RANDLEMAN — Randleman and Uwharrie Charter Academy are the top baseball teams in the Piedmont Athletic Conference and they had eventful games during the past week.
The latter of those came with Randleman avenging a loss by winning 6-5 in 10 innings Friday night at home.
The outcome came with Kai Strickland’s two-out single to drive in Kyle Dillow, who had tripled off Jake Hunter.
Jake Riddle, who had four hits, was the winning pitcher.
Alex Carver homered for UCA.
Earlier in the week, Logun Wilkins threw a seven-hitter with nine strikeouts and a walk when UCA won 7-0 at home against the Tigers. Jaxon Mabe drove in two runs and scored twice.
Randleman and UCA sit atop the standings with two league losses apiece.
** Eastern Randolph pushed its winning streak to four games by defeating Southwestern Randolph twice.
The second of those came with Friday’s 2-1 home victory behind six innings of pitching by Cade McCallum and one inning of relief from Chance Holdaway.
In the first meeting, the Wildcats scored seven runs in the top of the seventh to defeat Southwestern Randolph 8-5. Lucas Smith and Bryson Marley each had two hits.
** Trinity’s 3-2 victory against Providence Grove gave the Bulldogs back-to-back victories against the Patriots.
In the Bulldogs’ 5-2 victory, Brody Little knocked in two runs.
** Sam Gore was the winning pitcher in relief as Asheboro upended visiting Wheatmore 8-6 in non-conference action. Gavin Allen and Reid Suddeth drove in two runs apiece.
** Trinity tripped visiting Southeast Alamance 8-6 in a non-league game.
** Wheatmore edged visiting Thomasville 5-4 with Sean Jennison’s complete game.
