnon Martinelli 0-4/BB…

Pitchers Jake Knapp from Page with 9 Innings/0 Runs/2 Hits/2 BB’s/11 K’s…C.J. Neese from Grimsley 8 2/3’s Innings/0 Runs/4 Hits/2 BB’S/8 K’s/HBP….Gus Hughes from Grimsley 4 1/3 Innings/0 Runs/1 Hit/5 K’s/1 BB….
McKinnon Martinelli from Page 4 Innings/1 Run/1 Hit/3 BB’s/4 K’s…

+++++What they were saying:Game-winning run scored by Nile Harris:“This playoff win means everything”….”I had to play it safe all on the way on advancing to third and then scoring the game-winning run”…A couple of walks and a Sacrifice had helped Nile Harris reach third base….He had been thrown out earlier in the game trying to advance from second to third….Harris also said, “This is a great group of guys here at Grimsley to go to go to bat with, we just have to stay focused.”….“For us to being on to Round Two of the Playoffs, it just means The World”….As the game kept going on for more innings, all the way to the 13th, Nile Harris said he kept thinking, “We have to end this somehow”…..
Grimsley winning pitcher Gus Hughes said, “Our starting pitcher C.J. Neese did an outstanding job, I just had to come in and keep it like it was and not let Page score”….On if he got stronger as the game went on, Hughes said, “I got more under control and was able to do my job and was to be able to help Grimsley get the win on the mound, I wasn’t providing much help at the plate”….On if he could go again on Saturday, Hughes said, “No, I threw 64 pitches tonight and with two days rest, I don’t think I can pitch again on Friday or Saturday”… On beating Page, Hughes said, “This is huge/very big, this is the first time we have defeated Page twice in the same season in a long time, and it feels great.”

Grimsley coach Gary Flynn said he was very proud of his team…Coach Flynn said, “We will go with Jake Bloss in the starting role at South Caldwell”, Jake is like our #2 starter and we use Gus Hughes more like a reliever.”….Coach Flynn said, “After a win like we had tonight, the adrenaline is flowing and we need to use this win to push us hard into Round Two at South Caldwell.”….Coach also agreed that, “This was one of the biggest wins in recent Grimsley baseball history”…..

*****Quite a game with Page at Grimsley tonight with a very large crowd on hand, and I’m sure the local Grimsley and Page fans will be talking about this game and remembering this one, for a LONG time to come….*****