{"id":77,"date":"2010-07-19T21:34:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-20T04:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsports.us\/?p=77"},"modified":"2011-01-15T15:07:20","modified_gmt":"2011-01-15T20:07:20","slug":"cary-post-67-only-triangle-area-team-left-in-legion-baseball-tourney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=77","title":{"rendered":"Cary Post 67 only Triangle area team left in Legion baseball tourney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_4JSgVr3HVVk\/TEUrKCPab1I\/AAAAAAAAABQ\/n39spJTMKGY\/s1600\/legion.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5495846371675762514\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_4JSgVr3HVVk\/TEUrKCPab1I\/AAAAAAAAABQ\/n39spJTMKGY\/s200\/legion.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 200px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 200px;\" \/><\/a>Cary 67 has qualified for the eight-team American Legion Baseball State Tournament which starts Saturday in Asheboro at McCrary Park.<\/p>\n<p>Post 67, now 18-6, defeated Garner Post 232 and Johnston County Post 71 to earn the berth. <\/p>\n<p>In a best-of-three series for seeding purposes against Rocky Mount Post 58, Cary trails 1-0 with Game 2 being played tonight at 7 p.m. at Cary High School. If you can&#8217;t be there and want to check out the action, you can hear the game by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ihigh.com\/NC\/broadcast_124114.html?silverlight=1\" target=\"_blank\">clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Post 58, which defeated Cary 9-6 Monday night in Rocky Mount to move to 23-5, is undefeated in playoff action and is a victory away from the No. 1 seed at the state tourney.<br \/><a name='more'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rocky Mount&#8217;s Matthew Berry had six RBI including two on a tie-breaking homer in the eighth inning off Post 67&#8217;s James Todd.<\/p>\n<p>Should Cary win tonight, Game 3 will be Wednesday at 7 p.m. at Cary High School. Win or lose, both teams will advance to the state tournament but seeding can be crucial.<\/p>\n<p>Other teams that have qualified so far for the eight-team tournament are Wilmington Post 10, Whiteville Post 137, Rutherford County Post 423, Cherryville Post 100 and Randolph County Post 45.<\/p>\n<p>Cary Post 67 has never won the state tournament while Rocky Mount Post 58 won in 1973. The tournament started in 1928 with Raleigh Post 1 winning that one. The only other Raleigh-area team to ever win the state championship is Garner Post 232 which won in 1999.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cary 67 has qualified for the eight-team American Legion Baseball State Tournament which starts Saturday in Asheboro at McCrary Park. Post 67, now 18-6, defeated&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":780,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions\/780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}