Cross country runners from county secure spots for state meet
Asheboro’s Cam Letterlough had another big week as the Blue Comets clinched the Mid-Piedmont Conference championship in boys’ soccer.
Letterlough tallied three times when the host Blue Comets topped second-place Ledford 4-2 to wrap up the title with one game remaining on the league slate. Both of Ledford’s losses in conference play have come to Asheboro.
Earlier, Letterlough registered three goals in Asheboro’s 3-0 victory at North Davidson.
** Southwestern Randolph notched a couple of shutouts in the Piedmont Athletic Conference, blanking Eastern Randolph and Wheatmore by 9-0 scores. Aaron Avina had two goals in the Wheatmore encounter.
** Randleman won three times during the week. The Tigers won a PAC road game by defeating Uwharrie Charter Academy 4-0 and then defeated league foe Providence Grove 6-0 at home and followed that with a 7-2 non-conference home victory against Central Davidson.
Cross country
At Dobson, Laurel Bernhardt of Providence Grove ran the 3.1 miles in the Class 2A Midwest Regional in 21 minutes, 26.77 seconds to place seventh at Fisher River Park.
Wheatmore’s Scarlett Hildreth placed 12th to join Bernhardt with spots in the state meet on Saturday at Ivey Redmon Sports Complex in Kernersville. Hildreth had a time of 21:52.69.
Trinity’s Kayla Franklin was 24th in 23:13.17, one spot ahead of Wheatmore’s Emma Messner (23:13.62) and two spots ahead of Providence Grove’s Lydsay Browder (23:16.91).
Wheatmore’s girls’ team placed fifth in the regional team standings.
In the boys’ race, Randleman’s Freddie Mercado was 10th in 17:56.86 to land a spot in the state meet. Jedidiah Dake of Randleman was 33rd in 19:19.20.
** In Class 1A boys at Ivey Redmon Sports Complex, Christ White of Uwharrie Charter Academy was 25th in 19:33.99 and teammate Austin Luck was 31st in 20:01.40 in the Midwest Regional.
In the girls’ race, UCA’s Victoria Jennings (27:59.65) was 31st.
Girls’ tennis
At Holly Springs, Providence Grove’s Audrey Frazier lost a first-round match to Community School of Davidson’s Jadan Rounds by 6-0, 6-1 in the first round of the Class 2A state tournament last Friday at Ting Park.
In the dual team state playoffs, fifth-seeded Providence Grove made it to this week’s third round.
The Patriots topped PAC rival Trinity 5-2 in the second round last week. Providence Grove received a first-round bye.
No. 12 seed Trinity had advanced by winning 5-2 in the first round against No. 21 seed Bandys. The Bulldogs received singles victories from Deanna Cobb, Karla Rios, Jacey Wilson and Kayla Neam and a doubles triumph from Cobb and Neam.
No. 22 seed Wheatmore defeated No. 11 seed Black Mountain Owen 5-4 before losing 5-2 at sixth-seeded West Stanly.
In Class 1A, seventh-seeded UCA fell 9-0 to 10th-seeded East Wilkes in the first round.
