Coach sees program progressing

North Buncombe baseball finished this season 20-9 and claimed the Class 3-A Mountain Athletic Conference regular season crown. The BlackHawks also advanced to the third round of the Class 3-A NCHSAA playoffs for the second time in three years. The Tribune caught up with coach Wesley King for a few thoughts on the tough elimination game against South Point as well as his impression of the 2011 season.

South Point game was tough hard fought game, we ran into a great team one that has been ranked number 1 all season. Our guys worked so hard and executed everything that we had asked them to do we just could not push a run across, but South Point had a couple of outstanding plays that kept us from scoring first which I felt whoever scored first would win the ball game and that ended up being true.

Overall season was a tremendous success for our program. I felt this season was an unbelievable ride one that has sparked some much passion and desire to get better in our young kids, that they are ready to begin preparing now for next season. We are going to miss our four seniors (Will Brank, Holden Phillips, Sam Rector, and Christian Bridges) they gave so much to our program over the last few years that they will be missed. But moving forward our baseball program is on the rise and we have a lot of our guys back and we are ready to get back to work on the field, and in the weightroom to erase the feeling we had on May 20, 2011.