From staff reports

Golf regionals will be held today and Tuesday.

Regional individual and team titles are at stake, but the main goal is to qualify for the state tournament.

East Rowan, Carson and A.L. Brown golfers will be competing today in the 18-hole  3A Central Regional at Greensboro National.

Carmen Fraley will tee off first for the Mustangs, the Rowan and North Piedmont Conference champs,  at 9 a.m.  Camryn Corriher, Grace Howell, Hailey Fesperman and Megan Graham will follow her at 10-minute intervals.

Carson’s Amber Goodman will be the first Cougar off the tee at 10 a.m. Sophia Brown starts at 10:30, while Kaiya Addison will begin at 10:40.

A.L. Brown is represented by Ashlea Rose (10:20), Maggie May (10:30) and Jordan Hardeman (10:50).

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The 4A West Regional will be held today at Salem Glen in Clemmons.

Davie qualified two girls. Kyleigh Harnsberger tees off at 8:40, while Brookelynn Sornig tees off at 9:10.

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The 1A/2A Central Regional will be held on Tuesday at Cedarbrook Country Club near Elkin.

South Rowan’s Ellyse Scarborough qualified for the regional and has an 8:10 a.m. tee time.

Gray Stone has five girls in the event. Lauren Denhard will start things off for the Knights at 8 a.m. She’ll be followed by Annika Kuleba, Olivia Porter, Riley Ritchie and Aliza Simpson.

Prep cross country

The Central Carolina Conference championships are set for Tuesday at  Salisbury Community Park at  5 p.m.

Prep volleyball

The Central Carolina Conference Tournament starts with quarterfinal games on Monday.

Seventh-seeded Salisbury will play at No. 2 West Davidson, while No. 3 South Rowan hosts No. 6 Central Davidson. Both matches start at 6 p.m.

West Davidson is the host team for the semifinals (Tuesday) and championship (Wednesday). Ledford is the top seed.

Prep  girls tennis

Salisbury (19-1) plans to play its first-round home match against Jordan-Matthews (14-1) in the 2A dual team state playoffs  on Tuesday afternoon.

Carson (12-2) will be at home in the first round of the 3A state playoffs.

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Individual regionals will be contested on Friday and Saturday.

Salisbury is hosting the  2A Midwest Regional, while the 3A Midwest Regional will be at Concord’s Myers Park.

College football

Appalachian State’s Myquon Stout (Carson) had four tackles, including a 3-yard sack, in Saturday’s comeback win against Idaho.

The junior defensive lineman has 18 tackles this season.

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In the California junior college ranks, Naquis Caldwell (East Rowan) had six catches for 62 yards, including a 26-yard reception, as Ventura beat Canyons on Thursday night.

QB Alexis Archie (North Rowan) had a rushing TD for Feather River in a loss to Butte on Saturday.

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Gardner-Webb’s Jayln Cagle (A.L. Brown) had eight carries for 37 yards and caught a 28-yard pass  in Saturday’s loss to N.C. Central.

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Darius Jackson and DJ Alexander (both Salisbury) had two tackles each as NC Wesleyan rolled vs. Greensboro on Saturday.

Jackson had a sack.

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Wesley Porter (East Rowan) made his fourth interception of the season on Saturday for Sewanee in a win against Birmingham Southern.

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Teoz Mauney (West Rowan) made two tackles as St. Augustine’s stunned Winston-Salem State.

Kyrell Williamson (A.L. Brown) led the WSSU Rams with seven tackles.

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K.J. Wilson (West Rowan) made his first start on the offensive line at left  tackle for Hampton in Saturday’s 16-14 win against Norfolk State.

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Kaleb Spry (A.L. Brown) started at center for Western Carolina, as the Catamounts (5-2) beat East Tennessee State on Saturday.

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N.C. A&T’s Brandon Parker (A.L. Brown) is the reigning MEAC Offensive Lineman of the Week.  He did not allow a sack or a hurry against Delaware State.

Parker, a 6-foot-7, 309-pound tackle, is an NFL prospect.

Coll. cross country

Georgia Southern’s Rebecca Parker (West Rowan) ran a school record for a 6K on Saturday in Tuscaloosa, Ala. The senior was clocked in 22:50.

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Zachary Marchinko (Carson) was the third runner for the Charlotte 49ers in Pre-National 8K competition in Louisville on Saturday.Marchinko ran 24:13. Hickory Ridge grad Alex Cornwell ran 24:21 and was Charlotte’s fourth runner.

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Jordan Bostian (West Rowan) was the third runner for Western Carolina in Saturday’s Queen City Invitational 8K.  The junior ran 26:08.

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Methodist’s Nathan Zauner (West Rowan) ran 28:33 for fourth place in the Blue Bear Invitational.

Methodist had a perfect  score.

College soccer 

Host Anderson scored a pair of first-half goals and held off Catawba to post a 2-1 win in South Atlantic Conference women’s soccer action on Saturday.

Jenny Lux scored for  Catawba (6-6, 3-3 SAC). Shelby Thompson had four saves.

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Anderson’s men won against Catawba, 2-1.

Nathan Robbins scored a late goal for the Indians (1-6-1, 1-5-1 SAC). Joe Gonzalez recorded seven saves.

Landon Goodman (Salisbury) saw action for Anderson.

Catawba’s soccer teams go to Wingate on Wednesday.

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Pfeiffer got two goals from Caz Dabrowski  in a 5-0 win against William Peace on Sunday.

College volleyball 

Catawba was swept at Anderson on Saturday.

Macy Eidenberger led Catawba with nine kills and had just one hitting error in 18 swings.

Kimberly Hurtado posted four blocks, with Rachel Stanford adding three blocks and a dozen assists. Libero Allison Benton collected 12 digs. Morgan Hester (Carson) had eight assists and six digs.

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Abby Lee (Salisbury) had five digs and an ace as Meredith won against Greensboro College on Saturday.

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Lynsey Corriher (South Rowan) had nine kills and two blocks in Averett’s win against William Peace.

Averett has won a school-record 17 straight matches.

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Hannah Elmore (Carson) had 27 kills and 10 digs as Brevard won twice on Saturday.

Elmore had 15 kills with only two hitting errors against Berea.

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Makala Lytton (North Rowan) leads Winston-Salem State with 260 digs and 23 aces.

College tennis

At Cary Tennis Park, sophomore Alexis Galarneau and junior Michael Ogden (Salisbury) advanced to the doubles quarterfinal at the ITA Carolina Regional, beating’ Duke’s Jason Lapidus and Catalin Mateas 7-5, 6-3 in the Round of 16.

College golf 

In men’s golf, the Elon Phoenix Invitational starts today. Eric Edwards (Salisbury) and the George Mason squad get a chance to play in N.C.

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The Catawba and UNC Pembroke women’s teams are in Dahlonega, Georgia, for the Leeann Noble Memorial Tournament.

Sacred Heart

Sacred Heart’s soccer team fell to Immaculate Heart of Mary, 7-1. Ben Childress scored the goal for the Dolphins.

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Sacred Heart won against St.Pius X, 6-1.

Colin Donaldson scored three goals,Childress had two, and John David Bonilla had one.

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  Sacred Heart lost to Salisbury Academy, 5-2.

Bonilla scored both goals for the Dolphins.

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In an 8-0 win against North Hills, Jalon Walker scored three goals to lead the Dolphins.

Sutton Webb scored twice, and  Donaldson, John Sentilles and Cooper Fleeman had a goal each.

Combining for the shutout in goal were Walker,   Donaldson, Webb and  Bonilla.

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In jayvee soccer, Sacred Heart won against North Hills, 9-3.

Simon Mueller and AJ Jarrell had two goals each.  Izzy Banish, Alex Robinette, Harrison Banish, Nick Loeblein and Joseph Harrison added a goal apiece.

Gold Hill 5K

The Historic Gold Hill and Mines Foundation, Inc. will host the First Annual Gold Rush 5K on Saturday, Oct. 21, at Gold Hill Mines Historic Park.   The race is being coordinated  with the help of  David Freeze and SalisburyRowanRunners.org.

The park is located at 735 St. Stephens Church Road in Gold Hill.

Proceeds will benefit the Historic Gold Hill and Mines Foundation.

Go to the website at www.historicgoldhill.com. Email vivian@historicgoldhill.com or call 704-267-9439.

Local golf

A first stage Q School qualifying tournament was held at The Club at Irish Creek from Oct. 10-13. Drew Weaver, of Atlanta, led the way, shooting 64-68-66-65 — 263. Twenty-six golfers advanced to the second stage, with the cutline falling at 7-under 277.

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McCanless Couples:

In a game of nip and tuck golf, Gene & Mary Seaford & Bev and Ty Cobb  edged  the team of Azalee Story, David Honeycutt and Susan Wydner

Harry Owen. had closest to the pin, while Walt Kincaid had longest putt.

Overseas basketball

Keshun Sherrill (West Rowan) had 18 points, eight assists, seven rebounds and two steals in his first pro game for Den Bosch in The Netherlands.

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Keshun’s big brother, K.J. Sherrill (West Rowan), plays in Bonn, Germany, and is off to a great start.  He had 25 points and 13 rebounds in his most recent outing and is averaging 17.8 points per game.

Legion baseball

Randolph County Legion coach Ronnie Pugh was outspoken in his comments about new  rules which will make the Legion game a lot more like high school baseball.

The biggest change is a move to seven-inning games for state, regional and national tournaments.

“Your coaching approach, the way you build your team, it’s just totally different,”   Pugh told the Asheboro Courier Tribune. “Going to seven innings is an easy way for people who are complaining who are not willing to go out and develop a team. Everything we did in our program was to mimic a college approach with the goal of giving our kids the chance to play in college. Instead of making   Legion programs go out and work hard to develop a program,  Legion officials  are taking the easy way out. Instead of continuing to do things to separate ourselves from other programs, they are converting everything to high school.  The next step would be to give everyone a trophy and then after that we can cancel the season and have everyone just come by and pick up their trophy.”

Nine of the 10 largest states as far as American Legion baseball participation voted for the innings change. North Carolina voted against it.