Here are some highlights from the past week in high school spring sports:
Baseball
Uwharrie Charter Academy prevailed in two low-scoring games against Providence Grove in the Piedmont Athletic Conference.
UCA’s Jake Hunter fired one-hitter with seven strikeouts in a 3-1 home victory. Brody Engle had two hits and scored a run.
Brett Smith threw a two-hitter with seven strikeouts in a 2-1 victory in UCA’s second victory of the week. Jacob Flinchum had both of the Providence Grove hits.
** Randleman defeated Wheatmore 7-5 and 16-6 in two PAC meetings. Randleman’s Braxton Walker pitched a complete game Friday after working in relief earlier in the week.
** Trinity’s Cohen Wolfe had three hits when the Bulldogs topped visiting Southwestern Randolph 11-7 to forge a split in the PAC matchups.
Southwestern Randolph won 11-5 earlier in the week with Logan Weidman the winning pitcher.
** Providence Grove won a non-league game at Chatham Charter with Andrew Thomas knocking in three runs and Chase Collins homering.
** Eastern Randolph smacked visiting Chatham Central 16-2 as Bryson Marley notched three hits and scored three runs. Will Stalker and Avery Wright were also credited with three runs batted in apiece.
Softball
Macie Crutchfield struck out 13 batters in Southwestern Randolph’s 3-2 victory at Randleman. The Cougars scored all their runs in the first inning.
Kami Dunn homered and Southwestern Randolph needed only five innings for a 10-0 home victory Eastern Randolph.
** Randleman’s Lilah Covington drove in three runs in an 8-3 home victory against UCA. Kenzie Ivey pitched a complete game.
Aubrie Kaufman scored three times and Katelyn West had three hits when UCA defeated visiting Providence Grove 9-3.
** Maddie Nichols drove in four runs as Wheatmore won 15-5 at Eastern Randolph.
** Wheatmore’s Arielle Turgeon homered in an 8-7 loss at East Davidson.
Girls’ soccer
Asheboro won 4-1 against host East Davidson as Jaira Arellano provided two goals.
The Blue Comets came up short in a 3-2 loss to visiting Burlington Williams despite goals from Arelanno and Gigi Flores.
** Wheatmore’s Natalie Bowman had four goals and Jocelyn McDowell added two goals in a 7-1 road victory against Randleman.
Wheatmore’s 11-0 victory against visiting Eastern Randolph came with McDowell’s five goals and three more from Bowman.
** Randleman responded to defeat host Southwestern Randolph 4-3 with Ashlynn Harber scoring three times.
** UCA topped visiting Trinity 1-0 on Marlee Hill’s goal and Alexis Marion’s eight saves.
