Baseball
New Hanover 5 West Brunswick 3
New Hanover scratched one across in the fourth to break a scoreless ballgame and tacked on four more runs in the sixth to pick up a 5-3 win over West Brunswick at Legion Stadium on Tuesday.
Trey Croom, Garrett Walston and Lambert Long had two hits apiece for the Wildcats, while Caleb Bishop moved to 2-1 on the hill. Bishop allowed three runs-none earned-on five hits, with two walks and six strikeouts in a complete game effort.
Walston opened the scoring with an RBI single to make it 1-0 before New Hanover built a five run lead headed into the seventh.
Long and Cory Everrett each smacked doubles as the Wildcats improved to 3-1 in conference and 7-2 overall. Tyler McDuffie went 2-for-3 with 3 RBIs to lead the Trojans.
Box score R H E
West 000 000 3 3 5 0
NHHS 000 104 X 5 9 3
WP: Caleb Bishop LP: Brett Babson
Hoggard 5 Laney 4
Hoggard overcame three errors thanks to a big effort on the mound by Brandon Boone as the Vikings held off Laney 5-4 at home on Tuesday night. Boone tossed a complete game one-hitter to earn the victory.
Topsail 3 South Brunswick 0
For the second straight game, Clark Cota hit a home run in the top of the first-a two-run shot-as Topsail shutout South Brunswick 3-0 in Hampstead on Tuesday night.
Austin Baird struck out three over five innings to get the victory, while Payton Rice got the final six outs in relief to record the save.
Cota finished 1-for-2 at the plate with a walk and Danny Wilson went 2-for-2 with a double.
The Pirates moved to 4-1 atop the Mideastern Conference and 8-1 overall.
Box score R H E
South 000 000 0 0 3 3
Topsail 300 000 X 3 5 0
WP: Austin Baird Save: Payton Rice
North Brunswick 9 Croatan 2
Softball
Laney 5 Hoggard 4
Topsail 11 South Brunswick 1
Hailey Grizzle had three hits and Victoria Elder drove in a pair of runs to lead Topsail in an 11-1 win over South Brunswick in five innings on Tuesday.
The Pirates carried a 3-1 lead after the first inning and struck for three in the fourth and five in the fifth on 13 total hits.
Grizzle and Elder both combined on the stripe to hold the Cougars to just one run on four hits.
Topsail remains atop the Mideastern Conference standings with a 5-0 mark inside league play and improved to 6-0 overall.
Soccer
New Hanover 4 West Brunswick 1
Mary Grace Kiernan notched two goals to lead New Hanover past West Brunswick 4-1 on Tuesday.
NHHS- Goals: Mary Grace Kiernan (2); L.B. Shapiro; Sally Sloan; Assists: Sally Sloan; Saves: Emily Gittings (1); Emily Leister (1)
Hoggard 1 Fayetteville Academy 0
Emma Haywood scored the only goal of the match off an assist from Mary Ormsby as Hoggard blanked Fayetteville Academy 1-0.
Topsail 5 South Brunswick 0
Topsail- Goals: Lexi Gilley (2), Micah Houghtalin (1), Logan Spainhour (1), Sammy Taylor (1); Saves: Haley Childress (5)
Cape Fear Academy 6 Coastal Christian 0
CFA- Goals: Katy Kohut (3); Maddie Buren; Katherine Drew Marapese; Caroline Hawthorne; Assists: Libby Moore (2); Carter Broderick; Katherine Drew Marapese; Saves: Delany Mitchell (1)
Lacrosse
Ravenscroft 15 Cape Fear Academy 2 (girls)
CFA: Goals- Juliet Taylor, Sarah Talbert; Saves- Jillian Tucker (5)
Topsail 14 South Brunswick 4 (girls)
Tennis
Hoggard had no problem sweeping a doubleheader against Topsail on Tuesday at the Jeff Holcomb Tennis Complex.
The Vikings won the first match 6-0 and finished the sweep with a 9-0 win. Dom Scialabba, Dillon Cook and Cadman Styers each won two singles matches and a doubles match for Hoggard (6-2, 6-1 Mideastern).
Hoggard 6 Topsail 0
Singles: No. 1 Chase Horton (H) def. Jason Loher 8-0; 2. Miles Hirchak (H) def. Sam Garland 8-1; 3. Dom Scialabba (H) def. Tyler Fussell 8-0; 4. Dillon Cook (H) def. Austin LaPiana 8-0; 5. Cadman Styers (H) def. Mike Tobin 8-1; 6. Yue Zhang (H) def. Nevin Wetherhill 8-0.
Doubles: Not contested.
Hoggard 9, Topsail 0
Singles: No. 1 Evan Linett (H) def. Jason Loher 8-0; 2. Dom Scialabba (H) def. Sam Garland 8-0; 3. Dillon Cook (H) def. Tyler Fussell 8-0; 4. Cadman Styers (H) def. Austin LaPiana 8-1; 5. Andrew Haskins (H) def. Mike Tobin 8-1; 6. Jahns Chavez (H) def. Noah Glester 8-2.
Doubles: No. 1 Scialabba/Cook def. Loher/Garland 8-0; 2. Styers/Haskins (H) def. Fussell/LaPiana 8-2; 3. Chavez/Yue Zhang (H) def. Glester/Nevin Wetherhill 8-3.
South Brunswick 6 Ashley 3
Singles: No. 1 Dylan Russ (SB) def. Cameron Lee (A) 6-0, 6-1; No. 2 Ryan Keller (A) def. Noah Pieper (SB) 1-6, 6-4, (10-6); No. 3 Caleb Hemphill (SB) def. Ryan Pfohl (A) 6-1, 6-2; No. 4 Matt Flechtner (A) def. Dalton Adams (SB) 6-3, 6-2; No. 5 Corey Huetcher (A) def. Hunter Hemphill (SB) 6-4, 2-6, (10-7); No. 6 Lukas McCuiston (SB) def. Tommy Malahias (A) 6-3, 6-3.
Doubles: No. 1 Russ/Pieper (SB) def. Lee/Keller (A) 8-1; No. 2 C. Hemphill/McCuiston (SB) def. Pfohl/Huetcher (A) 8-2; No. 3. Adams/H. Hemphill (SB) def. Flechtner/Malahias (A) 8-5.
Laney 8 West Brunswick 1
Singles: No. 1 Luke Durham (L) def. Kevin Gore 6-0 6-4; No. 2 Even Michael (L) def. Cameron Huffman 6-1 6-0; No. 3 Jalen Moore (L) def. Tyler Micallef 6-4 6-2; No. 4 Tim Daley (L) def. Aaron Littrell 6-1 6-0; No. 5 Thomas Pirkey (L) def. Aaron Norton 6-0 6-1; No. 6 Brandon Rollins (L) def. Jeremy Scoggins. 6-1 6-1.
Doubles: Brandon McNeill/Moore (L) def. Gore/Huffman 8-3; No. 2 Micallef/Littrell (W) def. Josh Cockrell /Connor Coughlin 8-3; No. 3 Nathan Bastian/Sean York (L) def. Norton/Scoggins 8-5.
Cape Fear Academy 9 Coastal Christian 0
Singles: No. 1 Tristan Smith (CFA) def. Keegan Bigoness 6-0, 6-0; No. 2 Jack Gallop (CFA) def. Mason Mathew 6-0, 6-0; No. 3 Caspian Goudarzi (CFA) def. Matthew Snyder 6-0; 6-0; No. 4 Landon Scharf (CFA) def. Isaac Withrall 6-0, 6-2; No. 5 Lazelle Smith (CFA) def. Jonathan Harness 6-1, 6-2; No. 6 Cole Frazier (CFA) 6-1, 6-1.
Doubles: No. 1 Smith/Gallop (CFA) def. Bigoness/ 8-0; No.2 Chase Weaver/Goudarzi (CFA) def. Withrall/Snyder 8-1; No. 3. Scharf/Frazier (CFA) def. Harness/Mathew 8-3.
