Today's Sports

An eight-run fifth inning propelled the Brunswick Community College baseball team to a 17-9 victory in eight innings Sunday afternoon over Stanly Community College.

BCC scored three runs in the eighth inning for an eight-run lead, and by conference rule that margin ended the game, played at West Brunswick High School.

BCC led 11-3 after five innings, but SCC used four walks and two errors in the sixth to score six runs and cut the lead to 11-9. That displeased BCC coach Robbie Allen.

West Brunswick rallied from a 4-0 deficit to beat Southern Alamance 7-6 in a thrilling championship game of the Touchstone Energy Diamond Beach Invitational April 15 at West.

Jay Gause, who pitched the final four and one-third innings, ended the game with a strikeout when the tying run was on third base.

Three Trojans—Logan Tripp, Pat Kamfolt and Josh Powell—made the all-tournament team. (Hunter Allen, playing on the junior varsity, also was an all-tournament selection). West is now 14-3.

North Brunswick scored three runs in the top of the seventh and then held off a bases-loaded Southern Wayne rally to beat the Saints 8-6 and finish third in the Touchstone Energy Beach Diamond Invitational.

Smithfield scored three runs in the top half of the first inning and went on to defeat the Lady Cougars in their final game at the Touchstone Energy Beach Diamond Invitational April 15.

Meagan Spivey, the freshman who had pitched in relief the day before, was asked to take the mound again for the Lady Cougars. Although she only allowed one hit in that inning, a wild pitch and an error allowed the team from Smithfield (about an hour north from here just off I-95) to score the only three runs of the game. Spivey did strike out one batter.