Week #11

Fred T Foard 9 Newton 4

The Tiger offense was a little slow getting going but came up some big hits late to put away a pesky Red Devil team in the first round of the CVAC conference tournament. Leading the way for the Tigers were Trent Rothlin (2-4, HR), Brian Dice (2-3), Aaron King (1-2, HR), and Tyler Buchanan (1-2, HR). But perhaps the biggest hit of them all came off the bat of Chris Reynolds in the bottom of the 6th when he hit a three run home run in his only at bat of the game. Foard finished with 10 hits as a team.

Andrew Wyant pitched 6 innings for the victory scattering 6 hits while striking out 7 and giving up one earned run. Ben Lilly pitched a scoreless 7th to finish it up.

Next for Foard (22-3) will be St. Stephens today at 4:30 in the semi-finals. The game will be played at Bunker Hill High School.

 

Charlotte Christian 3
vs.
Country Day 0

WP: Jared Bard (8-1)

Bard threw a 1 hit shutout, Gaines hit his 11th HR of the year, m. fulginiti had a 2 rbi 3B in the 7th to help christian earn a win and a tie for the cisaa lead. 2 teams play again thursday at christian in what should be a good game

 

TC Roberson 12, Tuscola 1 (5 innings)

WP - Josh Thrailkill (9-3) 4 IP, 4 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 6 K's

TCR - Justin Jackson 1-1, HR (11) 3 RBI, Jonathan Wright 2-2, 2B, 2 RBI, Kyle Lanning 3-3, 2B, 2 RBI

This was the final regular season game for a great group of seniors.....best of luck guys in the playoffs!

TCR seniors - Greg Ewald, Mitch Hefner, Kyle Lanning, Joe Sabolik, Josh Thrailkill, Casey Warren

TCR and Tuscola finished 1-2 in the MAC.

TCR 18-4, 11-1
Tuscola 14-8, 8-4

 

Shelby 5 East Rutherford 4

Shelby's Tyler Rabb hit a bases-loaded double with 2 outs in the bottom of the 7th to give Shelby the win. Conference champ ER enters the playoffs on a 3-game skid.

ER 1 0 0 1 1 1 0...4 7 3
SH 0 0 0 0 1 0 4...5 6 1

Leading Hitters : SH - Tyler Rabb 2-3, 2B, 2 RBI ; Dustin Reeves 1-2, 2B, 2 R ; Orlando Rivera 1-3, 2B, RBI
ER - Zeke Blanton 1-3, R ; Tyler Smith 2-3, 3B, R, RBI ; Michael Melton 1-3, 2B, R, RBI ; Robbie Pruitt 1-3, 2B, R
Pitchers : SH - Andrew White 5.1 IP, 4 R, 4 ER, 7 H, 1 K, 1 BB ; Seth Canipe 1.2 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 2 K, 0 BB WIN
ER - Blake Bostic 6.2 IP, 6 H, 5 R, 2 ER, 8 K, 2 BB LOSS (7-2)

 

Charlotte Christian v. Charlotte Country Day

CCS......3.....6.....0...................000 100 2

CCDS....0.....1.....1...................000 000 0

WP: Jared Bard (8-1) 7 IP 8 K 1 BB 1 H

LP: Drew Witman (7-2) 6.1 IP 3 K 2 BB 6 H

LH: CCS- Bryant Gaines 1-2 (HR); M. Fulginiti 1-3 (2B)
CCDS- Jason Coker 1-3 (2B)

CCS 26-7 (5-2)
CCDS 17-9 (4-2)

 

West Henderson 5, North Henderson 4

NH 0-0-1-0-2-0-1 4-10-2
WH 3-0-0-0-0-0-2 5-9-1

WP Matthew Pruitt (9-1) 7in, 2 runs, 2 er, 8 hits, 8 k's, 0 bb
LP Kenneth Brandt 7 in, 5 runs, 5 er, 9 hits 5 k's, 3 bb

For NH:
Kenneth Brandt, 2/4, double
Jackie Corn, 2/3
Seth Baldwin. 2/4, HR
Matthew McMurray, 2/3, triple

For WH:
Jerry Brinkley, 2/4
Seth Grant, 2/3

This game was a baseball fans delight. Tied 3to 3 going into the top of 7th, NH scored to take the lead when Jackie Corn was HBP and then McMurray hit a triple. WH came right back in the bottom with 4 hits and a hbp to score 2 and take the win. John Smith with the game winning rbi.

WH is now 21-2, 9-1. WH is conference champs and will take the #1 seed into the playoffs.
NH is now 17-5, 8-2 and is the conference runnerup and will travel to Owen for a 1st round game.

Crowd was estimated by the WH principal to be around 1100.

 

Lumberton 5 Cape Fear 4

The Two Rivers is not a strong conference but it may well be the goofiest ever. Last night #4 Pine Forest beat #1 South View 1-0. Then #3 Lumberton beat #2 Cape Fear 5-4 in eight innings despite only getting three singles in the game. The game was tied 1-1 after six with Lumberton lefty Tre Britt working out of jams and Cape Fear's Travis Horne shutting Lumberton down. LUM SCRATCHED across a run in the top of the seventh but closer Ransom could not hold the lead giving up a tieing run with two outs. Cape Fear then fell apart on defense in the eighth making three errors leading to three runs. In the bottom of the eighth, Ransom walked the first two and gave up hard singles to make it 5-4 and LUM turned to recently called up SOPH John Thompson to make his varsity debut. Thompson calmly got a K and a groundout to end the game. LUM and PF now play for the playoff berth and CF hopes for a wildcard.

 

Fred T Foard 1 St. Stephens 0

Brian Dice's RBI groundout in the first scored JT Wharton and that was all that ace Trent Rothlin needed as the Tigers edged the Indians. Rothlin went the distance giving up only 2 hits while striking out 10 and walking two.

Foard only had 3 hits with Wharton collecting two and Dice had one. It was a very well pitched game on both sides with the defenses making plays.

Foard (23-3) will now face Bandys in the finals of the CVAC conference tournament on Thursday night at Bunker Hill.

 

MECA-6

Nothing in the paper, nothing on here. What's happening with this conference tournament?

 

MECA - Central Cabarrus keeps winning

Central Cabarrus - 7 J.M. Robison - 1

North Meck - 6 Hopewell - 12