Sports - June 2003

Post 100 goes 3-0 in weekend tourney

Published June 16, 2003

Sunday win over Irmo, S.C. completes sweep at Shelby

 By STEVE KAY, LTN correspondent

SHELBY—Cherryville Post 100 continued to mow down the opposition over the weekend with a three-game sweep in the Shelby Invitational at Keeter Field.

Teams from Sumter, S.C., Irmo, S.C., and 2002 Southeast Regional champion Dothan, Ala., played Cherryville, host Shelby and Caldwell County in a round-robin format.

Post 100 (7-4 division, 10-4 overall) completed its 3-0 weekend Sunday with a 16-7 win over Irmo. On Friday, Post 100 handed Dothan, 19-0 entering the tournament, its first loss by an 8-1 count. Saturday afternoon, Post 100 edged Sumter 4-2.

Post 100 coach Bobby Reynolds experimented with his lineup throughout the weekend, especially in the Irmo game.

Shane Summer, making his first pitching appearance ever, started on the mound but did not last long. He retired only one batter before yielding to Travis Walls, who pitched out of a deep hole after Irmo plated four runs on five hits against Summer.

Post 100 tied the game in the second inning, with Josh McSwain and Jay Heafner picking up RBI hits.

The Area-Four Western Division leader then took the lead for good with two runs in the third inning on Brock Alexander’s double to right center.

With Walls controlling Irmo’s offense, Post 100 poured it on with a five-run scoring flurry in the fourth inning.

After Cherryville loaded the bases on a hit by Johnathan Walker and walks to Heafner and Chris Mason, Alexander drove in two more runs to hike his RBI total for the game to four.

Later in the same inning, Walls hit a three-run homer over the left field fence to make the score 11-4.

Walls was relieved by Chris Christenson in the fifth, and the lefthander allowed only one run over the next two innings.

Meanwhile, Cherryville added two more runs in the sixth inning, one of them on a hit by Walker, who had four for the game.

Reynolds subbed freely in the late innings. Chris Halubka, in a warm-up for his next .pitching start, worked two scoreless innings, and Jason Hammonds finished up in the ninth.

Post 100 returns to division play tonight at home with a makeup game against Lake Norman. The starting time is 7:30.

On Tuesday, Cherryville travels to Hendersonville.

Post 100 notes: Outfielder Brandon Hurt may be out of the lineup for a few games after fouling a pitch off his ankle on Saturday. The ankle is bruised, but there are no broken bones. … David Wise hit his sixth homer of the season in Sunday’s game. He leads the team in that category.

Irmo 400 102 000—7 14 5

Cville 042 502 12x—16 15 2

Dowling, Miller (4), Berry (7) and Burgess. Summer, Walls (1), Christenson (5), Halubka (7), Hammonds (9) and Wise, Glover (8). W—Walls. L—Dowling. HRs, Cherryville, Walls, D. Wise.

Friday's game

Cherryville 8

Dothan, Ala. 1

West Lincoln product Chris Halubka pitched a two-hitter through six innings to get the pitching win. Dothan's lone run in the third inning was unearned.

Steven Justice relieved Halubka in the seventh and retired nine of the 10  batters he faced.

Chris Mason went 3-for-5 with a homer, single and double to lead Cherryville. Brock Alexander's three-run homer to left field highlighted a four-run third inning for Post 100.

Other top hitters for Cherryville were David Wise (2-for-5 with three runs scored) and Brandon Hurt, whose RBI triple in the first inning opened the scoring.

—Mike Powell

Dothan 001 000 000--1 2 1

Cville 104 102 00x--8 7 2

Morlock, Robinson (7) and B. Woods. Halubka, Justice (7) and Wise. W--Halubka. L--Morlock. HRs, Cherryville, Mason, Alexander.

Saturday

Cherryville 4

Sumter, S.C. 2

Jay Heafner picked up the win in a relief role and also contributed three hits to a 12-hit attack.

David Wise's double scored Josh McSwain with the go-ahead run in the top of the seventh to break a 2-2 tie. 

In the bottom of the seventh, Heafner came on in relief after Chris Christenson gave up back-to-back walks with no outs. Heafner closed the door on the rally by retiring the side on a groundout and two infield fly balls.

Heafner held Sumter scoreless in the eighth and ninth innings and retired nine of the 10 batters he faced over three frames.

Matt Craig went 3-for-4 to lead Post 100, and McSwain collected two hits in four at-bats.

—Mike Powel

Cville 010 010 110--4 12 0

Sumter 110 000 000--2 3 0

McDonald, Hammonds (4), Christenson (7), Heafner (7) and Wise. Johnson, Tyson (8) and Price. W--Heafner. L--Johnson.

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