From staff reports

A host of Rowan County athletes qualified for state competition with top-four finishes in Saturday’s 3A Midwest Regional held at Weddington.

Marvin Ridge was the regional boys champion. Southeast Guilford won the girls title.

East Rowan’s boys were third. West Rowan was seventh, and Carson was ninth.

West Rowan’s girls placed seventh, while East Rowan ws 10th.

Individual regional champions included South Rowan’s Dakotah Lambert in the girls pole vault (10 feet), West Rowan’s Kevin Galliard in the 300 hurdles (40.69 seconds) and East Rowan’s Conor Honeycutt in the 800 (1:56.01).

East Rowan’s Taylor Kirk won the wheelchair shot put (9 feet, 1 1/4 inches)

Other Rowan girls qualifying for the state meet:

East Rowan

• Brittany Small, high jump, second, 5-4

• Jocelyn Lowe, discus, 4th, 96-6

South Rowan

• Brittany Luckey, pole vault, 2nd, 10-0

West Rowan

Khaila Hall, long jump, 3rd, 16-6

Hall, triple jump, 3rd, 36-6.5

Josie Heglar, 800, 3rd, 2:23

Brieanna Owens, 800, 4th, 2:24

Miayanna Pruitt, Tabitha Landy, Destiny Shaver, Hall, 4×400, 4th, 51.04 seconds

Other Rowan boys qualifying for the state meet:

West Rowan

Juwan Houston, 110 hurdles, 3rd, 15.35

Michael Anton, Andrew Burgess, Jordan Bostian, Cameron Butler, 4×800, 4th, 8:23

J.T. Sanders, 400, 4th, 40.85

Houston, Galliard, Javon Quarles, Tajai Stout, 4×100, 4th, 43.67

Carson

• Zachary Marchinko,  3200, 2nd, 9:42

Marchinko, 1600, 3rd, 4:26

Tyler Mason, shot put, 4th, 46-7

Mason, discus, 2nd, 133-2

South Rowan

• Lavon Hill, high jump, 2nd, 6-0

East Rowan

• Marshall Shank, pole vault, 2nd. 14-6

• Josh Little,  Willie McCree, Devaniel Dale, Honeycutt, 4×400, 3rd, 3:27

• Keith Tillman, Tre Gillespie, Max Wall, Little, 4×100, 3rd, 43.29

• Honeycutt set a   school record in the 800 with a time of 1:56.01, breaking the previous record set by his brother, Cole, of 1:56.53 in 2011.

The 4×400 relay team set a school record with a time of 3:27.53, breaking the previous record of 3:27.9 set by Chris Overman, Bobby Comer, Joel Walters, and Mark Rusher set in 1976.

College baseball

Catawba’s baseball team won its 40th game of the season on Saturday, rallying for an 8-6 victory at USC Aiken. T.J. Wharton’s two-run single in the eighth was the key blow.

Avery Bowles was the winning pitcher in relief of Shaefer Shepard, who pitched six innings. Bryan Blanton pitched the ninth for his first save.

Blake Houston (South Rowan) had three  hits. Houston and Craig Brooks drove in runs early in the game. Wharton, Will Albertson, Dylan Richardson and Austin Stilley had two hits each.

• Jacob Barber (Davie) drove in two runs as Winston-Salem State beat Virginia State 8-3 in the CIAA  tournament on Saturday in Cary.

College track

Western Carolina’s Alisha Bradshaw (Salisbury) was named Most Outstanding Field performer as the Catamounts won the Southern Conference Championships held in Birmingham, Ala. Bradshaw won the discus with a meet record throw of 146 feet, 5 inches.

She placed second in the hammer throw (165-5) and third in the shot put (46-2).

College cross country

Catawba  cross country coach Jason Bryan  announced the signing of 11 runners.

The Catawba men will add six to the roster and the women add  five.

The teams will get under way on Sept.  4 in the Catawba Invitational at Salisbury Community Park.

Recruits on the men’s side are Sean McMahon (College of Charleston), Drew Lake (Greensboro, Page), Henry Brenner (Winter Park, Fla.) , Curtis Carmack (Miamisburg, Ohio), Ian Buff (Kernersville Glenn) and Dylan DeSpain (Wake Christian Academy).

Women’s recruits are Abbie Adams (Piedmont, S.C.), Nikkita Elminowski (Piedmont High, N.C.), Morgan Grubb (Veedersburg, Ind.) Alicia Galloway (Cox Mill)   and Lexi Petty (A.L. Brown).

  

Prep tennis

Carson’s Marshall Wood  placed fourth in the 3A Midwest Regional in Asheboro and qualified for the state tournament.

Wood won twice on Friday, beating South Iredell’s Dexter Bellingham and East Rowan’s Jeremy Price.

Wood lost to Marvin Ridge’s George Lovett in a semifinal and lost the third-place match to  Cuthbertosn’s Austin Schepel

“He had a good showing,” Carson coach Josh Trexler said.

• Salisbury doubles team of Spencer Storey and David Derrick hasqualified for the 2A state tournament.

Storey and Derrick  have reached the regional semifinals and will continue competition at Lexington Monday. The semifinals start at 4 p.m.

• The dual team state playoffs resume Tuesday with second-round matches. Salisbury is at home against Hendersonville and East Rowan is taking on South Iredell at Catawba.

Prep baseball

Greater Cabarrus Stallions juniors  Hunter Shepherd and Caleb Threadgill were selected as All Americans at the 2015 Homeschool World Series in Auburndale Fla.

Shepherd hit .667 with 10 RBIs and scored five runs and was solid defensively at 1st base. Threadgill had a .348 batting average with 11 RBIs and scored 8 runs.

Shepherd was outstanding defensively at first base  and Threadgill was outstanding in the outfield.

Local golf

In the eGolf Tour’s Forest Oaks Classic, Salisbury’s Frank Adams III tied for 11th at 8-under 280.

Adams shot 70 in the final round and won $3,250.