1946 Tobacco State League – Playoff Recap & Player Awards
First Tobacco State League championship series goes the distance
Game 1: Wilmington 2, Dunn-Erwin 0
Game 2: Dunn-Erwin 7, Wilmington 5 (11 innings)
Game 3: Dunn-Erwin 3, Wilmington 0
Game 4: Wilmington 11, Dunn-Erwin 0
Game 5: Dunn-Erwin 2, Wilmington 1
Game 6: Wilmington 2, Dunn-Erwin 0
Game 7: Dunn-Erwin 7, Wilmington 3
Another regular season champion goes down in the playoffs.
Wilmington couldn’t turn three shutouts, including an 11-0 whitewash in game four, into a league title.
Kyle Urbina, Dunn-Erwin’s 30-year-old left fielder, collected series MVP honors as the Twins stood tallest in TSL action in 1946. Urbina had eight hits in the series and scored two runs with a crucial RBI in game seven.
Tobacco State League Post-Season Awards
MOST VALUABLE PLAYER
1946 – 1B Jim Bogle (Dunn-Erwin)
PITCHER OF THE YEAR
1946 – SP Jamie Robertson (Wilmington)
ROOKIE OF THE YEAR
1946 – 1B Kyle Hern (Clinton)
MANAGER OF THE YEAR
Sean Stringer (Dunn-Erwin):
NOTES
“I told them to learn my system and we would win.” They did. And Sean Stringer's Dunn-Erwin team won a championship and player MVP honor ... Jim Bogle (great name) was a hammer, hitting 28 home runs, which is a lot in this low-HR, low-strike out environment.