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.

Day-By-Day Results

4-AA

Garner 41, Leesville Road 21 (FINAL): Garner's Juwan Moye and Leesville Road's Braxton Berrios both top 200 yards rushing.

Fayetteville Britt 28, Middle Creek 14 (FINAL): Britt wears down the Mustangs

Greensboro Page 40, Charlotte Butler 26 (FINAL): Two-time defending champs ousted.

Charlotte Mallard Creek 42, Charlotte Myers Park 10 (FINAL)

4A

Scotland 35, Durham Hillside 7 (FINAL): Scotland handles Hornets

New Bern 31, New Hanover 20 (FINAL): New Bern pulls away in the fourth

Mooresville 42, Sun Valley 21 (FINAL)

3AA

Wilson Hunt 31, Cardinal Gibbons 17 (FINAL): Unbeaten Hunt handles Crusaders

Northern Guilford 35, Fayetteville Byrd 6 (FINAL)

Charlotte Catholic 45, Kannapolis Brown 7 (FINAL)

3A

Cleveland 42, Burlington Williams 28 (FINAL): First-year team with no seniors reaches the semifinals

Havelock 62, Currituck 36 (FINAL)

2AA

Kinston 47, Bunn 46 (FINAL, OT): Kinston stops two-point conversion try

2A

Tarboro 28, Edenton Holmes 26 (FINAL)

South Columbus 10, East Bladen 0 (FINAL)

Lincolnton 34, Maiden 21 (FINAL)

Thomasville 27, Salisbury 16 (FINAL)

1AA

Ayden-Grifton 35, Southwest Onslow 14 (FINAL)

1A

Manteo 40, Plymouth 12 (FINAL)

Jones 22, North Edgecombe 12 (FINAL)

Albemarle 45, Lakewood 14 (FINAL)

4-AA

Garner 55, Wilmington Laney 35 (FINAL) Demetrius Fairly has four TD

Leesville Road 49, Wake Forest-Rolesville 20 (FINAL) QB Braxton Berrios leads unbeaten Pride

Fayetteville Britt 31, Cary 0 (FINAL) Britt has not allowed a point in last 5 games

Middle Creek 34, Fuquay-Varina 20 (FINAL)

4-A

New Hanover 41, Southeast Raleigh 34  (FINAL) New Hanover stops Southeast at the nine in the final minute

Durham Hillside 40, Fayetteville Smith 12 (FINAL)

Scotland 55, Southeast Guilford 8 (FINAL)

3AA

Fayetteville Byrd 40, Chapel Hill 12 (FINAL)

Cardinal Gibbons 25, Erwin Triton 15 (FINAL)

3A

Cleveland 40, Southern Vance 34 (FINAL) Cleveland scored with 22 seconds left to tie the game and returns a blocked field goal for a touchdown with five seconds left for the win.

1A

Edenton Holmes 37, North Johnston 10 (FINAL)

NCISAA Eight-man finals

Word of God 46, Kinston Parrott 34 (FINAL)

Friday night updates. East Wake stuns No. 1 Wake Forest-Rolesville in OT with fake field goal. Fuquay nips Clayton in OT. West Johnston out-scores South Johnston. Wakefield out-scores Holly Springs in a scoring battle.

Seth Keel wants to go from being arrested for protesting the end of the diversity policy at Wake County school board meetings to being Raleigh's next mayor.

Keel announced today that he's running for mayor in part because "the Mayor and City Council should be standing up to the school board and the state legislature, fighting for the rights of all students to be provided a quality education." Legally, there's a question whether the 17-year-old Middle Creek High School student is old enough to run.

The N.C. HEAT member has made a name for himself over the past year.

I made my first 'predictions' of the season before last week's area playoff games. They weren't actual score predictions, I opted for more specific things that I thought were going to happen during the course of each game. Looks like I fared pretty well.

GARNER -- Garner rallied from a 13-point deficit, its largest deficit of the season, to defeat rival Middle Creek 35-20 in the second round of the N.C. High School Athletic Association 4-AA football playoffs.

The Trojans (11-2) will play at Wake Forest-Rolesville (12-1) Friday in the third round of the playoffs.

I'm not big on predicting scores of games. I always start to feel like I'd need to start wearing open-collared shirts, a lot of sloppy gold jewelry, expose a lot of chest hair, get an 800-number and buy time on Fox Sports Net early Saturday morning. And that wouldn't be good for anybody.

But still, there are several things I'm convinced will happen in each of the four playoff games involving teams in the Garner-Clayton Record and The Herald readership areas. Here goes…