Staff report
Tuesday wasn’t a very good day locally for playoff baseball and softball.
It was the fourth straight day with rain in the forecast, postponing all the scheduled postseason action. All that rain wrecked havoc on the local diamonds, already soaked from a wet weekend. There’s a chance for more rain today, which would complicate things further.
“We’re going to try to get it in tomorrow, but we may have to wait until Thursday,” North Rowan coach Aaron Rimer said.
All teams will give it another go today.
Whenever they finally play, the Cavaliers will take on Yadkin Valley Conference rival East Montgomery for the third time this season in the baseball playoffs. North (20-6) shutout East twice this year, 6-0 and 1-0. The North softball team is scheduled to face Monroe Central Acadaemy tonight as well.
East Rowan’s softballl/ baseball doubleheader was moved back a day with the softball action starting at 5 p.m. at East. The Mustangs’ softball squad faces Northern Guilford, the No.5 seed from the Mid-State Conference. The baseball game pairing East with Weddington carries a 7 p.m. start at Staton Field. East is the top seed out of the North Piedmont Conference and Weddington (14-9) earned the Southern Carolina’s runner up spot. The Warriors beat Hickory Ridge 8-4 in the first round. The winner will play the winner of Parkwood and Northwest Caburrus. The Mustangs beat Northwest last year in the postseason and split this year’s two meetings.
After a 1-0 upset of Mt. Pleasant in Round 1, Carson (16-7) will play Charlotte Catholic (18-3), the Mega-7 Conference champions tonight at 7. The Cougars have never advanced past the second round.
Salisbury’s girls soccer team will face West Stokes on the road tonight at 7 in the district round of the 2A West region. The Hornets (17-0-2) have a tall order in taking down the Northwest Conference champion in the Wildcats (15-5-1).
Rounding out the softball matchups of interest are Salisbury at Piedmont, Carson at Jay M. Robinson and West Rowan at Charlotte Catholic at Jack Hughes Memorial Park in Pineville.