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 The West Brunswick High School girls’ soccer season ended May 8 in Shallotte in a 3-0 loss to C.B. Aycock in the first round of the North Carolina High School Athletic Association Class 3A state playoffs.

West finishes 12-5-1. C.B. Aycock is 14-6 and plays either Wilson Hunt (16-2) or Washington (8-10) in the second round.

The game started badly for the Trojans. Defender Gracie Baxley was injured 2 minutes, 6 seconds into the game and remained sidelined for the rest of the game.

SUNSET BEACH—A 22-year-old man has been arrested after local police tracked him with a stolen cell phone.

Daniel Castillo, 22, of 24 Boundary Loop Road in the Carolina Shores North community, was charged May 2.

Sunset Beach Police Det. Woody Dunn said an Android phone was reported stolen that same day from the counter of the Market Express store on Seaside Road.

The phone’s owner had placed the phone on the counter when it was stolen.

“Iron Man 3,” filmed 45 miles up the road in Wilmington, just took in the second-highest dollar figures ever for a movie’s opening.
The latest installment in the Iron Man series opened taking in a colossal $175.3 million, making it second only to 2012’s “The Avengers.” That movie was the predecessor in Marvel Studios’ ongoing series of superhero movies, which took in $207.4 million last year.

This is one of those weeks when it’s tough to be a fishing report columnist. It’s supposed to be the time of year when the fishing is at its best and I’m full of reports and fish stories from inshore to offshore. Instead I’m going to sound like a broken record poormouthing the rotten weather we’ve been experiencing.