Brunswick Shores Goes 2-For-3; Records
Season's First Wins
BY JOHNNY CRAIG
Brunswick Shores Post 445 broke
into the American Legion baseball
win column in a big way last week
taking two of three games played,
including decisions over Burgaw
Post 165 and Warsaw Post 127.
The first-year club topped Bur
gaw 4-2 last Monday for its first
win ever and concluded the week
with Friday's 5-2 home victory over
Warsaw.
Between the pair of wins. Post
445 dropped a 2-0 loss to visiting
Winter Park last Wednesday.
Brunswick Shores (2-5-1) contin
ues Area 11 Eastern Division play
Friday hosting Whitcvillc Post 137
at the West Brunswick park in
Shallotte.
Shores will also entertain Blad
cnboro Post 268 on Monday in its
last regular-season game in Shal
lotte and will then visit Whitevillc
on Tuesday in a return matchup. All
games begin at 7:30 p.m.
Warsaw Post 127
Post 445 opened with a big four
run first inning and never looked
' back in gaining its second win of
? the week and season over Warsaw
last Friday.
Winning pitcher Scott Coring
. hurled 5.2 innings and held Post
127 scoreless through the first three
frames for his first decision of the
! year.
CORING FARRAR
Bobby Farrar provided his sec
ond superb relief stint by closing
down Warsaw in the final 3.1 in
nings, giving up two hits and strik
STAff PHOTO BY JOHNNY CHAJG
POST 445 WINS FIRST ? Brunswick Shores' Brian Alderson watches a low pitch go by during a re
cent American Legion baseball game in S hallo tie. Post 445 won two of three games played last week
including their first victory of the season over Burgaw 4-2 last Tuesday.
ing out three.
Coupled with a one-inning per
formance in the 2-0 loss to Winter
Park, Farrar tossed 4.1 innings of
scoreless relief for the week.
Shores shortstop Brian Alderson
led the offense going 2-for-5 while
driving in a run in the first inning.
Farrar also had one hit in two trips
to the plate and scored once.
Scott Phillips led off the opening
frame for Post 445 with a walk and
Aldwin Lance reached first on a
fielder's choice.
Alderson then singled up the
middle to score Phillips and give
Shores a 1-0 lead.
Lance scored on Bryan Fleming's
infield grounder to give Post 445 a
2-0 lead and Alderson later scored
on Mike Clewis' run-scoring field
er's choice.
Warsaw struck for its two runs in
the fourth inning when left fielder
Edwin Crute's two-run single to
right scored both catcher Marvin
Johnson and losing pitcher Jamie
Sumner.
Brunswick Shores added one fi
nal run in the sixth when Farrar sin
gled to right field to lead off the in
ning, advanced to second on Chris
Bowles' fielding error and then
scored on Lance's RBI-single right.
Coring scattered six Warsaw hits
to get the win while walking four
Post 68 Sweeps Twin Bill From Cary
Brunswick County Post 68 took a
break from Area II Eastern Division
play Sunday and swept a double
header from Cary Post 67 in
American Legion baseball action.
Brunswick defeated Cary 8-3 in
the first game and then completed
the sw^jp with a 5-4 edging of Post
67 in the nightcap.
In division play last week. Post
68 defeated Warsaw Post 127, 9-4.
Brunswick County improved to
10-2 overall with their only division
losses coming to Wilmington Post
10 and Whitevillc Post 137 in the
first half of the season.
Cary was guilty of eight errors in
the first game to aid Post 68 win
ning pitcher Jim Sandy.
Brian Moore and Brian Perkins
had two hits and drove in one run
each to lead Brunswick County.
Brian Steinhagen had a two-run
homer in the first inning to lead
Cary.
Post 67 also committed five er
rors in the second game and led 4-0
before Brunswick County rallied for
five straight runs to gain the win.
Ed Lewis' solo home run and
Moore's RBI-single in the sixth in
ning brought Post 68 within 4-3.
Brunswick County scored the
winning runs in the seventh on three
walks and two more Cary errors.
*****
In other Eastern Division play
last week, Whitcville also won
twice with a 3-2 nipping of Winter
Park and a 3-0 blanking of Beaufort
Post 99.
Also, Warsaw won a pair in a 13
10 decision over Burgaw Post 165
and a 3-2 edging of Bladcnboro
Post 268.
Post 445 Splits Doubleheader With Jacksonville
: Brunswick Shores Post 445
;camcd a split of two games with
host Jacksonville Post 265 on
Monday in American Legion Area
II Eastern Division baseball.
Post 445 won the first contest 9-8
which was the conclusion of a sus
pended game started two weeks ago
at South Brunswick that was post
poned in the 13th inning due to
faulty lighting.
' Jacksonville rebounded to take
the second game, 8-4.
The split left Post 445 with a 3-6
record. Brunswick Shores continued
division play Friday hosting
Whiteville Post 137 in Shallotte at
7:30 p.m.
First Game
Play resumed in the 1 3th inning
of the opening contest with
Jacksonville at the plate with two
outs and a base runner on second.
Winning hurler Brian Alderson
threw one pilch to the plate for the
third out on a grounder to third
base.
Scott Phillips led off the bottom
of the 13th with a single.
Alderson then hit the ball back to
the mound and the Jacksonville
pitcher threw to second base for a
possible force out on Phillips.
Instead, the throw went over second
base and rolled to the ccnterfield
fence allowing Phillips to score the
winning run.
Second Game
Aldwin Lance belted his first
home run of the season, a two-run
shot in the fifth inning, and added a
double in the third frame to com
plete a 2-for-4 effort for Brunswick
Shores in the second game of the
twin bill.
Lee Miller also had a double for
Post 445.
Alderson was the losing pitcher
going five innings before gelling re
lief help from Scoll Gore.
Ricky Plani provided the spark
for Jacksonville with a ihrce-run
homer in ihp first inning.
Posl 265 scored three runs each
in the first and third innings while
getting single tallies in the fifth and
sixth frames.
Brunswick Shores was guilty of
five errors.
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and striking out seven.
Sumner went five innings for
Warsaw, giving up six hits, walking
four and striking out one.
Scott Eubanks hurled three in
nings of relief and gave up two hits,
walked one and struck out two.
Crutc went 2-for-4 with two RBIs
to lead Post 127 and Chris Hardison
had three hits in five trips to the
plate.
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Winter Park
Winning pitcher Todd Ange si
lenced the Brunswick Shores bats
lasl Wednesday giving up just three
hits and tossing a complete-game
shutout in Winter Park's 2-0 blank
ing of Post 445.
Angc walked only one and struck
out nine to gain the decision.
Brunswick Shores losing pitcher
Scott Gore had one of bis best starts
of the legion season in giving up
five Winter Park hits in eight in
nings while striking out two and
walking six.
Mike Sellers doubled in the sec
ond inning while Bryan Fleming and
Aldwin Lance both singled in the
first and fourth frames respectively,
accounting for all Shores hitting.
Winter Park took a 1-0 lead in the
first inning when James Yopp
rapped a two-out single and then
scored on Tyree Robinson's RB1
single.
Angc aided his own cause by
scoring the final Winter Park run in
the fourth inning on Kent Cox's
run-scoring single. Ange walked to
open the inning then look second on
a walk to Sonny Russell before the
hit by Cox.
? Jimmy Settlemyre went 2-for-4
with a pair of singles to lead the
Winter Park baiting. Robinson also
went l-for-3 with one RBI.
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PHILLIPS SWAIN
Burgaw Post 165
Scott Phillips went 3-for-4 with
three singles to support winning
pitcher Shawn Swain's seven-hit,
four-strike out performance in
Brunswick Shores' first victory in
team history earlier last week.
Swain went the distance while al
so giving up two runs and walking
three.
Lee Cavenaugh took the loss for
Burgaw while going all the way and
giving up seven Shores hits, walk
ing four and striking out five.
Each team scored once in the sec
ond inning before Brunswick
Shores struck twice in the third for a
3-1 advantage.
Aaron Butler scored Post 445's
first run after reaching base on an
error, taking second on Aldwin
Lance's fly to center field and com
ing home on Bobby Farrar's single.
Eddie Jones walked, then scored
on Chris Cockrum's single for
Burgaw's run in the bottom of the
second.
Shores led off the third inning
with three straight singles by
Phillips, Brian Aldcrson and Mike
Clcwis.
Phillips scored on Clewis' hit and
Aldcrson later scored on Bryan
Fleming's sacrifice fly to right field.
Post 445 extended its lead to 4-1
in the fourth when Lance walked
and then scored on Burgaw third
baseman Bobby Robinson's error.
Post 165 scored its final ran in
the fifth when Dan Treto scored on
Robert Mathis' pop fly to center
field.
Treto led the inning off with a
walk, went to second on another
free pass to Rick Bcatti and then
took third on another walk to
Cavenaugh to load the bases with
no outs.
Cockrum led Burgaw with three
hits while Treto had two hits.
Fleming doubled in the fifth in
ning for Brunswick Shores' only
extra-base hit.
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