From staff reports

Jhonathan Diaz pitched the Greenville Drive to a 2-0 win over the Kannapolis Intimidators on Wednesday.

The Drive took a 2-0 lead in a best-of-five series.

The series shifts to Greenville tonight. The Intimidators are involved in their first postseason games since 2009 and first SAL championship series since 2005.

SAC football

Catawba wideout Sam Mobley  is the South Atlantic Conference Player of the Week.

Wingate linebacker Robbie Wallace was honored for defense, while Tusculum kicker  Isaac Gallegos and Newberry return man Chance Walker took special teams honors.

Mobley, a senior from Monroe, hauled in eight catches for 211 yards to lead the Catawba Indians to a 27-20 win over VMI.

Prep girls tennis

Carson rolled against North Iredell, 9-0, on Wednesday to stay unbeaten in the North Piedmont Conference.

Carson got singles wins from Emily Sloop, Gabi Jolly, Siera Fesperman, Jadyn Kirkpatrick, Maci Cooper and Quinnlan Watson.

Jolly/Fesperman, Sloop/Kirkpatrick and Cooper-Watson won in doubles.

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East Rowan won against Statesville, 9-0, on Wednesday in NPC tennis.

Single winners for  East were  Angel Scialdone, Lauren Weisensel, Mia Graham, Kristen Brady, Victoria Plyler and Syann Cooper.

Winning doubles teams were Scialdone/Weisensel, Graham/Brady and Plyler/Sage Fann.

East is undefeated and hosts Carson in a key matchup in the NPC today.

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Salisbury stayed undefeated in the Central Carolina Conference with a 9-0   win against Thomasville.

Prep soccer

Miguel Bernal scored with 55 seconds left to lift South Rowan to a 5-4 win against Thomasville in Central Carolina Conference soccer on Wednesday.

The goal was Bernal’s second of the match. Eber Tapia scored twice. Jordi Cortez had two assists. German Delgado and  Dalton Baxter had assists.

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Salisbury won against Ledford, 3-1, in CCC action on Wednesday. It was only the second loss for Ledford, which has the CCC’s leading scorer.

Salisbury overcame a one-goal deficit three minutes into the match.

After some rearranging and an overhaul in formations, the Hornets gathered momentum until Jack Fisher found Angel Quintero cutting across the box. Quintero took a single touch then blasted a shot to level the match at 1-all.

  ‘We lost Hugo Trujillo and Melvin Bonilla to injury, but new guys stepped up to give us the opportunity to compete,” SHS coach Matt Parrish said. “That moment came with just under 10 minutes left in the match. Tony Figueroa (himself under the weather) took a corner kick that a streaking Luke Holland headed across the end line for a 2-1 lead.”

With just over four minutes left, Tony Figueroa stepped over a free kick from 25 yards out. His strike beat the wall and was parried by the keeper — right onto the foot of Holland who again found the back of the net.

“Holland was terrific, Jack Fisher was simply outstanding, and keeper Josh Faulkner stood on his head,” Parrish said.  “It was this team’s first signature win. Ledford is easily the fastest  team we have seen and they control the ball better than those that we have faced in conference.  We have been close in all of our matches this year and just needed that break or confidence boost to get us over the hump. I hope that tonight was it.”

Prep volleyball

South Rowan’s varsity volleyball team swept Lexington on Wednesday.

South is in third place in the CCC.

Anna Blume had five aces. Jenna Strickland had 16 digs. Michaela Hallman had 14 digs and 21 assists.  Janiya Downs had 15 kills, and Kira Rymer had 13 kills.

South (8-5, 6-2) visits Salisbury today in CCC action.

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South also swept the jayvee match.  Kendall Walter and Kendall Rockstad had five kills and five aces each. Anna Rymer had 10 assists.

Prep golf

In North Piedmont Conference golf at Rolling Hills on Wednesday, East Rowan shot 125 to win easily. South Iredell was second with 152, and Carson shot 154 for third.

East scorers were Carmen Fraley (40), Camryn Corriher (42) and Victoria Lewis (43).

Kaiya Addison shot 47 to lead Carson. Maddie Owen (57) led West Rowan.

Mid. school football

Erwin won against North Rowan, 12-6, in eighth-grade football.

  Cameron Padgett scored two touchdowns and made an interception.

Damarion Chalk, Raland Frost and the rest of the Erwin defense played well.

The Eagles host Mooresville next Wednesday at 4 p.m.

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In seventh-grade football, West Rowan won against China Grove, 26-22.

Peter Williams-Simpson scored on a 66-yard run and a 55-yard pass from Athan Gill.

Gill also scored on a 7-yard run, while Dylan Upright scored on a 52-yard run.  Alijiah Gray ran hard and added a  2-point conversion run.

The West offensive line of Charles Withers, Adam Coughenour, Asriel Mauney, Quentin Lofton, Joshua Wilson and Andrew Newton blocked well.

The West defense was led by Tanner Poole, Makaii Blackwell,  Gray,   Coughenour, Abram Davis and Canyon Turner. Williams-Simpson recovered a fumble.

West (1-0) hosts Knox  next Tuesday.

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Southeast won against Corriher-Lipe, 8-0, in eighth-grade football.  The Yellow Jackets don’t have a seventh-grade team this season.

College volleyball

Lynsey Corriher (South Rowan) had four kills, two blocks and two digs as Averett upset No. 7 Mary Washington in D-III volleyball.

Corriher also had nine kills, five block assists and four digs in a win against  Susquehanna.

Mid. school tennis

Erwin  defeated West Rowan Middle, 8-1, at West on Wednesday.

Lauren Corriher won for the Bulldogs.

  Riley Isley, Lauren Whisnant, Rebecca Reilly,  Joanna Thompson and Cindy Peterson  won in singles for the Eagles.

Isley/Audrey Ward,  Whisnant-Reilly and  Kesler-Hedenskog  won in doubles for Erwin.