STAff fMOTO BY DOUG RUTTK
MIKE HEWETT pitched well end knocked in four runs to lead
Post 68 to a 13-3 win over Post 445 last Thursday in American
Legion baseball
Whiteville Stops Post 68
Whiteville Post 137 scored Five one hit while striking out five.
runs in the bottom of the ninth Adrian Black and Kelley Myers
Monday night to beat Brunswick had two hits apiece for Post 68.
A^myii9ll? Last Tuesday, Brunswick County
Area II Eastern League baseball defealcd Warsaw Posl 127 15.5.
8 The Whiteville victorv ended a McBridc stnick 0111 ci8hl a1"
f , J? f ? lowed just two hits in five innings,
four-game winning streak for Post J 6
68, which dropped its first league Jarcd McGee was 4-for-4 with a
game of the season and fell to 6-1 in triple, and Demetrius Bell and Black
the league and 8-2 overall. had three hits apiece. Will Taylor
r> ? t. o . _-i j a 1 v had two hits, including a two-run
Brunswick; County ffailed 4-1 be- doub,e in the sjxlh inniIf
fore coming back to take an 8-4 lead 0
into the ninth. Post 68 Assistant Brunswick County was scheduled
Coach Wes Coward said Whiteville to host Burgaw Tuesday night be
scored five runs in the ninth to win. fore traveling to Wilmington's Har
The loss was 0,c Cm in nine days
for Brunswick Counly, which posted , J 8 B cnampion
a non-league win Saturday over vis
iting Gamer Post 232. After visiting Wilmington, Post
Matt Mintz and Casey McBride 68 returns to Leland for three home
combined for eight strike outs in the games starting Saturday night
3-1 win. Mintz allowed five hits and against Warsaw. Brunswick hosts
one run in five innings. McBridc re- Jacksonville Monday and Winter
lieved in the sixth and yielded just Park Tuesday.
Hewett Leads Post 68
BY DOUG RUTTER opening frame, scoring the five runs
Mike Hewett knocked in four on only two hits and a walk.
runs and pitched six strong innings Demetrius Bcil, Kelley Myers and
as Post 68 defeated Post 445 13-3 Hewett scored on the three infield
last Thursday in a battle of throwing errors. McGce and Black
Brunswick County's two American came home on Hcwett's double to
Legion baseball teams. left field off Post 445 starter Scott
Hewett, who held Brunswick Gore.
Shores Post 445 to one run on three In the second inning, Hewett
hits, had a two-run double in the came to bat with the bases loaded
first inning as Brunswick County and two outs and came through with
Post 68 sent nine batters to the plate a two-run single. Myers, who had
and scored five runs. walked, and Black, who had dou
Adrian Black also had a good bled, scored on the hit.
game for Post 68 with three doubles, Brunswick Shores trimmed the
and Jarcd McGee had two hits, lead to 7-1 in the top of the fourth
Brunswick County improved to 6-0 with three straight hits. Gregg Moll
in the Area II Eastern League, while led off with a single and moved to
Brunswick Shores fell to 1-3. third on Gore's double.
Post 68 benefited from three Jason Bracey followed with an
Brunswick Shores errors in the RBI single, but he was gunned down
In Battle Of Brunswick
trying for sccond base. Hcwctt an infield error. MoU reached on the
avoided further damage by inducing error and came home on Bracey's
two fly balls to get out of the inning, ground out.
Post 68 got the run back in the Brunswick Shores' Gore gave up
bottom of the fourth when McGee nine runs and six hits in five innings,
singled and later scored on a passed striking out four and walking four,
ball. Brad Ricker pitched the final three
Brunswick County added single innings for Post 445.
runs in the fifth and sixth innings. For Post 68, Timothy Smith and
Robert Hewett scored on a double Scott Beck pitched in relief of Mike
steal in the fifth, and Bert Hatchell Hewett, a former North Brunswick
scored on an error in the sixth to player in his third season with the
give Post 68 a 10-1 lead. American Legion club.
Brunswick County tacked on The teams are scheduled to square
three more insurance runs in the sev- off again June 28 at South
cnth. McGce and Hatchell had RBI Brunswick High School in Boiling
singles, and Black knocked in a run Spring Lakes.
with his third double of the night. ? ~
Post 445 scored twice in the (.ame Summary
eighth without getting a hit. Steve Brun. S. 00010 002 0?3 3 6
Holmes walked and later scored on Brun. Cty. 5 201 1 1 3OX?13104
NINTH-INNING RALLY
Post 445 Squeaks Past Bladenboro
BY DOUG RUTTER
Brunswick Shores scored four
runs in the bottom of the ninth to
pull off an amazing, 6-5 win over
visiting Bladenboro last Tuesday
night in American Legion baseball.
Wayne Branch, who had two hits
and scored twice, crossed home
plate for the game-winning run on a
two-out single by pinch hitter Jason
Bracey that lifted Post 445 to its first
victory of the season.
Mike "Hardrock" Clewis and
Bryan Fleming also had clutch RBI
singles to fuel the Brunswick Shores
ninth-inning rally.
Post 445 trailed 5-2 going into its
final at-bat, and the club had shown
Utile offense in the previous eight
innings. But the bats woke up just in
time to prevent opening the season
with three straight losses.
The comeback started with a onc
out walk to Gregg Mott, who quick
ly advanced to third on two wild
pitches and scored when Bladenboro
third baseman Erik Martin booted
Scott Gore's grounder.
Gore later scored from second on
Clewis' single, and the Post 445 first
baseman came home on a base hit
by Fleming that knotted the score at
5-5.
With two outs. Branch drew a
walk, advanced to second on a wild
pitch and scored on Bracey's line
single to left-center field.
Brunswick Shores reliever Eric
Johnson, who gave up one unearned
run in the top of the ninth, was the
winning pitcher. Starter Brett Tabor
had a strong effort, yielding just four
hits and four runs in 7 2/3 innings.
Tabor struck out 13 batters and
walked five.
Grant Pait suffered the loss for
Bladenboro Post 268 after relieving
starter Brian Mazur in the eighth.
Mazur gave up just one run on three
hits and struck out eight before tir
ing.
The left-handed staner had left
Pait with a comfortable 4-1 lead.
Bladenboro opened the scoring in
the first when Robbie Priest doubled
and scored on Mazur's single.
STAFF PHOTO BY DOUG RIOTER
BRETT TABOR pitches for Brunswick Shores in their 6-5 American legion baseball win last Tuesday
over Bladenboro.
Mazur later scored on a Garrick
West hit
Brunswick Shores cut the lead to
2-1 in the bottom of the first.
Leadoff hitter Mott was hit by a
pitch and later scored from third on
Fleming's RBI groundout.
The visitors added a run in the
fifth when Priest, who scored four of
his team's five runs, reached base on
an error and came home on a wild
pitch.
Priest then led off the seventh
with his second double of the night
and again scored on a wild pitch to
give Bladenboroa4-l lead.
Post 445 trimmed the lead to 4-2
in the eighth when Branch singled
off Pait and moved to third on two
wayward pickoff throws. Branch
hustled home when Bladenboro's
catcher threw to first following a
dropped third strike.
Post 268 added a run in the top of
the ninth when Priest walked and
scored on an infield error. But
Bladenboro's 5-2 lead melted in the
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Brunswick Shores improved to 1
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445 and Post 268 are scheduled to
meet again next Friday, June 25, at
East Bladen High School in
Elizabethtown.
Game Summary
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