Baseball's first round of playoffs start today against Roxboro Person at 7. Will host Knightdale/New Bern winner in the second round.
Softball plays Athens Drive tonight for their first round at 7. Will face East Wake/ Laney winner in second round.
Baseball ended their regular season last night against Harnett Central 7-6 and now are undefeated in conference. They are holding the first seed spot in the GNRC going into playoffs. The first round of playoffs start for them Friday at 7 at home.
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Women's soccer start the first round of playoffs Wednesday against Terry Sanford at 6.
Both softball and baseball have their last home game tonight for the regular season against Harnett Central.
Friday playoffs start for baseball and softball at home, time are to be announced.
Baseball won 12-0 against Knightdale, Brighton Hudson threw a 6 inning shut out. Skyler Strickland as well hit a home run for the trojans. The boys finish out their regular season against Southeast tomorrow night, and with a win will be conference champions for the first time since 2006.
Softball also shuts down Knightdale only giving up 1 run winning 9-1. Alisha Josey hit a 2 run home run last night. They also play southeast tomorrow, and Harnett Central Monday for senior night to close there regular season.
The lady trojans last night finished their last conference game and senior night against Harnett Central with a 6-0 win. The girls kept a steady pace the whole game keeping it away from Central. Goals were scored by Bayleigh Adams (2) Michaela Wycoff (2) Taylor Cooke (1) Hannah Hamlin (1) and three assist for Heather Wilfong and a shut out for goalie Elizabeth Pittman. The girls go into playoffs next week standing in third place.
Baseball won 4-0 against West Johnston, Brighton Hudson threw another gem. He threw a 4 hit shut out. The boys take a commanding lead in the conference by 2 games with only 3 games left in the conference.
Softball pulled through, being up 3-1 in the 6th inning. Shea Barbour hit a walk off single ending the game 4-3 going into 10 innings. They also have 3 games left in the conference and now tied with West Johnston for first.
Softball beat Harnett Central 5-2 Monday night for a makeup game, the game went into 9 innings. Then Tuesday they blew out SSS as well as baseball winning 12-2. Both teams JV and Varsity play West Johnston today.
Lady trojans loss two of their games this week, first one Monday night against West Johnston 0-1. And last nights loss 1-2 Garners only goal scored by Bayleigh Adams. Trojans held the game together having many shots on goal but none could go in, Knightdale getting lucky with both of their goals. The girls stand in third in the GNRC, playing a non conference game tonight against Fuquay.
Monday
Softball @ Harnett Central (JV) 4 (V) 6
Women's Soccer @ Home vs West Johnston (V) 6
Garner 3
East Wake 6
(4-18-13)
Singles:
E. Hall (G) d. C. Jones (EW) 6-3, 6-0
W. Clement (EW) d. E. Mitchell
(G) 6-0, 6-2
Z.Heath (EW)
d. J. Stewart (G) 6-0, 6-1
C. Simpson
(G) d. D. Egan (EW) 6-3, 6-2
B. Whitley
(EW) d. J. Graham (G) 7-6 (7), 6-0
J. Dunston
(G) d. D. Cid
(EW) 6-3, 6-3
Doubles:
C. Jones/Z. Heath (EW) d. E.
Hall/E. Mitchell (G) 8-6
W. Clement/B. Archibald (EW) d.
C. Simpson/J. Stewart (G) 9-7
D. Egan/B. Whitley (EW) d. J.
Dunston/N. Johnson (G) 8-1
Exhibitions:
Alexander
Zani/Khairi Haddock (8-2) won
in doubles. Scott Harty/Lalonzo Chambers (5-8) and Kelby Frierson/Will
Wei (1-8) lost in doubles.
Record:
(11-3, 12-8) Tied for 2nd place in the Greater Neuse River Conference
April 17, 2013
Senior Night
The Seniors included:
Dominic Chavez
Ryan Mahjoub
Evan Hall
Ethan Mitchell
Joe Stewart
Collin Simpson
Joseph Graham
John Dunston
Ned Johnson
Khairi Haddock
Foster Dubar
Garner 7
Harnett Central 2
Singles:
E. Hall (G) d. E. Clack (HC) 6-1, 6-0
E. Mitchell
(G) d. B. Peery
(HC) 6-1, 6-2
B. Powell (HC) d. J. Stewart (G)
7-6 (4), 4-6, 12-10
C. Simpson
(G) d. F. Sudia
(HC) 6-4, 6-0
J. Graham
(G) d. M.
Medinas (HC) 7-5, 6-2
J. Dunston
(G) d. B.
Espinoza (HC) 6-1, 6-3
Doubles:
E. Hall/E.
Mitchell (G) d. E.
Clack/B. Powell (HC) 8-1
J. Stewart/C.
Simpson (G) d. B.
Peery/F. Sudia (HC) 8-2
M. Medinas/B. Espinoza (HC) d. K.
Haddock/F. Dubar (G) 8-2
Exhibitions:
Jordan
Hudson (8-0) won in
singles. David Stewart (6-8), Alexander Zani (4-8) and Scott Harty (4-5)
lost in singles.
Last Week
Garner 9
Southeast Raleigh 0
(4-16-13)
Garner 8
Smithfield-Selma 1
(4-11-13)
Garner 8
Knightdale 1
(4-10-13)
It was also a good week for Garner baseball winning all three of their games. Tuesday they played Clayton who is second in conference winning 7-3 Brighton Hudson threw the entire game and only gave up two hits. They beat Harnett Central Wednesday by two with Skyler Strickland as the winning pitcher & Jake Ellington with the save , final score 4-2. Last night the boys smacked East Wake 8-1 & winning pitcher Ian Monahan.
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Women's soccer won all three games this week, Monday's against East Wake. Wednesday night they played against SSS who they previously beat 7-0. Going into the game confident, they were only able to score one goal the whole game by Taylor Cooke. Final score 1-0. Last night they played Harnett Central, giving Garner a fight but they pulled through with a 3-0 win goals scored by Michaela Wycoff (2) and Bayleigh Adams. (7-6-1) (7-2-1)
The Baseball & Softball games scheduled for Friday against East Wake have been moved to today due to the chance of bad weather on Friday.
Monday night the lady trojans beat East Wake in a conference game. The East Wake warriors put the first goal on the score board. Garner held it tight though, Hannah Hamlin scores Garner's first goal off a cross with a header keeping it tied 1-1 at halftime. Right at the start of the second half the first play Tori Ellsworth scores off an assist from Taylor Cooke. Then Michaela Wycoff finishes the game with one goal making the final score 3-1. Women's soccer travels to Smithfield Selma Wednesday and Harnett Central Thursday.
Garner women's soccer team battles Clayton last night, previously playing them and ending with a tie in overtime. First Quarter was back to back the comets scored the first goal off a foul. Then Garner's Bayleigh Adams follows with a goal and Clayton firing right back with another. The half ends with another goal from Bayleigh Adams and one more goal for Garner, Clayton scoring an own goal. Second half only one goal was scored for Garner by Michaela Wycoff. Final score ending as 4-2.
