This Week
In Brunswick Sports
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?Brunswick County Men's Church Softball League at
Waccamaw Park: Emanual Outreach vs. Jennies Branch.
7 p.m.; Old Shallotte vs. Soldier Bay, 8 p.m.: Dixon
Chapel vs. Camp Methodist. 9 p.m.
?Brunswick Baptist Association Coed Softball League
Tournament at Lockwood Folly Park. Supply: Mt. Olive
vs. Southport A. 7:30 p.m.; Gospel Center vs. Supply.
8:30 p.m.
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?Brunswick County Men's Church Softball League at
Waccamaw Park: Letties Grove vs. Friendship Baptist. 7
p.m.; Jennies Branch vs. Old Shallotte. 8 p.m.; Zion
Baptist vs. Soldier Bay. 9 p.m.
?Shallotte Lions Club sponsors a captain's choice golf
tournament at Sea Trail's Bvrd course, shotgun start at 9
a.m. The fee is $40 per player. For information call
Richard Westbsook, 579-7895, or T.J. Lewis, 754-9963.
?Brunswick Baptist Association Coed Softball League
Tournament concludes today at Lockwood Folly Park,
Supply. Eight games are scheduled starting at 9 a.m. The
championship game begins at 8 p.m.
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?Brunswick County Men's Church Softball League at
Waccamaw Park: Ocean View vs. Supply Baptist, 7 p.m.;
Letties Grove vs. Shallotte First. 8 p.m.; Old Shallotte vs.
Seaside Methodist, 9 p.m.
TUESDAY, JULY 26
?Brunswick County Men's Church Softball League at
Waccamaw Park: New Britton vs. Soldier Bay. 7:30 p.m.;
Ocean View vs. Emanual Outreach. 8:30 p.m.
This week's listings include events reported to the Beacon. To list a
sporting activity call 754-6890 or write to Doug Ruttcr. The Brunswick
Beacon. P.O. Box 2558. Shallotte. N.C. 28459.
Bell Saves Brunswick
In 1 4-lnning Thriller;
Finally Ending 12-10
BY DOUG RUTTER
Demetrius Bell's two-run double
in the 14th inning gave Brunswick
County a 12-10 victory over Wilm
ington in Game ft of their American
l-egion baseball playoff series
Saturday night.
Facing elimination from the play
offs, Post 6H came up with a gutsy
effort to tie the best-of-seven Area II
Bast League championship scries at
three games apiece.
"I think I need some Drama
mine," Brunswick County Coach Ed
Lewis said following the gut
wrenching win at Wilmington's Har
dee Field. It was enough to give
anyone an acid stomach.
The game was iied iO-iO afier
eight innings and remained scoreless
for the next five innings. The game
lasted nearly five hours and didn't
end until 25 minutes after midnight.
"I played in a 27-inning game
oncc, but i haven't coached in one
this long," Lewis said.
In the end it was one of Post 68's
veterans. Bell, who delivered (he big
blow that decided the game.
Jeremy Child led off the top of
the 14th with a single and Lewis
Vaught followed with a walk. Both
runners advanced on Matt Mintz'
sacrifice before Bell lined a double
to the center field wall
After playing 13 innings in left
field, Brunswick County's Eric
Johnson took the mound and retired
the side in order in the bottom of the
1 4th for the save.
Twice, it looked as if Brunswick
County would win the game easily.
Post ftK blew an early 5-0 lead and
then pulled out to a 10-6 advantage.
But Post 10 scored four runs in the
bottom of the eighth to force extra
innings
"All I can say is the guys hung in
there." Lewis said. "We did every
thing we could to give it away and
they wouldn't take it "
Bell. Jeremy Child. Lewis
Vaught. Mike Johnson and Eric
Johnson had three hits apiece for
Brunswick County, which had 19
hits in the game Eric Faulk, Chris
Moore and Hamer Morris had two
hits cach to lead Post 10.
Brunswick County jumped out to
a 5-0 lead with one unearned run in
the second inning and four runs in
the third, when Vaught. Mike
Johnson and Paul Mintz each had
one RBI.
Post 10 tied the score with five
runs in the bottom of thud without
getting a hit. Wilmington sent 10
batters to the plate, and six of them
drew walks.
Post 68 regained the lead in the
fifth when Mike Johnson singled,
stole two bases and scored on a balk
by Jeremy Padgett.
Wilmington knotted the score at
6-6 in the sixth on Fauik's RBi sin
gle.
Brunswick County scored four
runs in the seventh to take a 10-6
lead. Randy Coleman. Child and
Vaught drove in runs for Post 68,
which benefited from two Post 10
errors.
For the third time in the game,
Wilmington rallied and tied the
score at 10-10 with four runs in the
eighth. Faulk, Moore and Parker
Southerland had RBI in the inning.
Wilmington stranded the game
winning run at second base in the
ninth and 1 0th innings, and had its
best opportunity to win the game in
the 13th.
Morris smacked a leadoff single,
moved to second on an error and
took third on a sacrifice bunt. But
Brunswick relief pitcher Matt Mintz
got a strikeout and infield fly to get
out of the jam.
Mintz was the winning pitcher af
ter throwing two innings in relief.
Paul Mintz. Tim Smith. Casey
McBridc and Eric Johnson also
pitched for Brunswick County (22
II).
Tony Pigott. Padgett. Mike Sorg
and Morris saw mound action for
Post 10 (1M-7). Sorg suffered the
loss, yielding nine hits and six runs
in 7 2/3 innings of relief.
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MCBRIDE WINS GAME 3
Jeremy Child's 1 1 th-lnning Blast Lifts
Brunswick County To 7-6 Victory
BY DOUG RUTTER
Jeremy Child's dramatic. Ilth-in
ning home run lifted Brunswick
County to a 7-6 victory over Wilm
ington in Game 3. of their best-of
seven American Legion baseball
playoff series last Wednesday in
Lcland.
The veteran shortstop's two-out
solo homer overshadowed a master
ful pitching performance by Casey
Mc Bride, who struck out 10 batters
and did not surrender a hit in 4* in
nings of scoreless relief.
The heroics of Child and Mc
Bride. teammates on North Bruns
wick High School's state quarterfi
nal team of 1W4. gave Brunswick
Post 68 a 2-1 lead in the Area II East
League championship series.
"I was just thinking base hit. I just
got a good pitch to hit," Child said
of his four-bagger off Post 10's
Mike Sorg. "I'd have to say this was
the biggest one I've hit so far."
Child finished with two hits and
two RBI. Paul Mintz and Eric
Johnson drove in two runs apiece
and Demetrius Bell had three hits
and one RBI to lead Post 68, which
trailed 5-0 after A'/i innings.
"I'm real tickled for Jeremy, but I
think the story was Casey and the
job he did in relief," Brunswick
County Coach Ed Lewis said fol
"I was just thinking base hit. / just got a
good pitch to hit. "
? Post 68's Jeremy Child,
on game winning hit
lowing the game.
McBride (3-0) relieved Mintz in
the seventh with the score tied at 5-5.
After Wilmington scored the go
ahead run on an error. McBride
struck out Ben Hobbs to get out of a
bases-loaded jam. In the final four in
nings, the lanky right-hander struck
out eight of the 13 batters he faced.
Despite McBride 's pitching and
Child's hitting. Lewis said Bruns
wick was fortunate to win the game
after committing five errors and giv
ing Post 10 four unearned runs.
"Wc did not make the routine
plays. Wc tried to do too much on
defense," Lewis said. "We're lucky
to get away with this one."
Chris Moore had two hits and one
RBI and Tony Pigott had an RBI
triple for Post 10, which was limited
to five hits.
Wilmington took a 1 -0 lead in the
top of the first when Shawn Gal
lagher rapped a leadoff double to
left and Moore followed with an
RBI single.
Post 10 bumped its lead to 3-0 in
(he fourth. Eric Faulk walked and
Jason Napier singled and both run
ners scored on an infield error.
In the fifth. Pigott smacked a run
scoring triple to the right field fence
and later scored on another Bruns
wick County error to make it 5-0.
Post 68 started chipping away at
the lead in the bottom of the fifth.
Lewis Vaught doubled to right and
scored on a single by Mintz. Child
then drove in Mintz with a ground
out to shortstop.^
Brunswick County tied the score
at 5-5 with three runs in the sixth.
McBridc. Bell and Mike Johnson all
singled to load the bases with no
outs.
Eric Johnson delivered a two-run
single to right and Mintz drove in
the tying run with a groundout.
Wilmington regained the lead in
the seventh when Moore walked and
scored from second on an infield er
ror.
But Brunswick County bounced
back in the bottom half of the in
ning. Child singled to left and
scored on Bell's second bunt single
of the night to tie the score at 7-7.
Wilmington threatened in the
eighth when TJ. IX- Francisco drew
a leadoff walked, stole second and
went to third on a throwing error.
However, McBride struck out the
next three batters to get out of the
inning.
Brunswick County (21-9) had
runners in scoring position in the
ninth and 10th innings, but could not
get them home.
Child, an 18-year-old, three-year
veteran of the Post 68 club, finally
ended the game around 11:30 p.m.
with one swing of the bat.
With the count at I-U, Child
turned on a letter-high, inside Tasi
ball. The ball cleared the left-field
fence with plenty of room to spare
and curled around the foul pole.
Sorg suffered the loss for Wilm
ington (17-6) after giving up one run
and two hits in 4K innings of relief.
Pigott started and gave up six runs
and eight hits in 6% innings. They
combined for 12 strikeouts and four
walks.
In 6'/ innings. Brunswick's Mintz
yielded five hits and six runs, four of
them unearned. He walked five and
struck out four.
Game Summary
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Adam Gil more Goes Distance
For Post 1 0, Wilmington Still Wins
BY DOUG RUTTER
Adam Gilmorc pitched nine solid
innings to lead Wilmington to a 4-3
win over Brunswick County in
Game 5 of their best-of-seven Ame
rican Legion baseball playoff scries
last Friday in Leland.
Gilmorc, admittedly not one of
Wilmington's more feared pitchers,
threw just well enough to give Post
10 a 3-2 advantage in the Area Ii
East League championship scries.
The Laney High School right
hander allowed eight hits, struck out
six and issued three walks.
"It was getting tough. Around the
seventh inning I was getting tired,
but I had lo work through it," said
Gilmorc, his sweat-soaked, soiled
uniform clinging to his skin follow
ing his first complete, nine-inning
game.
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which he gave up three hits and two
runs, Gilmorc settled down and
yielded just two hits over the next
seven innings. He did an outstanding
job moving his pitches inside and
outside on Brunswick County's bat
ters.
"I had to do that or they would hit
it," 'nc said, 'i iearneu thai the hard
way in the first inning."
Jeremy Child, Scott Beck and
Lewis Vaught had two hits each for
Brunswick County, while Tony
Pigott's two hits and Eric Faulk's
home run ied the Post 10 attack.
in the bottom of the first. Child
and Beck greeted Gilmorc with a
pair of singles and Child scored on
Casey McBride's groundout. Beck
came home on Mike Johnson's triple
for a 2-0 lead.
Wilmington cut the lead in half in
the second frame when Pigott dou
bled to left and scored on an infield
error, one of ihree committed by
Brunswick County.
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Post 10 tied the score at 2-2 in the
sixth on Faulk's leadoff solo home
run to left field.
Wilmington (19-6) took the lead
with two runs in the eighth. T.J.
DeFrancisco lined a leadoff single to
left field and Shawn Gallagher fol
lowed with an RBI double. Pigott
added a run-scoring single for a 4-2
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Brunswick County did not go qui
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Vaught and Child singled to put run
ners at the corners with two outs.
Beck's infield single plated
Vaught and put the tying run at sec
ond base, but Gilmore got McBride
to fly to center field for the game's
final out.
Brunswick County (21-11) left
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in scoring position.
Post 68 starting pitcher Eric
Johnson yielded four runs on five
hits in 7'/> innings. He struck out six
and walked just one. McBridc gave
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