Sports - May 2003

Briefs

Published May 2, 2003

LHS boys tennis takes second in conference

Lincolnton High School’s tennis team wrapped up its conference season with a second-place finish in the Mid-west 2-A tournament (Shelby won the tournament handily)

Only one of Lincolnton’s semi-finalist advanced to the finals — Jimmy Thackston, who was beaten by Shelby’s William Noblitt (the eventual tournament champ and defending State 2-A champ in singles).

Joseph and Andrew Allender were eliminated by Jay Chitty and Alex Pearson (Jay was the 2-A state champ in 2000- runner up 2002- Alex was half of the team that won the State 2-A doubles in 2002).

John James and Devin High won their semi-final doubles match 6-2, 6-1 and faced Chitty and Pearson (Shelby) in the finals. The Lincolnton duo gave the No. 1 seeds an exciting match but lost 3-6, 2-6. Their level of play should earn them a seeded position in the West Regional Tournament also at Gardner-Webb.

LHS will host a dual team play-off match next Tuesday then Regional on Friday and Saturday.

LHS golf team sends three to regionals

Tripp Morrow- East Rutherford- 494 (player of the year).

*Robbie Lewis- Lincolnton- 570

*Kyle Gazdeck- LHS- 570

*Michael Wiseman- LHS - 587

Matt Eagle- LHS - 597

John Hoyle- LHS - 597

David Cline- West - 613

C.J. Deputy- West - 682

Michael Nale- West - 716

Clayton Mullis- West - 713

Jake Elmore- West - 720

*= All Conference

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Team Standings

1. East Rutherford

4. Lincolnton

6. West Lincoln

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Lincolnton Regional Qualifiers

Robby Lewis

Kyle Gazdeck

Michael Wiseman

East softball blasts North Gaston

East Lincoln defeated North Gaston Tuesday afternoon in a game that lasted five innings and ended with a score of 13-1.

East scored a run in the second, 10 in the third and two runs in the fourth.

A highlight of the game came the bottom of the fourth when East’s Leslie Marlowe capitalized on an error by North Gaston’s center fielder and turned a deeply hit ball into an inside-the-park home run to score the team’s last two runs.

East’s leading batters were Carina Vinzant (2- for-3, three RBIs), Nicole Shoemaker (two hits and an RBI) and Nicole Hall (2-for-3).

East’s Carina Vinzant pitched a two-hitter while fanning six and walking none.

 This win gives her a record of 4-0. East’s team record now stands at 13-2 overall and 9-0 in their conference.

East, the state’s ninth ranked team, will play at Hunter Huss today.

Local teams struggle in the  conference meet

The local teams didn’t have their best days at the Midwest 2-A Conference track meet.

In the girls meet, West Lincoln came in second ad failed to win its third league title in a row.

Shelby won the event with 134 points to the Lady Rebels’ 105 points. Lincolnton placed sixth with 50.

West girls picked up wins from Lily Tallent in the shot put and the discus. She won both events last year. Karla Sigmon captured the high jump title while Brittany Beeker was the best in the 3,200-meter  run.

West’s 3,200 relay team finished second.

Lincolnton’s Beri Huitt won both the 800 and the 1,600 runs.

In the boys’ event, Luis Soto took the 800 and placed second in the 1,600 while Jared Webb was the runner-up in the 3,200.

They both helped the 3,200 relay come in second.

Ray Conley leaped to second place in the triple jump and came in third in the long jump.

Overall, Shelby won the meet with LHS finishing sixth and West in eighth place.

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