Eight games into the Big Carolina 3A/4A Conference softball season, a pair of familiar faces are tied atop the standings with both D.H. Conley and South Central deadlocked with 7-1 records after Tuesday night’s action.
It appears to be a two-horse race as third-place Havelock (4-2) and fourth-place New Bern (4-3) already are behind the pace. J.H. Rose stands a distant sixth at 2-6.
In the Eastern Plains 2A, surging Ayden-Grifton is riding not only a lengthy winning streak this week, but the Chargers at 6-3 in league play are also attempting to climb the standings. Ahead of them are Washington (6-1) and West Craven (5-2). Farmville Central (4-4) is still in the hunt, while North Pitt (3-4) and Greene Central (0-9) are battling to find momentum.
Following are capsules from this week’s games:
South Central 8, New Bern 5
The Falcons picked themselves up off the canvas on Tuesday night, rallying out of a 5-0 hole with four runs in the fifth and four more in the sixth and then shutting the door for a Big Carolina triumph.
Senior Haven Roebuck smashed a double and a triple and drove in three runs to power SC (9-4, 6-1), and freshman Kamdyn Haislip doubled and also drove in three.
South Central played at Perquimans on Wednesday night and hosts Nash Central on Friday.
D.H. Conley 6, Havelock 3
The Vikings held position with a key BCC win, breaking a 2-2 tie with the Rams by scoring single runs in the third, fourth, fifth and sixth innings in a 10-hit attack.
Conley (12-3, 7-1) won its seventh straight game and has not lost since a 2-1, nine-inning setback against East Wikes in Easter tournament action on March 29.
Olivia Hadnott fronted the Conley attack with two solo home runs as part of her 3-for-3 game. Also a perfect 3-for-3 was Sarah Booth, who doubled, while Mia Trueblood’s double drove in a pair. Harper Bradley and Lena Zurface both finished 2-for-3 with a double.
Hadnott threw 4.2 innings, allowing three hits and three walks while striking out eight.
In Conley’s doubleheader rout of Northside Jacksonville on Friday, it was Kendall Howard in the circle, striking out six in three innings and allowing one hit. Taylor Getsinger went 2-for-3 with an inside-the-park home run, a triple and four RBIs, while Zurface was 2-for-2 with three RBIs and Ava Gaddis was 2-for-2 with a double and an RBI.
In the opening game, Gaddis, Howard and Hadnott each tripled and drove in two, and Trueblood added an inside-the-park home run and two RBIs,
The Vikings play at J.H. Rose on Thursday.
J.H. Rose 15, North Pitt 0 (5 inn.)
The Rampants cruised through a non-conference clash on Monday night, banging out 13 hits and allowing just three.
Savannah Williams (double) and Caroline Alford each stroked three of those hits to lead Rose, which won for the first time in five games. Kaleigh Wahlen (2B, 2 runs) and Amira Abulatifa (3 runs) each added a pair of hits in the win.
Santana Sneed struck out seven and walked one in five innings of work.
J.H. Rose 18, Northside Jacksonville 0 (5 inn.)
Rose made it two wins in two nights on Tuesday, scoring 12 runs in the first two innings and piling up 14 hits to Northside’s one.
Abulatifa was 3-for-3 with a triple, while Alford was 2-for-3 with a pair of doubles. Wahlen and Sneed also turned in multi-hit games for Rose (6-9, 2-6).
The Rampants host Conley on Thursday.
Ayden-Grifton 5, SouthWest Edgecombe 1
The Chargers won their eighth straight game on Tuesday night after overturning an early deficit and converting six hits into five runs.
A-G (9-5, 6-3) scored twice in the third to take the lead and added three insurance runs in the fifth. Sophomore Ashlynn Overby homered, tripled and drove in four runs as part of a 3-for-4 night to lead the Chargers, and Kenlie Guthrie went all seven innings in the circle, striking out three.
The Chargers will try to make it nine in a row on Friday when they host SWE.
John Paul II 13-12, Eastern Christian Home School 0-6
The Saints led early but were forced to rally back from down 6-4 with eight unanswered runs over the fourth and fifth innings on Tuesday night in the second game of a doubleheader.
JPII (7-9, 1-1) outhit the Trailblazers 11-2, led by Bailey Tyndall’s two-home run, four-RBI performance. Tenley Weathington was 3-for-4 with a double and two RBIs and Alana Albritton was 3-for-3 with a double and an RBI.
In the first game, JPII led 5-0 after one, 9-0 after two and was not challenged.
This time, Cara Edwards (3-3) blasted a couple of homers and drove in five, while Tyndall (2-3) added a long ball and also drove in five. Albritton had an RBI double and Weathington was 2-for-3 with a double.
John Paul hosted Rocky Mount Academy on Wednesday.
Washington 15, North Pitt 0 (3 inn.)
The Panthers dropped their fourth straight and were shut out for the second straight night.
North Pitt Pitt (7-10, 3-4) travels to Washington to for an Eastern Plains Conference rematch on Friday.
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