Pack claims 8-4 victory
over North Brunswick

Whiteville High first baseman Lloyd Enzor (right) takes the throw on a pick-off attempt while North Brunswick’s Blake Norris gets safely back to the bag in Friday night’s Waccamaw Conference baseball game at Legion Stadium. Whiteville took an 8-4 win to avenge its 3-2 loss to the Scorpions in their earlier conference meeting. Whiteville, now 5-2 in the conference and 8-6 overall, will travel to meet Trask Tuesday night at 7 in another conference match-up.

By DAN BISER
Sports Editor

Even though its pitching gave up eight walks in the final three innings, the Whiteville High baseball team still managed to come away with an 8-4 Waccamaw Conference victory over the visiting North Brunswick Scorpions Friday night at Legion Stadium.

The win kept Coach Brett Harwood’s Wolfpack in the thick of the Waccamaw Conference baseball race as it now holds a 5-2 league record. For the season, WHS is 8-6.

Michael Wright was the winning pitcher for the Wolfpack, getting relief from Sprandon Mahoney in the seventh inning after walking three batters and giving up a two-run double Randall Rabon that made the score 8-4 with two outs.

Mahoney came in from centerfield and walked the first two batters he faced to load the bases and bring the tying run to the plate. Mahoney struck out D.J. Grahamon on a 2-2 pitch to end the game.

Mahoney had a big night at the plate with three hits. He scored three runs.

The big blow of the night came in the fifth inning when WHS designated hitter Chris Harris smashed a towering two-run homer well over the leftfield fence for an 8-2 lead.

Harris and Ben Deans each had two hits for Whiteville, and Zach Stanley knocked a double.

North Brunswick committed seven errors and left seven runners on base for the night. Rabon and Michael Wheeler each had two hits for the Scorpions, who had taken a 3-2 win over the Wolfpack in the earlier conference meeting between the two teams.

Harwood said that Wright got his pitch count high in the middle innings.

“We were hoping he could stay out there and finish the seventh, but his control just wasn’t there,” Harwood said. “We just have to do a better job of finishing games out.”

After scoring a run in the first inning, the Wolfpack brought across four more in the second behind Stanley’s double, singles by Parks Godwin, Deans and Mahoney and a sacrifice fly by Harris.

Whiteville scored again in the fifth inning when Harris singled and scored on a two-out single by Deans.

Whiteville, which had suffered a 7-4 conference road loss to South Columbus on Tuesday, will play this Tuesday at Trask at 7 p.m.

Hamilton, Rabon (4) and Irwin; Wright, Mahoney (7) and Proctor.