Saturday's prep roundup
He becomes the school's second head football coach, after Eugene Everhart stepped down.
A bitter ending to last season’s playoff run has left the East Davidson baseball team with a “burning” feeling.
High Point Central pulled off a stunning 6-4 victory over the Southern Alamance Patriots Friday night in eight innings in the first round of the NCHSAA 4A playoffs.
Their pitching and defense played well, but the Warriors managed just one hit offensively in falling in the first round of the 2A state playoffs.
Rainey, who has been the graduation coach at Southwest for eight years, was planning to re-enter coaching this fall as an assistant but happily earned first head coaching job.
Central golf finished two shots out of third, while Nichols missed qualifying individually by one shot in Thursday's NCHSAA 4A Midwest Regional at Oak Hollow.
After falling behind, the Tigers, the No. 2 seed from the Piedmont Triad Conference, scored three unanswered goals as Lindsay Kubrick played a key role, scoring once and also notching an assist, in rallying for a 3-1 win.
The Warriors scored six goals in the first half — including four in just over 12 minutes — and tacked on three in the second against visiting Forest Hills to end the game via the mercy rule with 13:21 left.
