Prep softball: Big run totals boost area teams

Cora Little smacked a two-run homer run when Asheboro pounded visiting Northeast Guilford 18-2 in softball last week.

Claire Younts and MJ Class both scored three runs in the Triad Area Athletic Conference game.

Little homered twice in a 33-23 loss to visiting Eastern Guilford.

** Providence Grove’s 12-0 handling of host Wheatmore came with big hits from Adi Johnson, Callie Lambert, Carly Lambert and Liz Shoe. Campbell Ziemba struck out 17 batters.

The Patriots also had big numbers in a 23-5 drubbing of host Southeast Guilford, with Lara Wiseman and Callie Lambert both scoring four runs.

Providence began the week with a 4-3 home loss to East Davidson despite Ziemba’s 12 strikeouts.

** Trinity’s 16-0 trouncing of visiting Thomasville came with McKinley Butcher striking out eight in three innings.

** Maddie Strider had a triple and drove in three runs and Nauttica Parrish scored three runs in Southwestern Randolph’s 10-2 victory against visiting Ledford.

Southwestern Randolph pitchers Alyssa Harris and Katelyn West combined on a five-inning no-hitter when the Cougars blanked host Jordan-Matthews 20-0 in the Four Rivers Conference.

In the rematch at home, Southwestern Randolph rolled 10-1 as Chloe Eudy struck out 10 batters and Harris knocked in three runs.

** Paityn Williams threw a four-hitter in Uwharrie Charter Academy’s 11-0 road triumph against Eastern Randolph. Emroy Johnson’s three hits included a double and triple and she drove in five runs.

Eastern Randolph avenged that Four Rivers Conference defeat when Amanda Crabtree hit a sixth-inning grand slam for her second homer of the game in the Wildcats’ 13-11 road victory. Crabtree’s three hits drove in eight runs.

UCA was on the wrong end of an 11-0 final at McMichael.

** Randleman rocked host High Point Central 16-0 on Alyana Hunt’s one-hitter in the three-inning Piedmont Athletic Conference matchup. Ella Rogers homered.

The Tigers also bashed visiting Ledford 11-0 behind Kinzie Ivey’s pitching and two runs batted in apiece by Kaylee Phillips, Lilah Covington and Ivey.