1. Kornegay struck out swinging.
2. Olimpo struck out swinging.
3. Coates struck out looking.
Weiker looks very impressive to start this game. His control is good and the umpire's strike zone is fairly sizeable.
Saturday, June 2, 2012
Bottom 1st
1. J.P. Lisk doubles over the right fielder's head.
2. Mykel Golden RBI single to center field, Lisk scores, 1-0 South Stanly.
3. Stephen Wallace doubles to left field, Golden scores (throw high), Wallace reaches third on the throw, 2-0 South Stanly.
4. Grayson Short pops a high fly into short left field, it falls between the second baseman and right fielder, goes as an RBI double, Wallace scores, 3-0 South.
4a. Short picked off at second base.
5. Jordan Starnes strikes out.
6. Austin Smith hit by a pitch.
7. Russ Weiker called out on strikes.
3 R, 4 hits, 0 E, 1 left on. 3-0 South Stanly.
Lisk really put a charge into that ball; Wallace's double was hit hard and curled away from the left fielder, also reaching the fence.
2. Mykel Golden RBI single to center field, Lisk scores, 1-0 South Stanly.
3. Stephen Wallace doubles to left field, Golden scores (throw high), Wallace reaches third on the throw, 2-0 South Stanly.
4. Grayson Short pops a high fly into short left field, it falls between the second baseman and right fielder, goes as an RBI double, Wallace scores, 3-0 South.
4a. Short picked off at second base.
5. Jordan Starnes strikes out.
6. Austin Smith hit by a pitch.
7. Russ Weiker called out on strikes.
3 R, 4 hits, 0 E, 1 left on. 3-0 South Stanly.
Lisk really put a charge into that ball; Wallace's double was hit hard and curled away from the left fielder, also reaching the fence.
Top 1st
1. Sykes walked
2. Sanders struck out swinging.
3. Sykes stole second base
4. Coates struck out swinging (Blackmon throws to first to complete the out)
5. Stone flied out to right.
0 R, 0 hit, 1 left on base...
2. Sanders struck out swinging.
3. Sykes stole second base
4. Coates struck out swinging (Blackmon throws to first to complete the out)
5. Stone flied out to right.
0 R, 0 hit, 1 left on base...
Beautiful Morning at Durham Bulls Athletic Park
It's a crisp, cool Saturday morning at the Durham Bulls Athletic Park and the field is in good shape for the opening game of the state 1A baseball playoff series between the visitors for this game, Voyager Academy, and the home team for Game One, South Stanly.
I just got through walking on the field and it is a little wet but kudos to the DBAP grounds crew for keeping the field in good condition through the overnight storms that swept through the Triangle.
Something called sunshine, which was in short supply yesterday, is softly warming the field up for what should be a interesting series between a very young Vikings squad and the veteran Rowdy Rebel Bulls.
Here are today's starting lineups for Game One.
First, for Voyager Academy:
1) P, #26 Chad Sykes
2) RF, # 2 John Sanders
3) C, #10 Hunter Coates
4) SS, #20 Loy Stone
5) CF, #12, Kiki Kornegay
6) 2B, #13, Jake Olimpo
7) 3B, #22 Dillon Vincent
8) 1B, #9 A.J. Lemoine
9) LF, #4 Nick Batten
For South Stanly:
1) 2B, #3 J.P. Lisk
2) LF, #11 Mykel Golden
3) 3B, #4 Stephen Wallace
4) CF, #10 Grayson Short
5) 1B, #12 Jordan Starnes
6) DH, #2 Austin Smith
7) P, #15 Russ Weiker
8) RF, #5 Connor Ford
9) SS, #1 Chase Poplin
and playing catcher, #9 Heath Blackmon.
I just got through walking on the field and it is a little wet but kudos to the DBAP grounds crew for keeping the field in good condition through the overnight storms that swept through the Triangle.
Something called sunshine, which was in short supply yesterday, is softly warming the field up for what should be a interesting series between a very young Vikings squad and the veteran Rowdy Rebel Bulls.
Here are today's starting lineups for Game One.
First, for Voyager Academy:
1) P, #26 Chad Sykes
2) RF, # 2 John Sanders
3) C, #10 Hunter Coates
4) SS, #20 Loy Stone
5) CF, #12, Kiki Kornegay
6) 2B, #13, Jake Olimpo
7) 3B, #22 Dillon Vincent
8) 1B, #9 A.J. Lemoine
9) LF, #4 Nick Batten
For South Stanly:
1) 2B, #3 J.P. Lisk
2) LF, #11 Mykel Golden
3) 3B, #4 Stephen Wallace
4) CF, #10 Grayson Short
5) 1B, #12 Jordan Starnes
6) DH, #2 Austin Smith
7) P, #15 Russ Weiker
8) RF, #5 Connor Ford
9) SS, #1 Chase Poplin
and playing catcher, #9 Heath Blackmon.
The Dawn Breaks for South Stanly
For the third time in four seasons, I am sitting in a motel room in the eastern part of the state with the baseball team from South Stanly waiting for an early-morning game.
The differences this time are that the softball team is also in the same hotel and is looking for a state title of their own in Raleigh.
As much of a scourge to the baseball industry that precipitation can be, rain gave all the baseball and softball teams another day to think about what is ahead of them.
Only this time, the contingent from Stanly County is a lot bigger, possibly a little bit louder in the courtyard/pool area and definitely excited for the games ahead.
This time, South Stanly looks to become just the third team in the history of fast-pitch softball and baseball to sweep both championships in the same year.
More importantly, for a group of seniors on both teams, who have played ball together most of their lives, will play their final high school games this week.
There is a certain finality that comes with playing in the state finals as your last game of the season.
For every athlete that has played in a state final in their sport, there are innumerable ones that will never get the opportunity to do that.
I often talk about the vast number of state championships that are available in the four state classifications in North Carolina, including the eight football champions in a subdivided playoffs that is just too many, in my opinion.
Four state champions per sport per season out of the approximately 400 high schools that compete in the NCHSAA is roughly one percent, which is a nice round figure.
If you are in the top one percent of your class or industry, that normally puts you among the elite.
For those players, coaches and fans that will make their way across the state to Durham Athletic Park and Walnut Creek Softball Complex to support the Bulls, there is only going to be one state champion, hopefully with a Bulls’ mascot on the jerseys.
I know that there will be many of you that can’t get to the game today, which is one of the reasons that my beautiful wife Laura and I are here.
We will be tweeting and blogging from baseball this morning at 11 a.m., as well as giving you updates that I will get from the first game of the softball series, also at 11 a.m.
After South Stanly and Voyager finish their first game, we will be making our way over to Raleigh to the softball complex for game two of the South – Camden County softball series.
Immediately following that game, we head back to Durham for the 5 p.m. second game of the baseball series.
Should any of the South series need to go to a third and deciding game, they would be played on Sunday at 1 p.m. and we will be there.
Hot waffles, CNN on the TV and foreboding gray skies have greeted us all this morning, but hopefully we can get some games in today.
My Twitter ID is @charles_curcio; please follow me today and possibly tomorrow for the latest on the games and the possibility of bad weather, the first of which we want to see and the other that can come again another day.
Along with photographers and other people, I will be working hard to bring you the info on the games, with Tuesday’s print edition hopefully to have pictures, stories, quotes and more from today's games.
Stay tuned!
The differences this time are that the softball team is also in the same hotel and is looking for a state title of their own in Raleigh.
As much of a scourge to the baseball industry that precipitation can be, rain gave all the baseball and softball teams another day to think about what is ahead of them.
Only this time, the contingent from Stanly County is a lot bigger, possibly a little bit louder in the courtyard/pool area and definitely excited for the games ahead.
This time, South Stanly looks to become just the third team in the history of fast-pitch softball and baseball to sweep both championships in the same year.
More importantly, for a group of seniors on both teams, who have played ball together most of their lives, will play their final high school games this week.
There is a certain finality that comes with playing in the state finals as your last game of the season.
For every athlete that has played in a state final in their sport, there are innumerable ones that will never get the opportunity to do that.
I often talk about the vast number of state championships that are available in the four state classifications in North Carolina, including the eight football champions in a subdivided playoffs that is just too many, in my opinion.
Four state champions per sport per season out of the approximately 400 high schools that compete in the NCHSAA is roughly one percent, which is a nice round figure.
If you are in the top one percent of your class or industry, that normally puts you among the elite.
For those players, coaches and fans that will make their way across the state to Durham Athletic Park and Walnut Creek Softball Complex to support the Bulls, there is only going to be one state champion, hopefully with a Bulls’ mascot on the jerseys.
I know that there will be many of you that can’t get to the game today, which is one of the reasons that my beautiful wife Laura and I are here.
We will be tweeting and blogging from baseball this morning at 11 a.m., as well as giving you updates that I will get from the first game of the softball series, also at 11 a.m.
After South Stanly and Voyager finish their first game, we will be making our way over to Raleigh to the softball complex for game two of the South – Camden County softball series.
Immediately following that game, we head back to Durham for the 5 p.m. second game of the baseball series.
Should any of the South series need to go to a third and deciding game, they would be played on Sunday at 1 p.m. and we will be there.
Hot waffles, CNN on the TV and foreboding gray skies have greeted us all this morning, but hopefully we can get some games in today.
My Twitter ID is @charles_curcio; please follow me today and possibly tomorrow for the latest on the games and the possibility of bad weather, the first of which we want to see and the other that can come again another day.
Along with photographers and other people, I will be working hard to bring you the info on the games, with Tuesday’s print edition hopefully to have pictures, stories, quotes and more from today's games.
Stay tuned!
Friday, June 1, 2012
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