Thursday's night's area NCHSAA playoff scores
Softball
3A
South Johnston 12, Northern Nash 2
Nash Central 7, Cleveland 5
Friday night's area NCHSAA playoff scores
Baseball
1A
Holly Ridge Dixon 5, Princeton 4
2A
Bartlett Yancey 10, North Johnston 2
4A
Greenville Rose 9, Garner 2
New Bern 8, Smithfield-Selma 4
Wilmington Hoggard 8, West Johnston 4
Softball
1A
Princeton 8, Holly Ridge Dixon 7
2A
Siler City Jordan Matthews 6, Corinth Holders 1
North Johnston 8, Pasquotank 0
4A
Garner 4, New Hanover 3
West Johnston 2, Greenville Rose 0
Wilmington Ashley 3, Clayton 1

Tuesday's schedule for the Johnston County Easter Invitational prep baseball tournament at South Johnston High School's Bruce Coats Field…
Consolation Games
Cleveland vs. Corinth Holders, noon
Rocky Mount vs. South Johnston, 2:30
Clayton vs. West Johnston, 5
Championship
Middle Creek vs. Smithfield-Selma, 7:30

Monday brings us second round action in the prep baseball touranment, the Johnston County Easter Invitational at South Johnston High School. We're recapping each game here after they end.

Game 7 & 8 Semifinals

Smithfield-Selma 3, West Johnston 1

Middle Creek 3, Clayton 1 (10)

Smithfield-Selma went to its proven road combination of Ben Youngblood and Blake Mitchell on the mound Monday night in the semifinals of the Johnston County Easter Invitational against defending champion West Johnston.

The 2012 Johnston County Athletic Hall of Fame class of 2012 has been announced. Being inducted into the class on Saturday, April 28, at Smithfield-Selma High School are Rickie Boyette of Princeton, Steve Coats of Cleveland, Art Medlin of South Johnston, Phil Pittman of North Johnston, Paul Sanderford of Corinth Holders, Raymond Massey Sugg of Princeton, the late Elbert Moye of Smithfield-Selma and the late Reginald Poole of Clayton.

Tickets to the Hall of Fame banquet at Smithfield-Selma High are 10 per person and can be purchased at any Johnston County high school.

Monday's schedule for the Johnston County Easter Invitational prep baseball tournament at South Johnston High School's Bruce Coats Field…
Consolation Games
Cleveland vs. Rocky Mount, noon
Corinth Holders vs. South Johnston, 2:30
Semifinals
Middle Creek vs. Clayton, 5
Smithfield-Selma vs. West Johnston, 7:30

The prep baseball tournaments that highlight the Spring break and Easter run of school breaks begin this Thursday. Below are the schedules for teams in the Johnston County and Garner area over the next three weeks.

Super Tuesday in the presidential election is behind us, but today brings another kind of super Tuesday in the world of high school sports. Conference play in baseball and softball for the Northern Carolina 2A, Eastern Carolina 3A and Greater Neuse River 4A all begin today and there are solid match ups all around.
In the GNRC, the highlight game on the baseball side is a meeting of undefeated squads as Smithfield-Selma hosts West Johnston at 7 p.m.

The annual Johnston County Easter Invitational baseball tournament is back to its traditional eight-team format after plans were announced to go with just seven teams last week. Corinth Holders has joined the tournament field. The event runs March 31 - April 3 at South Johnston High School's Bruce Coats Field.

The field includes Johnston County schools Smithfield-Selma, Clayton, Cleveland, West Johnston, Corinth Holders and South Johnston along with Middle Creek and Rocky Mount.

The tournament schedule:

Seventy-two high school girls soccer games are on tap in late March for The Brittany Willis Memorial Scholarship Showcase, held at the J. Burt Gillette Soccer Complex in Wilson.

Among the area teams competing are: Broughton, Millbrook, Wakefield, East Wake, Clayton, North Johnston, East Chapel Hill, Cardinal Gibbons and Franklinton.

The full schedule is below:

Updates on the annual Four Oaks Bank Cup girls soccer tournament - featuring all eight Johnston County girls soccer sqauds - this week. All of the remaining matches are being played at Princeton High School.

UPDATED AFTER THURSDAY'S RESULTS