High School Roundup: Currituck soccer falls to Manteo 4-2

BARCO — The Currituck County High School girls soccer team couldn’t hold on to a 1-0 halftime lead against Northeastern Coastal Conference-leading Manteo and ended up falling to the visitors 4-2 on Monday afternoon.

Lisa Phillips scored the opening goal of the game for Currituck with 14 minutes remaining in the first half. It gave the Knights a 1-0 lead and would be the only goal scored by either team in the first half.

Manteo tied the game with 24 minutes remaining in the second half on a Kiley Eckard goal. The score remained tied 1-1 until Manteo’s Kenzie Flynn found the back of the net to give the Redskins a 2-1 lead.

A minute later, Flynn found the back of the net again to push Manteo’s lead to 3-1.

Just when it looked like the game was out of reach, Phillips got on the scoreboard again for Currituck, narrowing Manteo’s edge to 3-2.

The Knights kept battling, but CC Lowe of Manteo scored a goal with just six minutes remaining to increase the Redskins’ lead to 4-2. The score remained that way until the final whistle blew.

The loss was the second in NCC play for the Knights, both at the hands of Manteo. Currituck is now 6-2 in NCC play and 11-5 overall. The Redskins moved to 11-0-1 overall and 9-0 in conference play.

In other girls’ soccer on Monday, Camden was blanked by First Flight 3-0 and John A. Holmes defeated Pasquotank High School 10-2.

Baseball

Riverside 3 Northeastern 0The Northeastern High School Eagles fell to Riverside High School 3-0 in a pitchers’ duel on Monday afternoon.

Julian Jones pitched a strong game for the Eagles, going six innings. He gave up three runs, all unearned, while scattering three hits and striking out five batters.

Riverside scored two runs in the first inning on two walks and an Eagle error. The Knights got on the board again in the third inning when a runner reached base on an error and then scored on a single.

The Eagles threatened to score a couple of times, but weren’t able to get those runs home.

Northeastern’s Jones, Cayden Dudley, Donnell Moore and Payton Paris each had a hit in the loss.