BASEBALL
The Norfolk Tides’ scheduled home game against Nashville was postponed Saturday night at Harbor Park because of poor field conditions after heavy rain.
It was rescheduled as part of a doubleheader Sunday at 2:05 p.m.
Parker’s walk-off homer in 10th gives Pilots second-half title
A long Saturday night for the Peninsula Pilots ended like the great majority this season — with a victory.
Darnell Parker clubbed a walk-off three-run homer in the 10th inning as the Pilots (31-11, 15-3 in the Coastal Plain League’s second half) overcame Martinsville 9-8 at War Memorial Stadium in Hampton. Much of the crowd of 1,762 endured a 45-minute weather delay before the Pilots clinched the East Division’s second-half title; they already had won the first half.
It was the second one-run victory by the Pilots over the Mustangs (27-14, 12-5) in two nights. Martinsville, which leads the West Division’s second half by a half-game over Lexington County, needs to win it join Peninsula and West first-half champ Forest City in the playoffs.
Peninsula will host Game 1 of a Petitt Cup semifinal series July 28 against the team that finishes second overall in the East. The Wilmington Sharks (26-17) lead the Wilson Tobs (23-18) by two games for that position.
CPL rules allow two automatic runners in every extra inning. Martinsville scored twice in the 10th, only to see Parker bring home himself, Henry Garcia and Kyle Edwards with his drive over the wall off a Mason Dear pitch. It capped Parker’s 2-for-2, two-run, five-RBI evening and gave Dalton Barham, who pitched three innings, a win.
Edwards was 2 for 3 with two runs and an RBI.
Hayden Friese led Martinsville, singling twice in five at-bats and driving in four runs. Craig Kenny and Corey Adams scored twice apiece.
Sunday, the Pilots will face the Greenville Yard Gnomes in eastern North Carolina at 5:05 p.m.
Cape Henry star to represent Great Britain
Cape Henry rising senior Colin Lebel will play on the Great Britain U23 National Team that will play in the World Baseball Cup in China this fall. Lebel was first-team all-state and All-TCIS. He was 7-1 with 55 strikeouts and a 1.19 earned-run average.
Lebel’s father and grandparents were born in England, so he has dual citizenship.
LITTLE LEAGUE
Fleet Park teams fall
Fleet Park’s Junior League baseball team was eliminated from the Southeast Region tournament at Bridgewater, in the Shenandoah Valley, with a pair of defeats.
Friday in the first round, the Norfolk team lost 15-5 to fellow state champion Irmo, South Carolina. Saturday in the losers’ bracket, Fleet Park lost 10-4 to Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
Meanwhile, the Fleet Park Senior League team, which went to its Southeast Region tourney in Safety Harbor, Florida, after taking a state championship, lost 6-1 to Irmo in the first round.
Fleet Park returns to action at 5:30 p.m. Saturday for an elimination game against Lexington, Tennessee, which lost 8-7 to Logan, West Virginia.
BASKETBALL
Marrow sparks Sideline Cancer team to victory
Peninsula native Jermaine Marrow scored 15 points off the bench to help the Sideline Cancer team breeze past Veniceball 100-77 in The Basketball Tournament’s first round at Freedom Hall in Louisville, Kentucky.
Marrow, a guard who played for Kecoughtan and Heritage High, is one of Hampton University’s all-time top players. He was 6 of 11 from the field, including 2 of 4 from 3-point range, and provided four assists and three rebounds. Marrow was one of five double-digit scorers for Sideline Cancer, which was led by Alonzo Verge’s 27 points.
Sideline Cancer next will play at 7 p.m. Monday on FS1 against The Ville, a Louisville alumni team.
Also at Freedom Hall, Team DRC defeated Team Diesel 85-79. Led by Bryce Beamer’s 18 points and five rebounds, former NFL cornerback Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie’s squad won despite nine points and five rebounds by Virginia Tech product Jarell Eddie for Team Diesel.
Former VCU standout Marcus Santos-Silva had 14 points and seven rebounds to help the Red Scare defeat DaGuys STL 88-72 in a first-round game in Dayton, Ohio.
Red Scare, primarily a Dayton alumni team, also will be at home in the second round to face Carmen’s Crew, an Ohio State alumni squad, at 8 p.m. Monday on FS2.
Ex-Norview star boosts Thunder in Summer League
Former Norview High star Keyontae Johnson had 20 points, nine rebounds and six assists to help the Oklahoma City Thunder defeat the Minnesota Timberwolves 88-79 in the NBA Las Vegas Summer League.
Both teams are 1-4 in the league.
