South’s Chloe Tracy

 

From staff reports

Girls soccer

CHINA GROVE — South Rowan won 4-2 against A.L. Brown in Thursday’s Rowan Cup championship game.

MVP Chloe Tracy and Sophie Steedley had a goal and an assist.

Brooke Oehler and Peyton Bell also scored for South.

Margo Maples made 10 saves.

•••

CHINA GROVE — Carson won 3-1 on Thursday against West Rowan in the third-place match in the Rowan Cup.

Caylee Miracco scored twice for the Cougars. Allie Martin had a goal and two assists.

Michaela Whitfield made four saves for the Cougars (2-1).

ªªª

MISENHEIMER — Salisbury scored the last five goals of the match and won 5-2 at Gray Stone on Thursday.

The Hornets (2-0) overcame a steady, cold rain, injuries, illness and a two-goal deficit.

Addie Griffith produced her second game-winner of the young season.

Five different Hornets scored — Anna Kate Goodman, Lola Koontz, Griffith, Jamilet Figueroa and Maddie Crabb.

Assists were credited to Crabb, Goodman, Griffith and Gabbi Fatovic.

Salisbury got excellent play from Meredith Williams (her finest match as a Hornet), Luna Nunez, and Emma Ott.

“It was a pretty easy post-match speech,” Salisbury head coach Matt Parrish said. “Heart, guts, determination, and persistence are becoming early trademarks of this group. They play hard for each other and never quit. It would have been easy to lament going down two goals on a drenched afternoon, but there was no hesitation to the comeback whatsoever. You can’t coach that, a team either has it or it doesn’t.”

Freshman  Fatovic made her Hornet debut on a soccer field and immediately proved to be a difference-maker.

Also making a difference was assistant coach Landon Goodman.

With two matches canceled, next up for the Hornets is an extended stretch of practice time. 

 

Baseball

GRANITE QUARRY — Mooresville scored eight runs in the first three innings, but East Rowan came back to beat the Blue Devils 13-8 on Wednesday at Staton Field.

A strong relief outing by Brady Ailshie, who entered in the third inning, was the key to East’s win. Harrison Ailshie, Brady’s older brother, closed it.

Krys Hernandez drove in three runs for the Mustangs (2-0).

Braylen Ketchie scored three and drove in two. He had a triple.

Hunter Goodman knocked in two.

Keaton Walker had three hits, while Mason Phelps, Hernandez and Ketchie had two each.

•••

NEW LONDON — Carson lost 3-1 at North Stanly on Thursday.

The Comets (2-0) scored two tie-breaking runs in the fifth.

Maverick Walters struck out five in three innings. Corbin Hales took the loss in relief.

The Cougars (0-2) were held to four hits, including a double by Hales. Bryson Shoemaker drove in TH Harris with the Carson run.

•••

RAMSEUR — North Rowan lost 21-8 at Eastern Randolph on Thursday.

Eastern Randolph scored 11 runs in the first inning and 10 in the second.

Jaden Brown had two hits for the Cavaliers.

Chase Cauble, Anders Thompson, Caleb Everett, Dylan Garrigus and Brown had RBIs.

 

 

Track and field

GRANITE QUARRY — Lake Norman Charter’s boys and girls won Thursday’s track meet that included East Rowan, West Rowan, Central Cabarrus and West Cabarrus.

East’s Sadie Featherstone won the 100 hurdles (16.75 seconds) and 300 hurdles (46.67).

West’s boys were strong in the distance events, winning the 4×800, going 1-2-3 in the 1600 and 1-2 in the 3200.

Jonathan Medina won the 1600 in 4:51, while Luke Henson won the 3200 in 10:59.

 

Boys tennis

PFAFFTOWN — Salisbury lost 5-4 at 4A Reagan in a non-conference match on Wednesday.

It was a match that will be good preparation for the Hornets for the state playoffs.

Bryant Davis won at 3 singles for the Hornets, while Ben Lawson won at 4.

Reagan took close matches at 1 and 2 singles, as AJ Jarrell and Gray Davis lost on third-set tiebreakers.

Reagan led 4-2 after singles and clinched with an 8-6 win at No. 1 doubles.

Bryant Davis-Lawson and Farrah Hassan-Jashaun Epps won in doubles for Salisbury (2-1).

•••

GRANITE QUARRY — East Rowan won 5-2 against Northwest Cabarrus in South Piedmont Conference tennis on Wednesday.

The Mustangs (1-0) got singles wins from Will Kesler, Thomas Stokes, Preston Stephens and Noah Grooms.

Kesler won 12-10 on a third-set tiebreaker at No. 2 singles.

East clinched the match with a No. 3 doubles win by Grooms-Spencer Ingram.

•••

HUNTERSVILLE — West Rowan lost 8-1 to Lake Norman Charter in South Piedmont Conference action on Wednesday.

Dylan Parrish-Max Brown won 9-8 (7-5) for the Falcons (1-1) at No. 1 singles.

•••

Carson (1-1) took a 7-2 SPC win at home on Wednesday against Central Cabarrus.

•••

CONCORD — Soouth Rowan won 5-4 in Wednesday’s SPC match at Robinson.

South (1-1) got singles wins from Sawyer Basinger, Leevi Fowler and Caleb Collins and was tied 3-all after singles.

Basinger-Brylan Sloop won at No. 1 doubles. Fowler-Collins won at No. 2 doubles.

 

 

Softball

SALISBURY — Ashley Yang hit an inside-the-park homer, her second of the season, in Salisbury’s 18-3 win against Statesville on Wednesday.

Yang, Tijah Sims and Allie Peeler had two hits. Peeler had a triple.

Yang was the winning pitcher.

The Hornets (2-1) lost 16-2 at Wheatmore on Thursday in a five-inning game.

Dasmine Ambers had two hits for the Hornets. Peeler, Yang, Sims and Teashia Ellis had hits. Peeler drove in a run.

Maddie Nichols, Emma Carter and Arielle Turgeon socked homers for Wheatmore.

•••

MOORESVILLE – Lake Norman outscored West Rowan 13-12 in a wild one on Thursday.

Kyera Combs homered for the Wildcats.

The Falcons (1-1) got four hits from Raney Phelps and three from EA Nance.

Phelps scored four runs. Reese Poole scored three runs. Nance drove in three.

Lake Norman won despite seven errors.