PHOTO BV CLARICE HICKMAN/PHOTOGRAPHIC CONCEPTS
Wildcats Win Softball Crown
The Wildcats won the Ijjckwood Folly Dixie Youth softball championship this year with a 7-3 record.
Pictured (front row, from left) are Rhonette Phillips, Ijikelia Bryant, Amanda Hickman, (middle row,
from left) Trazia Holmes, Kristine Doster, Tara Holden, Summer Todd, Candice Bryant, (hack row,
from left) Coach Jetty Gore, Misti Gore, Jennifer Hickman, Amanda McKeithan, Kortney Bradsher
and Coach Rhonda Phillips.
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North's Black Opts For Louisburg
BY DOUG RL'TTER both off and on. I guess it would be to my advantage
Adrian Black, a recent graduate of North Brunswick that I've played both."
High School, plans to attend Louisburg College for a Black was recently named to the All-Brunswick
year before entertaining an offer to play professional County High School Baseball Team after an outstanding
baseball in the Los Angeles Dodgers organization. senior year for the North Brunswick Scorpions. He had a
The Dodgers selected Black in the 30th round of the .367 batting average with three doubles, two home runs
Major League Baseball amateur draft earlier this month, and 16 RBI.
making him the first local ball ; ^ Wes Coward, who coached Black
player drafted out of high school in "W/1V/7 /71c vi"7P Hilfl year at North and is an assistant
five years. rviin rut Liriu, coach wj(h pos( 68 sajd Lqs Angdes
Black said he talked with a YifltllTfll tlhlHtV nllJV scouts advised their draft choice to go
Dodgers scout at the Seashell ' r the college route.
Invitational high school baseball fltP Vpfl tl PYH P111 llP V Coward sees Louisburg as a "step
tournament in April. "He told me ,cJulcrncru ric o ping s(one? (o (he mjnor (eagues ?|
to work hard and I had half a pftirip tn opt J think think that will really help Adrian. He's
chance. I really wasn't expecting o o & > got a big frame and he should mature
anything." Up V grit CL QTPCLt physically as well as mentally."
Instead of signing a minor o O Coward expects Black to excel in
league contract with Los Angeles. chrtf " college, and thinks he has the potential
Black will attend Louisburg for a ' to make it the pros.
year before he considers a profes- ?Coach WcS Coward "He's the kind of kid who will help
sional contract. Black can re-enter out wherever he goes. He's willing to
the draft next year if the Dodgers don't sign him. leant and he does what's asked of him. With his size and
"He and the Dodgers both felt playing a year of col- natural ability, plus the refinement he's going to get, I
lege would be good for him before he went into the mi- think he's got a great shot."
nor leagues," said Black's mother, Mary Corbett of Black is the county's first baseball player to be draft
Acme. ed out of high school since 1988. when the Oakland
At 6-fcet-l-inch and 180 pounds. Black is a versatile Athletics selected South Brunswick's Wynn Beck with
athlete who can play third base and outfield. He is in his the 31st pick overall.
third year with the Brunswick County Post 68 American Beck, a catcher, hit .505 with eight doubles, seven
Legion baseball team. home runs and 48 RBI for the 1988 Cougars, who won
Black said the Dodgers haven't indicated what posi- the state 2-A baseball championship and finished the
tion he might play in the pros. "I've played a little bit of season 29-0.
Brunswick
County Whips Warsaw 16-1
BY UOUG RL'TTER
Brunswick County Post 68 scored
eight runs in the third inning
Saturday night as part of a 16-1
blowout of visiting Warsaw Post
127 in American Legion baseball.
Jared McGee pitched four score
less innings for the victory, giving
up three hits and striking out five.
Mike Hewett, Glen Hildreth and
Man Mintz pitched in relief.
Demetrius Bell and Jeremy Child
had two hits apiece to lead the Post
68 offense, and McGee added a two
run double. Adrian Black and Casey
McBride also had RBI singles.
The win snapped a two-game los
ing streak for Brunswick County,
which had lost to Whiteville and
Burgaw earlier in the week. Post 68
entered this week 8-2 in the Area 11
Eastern League and 10-3 overall.
Brunswick County scored in each
of the first five innings, taking a 1-0
lead in the first when Bell led off
with a bunt single and scored from
third on a dropped third strike.
Post 68 started pulling away in
the second inning with four runs.
Child singled and later scored on a
wild pitch and Randy Coleman
walked and scored on an error.
McGee drove in two more runs with
a double to left field.
Warsaw's wheels came off in the
third inning, when Post 68 sent 12
batters to the plate and scored eight
runs on three hits and five walks.
Warsaw pitchers issued 14 walks in
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Bell and McBride had RBI sin- Mintz held the Duplin County squad
gles. and Child belted a run-scoring to one run and two hits over the final
double to highlight the inning. Three five innings.
runs scored on errors, and two more Brunswick County's 16 runs was
scored on a wild pitch. the club's second-highest run pro
Black had an RBI single as duction of the season and marked
Brunswick County added two more the fifth time in 13 games Post 68
runs in the fourth. Post 68 ended the has scored in double figures.
scoring in the bottom of the fifth Game Summary
when it scored its fifth run via the Warsaw 000 0 1 0 00 0? 1 5 5
wild pitch. Brun. Cty. 1 4 8 2 1 OOOX ?1611 3
Post 68 Jolts Jacksonville
Casey McBride and Jared McGee header with Cary Saturday and plays
each had n pair of extra-base hits at Post 10.Sunday
Monday night as Brunswick County Last Thursday. Brunswick County
Post 68 rolled to a 7-3 American rallied from a three-run deficit to
Legion baseball win over visiting beat Bladenboro Post 268 5-3 in
Jacksonville Post 265. Leland.
Bert Hatchell added three singles McBride, a rising junior at North
for Post 68. Tim Smith was the win- Brunswick High School, pitched a
ning pitcher, and Matt Mintz record- five-hitter and struck out 13 batters
ed his second save. Brunswick to improve his pitching record to 3-0
County improved to 9-2 in the Area on the season.
1! Eastern League and II-3 overall. Post 68 overcame a 3-0 deficit
Post 68 was scheduled to host with four runs in the third inning. J
Winter Park Tuesday night before Lewis had a leadoff single, and
traveling to East Carteret High Brunswick County got three straight
School Thursday for a game with doubles from Hatchell. McGee and
Beaufort. Brunswick hosts a double- Adrian Black.
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