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Brunswick County BY DOUC, R UTTER Brunswick County Post 68 wrap ped up its firsl American Legion Area II Eastern Division baseball championship in 12 years last Thursday with a 6-5 win over Wilm ington Post 10 in a game shortened by rain. Post 68, which beat Wilmington 4-2 in their best-of-seven playoff se ries, has advanced to the Area 11 championship scries for the firsl time since 1981 . The opponent will be Laurinburg, winner of the area's western division. Last Thursday, Brunswick County was clinging to a one-ran lead in Game 6 of the eastern finals when play was halted in the top of the ninth. A thunderstorm that had threatened most of the night finally arrived. Umpires officially ended the game 41 minutes later when it was appar ent the field wouldn't be playable. The infield dirt was covered with huge puddles and the home plate area and pitcher's mound were muddy. "It's a tough way for the deciding game to end, but you can't control Mother Nature," Post 68 Coach Ed Lewis said. "I don't think there's any question about whether the field's playable because it's not." Playing before a huge home crowd in Lcland, Brunswick's Dem etrius Bell scored what turned out to be the game-winning ran in the bot tom of the eighth, just before the storm arrived. With the score tied 5-5, Bell led off the inning with a walk and ad vanced to second on a groundoul. Following an intentional walk to Adrian Black, Mike Hewett ground ed to shortstop Chris Lainarsh. Lamarsh flipped the ball to sec ond baseman David McCallum. but McCallum dropped the ball as he tried to turn what would have been an inning-ending double play. The speedy Bell never slowed Brunswick County Evens Best Of Seven Series With Laurinburg Jared McGce pitched a three-hitter Monday nighi as Brunswick County defeated visiting Laurinburg 3-1 in Game 2 of the bcst-of-scvcn American Legion Area II championship series. With the series tied at one game apiccc, the teams were scheduled to play the next three games in Laurinburg starling Tuesday night. Games will be played at Scotland County High School starting at 7:30 p.m. In Game 2, Brunswick County (24-12) broke a 1-1 tic in the fifth when Laurinburg pitcher Parks Buie fielded McGce 's sacrifice bunt and threw it past first base into right field. Jeremy Child scored from second base on the play, and Demetrius Bell scored all the way from first. McGce then retired 1 1 straight batters before giving up a two out single in the ninth. Laurinburg (21-4) won the series opener 6-0 Sunday at North Brunswick High School behind the strong pitching of Elliott Lowcry, who struck out 18 batters. Brunswick County, which finished third in the Area 11 Eastern Division during the regular season, defeated Whitcvillc and Wilmington in the playoffs to win its first title in 12 years. 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It was also the fourth straight home win for Brunswick County, which improved to 13-4 this season at Scorpion Field (23-1 1 overall). The score was tied 2-2 after one inning. Post 10 drew first blood in the top of the first on an RBI single by Shawn Gallagher and run-scoring groundout by Ren Chapman. Brunswick County tied the score in the home first on Mike Hcwctt's Iwo-oul bloop single down the left field line. Jeremy Child and Black, who had both singled, scored on the base hit. Post 68 took a 3-2 lead in the fourth inning on Child's towering solo home run to left field. Wilmington rallied for a 5-3 lead in the fifth. Lamarsh drove in one run with a single, and two runs scored as a result of two straight er rors by the Post 68 infield. Brunswick trimmed Post 10's lead to 5-4 in the bottom of the fifth. Mike Hcwctt singled, advanced to third on Kcllcy Myers' double and scored on Glen Hildreth's sacrifice fly. Myers scored the lying run in the seventh inning after reaching base on an error. He moved to third on Robert Hewett's double and scored on Hildreth's groundout. Brunswick County's starting pit cher, Casey McBridc, left the game in the seventh after being struck on the right forearm by a one-hopper back to the mound off the bat of Bryan Britt. McBridc, who pitched a com plete-game victory in Game 2 of the scries, was taken to the hospital. Matt Mint/ pitched to one batter before Jarcd McGec took the mound tor Post 6X. McGec, the winner in Game 4, recorded the victory alter pitching the final 1 1/3 innings. McGec was set to deliver a 3-2 pitch to Wilmington clean-up hitter Shawn Gallagher in the top of the ninth when a heavy rain started falling and the game was stopped. Despite the odd ending to the sc ries, Coach Lewis said the win was deserved. "1 thought it was an excel lent series. Post 10 did exactly like I thought they would. They battled 'ul the end." Post 10, which defeated Post 6X four games to two in last year's league championship scries, had swept Brunswick in their two regu lar-season games this year. That proved meaningless in the playoffs. "Like at said before this scries started, I thought our guys would never quit and they didn't," Lewis said. In his sixth year as head coach of Post 68, Lewis was beaming follow ing the clinching win. "We worked six years to get this far and I'm real proud of the kids." Lewis praised his assistant coach cs, Wcs Coward and Brian Thomas, and North Brunswick Head Baseball Coach Keith Moore. "There is ab solutely no quit in any fiber of their bodies. They have helped build this team into winners and they deserve a lot of credit." Lewis said he wished former Post 68 suits Chris McBridc and Ed Lewis Jr., both Division I college players, could have shared in the championship. 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