Quick Hits

— Kady Long had three hits with a triple and three RBIs as West Brunswick took a 7-1 Carolina Coast Conference softball win at Ashley on Tuesday night to improve to 16-6 overall and 6-4 in league play. — No. 9 Coastal Carolina won, 12-2, at No. 2 UNC in baseball on...

— West Brunswick scored six runs in the 12th inning for a 6-0 nonconference softball win at South Brunswick on Monday night as Pressley Wilson (16 strikeouts) and Olivia Brown combined for the shutout. Mylee Sneed and Alivia West each had two RBIs. — East Carolina...

— The Brunswick Community College baseball team completed a 3-game sweep of visiting Pitt CC with a 16-6 win in six innings on Sunday to improve to 40-8 as second baseman Sam Beck had two hits with a home run and four RBIs. — UNC Wilmington completed a 3-game Coastal...

— Philadelphia ended a 10-game losing streak with an 8-5 win in 10 innings at Atlanta on Saturday night. — The host Los Angeles Dodgers halted a 10-game winning streak for the Chicago Cubs with a 12-4 victory. — No. 2 UNC...

— Brice Estep homered for No. 9 Coastal Carolina in a 6-2 Sun Belt Conference series-opening baseball win Friday night over visiting Texas State. — No. 2 UNC was dealt a 3-1 loss at Duke. — Wake Forest was topped, 6-5, at No. 3 Georgia Tech. — Host Virginia Tech won,...

— Indiana quarterback Fernando Mendoza was the No. 1 pick in the NFL draft by Las Vegas in Pittsburgh on Thursday night. Edge rusher David Bailey of Texas Tech was taken second by the New York Jets. Running back Jeremiyah Love of Notre Dame was the third pick by...

— Connor Wilkerson pitched a complete game for West Brunswick in a 6-1 nonconference baseball win at West Columbus on Wednesday night as the Trojans improved to 11-10. — The Brunswick Community College baseball team improved to 37-8 with a 10-8 win at Southeastern of...

— UNC Wilmington scored twice in the bottom of the ninth for a 2-1 win over No. 9 Coastal Carolina on Tuesday night as J.P. Pennella, Trevor Lucas, Mason Hughes and Howie Rickett (bunt) had hits in the walk-off victory. The deciding run came in on a fielder's choice...

— Host West Brunswick and nonconference rival South Brunswick played to a scoreless draw in girls soccer on Monday. — West Brunswick is ranked No. 12 by HighSchoolOT among softball teams in the 910 area code. — Zach Jennings had three hits and two RBIs as the...

— The Carolina Hurricanes have a 1-0 lead over Ottawa going into game two of their first round series in the Stanley Cup playoffs tonight (ESPN2, 7:30 p.m.). — Eighth-seeded Orlando was a 112-101 winner at Detroit, the top seed in the East, in the first game of a...

— No. 3 UNC took its baseball series with No. 2 Georgia Tech with a 14-4 win in eight innings over the visiting Yellow Jackets on Saturday. — Wake Forest hit five home runs in an 18-7 series-clinching win over N.C. State in Winston-Salem. — Host East Carolina goes for...