LOCAL BASEBALL UPDATE

New Bern pummeled Northern Division nemesis Rocky Mount in a two-game series, igniting Saturday on a six-run spree in the fourth inning to win 14-10 in the eighth. How does this blog know? Because it sat in the press box, stringing together cretin sentences like "The bats came alive in the bottom of the fourth," in its head while taking reasonably accurate notes AND running the scoreboard while the two designated scorekeepers were out behind the concession stand, probably committing, at least, misdemeanors of some sort.

This game story, which appears in today's Sun Journal, is the result of a late night made possible by Mountain Dew, in which the keystrokes came alive in the top of the morning and this blog managed to hit one out of the park. However--ask any former dates--this blog has always had tremendous difficulty getting past first base.