From staff reports
Catawba’s basketball teams play Lincoln Memorial tonight in a doubleheader at Goodman Gym. The women’s game is at 6 p.m., with the men’s game to follow at about 8 p.m.
Catawba’s men (15-8, 7-5) lost a close game at Lincoln Memorial, a contest that dramatically changed the direction of their season. Catawba had a two-game lead in the SAC race when it was upset by the Railsplitters (13-11, 7-6) in January.
Catawba’s women (14-9, 6-6) won the first meeting at Lincoln Memorial 74-66. The Railsplitters are 10-14, 4-9.
Catawba is at Lenoir-Rhyne Saturday and finishes the regular season against Carson-Newman and Brevard.
– Livingstone basketball
Livingstone’s men’s basketball team lost to CIAA rival St. Augustine’s 80-74 on Tuesday.
Sean Booker scored 27 points for the Blue Bears. Keith Darden had 12 points, and Santonio Springs added 10.
Chris Jordan led the Falcons with 18 points.
* Livingstone’s women beat St. Augustine’s 59-54 behind Brittany Wright’s 12 second-half points.
Keyona Bryant scored 18 points for the Falcons, but LC won its first divisional game of the season.
– Catawba baseball
Catawba’s baseball team was shut out by Pfeiffer 3-0 on Tuesday.
Nick Fogleman pitched eight innings, struck out 12 and limited the Indians to three hits.
Catawba’s Tim Holmes pitched a no-hitter for 52/3 innings, but Zach Pou singled and Will Davis homered in the sixth. Myles Pearl tacked on an RBI single for the Falcons (9-3).
Zeb Link (West Rowan) had two hits for Catawba (3-4). Craige Lyerly (East Rowan) stole three bases.
Pfeiffer’s game scheduled for today with Francis Marion was pushed back to Thursday because of a dismal weather forecast.
– College women’s hoops
N.C. State’s Shayla Fields (Salisbury) had 15 points, four assists and five steals while playing 44 minutes in a 65-63 overtime win against Wake Forest on Tuesday.
* Tracey Croner (East Rowan) had 16 points and five rebounds for Guilford in a 73-68 loss against Randolph on Tuesday.
– College baseball
UNC Pembroke’s Rudy Brown (South Rowan) pitched four hitless innings of relief in a 4-1 win against Barton on Tuesday.
Brown fanned four and didn’t walk a batter.
* Montreat’s Ryan Bostian (South) scored as a pinch-runner in a 10-4 victory against South Carolina-Beaufort on Tuesday.
– College softball
Catawba’s game scheduled for today against Pfeiffer was moved to Thursday because of the gloomy weather forecast.
* Pfeiffer’s Shelby Fleming was named Conference Carolinas Player of the Week, while teammate Allison Braswell was the Pitcher of the Week. Braswell tossed two shutouts.
– College swimming
Pfeiffer sophomore Patrick Porter (A.L. Brown) set five school records in the Bluegrass Championships.
Porter broke school records in the 50 and 100 freestyle races and swam on record-breaking 200 medley relay, 400 medley relay and 400 free relay teams.
– Catawba lacrosse
Dave Loftis and Matt Dimler each scored three goals to lead third-ranked C.W. Post to an 18-5 win against host Catawba in men’s lacrosse on Tuesday.
Marty Tuohy had a pair of goals for Catawba (0-1). Sean Duggan had a goal and an assist.
– Prep boys basketball
A season full of close losses ended for Davie County as the War Eagles fell to host R.J. Reynolds 67-64 in the first round of the CPC tournament on Tuesday night.
Davie (5-19) held a three-point lead in the fourth quarter.
“We’ve just been snakebit over here,” Davie coach Mike Absher said.
It was the last game for Absher’s son, Drew (17 points), one of the top scorers in school history, as well as for reliable James Mayfield (13).
At least, Coach Absher thinks it’s the last game.
“With only six wins, the chance of a wild card is slim,” he said.
Shannon Dillard makes the future bright for Davie. The 6-foot-3 freshman was a workhorse inside against the Demons, scoring 24 points. He was 10-for-12 from the foul line.
“They really couldn’t stop him,” Absher said. “He’s one of those kids that if he grows four or five more inches, he’ll be the real deal. They say he’s not done. And the scary part is he hasn’t learned how to play yet.”
– Prep girls basketball
West Rowan ended its season with a 53-38 loss to Lake Norman in the NPC tournament on Monday.
The Falcons lost by big margins in two earlier meetings with Lake Norman, but this time they trailed by only three points going to the fourth quarter.
Lisa Shalvey scored 17 points for the second-seeded Wildcats (20-4), who will play in a semifinal on Thursday against No. 3 East Rowan.
Ayana Avery scored 18 points to lead the seventh-seeded Falcons, who finished 11-14.
It was West’s first losing season since 1995. A bright spot was Avery, a sophomore who averaged 20.2 points a game, the fourth-highest figure in program history.
Avery has scored 864 points, 11th all-time at West. Her 504 points was the sixth-best single-season total in program history.
WEST (38) ó Avery 18, Sawyer 7, Simmons 6, Calloway 4, Cross 3.
LAKE NORMAN (53) ó Shalvey 17, Riley 13, Steven 7, Vince 7, Wright 5, Mannion 4.
W. Rowan 16 8 10 4 ó 38
Lake Norman 16 10 11 16 ó 53
* Janitsha Williams scored 23 points to lead Statesville to a 57-46 victory against North Iredell in an NPC quarterfinal on Tuesday.
Keyrra Gillespie added 19 points for the top-seeded Greyhounds, who trailed by a point at halftime.
Mandeesa Singletery led the Raiders with 12 points. Statesville plays No. 4 seed South Rowan at 6:30 p.m. tonight at West Iredell.
* Logan Hardin scored 20 points as Providence Grove upset Ledford 53-49 in the first round of the CCC tournament on Tuesday.
PG’s reward is a semifinal meeting with Salisbury on Thursday at Central Davidson.
– Prep wrestling
NCHSAA state wrestling championships are scheduled for Friday and Saturday at Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum.
Six hundred of the state’s top wrestlers are competing, and 42 champions will be crowned.
Action runs from 9 a.m. Friday through Saturday evening. Consolation and championship finals start at 6 p.m. Saturday.
The NCHSAA has been offering championships in the sport since the 1930s. Dividing wrestling into classifications by school size began after 1987.
Cary is the four-time defending champion in 4A, Winston-Salem Parkland has won the last two 3A titles. Hillsborough Orange is the defending champion in 1A-2A.
Cary, Parkland and Orange won this year’s dual-team state titles.
– Chargers basketball
Rockwell Christian’s varsity boys beat Southview Christian 59-58 in the Foothills Region semifinals to qualify for the state tournament.
Josh Cummings had 22 points, while Jordan Blankenship had 12 for the Chargers.
Rockwell then lost to top seed Cramerton in the final.
Cummings was named all-region and will compete in the all-star competition in Raleigh next weekend.
Rockwell and Cramerton will compete in the eight-team 2A state tournament that starts Thursday in Walkertown.
– 7th-grade basketball
Erwin’s unbeaten girls topped Corriher-Lipe 33-10.
The Eagles (6-0, 5-0) were led by Josie McNeely with 10 points and six steals and Karleigh Wike with 10 points and eight rebounds. Mady Arnez scored five points.
Corriher-Lipe (0-5) was led by Kacie Stamey and Elayna Hilderbrandt with four points each.
* Erwin’s boys beat Corriher-Lipe 37-21 for their first victory.
Donte Means hit four 3-pointers and scored 21 points to spark the Eagles (1-5, 1-4).
Corriher-Lipe (0-5) was led by Dalton Carter with eight points.
– Local golfer shines
Eric Edwards won the Ballantyne Junior Open in the 14-under age division over the weekend.
Edwards, a seventh-grader at Sacred Heart, shot 73-72 ó 145 and rallied from four shots back on Sunday to win the event by two strokes.