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School Sports
Lady Warriors rally late to win 4-1 at Currituck BARCO -- The Hunt softball team, down to its final at-bat, scored four runs in the seventh inning Tuesday to beat host Currituck 4-1 in the first round of the N.C. High School Athletic Association 3-A state playoffs. Down a run after allowing an unearned run in the second, the Lady Warriors (16-7), the No. 3 team from the Eastern Carolina Conference, rallied with four straight one-out singles, tying it on Morgan Ballance's single, which scored Candy Capps. Three batters later, with the bases loaded, Amber Parrish unloaded a bases-clearing triple to lead 4-1 against the Lady Knights (12-8), the No. 2 team from the Northeastern Conference. Jessica Mayo allowed just a single in the bottom half of the inning to finish off the win for Hunt, which advances to play Coastal No. 1 South Central (20-2) on the road. Score by innings: Hunt 000 000 4 -- 4 Currituck 010 000 0 -- 1 Lady Bruins ousted BERTIE -- Beddingfield's softball season came to an end Tuesday at the hands of host Bertie in the first round of the N.C. High School Athletic Association 3-A playoffs. The Lady Bruins rallied for two runs in the sixth inning to tie the score only to see the Lady Falcons push across the winning run in the bottom of the seventh of the 3-2 final. Beddingfield, the No. 4 seed from the Eastern Carolina Conference, finished 7-10 while Bertie, the top seed from the split 2-A/3-A Northeastern Coastal Conference, advances with a 15-8 mark. The Lady Bruins trailed 2-0 in the sixth when junior Laci Greene tripled in a run before scoring the tying run on a single by Jordan Baker, who had two of the Lady Bruins' four hits. Beddingfield threatened in the top of the seventh with runners on first and second but a controversial check-swing call went against junior Nicole De la Rosa for the third out. The Lady Falcons then scored the winning run against Beddingfield starter Tessa Elliott (7-9), who was the victim of three Lady Bruins errors. Concluding their Beddingfield careers were seniors Baker, Ashley Van Buskirk, T'Lissa Elliott, Melissa Webb, Kelli Wingfield and Amy Dunn. Score by innings: Beddingfield 000 002 0 -- 2 Bertie 100 010 1 -- 3 WP-C. Dunlow. LP-Tessa Elliott (7-9) 7 hits 2 Ks. Lady Demons fall late in 4-0 loss against So. Alamance GRAHAM -- The Fike softball allowed four runs in the sixth inning, ending its season with a 4-0 loss Tuesday against host Southern Alamance in the first round of the N.C. High School Athletic Association 3-A state playoffs. The Lady Demons, the No. 4 seed from the NEW 6 Conference, finished the season 8-13. Katelyn Suggs (6-9) took the loss, allowing six hits while striking out seven. "Katelyn pitched a great game for us, she got us out of a couple of jams early," Fike head coach Brent Pearson said. "But in the sixth inning we misplayed a couple of balls and they added a couple of hits and that was all they needed." Leslie Finch led the Lady Demons' offense, going 2 for 3 with a double. Lindsey Orr added a 1-for-3 performance. Fike loses just two starters, "so we'll have a good nucleus back in '09," Pearson said. Score by innings: Fike 000 000 0 -- 0 S. Alamance 000 004 x -- 0 Lady Falcons blow by NE Guilford in 10-0 win PIKEVILLE -- The Charles B. Aycock softball team cruised to a 10-0 win in six innings Tuesday against visiting Northeast Guilford in the first round of the N.C. High School Athletic Association 3-A state playoffs. The Lady Falcons, the top seed from the Eastern Carolina Conference, improved to 20-4 and will play Washington, the No. 2 team from the Coastal Conference, in the second round. The time and day has not been determined. Brittany Ford led the CBA offense, going 3 for 4 with three doubles and an RBI. Stevie Savage added three RBIs, Torie Benton contributed two RBIs, including the game-ending home run, and Anna Sullivan also drove home two, with each roping two hits. Emily Jordan pitched five innings, allowing just two hits while striking out eight. Autumn Pittman tossed a perfect sixth, striking out two. Chelsea Smith took the loss, giving up 10 runs (seven earned) on 13 hits. Krissy Apple had a double, and Leanna Forehand added another for Northeast (16-4), a wildcard team from the Triad Conference. Score by innings: Clayton 000 000 0 -- 0 C.B. Aycock 000 000 0 -- 0 Lady Rams advance in win against Roanoke Rapids SNOW HILL -- The Greene Central softball team outlasted visiting Roanoke Rapids, 4-3, on Tuesday in the first round of the N.C. High School Athletic Association 2-A state playoffs. The Lady Rams (17-8), the No. 2 team from the Eastern Plains Conference, advance to play Northwood (20-3), the top seed from the Mid-State Conference, on tentatively sheduled for Thursday at 6 p.m. Jessica Moore pitched a complete-game four-hitter for Greene Central. Bailey Robingson also pitched a complete game, allowing four runs on six hits and five walks. Both pitchers struck out six. Ashley Page and Stacy Wade each went 2 for 3 for the Lady Rams. Kristie Shaw went 1 for 3 with two RBIs for Roanoke Rapids, which finished at 10-9. Score by innings: Roanoke 000 000 3 -- 0 G.C. 110 011 x -- 0 Lady Panthers win first-round thriller vs. Topsail KENLY -- North Johnston needed two-outs rallies in the seventh and eighth innings before pulling out a 3-2 victory against visiting Topsail in the first round of the N.C. High School Athletic Association 1-A playoffs Tuesday night. The Lady Panthers, the No. 1 seed from the Carolina Conference, improved to 13-8 and will play at Pender County next. Topsail, the No. 3 team from the Coastal Plains Conference departed 12-8. "We really played an ugly game at times, particularly on offense and made a couple of mental defensive mistakes which allowed them to score both of their runs," Lady Panthers head coach George Daniels said. "However, we were not short of heart and did what we had to do pull out a win and advance to the second round." Sarah Wood tripled in the tying run in the eighth inning then raced home with the winning run on Mindy Narron's grounder. The runs erased a costly error in the top of the inning. The Lady Panthers scored their first run In the seventh on Kayla Whitley's two-out, two-strike singles, bringing in Amber Weaver, who had doubled. Topsail scored first as Maude Wall led off with a walk in the sixth, then scored on Hannah Gezentanner's single. But that was it as Casey Creech's diving grab prevented further damage. North Johnston's LeAnn Woodall outdueled Hannah McLeod, as both pitchers went the distance. McLeod, who had 11 strikeouts, retired the first 10 Lady Panthers until Wood's fourth-inning single. Woodall gave up four hits and walked five while striking out eight. Wood was 2 for 4 while Kayla Whitley had two hits in three at-bats. Score by innings: Topsail 000 001 01 -- 2 North Johnston 000 000 12 -- 3 Ladybirds fall in first round CREEDMOR -- The Southern Nash softball team lost 2-1 on Tueday against host South Granville in the first round of the N.C. High School Athletic Association 3-A state playoffs. The Ladybirds, the No. 3 team from the NEW 6 Conference, finished the season 12-10. South Granville (15-5), the No. 2 team from the Mid-State Conference, advances to play Bartlett Yancey. No additional details were available. BASEBALL CBA season ends after losing lead at W. Brunswick SHALLOTTE -- A season that exceeded expectations ended in disappointing fashion for the Charles B. Aycock baseball team Tuesday at West Brunswick. The Golden Falcons, defending state 3-A champions, couldn't hold a seven-run lead as they lost 9-8 in the second round of the N.C. High School Athletic Association 3-A playoffs. Aycock, which lost seven starters from a year ago, finished 19-7 as the No. 2 seed from the Eastern Carolina Conference. "It's been one of the most satisfying years in my 18-year career here," said CBA head coach Charles Davis. "With everyone we lost from last year, we were supposed to finish fourth in our conference." After two innings, the Falcons had charged to a 7-0 lead on the Trojans (20-6), the top seed from the split 3-A/4-A Mideastern Conference. Sophomore Connor Narron belted a two-run home run in the first inning and had an RBI double in the five-run second. Also driving in runs in the second were Tyler Ruffin and Jordan Carr. Davis said the Falcons missed adding to their lead in the third and fourth innings. West Brunswick's Josh Powell slugged a three-run homer in the fith following a two-out error by CBA. Another miscue aided a three-run sixth as the Trojans took an 8-7 lead. Aycock tied in the top of the seventh on Carr's sacrifice fly but the Trojans scored the winning run on a bloop single following a controversial balk call on CBA reliever Jesse Randolph in the bottom of the inning. "It's a tough pill to swallow but it's been a very satisfying year," Davis said. Aycock careers concluded for seniors Carr, Randolph, Zach Wright, Bryant Hill, Stephen Strouse and Jackson Wooten. Score by innings: C.B. Aycock 250 000 1 -- 8 West Brunswick 000 233 1 -- 9 WP-Aaron Evan. LP-Jesse Randolph. Hunt loses against Conley GREENVILLE -- The Hunt baseball team lost 4-0 on Tuesday against host D.H. Conley in Greenville during the second round of the N.C. High School Athletic Association 3-A state playoffs. The Warriors, the No.3 team from the Eastern Carolina Conference, finished the year at 16-9. Conley (15-9), the top seed from the Coastal Conference, advances to play West Brunswick. No additional details were available. TENNIS Falcons move into third round with 5-1 defeat of Conley PIKEVILLE -- Charles B. Aycock won its 20th boys tennis match of the season Tuesday as it conquered visiting D.H. Conley 5-1 in the second round of the N.C. High School Athletic Association 3-A dual-team playoffs. The Golden Falcons, the top seed from the Eastern Carolina Conference, moved to 20-2 as they dispatched the Vikings without the need for doubles play. Conley, the Coastal Conference king, exited at 15-5. Aycock sophomore Blake Vail won his 28th singles match without a loss as he beat Jeff Holoman 6-1, 6-2. Vail, the two-time 3-A East Regional champion, will play in the 3-A singles championship tournament this weekend in Burlington. The Falcons also picked up wins from Addison Westbrook at No. 2, Blake Cooper at No. 3, Ben Nichols at No. 5 and No. 6 Dylan Quinn. Aycock's next foe will be more familiar as Eastern Wayne, the ECC No. 2 seed, visits on Tuesday. The Warriors eluded Washington 7-2 on Tuesday. The Falcons won both regular-season meetings with Eastern Wayne. C.B. AYCOCK 5, D.H. CONLEY 1 Blake Vail (CBA) def. Jeff Holoman 6-1, 6-2; Addison Westbrook (CBA) def. Andrew Meade 6-3, 6-1; Blake Cooper (CBA) def. Zack Foster 6-4, 6-1; Coleman Spain (DHC) def. Ben Evans 7-6, 6-2; Ben Nichols (CBA) def. Chris Watts 6-3, 6-1; Dylan Quinn (CBA) def. Manato Takahashi 6-0, 6-2. Firebirds edge Williams in second round of dual-team playoffs BURLINGTON -- Top-ranked Southern Nash is moving on in the N.C. High School Athletic Association 3-A dual-team boys tennis playoffs. The Firebirds, the No. 1 seed from the NEW 6 Conference, avenged last year's playoff ouster by defeating host Burlington Williams 5-4. Southern Nash, now 24-0, will visit Western Alamance in Tuesday's third-round match. Williams, the No. 1 seed from the Mid-State Conference, finished 12-5. The Firebirds' No. 1 Michael Barnes and No. 2 Ethan Page both lost, but No. 3 Nicolas Finet, No. 4 Kyle Ramsey, No. 5 Isaac Arnold and No. 6 Cody Brandt pulled out singles win. Finet won two tiebreakers, while Brandt won one. In doubles, Ramsey-Jordan Hagler, the No. 3 team, won 10-4 to clinch the overall team win. "It was definitely a big win," Southern head coach Brad Joyner said. "It was the first we'd beaten them in at least three tries." Beginning Friday, Firebirds No. 1 singles player Michael Barnes and their No. 2 doubles team Nicolas Finet-Kyle Ramsey will compete in the individual state tournament at Burlington Tennis Center. SOCCER Lady Cyclones advance to NCISAA 1-A semifinals RALEIGH -- The Community Christian girls soccer team is coming home. The Lady Cyclones will play in the N.C. Independent Schools Athletic Association 1-A semifinals at Gillette Athletic Complex after defeating host Trinity Academy in a 2-1 thriller Tuesday. With 10 seconds remaining in the second five-minute, golden-goal overtime period, senior Auburn Smith slammed in a direct kick following a penalty to break a 1-1 deadlock and push CCS into its first state semifinals appearance. "She hit an absolute missile," CCS head coach Rhine Sharp said of Smith, who had been plagued by leg cramps. Smith's shot ended a match that was sent to extra time when Trinity got the equalizing goal with five minutes to play. That erased a 1-0 lead that CCS had held for 60 minutes of play after Jessica Daley buried a cross from junior Caroline Sharp in the 15th minute. Sharp credited his defense of front of goalkeeper Lindsey Baldridge, who had 12 saves. Shoring up that effort was Graysen Smith, Mollie Baldridge, Kelly Barnes, Katelyn Lemes and Kathryn Smith. The Lady Cyclones (11-3), who lost to Trinity in the Carolina Christian Conference Tournament last week, will play Gaston Day at 4 p.m. Friday. In the other semfinal, Faith Christian meets Wayne Country Day, also at 4. Firebirds edge Williams in second round of dual-team playoffs BURLINGTON -- Top-ranked Southern Nash is moving on in the N.C. High School Athletic Association 3-A dual-team boys tennis playoffs. The Firebirds, the No. 1 seed from the NEW 6 Conference, avenged last year's playoff ouster by defeating host Burlington Williams 5-4. Southern Nash, now 24-0, will visit Western Alamance in Tuesday's third-round match. Williams, the No. 1 seed from the Mid-State Conference, finished 12-5. The Firebirds' No. 1 Michael Barnes and No. 2 Ethan Page both lost, but No. 3 Nicolas Finet, No. 4 Kyle Ramsey, No. 5 Isaac Arnold and No. 6 Cody Brandt pulled out singles win. Finet won two tiebreakers, while Brandt won one. In doubles, Ramsey-Jordan Hagler, the No. 3 team, won 10-4 to clinch the overall team win. "It was definitely a big win," Southern head coach Brad Joyner said. "It was the first we'd beaten them in at least three tries." Beginning Friday, Firebirds No. 1 singles player Michael Barnes and their No. 2 doubles team Nicolas Finet-Kyle Ramsey will compete in the individual state tournament at Burlington Tennis Center.
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