4A Playoff Results

Weddington 7 ACR 2

WP Tyler Pilkington 7IP, 9K, 6 hits
LP Paeplow


Leading hitters: Wedd.

Mangum 1-3 rbi double
Honeycutt 1-4 grand slam
Stickley 1-3
Haig 2-3
Searcey 1-2

 

Vance lost a hard fought ballgame to Grimsley 3-1. We are proud of the boys for working hard and getting Vance to the State Playoffs for the first time in school history. Alex Hill finish the season with a 676 batting average and his high school career batting average at Vance is 566. Both are at this moment 1A-4A North Carolina High School records.

 

Congrats to Alex Hill. Those are monster batting averages. What year is he and if he's a sr., what's he doing next year?

 

Butler / JM Robinson

Butler 5 - Robinson 2

 

AC Reynolds Stats

Weddington 7 AC Reynolds 2

ACR pitching stats:
Kyle Paeplow 3IP 4H 5ER
Sam Runion 4IP 3H 1ER

Leading Hitters:
John Hinson 3-4, 2B
Chris Cummings 2-3, 2B
Matt Overbey 1-4
Cort Radford 1-3
Ian Haley SacFly

Wedding is a strong ball club. Loaded with good lookin athletes. They hit the ball well, play solid defense and Pickington is a very good pitcher. Good Luck next week guys.

 

North Davidson 3 Northern Durham 0

North Davidson 3, Northern Durham 0: Daniel Kassouf’s solo home run in the fifth inning gave North Davidson an insurance run and helped seal a win last night in a 4-A opener in Welcome.

Pitcher Zach White of North Davidson went 2 for 3 with an RBI, and Levi Michaels was 1 for 2 for the Knights, who scored single runs in the first, second and fifth. White (12-2) went the distance, scattering four hits.

North Davidson will face Greensboro Page in the next round.

Northern Durham 000 000 0 - 0 4 0
North Davidson 110 010 0 - 3 4 0

Tyler Robinson and Travis Horn; Zach White and Dan Redmond; WP - White (12-2). LP - Robinson. 2B - NDu: Craig Farmer. NDa: White. HR - NDa: Daniel Kassouf. Records - Northern Durham 13-10. North Davidson 21-7.

 

Davie County 6 East Frosyth 2

Davie County 6, East Forsyth 2: A three-run outburst in the fourth inning provided Davie with a 4-1 lead and the cushion it needed to seal a first-round 4-A win at East Forsyth.

Davie’s Zach Howard and East’s Forsyth’s Tyler Hanover each hit home runs, and Davie’s Jeff Cartner went 2 for 4 with a double.

Davie will player at East Rowan in the second round.

Davie County 010 310 1 - 6 8 0
East Forsyth 000 110 0 - 2 7 3

Tom Kuell and Ryan Hellard; Ryan Dull, Kenny Swab (5), Tyler Hanover (7) and Robbie Swab; WP - Kuell. LP - Dull. 2B: D: Brandon Stewart; Jeff Cartner. HR: D: Zach Howard; E: Hanover. Records - Davie 14-10, East Forsyth 19-7.

 

W Forsyth 9 S Rowan 2

West Forsyth used a balanced offense to defeat Central Piedmont rival South Rowan last night in Clemmons in Class 4-A.

After Matt Sapp singled and Greg Holt was hit by a pitch, Garrison Lassiter hit a home run to put West Forsyth up 3-0 in the first inning. South (11-15) closed to 5-2 on a Caleb Shore home run, but Jeff Gonza followed a Ryan Todd double with a home run to increase West’s lead to 7-2 in the sixth. Todd was 3 for 3, Lassiter went 2 for 3 with three RBIs, and Gonza went 2 for 2 and had three RBIs.

West Forsyth (20-5) will play host to Greensboro Grimsley in the second round Tuesday at 7 p.m.

South Rowan 000 110 0 - 2 4 1
West Forsyth 401 004 x - 9 11 1

Jordan Lowder, Michael Morgan (6) and Ivan Corriher; Chad Jarvis, Wesley McBride (5), Greg Holt (7) and Chris Sanders. WP - McBride (5-1). LP - Lowder (5-4). 2B - WF: Ryan Todd, Garrison Lassiter. HR - WF: Lassiter, Jeff Gonza; SR: Caleb Shore. Records - West Forsyth 20-5; South Rowan 11-15.

 

East Rowan 7 Central Cabarrus 2

http://www.salisburypost.com/sports/305540913328090.php

Central Cabarrus coach Bryan Tyson expected to see Ross Steedley warming up in the bullpen when he arrived at Staton Field for the first round of the 4A state playoffs. Instead, the senior was wearing a chest protector, and sophomore Corbin Shive was on the hill for the Mustangs. It wasn't a break for the Vikings (17-6). Shive pitched a three-hitter and steered the Mustangs to a convincing 7-2 victory.

East (20-7) got a scare when a ball was foul-tipped off Steedley's collar bone in the fourth inning, but Austin Shull replaced him behind the plate, and Shive kept throwing strikes.

"That Shive kid deserves a lot of credit, and he's gonna be a horse," Tyson said. "His breaker was moving away, the umpire was giving both pitchers a little off the plate, and he just stayed out there. We kept trying to pull those outside pitches, and he kept getting outs."

Shive struck out six, got nine outs on groundballs and had to pitch from the stretch only once. Two of Central's three hits left the park. Shane Reedy clobbered a decent pitch away for an opposite-field homer in the second inning. Jamie Hatley turned a hanging curveball into a souvenir right before Steedley got hurt.

"They hit two bombs off me," Shive said sheepishly. "But I didn't walk anybody, we didn't make any errors, and we hit the ball."

East coach Brian Hightower said the game followed his favorite script: good pitching, great defense, find a way to score five runs. "When you hold a team that's won 17 games to three hits, you've done a great job," he said. "I loved the way Corbin pitched. He got ahead 80-85 percent of the time."

Quick-working, pound-the-strike zone hurlers such as Shive are easy to play defense behind, and the Mustangs made the plays. Nothing spectacular, but shortstop Justin Roland made long throws, first baseman Trey Holmes was agile around the bag, and D.C. Cranford chased down a few well-struck balls in center.

Central righty Jeff Council stopped East for two innings, but the Mustangs got their bats going in the third. "The first time through the lineup he kind of surprised us because he was throwing his curveball on any count," East infielder Micah Jarrett said.

In the third, Will Johnson walked, and Roland's one-out single put runners on the corners. Holmes singled sharply up the middle for a 1-1 tie. After Steedley punched a single, Jarrett hammered a two-run double that banged against the right-field fence. "It was a high, outside pitch," Jarrett said. "I was trying hard to get a run in, so I stayed with it."

Tyson said Council, a six-game winner, had his toughest outing all season and struggled to adjust to the mound. "Usually, he's throwing three pitches for strikes, but he never did adust to the mound here," Tyson said. "It does drop off in a hurry, but that's no excuse. Every mound isn't going to be exactly like your mound at home."

It was a still a tense 3-2 game in the bottom of the fourth when Zach Smith reached on a two-out error on a grounder wide of first base. Then Roland made the Vikings pay with a two-run homer down the left-field line.
"We messed up a play we work on all the time," Tyson said. "That opens the door for the home run, breaks the game open."

Roland's homer took the weight off Shive, and East tacked on two more runs when Central's defense unraveled in the sixth. "Justin's homer reduced a lot of the pressure," Shive said. "I like to pitch ahead."

NOTES: Steedley was in good spirits and is expected back for East's second-round home game against Davie County.

The CPC rivals will meet for the fourth time. East won two classic struggles, and Davie (19-8) took the last meeting in the Easter tournament.

 

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