Bring On Greensboro

The Asheville Tourists defeated the Rome Braves on Saturday night 4-3 featuring some batting heroics from Jordan Ribera and some pitching heroics from relative newcomer Seth Willoughby. Ribera hit a two-run homer to right field in the bottom of the 7th inning to give the Tourists the lead for good 4-2 and Willoughby struck out the Rome clean up hitter with the bases loaded in the top of the ninth inning to preserve a 4-3 lead. Willoughby only had three games of pitching experience with the Asheville Tourists before the Rome series. The Greensboro series is a best of five with games #1 and 2 being played in Asheville Monday and Tuesday night.