Results from Thursday at Greensboro Grasshoppers Spring Break Baseball Tournament:
(And you can listen back to these games now, on GreensboroSports Radio.)
Game One:Western Alamance 2, Asheboro 1
WP:Shepherd Goodwin/SV:Sam Patterson/LP:Chandler Macon
WA(6-10)/ASHE(7-8)
WA: 2-5-1 ASHE:1-5-0
Game Two:Eastern Alamance 7, Northern Guilford 5
WP:Wesley Donoho/SV:Tyler Westbrooks/LP:Sawyer Harris
EA(4-13)/NG(4-10)
EA:7-5-0 NG:5-5-2
Game Three:Southeast Guilford 18, Grimsley 8
SEG(10-6)/GHS(6-10)
WP:Chancelor Terry/LP:Levi Ponder
SEG:18-19-0 GHS: 8- 8-1
Game Four:North Davidson 10, Burlington Williams 2
ND(12-5)/BW(12-6)
WP:Carter Benson/LP:Nate Billings
ND:10-10-1 BW: 2- 5-1
(The above games are playing back for you now on, GreensboroSports Radio.)
Games Set for Friday, weather permitting, and if not these games will be moved to Saturday….
11am…Seventh Place Game:Northern Guilford(4-10) vs. Asheboro(7-8)
1:30pm…Fifth Place Game:Eastern Alamance(4-13) vs. Western Alamance(6-10)
4pm…Third Place Game:Grimsley(6-10) vs. Burlington Williams(12-6)
6:30pm…Championship Game:Southeast Guilford(10-6) vs. North Davidson(12-5)
(You can Listen to these games LIVE, on GreensboroSports Radio.)
The top games of the day from Thursday were the 2-1 win by Western Alamance over Asheboro, and the 7-5 victory for Eastern Alamance past Northern Guilford…For Western Alamance, Cooper Huff was 2-3/Double/Run/RBI…Asheboro’s Tanner Marsh was 2-3/BB…Eastern Alamance was up 6-0 over NG, and the EA Eagles held on to get the win, 7-5…Game leadoff home run by EA’s Cole McGinnis…McGinnis with the HR and 2 RBI…Zack Merchel with a 3-run Double for EA…Solid work turned by Grimsley’s freshman OF/P Tai Richmond…One of Grimsley’s real undoings was their Wild Pitches that led to Southeast Guilford runs…The Whirlies must have uncorked at least 7 Wild Pitches that led directly to SEG scoring runs…For SEG still very impressed with the Falcons’ freshman, Jerry ‘Bubba’ Sims…Sims was 4-4, with 4 RBI on Wednesday, and then he came back and went 3-4, with two Doubles, 4 RBI, and a run scored on Thursday…Sims over the two-day stretch goes 7-8, with 8 RBI…Two really big bats for North Davidson, with Justin Mabe and Alex Naylor really getting it going…Naylor goes 4-5, with 2 Doubles/2 RBI/Run…Mabe was 2-2/2 Doubles/2 BB/2 Runs/2 RBI…Mabe is really found his game fits in nicely, at the Greensboro Grasshoppers First National Bank Field….Williams’ Trace Hicks was 1-1/BB/Run…Charlie Smith had pinch hit Double for the Williams Bulldogs…