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Community Sports

  • Cedar Grove finishes unbeaten in boys’ soccer
    Using the motto of “one team,” the Cedar Grove Middle School soccer team finished the season 8-0. “In my 22-year coaching career in Brunswick County, this is my first 8-0 championship team,” coach Marty Mentzer said. She has won at least 10 championships and one team finished 7-0. “‘One team’ exemplified the way this team played together,” she said. “We scored 31 goals by eight different players and only allowed three goals scored against us all season.”
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  • Shock finishes 4-0 in St. James Cupl
    The Shallotte Shock U12 girls soccer team took its undefeated record to Charleston, S.C., to play in the St. James Cup last weekend. For the Shock, this was its first out-of-state tournament. The Shock played two games Saturday, winning 2-0 and 2-0. In the first game Ashley Oakes and Mia Adcock each scored. In the second game both goals were scored by Kira Frawley. On Sunday the Shock played a semifinal and won 2-1. Both goals were scored by Hayley Giordano. In the championship game, the Shock won 2-0, with scores coming from Adcock and Frawley.
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  • Sports briefs
    Stingray tryouts are Nov. 27 Tryouts for the Lady Stingrays 14U softball team will take place at 2 p.m. Nov. 27 at Northwest District Park in Leland. Girls with birth dates on or after Jan. 1, 1997, are eligible to participate. Independent tryouts available by request if unable to make this date. For more information, contact Tony at (910) 386-8234 or Matt Chappell at  (910) 612-1635. Dixie youth meeting Nov. 28
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  • Tree stand injuries may be avoidable
    BY NCWRC Special to the Beacon
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  • Hawaiian Paddle Out honors Chris Crocker
    STAFF REPORT Sunset Beach Surf Club and Eastern Surfing Association members had a Hawaiian Paddle Out Nov. 13 at the Sunset Beach fishing pier to honor fellow member Chris Crocker, who died of a heart attack Nov. 5. Crocker, 37, was the father of two children, Brittney and Jake, and husband of Amy. A Hawaiian Paddle Out is the way surfers pay respect for one of their fellow surfers who has died.
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  • Ron Watts wins BCTA singles playoffs
    The BCTA singles ladder playoffs took place at the Ocean Isle Beach Park Tennis Center. The top eight players in the playoffs, by seeding, were Phil Edwards, LaMarr Hardy, Lewis Shaw, Rick Thomas, Ron Watts, James Capps, Dave Gongora and Tom Smith. In the first round, Edwards defeated Smith 6-4, 6-0. Watts defeated Thomas 6-2, 6-2. Capps defeated Shaw 6-4,1-6, 6-4. Hardy defeated Gongora 6-2, 6-3.
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  • Special Olympics soccer teams win gold, bronze
    West Brunswick teams won gold and bronze medals in the Special Olympics North Carolina Fall Tournament, which concluded Nov. 13 in High Point. The Brunswick Fire won a gold medal in five-on-five soccer: Daniel Catala, Chris Musgrove, Kristyn Ramsey, Zaporia Reed, Dion Smith, Sakethia Stevenson, Juan Velez and Frederick Williams. The Brunswick Heat won a bronze medal: Joseph Allen, Richard Cummings, Derick Ferrell, Derrick Green, Audrey Keith, Mauquel Randall, Chris Robinson, Barry I. Straub, Christopher Tart.
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  • Sports briefs
    Weekly scores for Planet Fun Planet Fun Classic: Jeffrey Evans 289-205-234-728, Randy Brown 231-200-603, Arnold Sanchez 211-200-590, Brian McCall 247, T J Thornton 237, Dennis Nicholl 233, Tom Kiggins 232, Charles Wilbur 225, Don Ruth 215-205, George Kleinmann 213-203, Avery Poteate 212, Frank Paolicelli 212, Bill Brothemarkle 212, George Jacobs 204, Mike Fulwood 201, Thurston Etheridge 201, Paula Micale 500.
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  • Shock wins soccer championship 4-1
    STAFF REPORT The Shallotte Shock 12U girls’ soccer team  finished its season with a 4-1 victory in championship game. The Shock started quickly with a goal three minutes into the game when Hayley Giordano dribbled to the side of the field and hit a crossing shot for a goal. Ashley Oakes followed minutes later with a goal. Mia Adcock crossed the ball from the side of the field into the middle and Oakes played it off her chest to her feet and  placed it into the corner of the goal.
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  • Sports calendar
    FREE SOFTBALL CLINICS AT WEST West Brunswick High School softball coach Joe Noble and his staff will conduct free softball clinics for girls 13 and younger. The clinics will take place 5:30-6:30 p.m. Mondays and Thursdays at the West softball field. Please contact Noble at 443-1138 if you plan to attend.
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