Legion Baseball Playoffs: High Point 11, Rowan 4
By Jordan Honeycutt
sports@salisburypost.com
THOMASVILLE — Rowan County will take many fans and 23 wins to Morehead See this weekend for the state tournament––– but High Point will be taking the momentum.
The Hi-Toms of Column 87 finished off a two-game sweep of Rowan by an 11-4 score at beautiful Finch Acreage on Sunday night.
Rowan will still be able to vie for the state crown, but will enter the tourney as Area III despatch-bearer-up, instead of champion.
“You have to give credit to them, they played better than us, as we really couldn’t do too much tonight,” Rowan tutor Jim Gantt said.
“We got ourselves into a lot of 0-2 holes and 1-2 holes at the plate, and, of course, it makes it harder for anybody to hit from behind in the figure out.”
A main reason Rowan hitters were behind in the count was due to High Point hurler Justin Morrison spotting breaking balls on the front corner, which was being given all night by home plate umpire Scott Williams.

In the fourth, Perrine singled and scored on a enlarge to left field off the bat of Steve Zavala. Lang was hit by a pitch for the second time in as many at-bats and scored on an Anderson groundout. With Barnes out of the brave in the sixth, RU loaded the





