The two-time defending Southern Collegiate Baseball League regular-season champion Morganton Aggies hope after this summer you can remove the words “regular season” from that title.
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It’s always hard when you lose in the championship game.
The Morganton Aggies had the Southern Collegiate Baseball League’s best regular season record. They had blown through their first two opponents in the playoffs.
The best team in the Southern Collegiate Baseball League regular season each of the past two summers, the Morganton Aggies finally got a chance to prove they could be tops in the postseason too.
Great starting pitching, timely hitting and solid defense. It’s worked all summer, and that’s the formula the Morganton Aggies used to beat the Carolina Chaos, 8-1, in the second round of the SCBL playoffs on Tuesday at Shuey Field.
Things weren’t looking good for the Morganton Aggies through four innings.
The Morganton Aggies were stumbling down the stretch of the SCBL regular season, losing five out of seven games, until going 3-1 combined in Thursday and Friday road doubleheaders against the Carolina Chaos and Pineville Pioneers.
The Morganton Aggies’ doubleheader scheduled for Wednesday at the Spartanburg Spartans was rained out and will not be made up, since the league’s regular season ends Saturday.
The Morganton Aggies have been struggling to score runs of late and were looking to prevent another loss on Monday at Shuey Field, but instead were shut out for the third time in their last five games in a 10-0 defeat to the Asheville Redbirds.
The Morganton Aggies were well represented in the 2011 Southern Collegiate Baseball League ’s All-Star Game on Sunday afternoon at Winthrop University in Rock Hill.
After back-to-back shutout losses to begin the week, the Morganton Aggies were looking to bounce back against the Carolina Stingers in Fort Mill, S.C., on Saturday night.
Coming off an 8-0 defeat at the hands of the Pineville Pioneers a night earlier, the Morganton Aggies were looking to get back in the win column against the SCBL East-division leading Lake Norman Copperheads on Tuesday night at Shuey Field.
Coming off an impressive 6-1 record during Fourth of July week, the Morganton Aggies were looking to continue their hot streak at Jack D. Hughes Memorial Park on Monday night.
With Friday’s win, the Morganton Aggies (22-7) earned their third Southern Collegiate Baseball League (SCBL) Western Division title in the team’s seven-year history.
Fourth of July week remained perfect for the Morganton Aggies on Friday night at Shuey Field, as the team won their sixth-straight contest by a 6-3 margin over the Spartanburg Spartans.
The Morganton Aggies are the first team to 20 wins this season in the Southern Collegiate Baseball League, thanks in large part to McDowell County native and former Post 21 standout Justin Johnson.
The Morganton Aggies kicked off the week with an Independence Day doubleheader on Monday night at Shuey Field with the Carolina Chaos.
It was the beginning of the July 4th weekend, with the Morganton Aggies hosting their first of two doubleheaders in the span of three days. Both games were brisk, well-played, and action-packed.
Coming off a ninth-inning collapse at home against the Pineville Pioneers on Wednesday, the Morganton Aggies were looking to rebound on the road in Friday night’s doubleheader against the Lake Norman Copperheads.
Things were going precisely according to plan through eight innings.
It certainly wasn’t a defensive clinic on Monday night, as the Statesville Owls committed five errors in game one of a doubleheader, falling 9-4.
Doubleheaders are always a tough grind. Morganton’s Aggies, who started out 6-0, have split four of their last five doubleheader series and did the same Saturday night against the Spartanburg Spartans, 2-3 and 7-2 on the road.
The Asheville Redbirds allowed the Morganton Aggies just one run through the first 11 innings of Friday night’s Southern Collegiate Baseball League (SCBL) doubleheader at Shuey Field.
About the only thing that’s been able to slow down the red-hot Morganton Aggies so far this summer has been Wednesday.
Runs were at a premium, but the Morganton Aggies were able to do what they have been doing all year long: outpitch the opposition.
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