Baseball
After picking up its second win of the season over Eastern Alamance 2-1 on March 6, Seaforth fell to Chapel Hill in extra innings 4-3 Saturday. Tied at 3 runs apiece in the top of the ninth inning, Chapel Hill’s David Campos knocked in Austin Campos for the go-ahead run on a sac fly.
Northwood dropped two conference losses to Southeast Alamance, losing 5-3 on March 4 and 3-2 Friday.
Chatham Charter lost two in a row to Southern Alamance (10-0) on March 4 and Cornerstone Charter (8-3) Friday.
Mid-Carolina 1A/2A conference standings (as of Sunday) (overall, conference): 1. Southeast Alamance (4-0, 4-0); T2. Chatham Central (2-4, 2-2); T2. North Moore (2-2, 1-1); 4. Northwood (1-3, 1-3); 5. Jordan-Matthews (0-4, 0-2); T6. Bartlett Yancey (1-1, 0-0); T6. Cummings (0-0, 0-0); T6. Seaforth 2-3, 0-0)
Central Tar Heel 1A conference standings (as of Sunday): 1. River Mill (2-0, 0-2); 2. Triangle Math and Science (1-4, 0-2); T3. Chatham Charter (1-2, 0-0); T3. Clover Garden School (0-4, 0-0); T3. Southern Wake Academy (0-1, 0-0)
Softball
Jordan-Matthews extended its win streak to four with a three straight wins over Northwood (11-4), Eastern Randolph (8-5) and North Moore (5-4) last week. Freshman Lily Zogopoulos and senior Marcy Clark both knocked in two scores apiece in the bottom of the fifth inning to lift the Jets ahead of North Moore.
Chatham Central pitcher Maddie Kaczmarczyk didn’t allow a hit in the three innings needed to beat Bartlett Yancey 15-0 on March 4. The Bears also achieved four straight wins with a 19-1 victory over Seaforth Friday.
Northwood senior Jasmine Wichowski went 3-for-3 from the plate and recorded five RBIs to lead the Chargers over Bartlett Yancey 16-0 for its first win of the season Friday. In that same game, she also allowed just one hit and struck out four batters on the mound.
Chatham Charter lost its first two games of the year to Providence Grove (4-3) on March 3 and Uwharrie Charter (15-8) on March 6.
Mid-Carolina 1A/2A conference standings (as of Sunday): T1. Chatham Central (4-0, 2-0); T1. Jordan-Matthews (4-0, 2-0); T3. North Moore (4-1, 2-1); T3. Seaforth (2-2, 2-1); 5. Southeast Alamance (2-2, 1-1); 6. Northwood (1-4, 1-3); T7. Bartlett Yancey (0-2, 0-2); T7. Graham (0-3, 0-2)
Central Tar Heel 1A conference standings (as of Sunday): 1. Clover Garden School (2-0, 2-0); T2. River Mill (1-1, 0-1); T2. Ascend Leadership (0-1, 0-1); 4. Chatham Charter (0-2, 0-0)
Girls’ Soccer
Woods Charter got its season started with a 2-1 win over Eno River on March 3, but the Wolves dropped its next game to Thales Academy Apex 2-0 on March 5.
Jordan-Matthews freshman Amiyah Vargas recorded a hat trick in the Jets’ 9-0 win over Phoenix Academy on March 6.
Northwood won its second game of the year with a 4-2 victory over Southern Alamance on March 6. The rest of the week didn’t go as well, though, as the Chargers also lost to Cedar Ridge 9-6 (March 3) and Eastern Alamance 3-0 (Friday).
Mid-Carolina 1A/2A conference standings (as of Sunday): T1. Seaforth (1-0, 1-0); T1 (2-3, 1-0); T3. Cummings (0-2, 0-1); T3 Graham (0-2, 0-1); T5. Bartlett Yancey (0-2, 0-0); T5. Jordan-Matthews (2-2, 0-0); T5. North Moore (1-0, 0-0); T5. Southeast Alamance (1-3, 0-0)
Track and Field
Northwood’s girls and Seaforth’s boys came out on top in the Southeast Alamance Tri-Meet on March 6 with scores of 191 and 221.5 respectively.
In the Central 3A meet on March 4, Woods Charter’s Ezra Roebuck finished first in the boys’ 400 with a time of 52.64 seconds, and Anna Peeler cruised to a win in the girls’ 1,600 with a time of 5:55.63.
Jordan-Matthews’ Rachael Woods won the girls’ triple jump at the Asheboro Non-Con meet on March 6 with a mark of 32 feet, 8 inches.
Boys’ Lacrosse
Seaforth picked up two big wins over Southeast Alamance 20-2 (March 4) and Cedar Ridge 17-5 (March 6). Junior Ivan Grimes led the Hawks with five goals against Southeast Alamance and he tied with freshman Liam McCann and senior Cameron Exley for a team-high 4 goals against Cedar Ridge.
Sophomore Anthony Karpf’s five goals led Northwood over Southeast Alamance Friday 16-0.
Central/Mid-Carolina conference standings (as of Sunday): T1. Orange (5-0, 3-0); T1. Seaforth (2-1, 2-0); 3. Northwood (3-2, 3-1); T4. Southern Alamance (2-1, 1-1); T4. Williams (2-3, 1-1); T4. Eastern Alamance (2-1, 1-1); T7. Western Alamance (0-2, 0-1); T7. Cedar Ridge (0-3, 0-2); T7. Southeast Alamance (0-6, 0-4)
Boys’ Tennis
Northwood extended its win streak to four with a 5-4 win over Jordan-Matthews on March 3, but Chatham Charter cooled the Chargers off after beating them 6-3 the next day.
Mid-Carolina 1A/2A standings (as of Sunday): T1. Northwood (4-1, 4-0); T1. Seaforth (1-0, 1-0); 3. North Moore (3-2, 2-1); 4. Jordan-Matthews (0-3, 0-1)
Boys’ Golf
Seaforth won the second Mid-Carolina 1A/2A conference match of the season on March 3 with a score of 155. Seaforth junior Ty Willoughby finished first in the individual competition with a score of 35. Farrell Blackburn (Northwood), Gray Stewart (Seaforth, tied for second with Blackburn), Brady Preslar (Northwood) and Griffin Ching (Seaforth) filled out the rest of the top five finishers in order.