East Rowan head coach Brett Hatley. Photo Credit: Sean Meyers

By Mike London

Salisbury Post

GRANITE QUARRY — First of all, East Rowan’s baseball team wasn’t all that far from winning it all for the second year in a row.

East’s surreal, 14-inning loss to North Lincoln in the fourth round of the state playoffs felt a little more painful last Saturday when North Lincoln won the state title 1-0 thanks to a run-scoring dribbler up the third-base line in Game 3 of the 3A State Championship Series.

Maybe it was just North Lincoln’s year. The Knights, who were one out away from having their season ended by the Mustangs at Staton Field back on May 16, won 2-0 and 1-0 on the last day of the season against Greenville’s JH Rose High and got to hoist the giant trophy.

East lost a great deal of ta

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