N.C.-S.C. All-Star Baseball Challenge set for Thursday, Friday

June 11, 2009

By Charles Alston of North Carolina

DURHAM - Here is the North Carolina roster for the N.C.-S.C. All-Star Baseball Challenge set for Thursday and Friday in South Carolina.

The All-Star contests, co-sponsored by the N.C. Baseball Coaches Association, will be played at two venues. Game 1 will be held at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at Watson Stadium on the campus of Coastal Carolina University in Conway. Game 2 will be at 2 p.m. Friday at BB&T Coastal Park, the home of the Myrtle Beach Pelicans, in Myrtle Beach.

The games will pit the best high school baseball talent from South Carolina and North Carolina.

The games were originally slated for Friday and Saturday, but playing Saturday conflicted with graduation for many of the N.C. All-Stars.

"North Carolina has a number of their players graduating on Saturday, so they need to leave Friday afternoon," Carolina Forest coach Jack Jolly, who serves as the chairman of the All-Star committee for the South Carolina Baseball Coaches Association, told the Myrtle Beach Sun. "We had to bump Saturday's game to Thursday evening."

Below is the team roster from North Carolina:

PLAYER	POSITION	HIGH SCHOOL	COLLEGE
Bryan Bass	MIF	Northern Durham	East Carolina
Zach Bernard	LHP	Durham Jordan	North Carolina
Eric Brady	MIF	Green Hope	Duke
Ben Fish	C	Rocky Mount	Campbell
Chaz Frank	OF	Central Davidson	North Carolina
Walker Gourley	MIF(C)	Eastern Wayne	East Carolina
Brian Goodwin	OF	Rocky Mount	North Carolina
Tyler Joyner	LHP	Northern Nash	East Carolina
Tanner Merritt	RHP	J.H. Rose	East Carolina
Chris Munnally	RHP	Forsyth Country Day	North Carolina
Will Myers	C	Wesleyan Christian	South Carolina
Ethan Ogburn	RHP	SW Guilford	N.C. State
Hunter Ridge	1B/OF	SW Randolph	UNC-Wilmington
Richie Shaffer	IF	Providence	Clemson
Ryan Stetson	OF	Ardrey Kell	Appalachian State
Tyler Tewell	C	Butler	Appalachian State
Alex Wood	LHP	Ardrey Kell	Georgia
John Wooten	3B (RHP)	Eastern Wayne	East Carolina
Tyler Zupcic	OF	Providence	Appalachian State