State Games of NC Notebook: Game Day 3
June 18, 2018
The Powerade State Games of North Carolina features some of the best players from across the state playing at one venue for a week. The state is split into 8 regions and each region has high school coaches from their region select a 20 man roster. On Wednesday, each team went through a full pro-style workout at Grimsley HS. Thursday - Sunday, at UNC Greensboro, the regions will play, working their way through two 4 team brackets to ultimately decide a gold medal winner.
PBR will be on hand throughout the State Games, reporting on games, players and updating statistics for the players.
Day 4: Game Day 3
Game Day 3 sees teams vying for a medal game on Sunday. As we enter the Day, only one spot on Sunday is secured with Region 3 securing a spot in the Gold Medal round. Region 5 and Region 2 will square off to see who faces Region 3. Region 6 will play Region 4 to see who gets the Bronze Medal game out of their bracket as well.
Region 1 9 Region 8 2
Region 1 busted the game open early, putting up a big inning in the 3rd. Jacob Peaden worked his second appearance for Region 1, bumping 87.