From staff reports

Catawba first baseman Chance Bowden has been named South Atlantic Conference Baseball Player of the Week, while Carson-Newman right-hander Greg Valentine is the South Atlantic Conference Baseball Pitcher of the Week for games played Feb. 19-25.

Bowden, a senior from Salisbury, had a monster week at the plate for the Catawba Indians, batting .611 with four home runs, a double, a triple and 13 RBI.

Catawba was 4-0 for the week, including a three-game sweep of Coker.

In the series with Coker, Bowden batted .833, going 10-for-12 at the plate with a pair of four-hit games. In Saturday’s doubleheader, he was a perfect 8-for-8 with 10 RBIs. He also tied a school record with three home runs and seven RBIs in the final game of the series.

Valentine, a junior from Knoxville, Tenn., went 2-0 with two wins in relief for the Eagles.

Prep basketball

North Stanly’s  basketball season ended with a 78-67 loss at  Winston-Salem Prep in the   1A regional semifinals on Tuesday.

Daivien Williamson scored 26 points, making all 13 of his free throws, to lead top-seeded Winston-Salem Prep (25-3).

W-SPrep won state 1A titles in 2008, 2012, 2013 and 2014 and was runner-up in 2015 and 2016.

North Stanly (24-6) was led by junior guard Bryson Childress, who scored 27

The Comets engineered another comeback midway through the fourth quarter behind Bryson Childress, a junior guard who led all scorers with 27 points. Childress shot 14-for-16 from the foul line.

Chris Meisenheimer, North Stanly’s coach, told the Winston-Salem Journal: “I’m proud of the way my team fought tonight,” he said. “We had a chance to cut it to three or four, and we had opportunities, but we never could get them to fall. Hats off to Prep. They’re the No. 1 team in the state for a reason. We gave them all they wanted, but we couldn’t close them down.”

Jason Doerr scored 21 for the Comets, while Carson Lowder had 13.

Parks and Rec

  Salisbury Parks and Recreation is accepting registration for its Spring Men’s Open Softball League and will hold a coaches meeting on Thursday, March 15, at 6  p.m. at Hall Gym at 1400-B W. Bank St.

Call 704-638-5286 or email sclar@salisburync.gov.

Pfeiffer Hall of Fame

The Pfeiffer University Athletic Department  announced that Ken Budd (wrestling), Kevin Iwanusa (lacrosse), Warren Knapp (tennis), Fran Knapp (field hockey), Ed McDuell (soccer), Kammie Studley (lacrosse) and the 2003-04 men’s basketball team have been elected as the 2018 Sports Hall of Fame class.

The new inductees will be honored at the Sports Hall of Fame banquet on Saturday, Sept., in Merner Gymnasium.

  The 2003-04 basketball team is of the greatest teams to play inside Merner Gym. That team set program records for most wins in a season (31) and highest winning percentage (.912), while advancing all the way to the NCAA Elite 8.

The Falcons were a perfect 20-0 at home that season. Rico Grier led the Falcons with 20.1 points per game and Dave Davis was named Coach of the Year for the conference.

The Falcons led the NCAA in scoring. Pfeiffer opened the season on an 18-game winning streak and scored over 100 points 13 times.

LC basketball

Livingstone’s Roger Ray was named to the All-CIAA team.

LC’s Taylor Perkins was named to the women’s all-rookie team.

Livingstone’s men’s team will take on Fayetteville State at 10 a.m. today in the CIAA tournament.

Catawba athletics

Catawba-UNC Pembroke baseball was postponed.

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The Catawba’s women’s basketball team, seeded fifth, plays at Lincoln Memorial in the first round of the SAC tourney tonight.

Local golf

Sixteen GARS  members played at Rolling Hills GC.

Low ‘A’ Flight player was Gary Schenk with a net of 65.62.

Low ‘B’ Flight player was Jesse King with a net of 64.74.

Low ‘C’ Flight player was John Cress with a net of 60.56.

Low ‘D’ Flight player was Gene Cauble with a net of 67.33

Low gross was a 75 shot by Schenk. Low net was a 60.56 shot by Cress.

College baseball

Montreat’s Ross Hoffner (Davie County) went 6-for-7 with three doubles, a triple, two steals and three runs scored in a sweep of Piedmont International on Tuesday at Rich Park.

College golf

  The Pfeiffer women’s golf team wrapped up the Mars Hill Spring Invitational with a fourth-place overall finish.

Senior Meghan Holbrooks claimed a first-place finish with a score of 156, winning by five strokes. The tournament win is Holbrooks’ second this school year. She also won in the fall.

Pfeiffer returns to action on Monday, March 5 in the Pfeiffer Invitational in Hilton Head, S.C.