High School Roundup: Currituck soccer defeats Camden 4-0

The Currituck County High School Knights defeated the Camden County High School Bruins in girls soccer on Wednesday evening by a score of 4-0.

Currituck scored its first goal with 19 minutes remaining when Lisa Phillips found the back of the net on a penalty kick from a handball inside of the box.

The score remained 1-0 until halftime. Things opened up for the Knights in the second half, with the team scoring three goals. The first came from Mackenzie Meekins after a near-perfect pass from one of her teammates.

The Knights’ second goal of the second half came from Phillips, who scored her second goal, and the third came from Abigail Smith, who knocked in Currituck’s fourth goal of the evening.

The Knights are now 10-4 overall and 5-1 in Northeastern Coastal Conference play. The Bruins are now 6-6-1 overall and 3-4 in NCC play.

The Knights were scheduled to play a home match against Landstown on Thursday, while the Bruins were set to face Southside on the road on Thursday.

In other area girls soccer, the John A. Holmes High School Aces defeated the Northeastern High School Eagles 7-3.

Baseball

First Flight 4, Holmes 2

The First Flight Nighthawks baseball team defeated John A. Holmes 4-2 on Wednesday evening.

For the Aces, Maddux Bass gave up three earned runs on only two hits in 6.1 innings of work. He walked five and struck out 12 in the outing.

Holmes’ Darius Oliver came in and pitched the last of the seventh inning, giving up no runs or hits and striking out one.

First Flight got on the board first with two runs in the top of the first.

Holmes came back to tie the game in the bottom half of the third inning. Bass singled home a run and then an error scored Oliver to tie the game.

A flyout in the top of the sixth scored First Flight’s third run that would prove to be the game-winner. The Nighthawks got an insurance run in the top of the seventh when a First Flight runner scored on a fielder’s choice.

The Aces got one runner on base in the bottom half of the seventh and brought the tying run to the plate, but they couldn’t get those runs across.

Softball

South Central 2, Perquimans 1

The Perquimans Pirates’ softball team came up just short on Wednesday night against South Central in Winterville, falling 2-1.

Perquimans got on the board in the bottom of the first inning when Kaydee Hunter singled and came around to score on an error by the Falcons’ center fielder.

The Pirates maintained their lead until the top half of the sixth inning when South Central tied the game. The Falcons pushed across the go-ahead run in the top of the seventh on a run-scoring single.

Hunter, Lilly Winslow, Karsyn Clayton and Bristyl Riddick each had a hit in the game for the Pirates.