Prep baseball roundup: Carson rolls

From staff reports

Baseball roundup ...Senior Zack Grkman opened the game with his first high school homer, and Carson went on to pound Salisbury 13-5 at Robertson Stadium on Wednesday.

Carson is 5-0 and already has scored 63 runs. The Cougars have scored in double figures three straight outings.

Carson banged out 19 hits and had 15 of them against Salisbury lefty Philip Tonseth, a frontline starter, in just four innings.

"Tonseth stifled us for quite a while last year," Carson coach Chris Cauble said. "But today we hit the ball about as good as I've seen in a long time, and I mean everybody on the team. Even the outs were hard outs. It was kinda amazing."

Tyler Freeze hit a ball people will discuss for a while. It was his second homer of the year and nearly went into orbit.

"Probably one of the longest I've seen a high school kid hit," Cauble said. "It went over that first fence. Then it went over the bank. Then it cleared the second fence. Then it landed out there in the middle of the road somewhere."

Grkman went 4-for-4 to lead the Cougars.

Julio Zubillaga and Weston Snow had three hits each, and Snow's blows included a triple and double.

Joseph Basinger went 2-for-3 with three RBIs. Freeze had two hits and three RBIs.

"It was just a barrage," Salisbury coach Scott Maddox said. "They were bringing kids off the bench who were pounding the ball. Carson can really swing the bats, and I was impressed with their defense."

Freeze, normally Carson's catcher, started on the mound and was on a pitch count. He left after three shutout innings. Ethan Free (2-0) pitched two scoreless innings of relief and earned the win.

John Knox, Scott Van der Poel and Nolan Meyerhoeffer had two hits each for the Hornets (2-1).

The game appeared headed toward 10-run rule territory, but Salisbury scored all of its runs in the fourth to trim a 9-0 deficit to 9-5.

Knox pitched well the last three innings, holding the Cougars to one run.

Salisbury is scheduled to play against Greensboro Smith today.

Carson is scheduled to play at home against East Rowan (4-0, 1-0 NPC) on Friday afternoon, although weather could become a factor. n Central Davidson bumped its record to 4-0 with a 9-7 win against Southwestern Randolph.

n West Davidson's Gary Ferguson pitched a one-hitter in a 10-0 win against Wheatmore. P.J. Whitaker, Tyler Hudson, Colby Bessette and Justin Cecil had two hits each for the Green Dragons.

n Justin Weavil had three RBIs for East Davidson in a 12-6 loss to Southwest Guilford.

n A.L. Brown is scheduled to play today at Cuthbertson in Union County.