Randleman’s Addyson Dees celebrates the final out of last week’s PAC softball victory at Eastern Randolph. (PJ Ward-Brown/Randolph Record)
Many area teams have completed two weeks of competition in spring sports.
While a few days of scheduled competition were dashed because of inclement weather, here are some recent highlights:
Softball
Southwestern Randolph began its season with a pair of victories in Piedmont Athletic Conference play under new coach Toby Strider.
The Cougars rolled 20-0 at Trinity, with Macie Crutchfield and Alyssa Harris combining on a perfect game, and then defeated visiting Providence Grove 11-1.
Crutchfield struck out 10 Providence Grove batters.
** Randleman was off to a 4-0 start after PAC triumphs by 3-0 at Eastern Randolph and 5-4 vs. visiting Wheatmore.
Against Wheatmore, Kaylie St. John drove in four runs with three hits.
** Uwharrie Charter Academy won its first three games by shutouts, including last week by 5-0 against visiting South Stokes and 16-0 at Trinity.
Baseball
Randleman swept a PAC doubleheader at Eastern Randolph in a series reconfigured because of the basketball state playoffs, winning 12-2 and 2-0 last Thursday.
Seth Way struck out 14 in a three-hitter in the nightcap. Jake Riddle scored three runs in the first game.
Earlier in the week, Randleman smacked host Asheboro 15-4 with Riddle driving in four runs.
** Southwestern Randolph won 8-1 and 7-6 against Providence Grove in PAC games.
In the first matchup, Jake Lunsford pitched six innings and also had a triple. Later in the week, Lunsford drove in two runs.
** Wheatmore recorded 9-6 and 9-7 PAC victories against Trinity.
Payton Mooney knocked in three runs in one game and Sean Jennison drove in two runs in the other game.
** Uwharrie Charter Academy won a showdown between 2023 state champions by defeating visiting The Burlington School 2-1 by scoring one run in each of the final two innings.
Alex Carver pitched the final two innings for the victory.
UCA won last year’s Class 1-A title in the North Carolina High School Athletic Association, while TBS is the reigning Class 2-A champion in the North Carolina Independent Schools Athletic Association. The teams were supposed to meet March 1 in Burlington, but that game was rained out.
In its season opener, UCA won 6-4 against visiting Central Davidson behind pitching from Jake Hunter and Logun Wilkins. The Eagles dropped their final game of last week by 3-1 at North Stanly.
Girls’ soccer
Wheatmore, a state finalist in Class 2-A the past two years, opened the season by trouncing visiting East Davidson 9-0. Ellie Garrison posted six goals and Maggie Messner had two goals.
In the next game, the Warriors lost 8-1 to visiting Northwest Guilford. Garrison had the lone Wheatmore goal.
** Asheboro defeated host Southwestern Randolph 3-0 as Jaira Arellano notched two goals and Abeni Hernandez had the other goal.
Asheboro won its first three games of the season before losing 5-0 to visiting Sun Valley.
** Providence Grove topped visiting Southern Guilford 9-0 with Taryn Waugh posting three goals.
