Pressley Wilson hits a home run for West Brunswick on Friday.
(Shallotte Area Sports Photo/W.A. Myatt)
West Brunswick hosted NCHSAA 6-A second round baseball and softball playoff games on Friday night.
The Trojans easily advanced in softball with a 10-0 win in five innings over East Chapel Hill.
Jacksonville ended West’s baseball season with a 3-1 victory.
Softball
West improved to 17-7 and will host Triton (17-8) in the third round on Tuesday at 6 p.m.
Freshman Pressley Wilson pitched a 1-hitter with 11 strikeouts for West on Friday, helping her own cause with a home run and three RBIs.
Cyndee Harris, Paisley Wilson and Natalie Ward each drove in a pair of runs for the Trojans.
Brooke Somers had an RBI.
Baseball
Jacksonville senior left-hander Jonathan Pittman pitched a 2–hitter with one walk and four strikeouts.
Pittman pitched two no-hit innings in a 3-1 win over visiting Greenville Rose, the top seed in the East, on March 26.
The Cardinals (13-10) scored lone runs in the first, second and fourth.
West cut the lead to 2-1 in the third as a 2-out single by Josiah Borton brought in Nate Fish.
Wesley Wilson went 1-for-3 in the season finale for the Trojans.
The visitors managed four hits as seniors Cooper Wilson and Kaleb Faulders threw for the hosts.
Wilson pitched five and one-third innings for West. He yielded four hits and three runs (two earned) with two walks, three hit batters and four strikeouts.
Faulders went the last inning and two-thirds. He walked two, hit one and struck out two.
Faulders had a whiff to leave the bases loaded for Jacksonville in the sixth.
With a first-round bye as the No. 7 seed, the Trojans, who went 13-13 overall, had not seen live pitching since April 29. The Cardinals were 10-0 winners over Felton Grove in the first round on May 5.
“Obviously, things didn’t go the way we wanted,” said West coach Greg Wrape of the playoff appearance. “Just did not play well enough to win.”
The Trojans went 7-5 in the Carolina Coast Conference to finish fourth. The league is comprised of 7-A and 8-A teams other than 6-A West.
“Overall, it was a good season,” Wrape said. “Tough to have it end that way.”
Josiah Borton drove in the lone run for West in baseball.
(Shallotte Area Sports Photo/W.A. Myatt)
