Detailed Game Reports

McDowell versus Alexander Central

McDowell traveled to Alexander tonight and pulled out a 2-1 win. Taylor (I believe was his name) pitched a great game for McDowell. Hollifield threw a great game for Alexander, but fell short due to some costly errors. McDowell showed why they are ranked in the polls.

 

Ashbrook 13 East Lincoln 0

This was a makeup of Tuesday's rainout.

W. McCall started on the mound for Ashbrook and left after the 3rd inning with a 9-0 lead. McCall gave up two hits, 1bb, 6k's. M. Bogaert pithced a scoreless 4th and M. Maples completed the shutout pitching the 5th. Ashbrook is now 5-1, 1-0.

Even after what seems like a month of rain, the Ashbrook bats showed no sign of the layoff. Ashbrook scored 2 runs in the first and exploded in the third. The backbreaker of the day was a grand salami by DH Clay Gibson.

According to the stats recorded in yesterday's Gaston Gazette, Ashbrook has 6 starters hitting over .350!

Next up, a very important conference matchup with pre-season favorite South Point visiting Ashbrook at 7:00, Tuesday 3/25.

 

Freedom is now 5-3 in non-conference play. They opened the conference play with a win over Watuaga. They play at Reynolds tommmorow. They better play good if they want to have a chance.

 

The conference standings are usually updated weekly. If the person tracking them has the time, they can update them more frequently.

It's difficult, because we aren't getting all of the scores.

 

This is a reply to your question Braves. (from week 4 scores since it is closed now)...

Errors were not the story of saturday afternoon. Providence's offense on the other hand was. You gotta tip your hats to a team that plays the game with that kind of agression. In all aspects they were aggressive. They clearly had an approach and carried it out. It did not matter to them who they were playing, who was in the stands, or what they had done in previous games. They were completely locked in.

The mistakes that were made in the field were in no way the determining factor of the outcome. They are only an example as to how passive and timid the Mustangs were in entireity that day. On Saturday, the Panthers were the better team.

Every team must face and work through adversity at some point. What seperates the good and the great teams is the great team will learn and become better from it immediately. The good team will point a finger, instead of making the needed adjustment(s).

I tip my hat to Providence...redemption starts today with Garinger.

 

Class!!!!!

 

for FHS03

 

Yep..I was just going to say the same thing

I'm not concerned with my " Mustangs"..it was only one game.

I did not get to attend the game due to the fact that the ticket taker would not honor my new senior citizen pass. So, I didn't receive any info on the game. However, I do know this, I would hate to be the teams that MP plays this week....."Redemption Week"

Yep...an angry Mustang is hard to "corral".

 

Kannapolis-1 over South Rowan-0

Austin Carithers pitched a complete game shutout to lead Kannapolis over their big nonconference rivals. Andrew Mead did all the scoring for the Wonders with a solo homerun. Overall, a very good defensive game for the young Wonders to support the excellent pitching of Carithers...

 

Northwest Cabarrus 6 West Rowan 4

This game was as good as advertised, great pitching match up and well played by both teams with Northwest coming from behind, scoring 4 runs in the final 2 frames to take the win. Northwest scored first when winning pitcher Lucas Dalton doubled in Nolan Patterson(3-4, 2 runs) who had lead off the game with a base hit.
West charged back in the 2nd with a RBI double by Wade Moore(2-3, dbl, HR, 2 RBI,2 runs) and a 2 run HR by Paul Link.
Northwest struck again in the 3rd when Patterson again scored on a ball that careemed of 3rd baseman Seth Waller and sailed into short left field.
Moore's solo HR in the 4th made 4-2, but Northwest wasn't through, scoring 3 times in the 6th when Michael Hamilton(2-4, run) reached on a FC, Jerod Faggart doubled, and Jonathan Hamby singled them both in and later scored on a Dalton sac fly. NW scored again in the 7th when Blake Ketner rushed home on an errant pickoff throw by West reliever, Link.

Northwest

Lucas Dalton(WP)...IP-7...H-6...R-4...SO-7...BB-2

West

Patrick Adams(LP)...IP-5 1/3...H-9...R-5...SO-5...BB-2
Daniel Cauble...IP-1 1/3...H-2...R-1...SO-0...BB-0
Paul Link...IP-1/3...H-0...R-0...SO-0...BB-0

E: West-3, NW-1; DP: NW; HR: Link, Moore; 2B: Dalton, Ketner, Faggart, Moore; SB: Dalton, Bryan Graham, Luke Overcash 2; HBP: by Adams (Faggart), by Dalton (Overcash); WP: Dalton, Adams 2