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Local American Legion Baseball Playoff Pairings

Here are the first round pairings for the Area I West American Legion Baseball Playoffs. All series are best-of-five. With the higher seeded team having home field advantage. Play begins Tuesday night.

No. 6 seed North Raleigh Post 297 faces No. 3 seed Garner Post 232. Garner will host games 1, 3 and 5.

No. 4 seed Post 71 of Clayton faces No. 5 seed Raleigh Post 1 in the opening round. No. 2 Cary will meet No. 7 Apex.

No. 1 seed Durham Post 7 has a bye; eight place finisher Benson Banner Post 109 missed the playoffs.

Rain costs Benson Post 109 a great start

From correspondent Jay Mumford:

Wednesday night's American Legion senior baseball game between Are One, Western Division rivals Benson Post 109 and Garner Post 232 was called in the bottom of the fourth inning due to rain, which made the Bruce Coats field diamond unplayable.

Benson led, 6-2, but Garner had runners on first and second with no one out when the storm chased the teams off the field.

To the disappointment of Post 109 and coach Earl Stephenson, the game, which will be made up June 26, will start anew as five innings were not completed, washing away all of Wednesday's statistics, including 2-for-2 nights at the plate by Benson's Preston Major and Chris Sanders and a 2-for-3 effort by Michael Johnson.

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