Post 15 drops battle for first with Roanoke

Published 11:05 am Saturday, June 21, 2025

By Jason O. Boyd

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Note: Post 15 bounced back with a 13-3 win over Edenton on Friday. The team has a doubleheader on Sunday starting at 4 p.m. with Wilson. More details on all three games will be posted online and in Wednesday’s paper.

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CHOCOWINITY, N.C. — If these two teams met 10 times, they’d probably split the games 50-50.

Luckily for Beaufort County Junior American Legion Post 15, they’ll get another crack at Roanoke Post 164. In a battle for first place in Area 1, the Martin County club remained unbeaten with a 4-2 victory on Tuesday at Chocowinity Middle School. A big crowd saw the two teams battle back and forth until Post 164 got two runs in the seventh and held on for the win.

“And we’ll play them again, and you know, it’s like I told them, that one game is not going to cost us the regular season,” Beaufort County coach Bobby Boyd said. “We’ll see them again, and we’ll play them at their place and beat them. “Those balls, that didn’t cost us the game. The umpire didn’t cost us the game.

“It was just a baseball game. And the thing about it is, we’ll come back and suit it up Friday night and probably get a W. These guys don’t get down.”

Both teams were locked in a pitcher’s duel for most of the game. Post 15’s Philip Dash and Post 164’s Bryson Banks held their respective opponents in check as both squads scratched out runs. Each time Martin County would take a lead, Beaufort County came back and tied it.

Down 1-0 in the third inning, Luis Hernandez got things going for Post 15 with a walk. Dash was hit by a pitch and, one out later, Carter Williams grounded into a fielder’s choice that scored Hernandez, knotting the game at 1-all.

It stayed that way through some solid pitching on both sides and stellar defensive plays. Martin County got a run in the sixth inning before Beaufort County rallied to tie it again in the bottom half of the frame on a passed ball that scored Williams, who reached on an error. Landon Griffin hit a nibbler and Keegan Mitchell hit a sacrifice fly to right to move Williams to third before the passed ball.

In the seventh, Brody Whitaker hit a blast that sailed deep into the gap in center field. It scored Charles Taylor, who opened with a single, to give Post 164 the lead for good. An error on a ball hit by Easton Warren scored Whitaker for the two-run cushion.

“It was just a really good, really good game,” Boyd said. “And what do you say as coach? Somebody’s right here, like you say, played ten times, you probably beat them five times. 

“This honestly is kind of what we thought at the beginning of the regular season, that our team and them were probably going to be in the top two or three. And at the end of the day, yeah, we can win the tournament, but we want to win the regular season so that it automatically qualifies us for (the states in) Cherryville.”

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