Both the South Granville Vikings 2A Northern Carolina Conference 2A NCHSAA baseball & Softball State Champions.

CLASS 2-A SOFTBALL, GAME TWO:

MUNDY LEADS SOUTH GRANVILLE TO 2-A SOFTBALL SWEEP

            RALEIGH— Hunter Mundy hit a pair of home runs and drove in three runs on Saturday  to lead South Granville to a 4-3 victory over East Bend Forbush and a sweep of the North Carolina High School Athletic Association state 2-A softball championship series at Dail Softball Stadium on the campus of N.C. State.

            South took both games in the best of three series, winning the opener on Friday night by outlasting Forbush 2-1 in 11 innings.

            Mundy, a junior shortstop, was named the series Most Valuable Player.

            South took a 1-0 lead in the first with an unearned run and then a Mundy two-run homer made it 3-0 in the third. Forbush countered with a two-run shot by Allison Mitchell to cut it to 3-2.

            Mundy’s second homer, a solo blast, put South Granville ahead 4-2 and the Vikings held on to win.

            Erin Boone also had two hits for the winners, while Mitchell had two hits for Forbush.

            The Vikings finished 25-2 and last won a state softball championship in 1998.  Forbush was in the finals for the first time since 2004 and has five previous state championships, including two when the sport was slow pitch. The Falcons ended 27-3..

            The Greater Raleigh Sports Alliance served as a host city sponsor for the championship.

NORTH CAROLINA HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION
STATE SOFTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES
Dail Softball Stadium, N.C. State
Class 2-A: Game Two
 
South Granville          1   0   2      0   0   1       0—4   7   1             
Forbush                      0   0   2      0   0   1       0—3   6   2

            WP—Miranda Barker.  LP—Sydney Miller.  HR: Hunter Mundy, South Granville, 2; 3rd with one on, 6th with none on; Allison Mitchell, Forbush, 3rd with one on.

South Granville lost game two of three game series forcing game three.

NCHSAA 2-A BASEBALL CHAMPIONSHIP--GAME TWO

RANDLEMAN EXPLODES FOR 11-1 WIN TO EVEN 2-A SERIES

 

            RALEIGH—   Randleman exploded for nine runs in the fifth and scored an 11-1 victory over South Granville  in the second game of the North Carolina High School Athletic Association state 2-A baseball championship series at Doak Field at Dail Park on the campus of N.C. State University.

            The Randleman win, shortened by the 10-run rule,  evened the series at a game apiece, as South Granville rolled to a 9-2 win the opening game of the series Friday night.

            Game three will get underway at 5 p.m.

            Trevor Clemons had two hits in three at bats and drove home a pair of runs for the winners.   Caleb Webster had two hits, including a run scoring triple in the two-run Tiger third, and Tanner Routh also had two hits.

            Zac Kemp, who allowed South Granville only two hits, was the winning pitcher while Justin Bullock was the loser.   

            Randleman is in the NCHSAA baseball championships for the third time in the last five years, while South Granville is in the finals for the first time since 1982.  Randleman moved  to 27-5 overall while South Granville is now 24-3.


NORTH CAROLINA HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION
STATE BASEBALL CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES
Doak Field at Dail Park, N.C. State
Class 2-A: Game Two
 
South Granville          1   0   0       0   0   --1   2   1      
Randleman                0   0   2       0   9 – 11  8   1
           Game halted by 10 run rule.
            WP—Zac Kemp.  LP—Justin Bullock.

NCHSAA 2-A BASEBALL CHAMPIONSHIP--GAME THREE

SOUTH GRANVILLE DOWNS RANDLEMAN 8-4 TO WIN 2-A BASEBALL CROWN

            RALEIGH— South Granville erupted for five runs in the third inning to come from behind and then held off Randleman 8-4 in the decisive third game of the North Carolina High School Athletic Association state 2-A baseball championship series at Doak Field at Dail Park on the campus of N.C. State University.

            South Granville jumped in front with three runs on four hits in the second, but Randleman countered by scoring four in its half of the second, all with two outs to take a 4-3 lead.  But the Vikings got a two-run double by Cameron Willis, one of three hits he had on the day, and a run-scoring double by Tucker Britt as the big blows in the five-run third.

            Willis, Britt, and Austin Bailey all collected three hits for the winners.

            Justin Brown, who came on to pitch in relief in game three, was selected as the Most Valuable Player of the championship.  He had pitched four effective innings in Friday’s opener as South Granville took a 9-2 win, and then hurled five innings in the clincher and did not allow a run, shutting down the Tigers. 

            Randleman had tied the series earlier on Saturday with an 11-1 victory shortened by the 10-run rule with a nine-run fifth inning.

            In the final game, Caleb Webster and Tyler Adams each had two hits for the Tigers, who completed a 27-6 season.  Randleman was in the NCHSAA baseball championships for the third time in the last five years.

          South Granville, in the finals for the first time since 1982, ended the year 25-3.


NORTH CAROLINA HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION
STATE BASEBALL CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES
Doak Field at Dail Park, N.C. State
Class 2-A: Game Three
 
South Granville           0   3   5       0   0   0       0—8   13   0
Randleman                 0   4   0       0   0   0       0—4     9   4
           WP—Justin Brown.  LP—Tyler Adams.