Area Sports Briefs: Rowan County romps at Mocksville
Published 12:32 am Thursday, June 4, 2015
From staff and wire reports
Rowan County’s American Legion team romped 12-2 in seven innings at Mocksville’s Rich Park on Wednesday in a game that won’t count in the league standings.
Rowan had 11 hits and took advantage of seven Mocksville errors.
Rowan (2-3) got shutout pitching from Hunter Shepherd for four innings. Omar Bautista pitched the fifth and sixth, and Cory Fries worked the seventh.
Juan Garcia went 4-for-5 for Rowan and is 11-for-15 this season.
Riley Myers drove in three runs. Michael Caldwell scored three runs.
Rowan scored four runs in the first inning with Caldwell, Garcia and Jeremy Simpson producing hits.
Myers had a two-run double in he second inning for a 6-0 lead.
Dustin Ritchie had a two-run single in the fourth that made it 11-0.
Mocksville (2-8) scored twice in the sixth. Nick Wilson’s double was the key blow.
• Rowan is home on Thursday against Stanly County in a non-league game. Rowan’s first league game is June 7.
• Southern Rowan had Wednesday off. Southern Rowan is home on Thursday against Winston-Salem.
• In other games played on Wednesday, Kernersville won 10-0 against Davidson County, Stanly County won Concord 10-0, and Winston-Salem beat High Point 11-7.
Junior Legion
Luke Nelson pitched the Kannapolis O’s to a 1-0 win against Carson on Wednesday. Braxton Brodnik drove in the only run
Maddux Holshouser pitched five strong innings for Carson.
Intimidators
The Kannapolis Intimidators fought through pouring rain and a controversial call that resulted in the game continuing under protest to beat the Greenville Drive, 5-3, on Wednesday at Fluor Field.
Kannapolis (26-27) clinched its fourth straight series victory and finished a road trip with five wins in seven games.
With the game tied 3-3 in the eighth, Eddy Alvarez was ruled out for baserunner interference to open the inning.
Intimidators manager Tommy Thompson objected, and the game continued under protest. Christian Stringer followed the disputed Alvarez at-bat with a one-out triple down the right-field line. Louie Lechich brought him home for the tie-breaking run with an RBI groundout.
In the ninth, Kannapolis added a run when Ryan Leonards led off the frame with a double, moved to second base on a Mason Robbins bunt-hit, and scored on a double-play ball for a 5-3 lead.
David Trexler spun perfect eighth and ninth innings to put the Drive away and secure his fourth save.
Brad Salgado (1-3) earned the win in relief of Yelmison Peralta, who worked five strong innings.
The Intimidators return home on Thursday for seven games over the next eight days starting with a four-game series against Delmarva.
• The Intimidators announced the promotion of pitchers Jordan Guerrero and Jefferson Olacio to the Class A-Advanced Winston-Salem Dash.
Prep softball
North Davidson takes on Greenville D.H. Conley in the best-of-three 4A state championship series at N.C. State’s Dail Softball Stadium. The first game is at 8 p.m. on Friday.
North Davidson, which won the state title in 2010 and has been runner-up five times, eliminated two-time defending champion Alexander Central and snapped the Cougars’ record-setting winning streak in the sport at 95 earlier in the playoffs.
Casey Stanek leads the North Davidson offensive attack, batting a red-hot .488 and pacing the club in several offensive categories.
Junior Carson Pace is 16-3 in the circle with a 1.07 ERA.
D.H. Conley seeks its third crown in the last five years. Conley won it all in 2011 and in 2013. The Vikings beat Apex in two straight in the Eastern Regional series.
College softball
Catawba placed pitcher Carley Tysinger and outfielder Natalie Naturile on the College Division All-State first team.
Wingate’s Morgan Hendrix (Davie) also made the first team.
ASU sports
Appalachian State University announced Wednesday that football coach Jerry Moore (1989-2012), football stars Armanti Edwards (2006-09), Chip Hooks (1991-94) and Daniel Wilcox (1999-2000) and women’s cross country/track and field standout Leigh Cooper Wallace (1988-92) have been selected for induction to the Hall of Fame.
Local golf
Entries are now being accepted for the 2015 Rowan Masters at Warrior.
Gray Stone
Gray Stone won 10 Yadkin Valley Conference championships this school year.
Gray Stone won titles in boys soccer, volleyball, girls tennis, boys cross country, girls cross country, girls basketball, girls swimming, girls soccer, girls track and boys golf.
West Rowan
A 5K fundraiser run is set for West Rowan on Saturday.
Registration is from 7-8:30 a.m. The race starts at 9.
• West Rowan’s youth football camp will be held June 22-24 from 9 until noon daily.
The cost is $50.
Hoops Unlimited
Following are the sites and dates for the 22nd annual Hoops Unlimited Basketball Camps.
• East Rowan High, June 15-18, rising 2nd-5th grade boys and girls
• June 22-25, rising 6th-10th grade boys and girls
• North Stanly Middle School, July 6-9 , rising 2nd-5th grade boys and girls
• July 13-16, rising 6th-10th grade boys and girls
The cost of the all day camp is $110, which includes an “all you can eat” lunch each day. Each camper will also receive a camp T-shirt. For brochures and information, go to www.hoopsunlimitedcamp.com, or call camp director Rick Roseman at 704-279-7334.
Hurley YMCA
Register now for summer sports camps at the J.F. Hurley YMCA or online at www.rowanymca.org
Contact Jesse Byrd at 704-738-5134 or Jbyrd@rowanymca.org for information.
• Soccer (K- 8th grade)
June 29-July 3
$60 members
$80 non-members
Registration ends June 24th
• Basketball (K-8th grade)
July 6-10
$60 members
$80 non-members
Registration ends July 1
• Track & Field (K-8th grade)
July 6-10
$60 members
$80 non-members
Registration ends June 29
• Volleyball (grades 4-8)
June 29-July 1
$45 members
$60 non-members
Registration ends: June 24
• Golf (grades 4-8)
Aug. 10-13
$60 members
$80 non-members
Registration ends Aug. 5
Parks and Rec
Salisbury Parks and Recreation is currently accepting registration for its summer sport camps and coed adult softball league and youth sport leagues.
To view all programs, events, register and pay online, visit www.salisburync.gov/play. Any further questions please call 704-638-5291.
Basketball camps
West Rowan basketball camps are set for June 15-17 and July 13-15.
The cost of a camp is $50 and includes first-class instruction and a camp T-shirt.
Call coach Mike Gurley at 704-798-2074 for information.
• The Kannapolis Basketball camp is set for July 6-8 from 9-1 daily.
The cost is $60.
Call coach Shelwyn Klutz for information at 704-491-3752.
East baseball camp
East Rowan Baseball camp dates are June 15-20.
Times: 9-2 on Monday-Thursday and 9-12 on Friday. The cost is $125. Lunch will be provided on Friday. Campers bring lunch the other days. Each camper receives a free T-shirt
Competition on Friday with medals to winners.
NASCAR fines
CHARLOTTE — NASCAR fined two drivers on Wednesday for walking across the race track at Dover last weekend.
Trevor Bayne was fined $20,000 and placed on probation for the rest of the year for walking across the racing surface on Sunday. Jennifer Jo Cobb was fined $5,000 and placed on probation through Dec. 31 for doing the same thing during Friday’s Truck Series race.
NASCAR last August banned drivers from walking onto the racing surface following a fatal accident involving Tony Stewart at a dirt track in upstate New York. Kevin Ward Jr. was struck and killed when he approached Stewart’s moving car.
NASCAR on Wednesday also issued a P1 penalty against Kevin Harvick’s team for receiving written warnings in consecutive events. He will have the last choice of pit selection this weekend at Pocono. The Stewart-Haas Racing team was warned for having to go through pre-race inspection more than three times at Charlotte, and the car’s exhaust pipe did not confirm to rules at Dover.
In the Xfinity Series, crew chief John Monsam and car chief David Jones were each suspended one race after a weight fell off Peyton Sellers’ car last weekend at Dover. Monsam was also fined $15,000 and Sellers docked 15 points for the P3 penalty.
NASCAR fined crew chief Nick Harrison $7,500 and placed him on probation through Dec 31 after Austin Dillon’s car was too low in post-race inspection. Owner Richard Childress was docked 10 points.