Baseball
Wilmington Hoggard 2, Clayton 1
South Granville 8, North Johnston 0
Softball
Garner 5, Scotland County 2
Clayton 9, Fayetteville Britt 3
North Johnston 5, Bartlett Yancey 0
Princeton 2, Perquimans 0
Wilmington Laney 1, West Johnston 0 (9)
South Granville 2, Corinth Holders 0
Here's the area prep baseball and softball schedule for Friday. We'll update start times for the games as we get them.
Prep Baseball: Third Round Playoffs
2-A
North Johnston (21-3) at South Granville (20-5)
4-A
Wilmington Hoggard (20-3) at Clayton (19-5), 7 p.m.
Baseball Playoffs
4-A
Clayton 2, Greenville Rose 1
2-A
North Johnston 4, Climax Providence Grove 3
Softball Playoffs
1-A
Princeton 16, Northampton-East 0
2-A
North Johnston 7, Hillsborough Cedar Ridge 0
Corinth Holders 9, Fairmont 1
3-A
Havelock 4, South Johnston 0
4-A
Garner 6, Hope Mills South View 0
Clayton 4, Greenville Rose 1
West Johnston 10, Fayetteville Terry Sanford 0
Tuesday brings another busy day in the world of high school playoffs. We've got two baseball games set and seven first-round softball games on tap in the Johnston County and Garner area. Here's what we know so far.
Thursday's results
Prep Baseball, 1-A Playoffs
East Carteret 10, Princeton 0
The Gators reel off a seven-run fifth inning to end things early.
Prep Softball, Eastern Carolina 3-A Conference Championship Game
South Johnston 7, C.B. Aycock 1
The Trojans take the league's No. 1 playoff seed.
Friday's games
Prep Baseball, State Playoffs
Princeton, which qualified for the 1-A state girls soccer playoffs as a wild card team after sharing the Carolina 1-A Conference championshp with Goldsboro and Rosewood, will visit N.C. School of Science and Math (11-1-2) in a first round game. The Bulldogs are 5-6-1 this season. Princeton, Rosewood and Goldsboro were all 4-2 in conference play this season.
The match will be played Tuesday at 6 p.m. at N.C. School of Science and Math.
North Johnston High School's baseball and softball games against Roanoke Rapids, scheduled for Tuesday will be played at Princeton High School. The Panthers' home baseball and softball fields were damaged by last weekend's tornadoes. The games will begin around 6:30, after the completion of the junior varsity games.
South Johnston topped Rosewood 10-5 Thursday night in the opener of the Deacon Jones Invitational softball tournament at Princeton High School.
Whitney Williams homered, tripled and singled, driving in four runs for South, while Kristen Jernigan was 4-for-4. Kaitlyn Barbour and Courtney Woods also had two hits each for South.
Lauren Higgins picked up the win for South Johnston, which actually trailed 5-3 in the fifth inning.
Rosewood's Kelsey Kornegay homered twice, while Alicia Burns contributed two hits for the Eagles.
Today's schedule at Princeton features the host Bulldogs taking on Rosewood at 4 p.m., followed by South Johnston vs. Princeton at 7 p.m.
SSS notches softball win
Smithfield-Selma downed GNRC rival Southeast Raleigh 12-1 in softball Wednesday. Amanda Mitchell and Amber Parrish both had two-hit nights for the Spartans, while Alyssa Horne picked up the pitching win, scattering four Bulldog hits.
Bulldog alum gets win for Campbell
Former Princeton standout Colin Parker worked his first complete-game pitching victory for Campbell Wednesday as the Camels topped N.C. Central, 8-2. Parker, a senior left-hander, struck out four in the seven-inning game and improved to 2-1 on the season.
Murphy works 1-hitter for South
South Johnston pitcher Emily Murphy held Eastern Wayne to a single hit in a 12-2 softball victory Wednesday night. The Trojans pounded out 16 hits on the day.
Kristen Jernigan was 4-for-4 with a double, while Courtney Woods, Whitney Williams, Anna Reaves and Liz Barbee all had two-hit days as the Trojans moved to 11-1 overal, and 6-1 in the Eastern Carolina 3-A Conference.
Donald Johnson of Garner and Princeton's Ben Jacobs were named to the third-team of the North Carolina Basketball Coaches Associaiton All-State prep boys basketball team recently.
Johnson led Garner in scoring this past season (17.2 PPG) and helped the Trojans to a 26-1 record and the Greater Neuse River 4-A Conference regular-season and tournament championships.
Jacobs led the Triangle-area in scoring (27.0) and rebounding (14.1) this season and helped the Bulldogs to a share of the Carolina 1-A Conference regular-season championship.
