from www.hitoms.com: Post 87 HiToms Advance to State American Legion Tourney The Post 87 HiToms celebrated another birth in the North Carolina State American Legion State tourney with a heart-pounding extra-inning victory over Kannapolis Post 115. The exciting series win advances the P87 HiToms to a winner-take all Area 3 Championship match-up at Catawba College’s Newman Park Thursday, July 20 versus Rowan County Post 324 .
Post 87 HiToms Fall Workout Schedule Fall League workouts continue today, Tuesday, August 21st and Wednesday, August 22. All prospective players are strongly encouraged to attend. PRACTICE SCHEDULE – FINCH FIELD August 21st: 3:30 p.m. August 22nd: 3:30 p.m. Please direct questions to info@hitoms.com
Post 87 2-1 over Rowan for Area 3 Championship! Riley Isenhour pitched 5 innings allowing 1 unearned run in first inning. Collin Best pitched the 6th before turning it over to Dylan Wilkinson for the 7th, 8th and 9th. Bottom 9 with 2 outs for HiToms bases-loaded, full-count and Dylan Wilkinson delivers a RBI single to right field for the walk-off win. This is how the game was decided and coming in from Mike London at the Salisbury Post…..www.salisburypost.com…. Andrew Ramirez(Post 87) got an infield hit to start the ninth. Rowan had him picked off first, but after several throws…
The Post 87 HiToms have protested their disqualification decision from the American Legion Baseball State Tournament and on Monday they asked to halt the tournament, which is wrapping up Tuesday in Lexington, and then restart it from when the team was disqualified. “It’s gone beyond frustrating and into hypocrisy,” HiToms president Greg Suire said. “And that’s not what American Legion’s about – it’s about integrity. They eliminated us on a technicality they created.” Update coming in from Michael Lindsay at the High Point Enterprise(www.hpe.com) Read all from Michael Lindsay and the High Point Enterprise and their post, Post 87 Cries…
The Post 87 High Point HiToms were kicked out of this weekend’s American Legion Baseball State Tournament, due to what has been deemed as using an ineligible player and Post 87 has responded to this action taken, by the National American Legion association….. Coach Rob Shore(Trinity High School) and the Post 87 High Point HiToms have taken action and one of their first steps was to send this letter/E-mail to the Baseball Factory…. There has not been much success in reaching the National American Legion association in Indianapolis, Indiana and the National American Legion has not been clear at all…
Improbable comeback, down 2 Games-to-None in a Best-Five-Series, the Post 87 High Point Hi-Toms did it and last night, in the last/final game of the series they were winners, 9-8 over Post 36 from Kenersville…Ryan Kahny(High Point Central) said, “That was one of the hypest games I’ve ever been a part of”…..(Twitter)….Here are the key points from the HPE….[Plus, High Point vs. Mooresville on Saturday.] from Michael Lindsay with the High Point Enterprise at www.hpe.com: With a single into left-center field, Evan Edwards(Southern Guilford) scored Zach McLean(High Point Christian) from second base in the bottom of the ninth to win…