ASHEBORO — The Asheboro and Southwestern Randolph baseball teams both went 2-1 in last week’s ZooKeepers Classic at McCrary Park.
The multi-day competition included several high-scoring games.
Price Kidd struck out 12 batters in a complete game as Asheboro drubbed Thomasville 12-3. Kidd also drove in two runs.
The Blue Comets toppled Winston-Salem Christian 9-5 with Gabriel Jaimes droving in three runs and Kidd and Shane Immel both scoring two runs. Gavin Allen notched the pitching victory.
In between the two victories, Asheboro served as the visiting team and lost 2-1 to Westchester Country Day School, which scored the winning run with one out in the bottom of the seventh inning off Daniel Jaimes. Immel had two of the Blue Comets’ two hits, including a double.
** Elijah Sykes homered among his three hits and he scored four runs in Southwestern Randolph’s 16-2 whipping of Wheatmore. Brady Armfield had two doubles and Carson Williams and Grant Kirk both drove in two runs.
Southwestern Randolph’s 20-1 trampling of Thomasville came with Lucas Conner’s five runs batted in and four hits and Carson Coltrane’s three runs scored. Sykes pitched a five-inning one-hitter.
The Cougars lost 9-0 when Southeast Alamance’s Paxton Piccini threw a three-hitter with seven strikeouts and no walks.
Wheatmore also fell to Westchester Country Day School, absorbing an 11-1 setback.
Other results
Several teams went to multi-team events in the eastern part of the state last week. Randleman, Uwharrie Charter Academy and Providence Grove all won two games.
** Randleman began the week with a 9-3 loss to West Stanly.
Randleman bounced back with an 8-7, eight-inning victory against Central Davidson on Jackson Hill’s second run scored of the game. Jake Riddle scored three times for the Tigers and Tate Andrews was the winning pitcher in relief.
Central Davidson and Randleman are meeting this week in Piedmont Athletic Conference games.
Randleman edged Southern Nash 9-7 with five seventh-inning runs. Kyle Dillow drove in three runs and Riddle scored three times.
** UCA won its final two games of the week.
Ty McCauley and Keaton Hill combined on the pitching and Jaxon Mabe had two extra-base hits and scored two runs as UCA edged Union Pines 3-2.
The Eagles then throttled Salem (Virginia) by 12-1 with Jake Hunter driving in four runs and scoring three runs. Hill was the winning pitcher with four shutout innings.
Earlier, UCA lost 11-1 to Pinecrest.
** Providence Grove won its first and final games of the week.
The Patriots defeated Salem (Virginia) by 10-0 behind five strong innings on the mound from Chase Collins, who also drove in two runs and scored two runs.
Providence Grove fell 5-0 to Corinth Holders. Then the Patriots pounded Union Pines 12-3 with all their runs in the final two innings. Collins had three hits and winning pitcher Andrew Thomas scored two runs.
** Eastern Randolph edged East Carteret 7-6 with Bryson Marley driving in two runs.
Martin County clobbered Eastern Randolph 12-3. Croatan topped the Wildcats 4-3.
** Trinity had a four-game winning streak end by falling twice to Community School of Davidson on separate days, losing 8-1 on the road and 12-3 at home. In the latter game, pitcher Lincoln Coble took the loss.
