Saturday’s roundup: Area teams grab state championships in multiple sports

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↑Carmel Christian tennis: beat Arendell Parrott (17-2) 5-1 in the N.C. Independent Schools 2A state championship Saturday, winning its second straight title. Carmel finished the season at 11-3.

↑Charlotte Country Day tennis: Bucs (19-0) finished the season unbeaten, beating CISAA conference rival Providence Day (13-6) in the N.C. Independent Schools 3A championship game.

↑High Point Wesleyan, Faith Christian baseball: Wesleyan won its second straight NCISAA 3A championship Saturday, beating Charlotte Christian 7-6 in Game 2 of a best-of-3 championship series in 12 innings, five more than regulation. Christian finished the season at 30-5. Wesleyan was 27-1 this season and is 50-7 over the past two seasons. ... Faith Christian (24-1) beat defending NCISAA 2A champ Northside Christian (20-5) in two games, winning Game 2 Saturday 5-4.

↑Central Cabarrus boys basketball: school has hired former Catawba College coach Jim Baker to coach its team. Baker was a head coach at Catawba for 20 years and was an assistant for 12 years at schools like Davidson, Virginia Military Institute and Virginia Tech. This will be his first high school job. Baker replaces Kenyan Weaks, who resigned.

↑Weddington tennis: Warriors got doubles wins from William and Henry Hatt and Nicholas Spera and Grant Kimner to rally to beat Fayetteville Sanford 5-4 in the NCHSAA 3A dual team state championship match Saturday in Burlington.

↑Rock Hill Northwestern baseball: beat River Bluff 5-2 to win the S.C. 5A championship Saturday. It was the school’s first baseball state title. Click here for story.

↑Hickory Grove softball: shut out Metrolina Christian 7-0 Saturday to win the N.C. Independent Schools 3A state championship. Hickory Grove lost to Forsyth Country Day in the 2015 state championship game.

Saturday’s #BIG5 Performers

Carter Williams, Charlotte Country Day girls lacrosse: four goals in a 15-6 state championship win over Charlotte Latin.

Flynn Stover, Christopher Williams, Myers Park tennis: needing to win the final doubles match of the 2017 NCHSAA 4A dual-team tennis championship, the Mustangs duo won 7-3 to deliver the school’s first boys 4A dual team tennis title.

Titus Toms, Burns boys track: repeated as N.C. 3A boys 100-meter state champion.

Eveleen Hahn, Charlotte Catholic girls soccer: two goals in a 2-0 win at Hough in the NCHSAA 4A girls regional soccer semifinals. Catholic (21-2-3) advances to Tuesday’s regional championship, or state semifinal match, at West Forsyth. Hough (20-2-2) was shut out for the second time this season. The Huskies lost 1-0 to Myers Park last month.

Emerson Porter, Gracie Wheelan, Providence Day girls track: both athletes won four event state championships and were part of the Chargers’ overall dominant girls champion at the N.C. Independent Schools 3A state championship Saturday. Charlotte Latin’s DeMarkes Stradford won four individual events on the boys’ side.

Charlotte Country Day claims fifth straight NCISAA girls lacrosse title

Charlotte Country Day’s record might not have been what fans of the Buccaneers girls lacrosse team have been used to, but in the end, the state championship result was just the same.

A year ago, the Bucs won their fourth straight N.C. Independent Schools state championship, beating Durham Academy 18-2. The 2016 Bucs finished 20-1-1. In 2017, Country Day entered the state tournament with a record of 9-7, but the Bucs rolled through three playoff opponents by a score of 51-11 to claim a fifth straight crown.

Country Day blitzed CISAA conference rival Charlotte Latin 15-6 at home Saturday in the 2017 state championship game. For the season, Country Day was 10-0 against NCISAA competition. Since the inception of the NCISAA girls lacrosse championship in 2009, Country Day has won seven of the nine available championships.

On Saturday, Country Day’s Carter Williams scored four goals, Jaclyn Perkins had three and Charlotte Pedlow and Thea Reddin had two each. Also scoring for the champions were Virginia Poole, Sadie Charles Calame, Taylor Riley and Lilly Whitman.

Charlotte Latin (12-5) got two goals from Cecelia Colombo and scores from Kate Anderson, Gracie Colombo, Olivia Clements and Gia Colombo.

Myers Park’s boys win first NCHSAA dual-team championship

Myers Park’s boys tennis team made history Saturday in Burlington, winning the school’s first N.C. High School Athletic Association 4A dual team state championship.

The Mustangs finished the season 21-0, rallying to beat Cary Panther Creek 5-4 Saturday. The Myers Park girls team finished 21-0 last fall and won the 4A championship. Myers Park’s boys were in the finals for the first time since 1999, when they lost 8-1 to Raleigh Millbrook.

LINK: Myers Park boys tennis chasing perfection in NCHSAA playoffs

After four singles matches on Saturday, the boys’ score was tied at 2-all. Panther Creek then won the final two singles matches and needed just one win in the three scheduled doubles matches to take the state championship. But Myers Park bore down.

Charlie Reiney and Charlie Fox picked up the first victory for Myers Park defeating Panther Creek’s Owen Shifflett and Akash Nijhawan 10-4. After Myers Park’s Mark Dillon and Sam Dean beat Trice Pickens and Siddhant Pal, Myers Park had evened the team score at 4.

The championship came down to the final match and Myers Park’s Flynn Stover and Christopher Williams brought home the championship, winning the final doubles match 7-3 to complete the comeback.

▪ Raleigh Charter beat Pine Lake Prep for the third straight year in the 1A final, winning 5-1. Pine Lake Prep’s Max Vicario won at No. 1 singles. Results below.

Cardinal Gibbons stops Myers Park in NCHSAA girls lacrosse final

Led by five goals from state finals MVP Elizabeth Wilson, Raleigh’s Cardinal Gibbons High School stopped Myers Park 19-12 in the NCHSAA girls lacrosse championship game.

Cardinal Gibbons led 5-0 early before Myers Park scored four straight goals, the last coming when Landon Shelley scored one of her two goals. Myers Park’s Amy Karp had a goal and four assists. But ahead one, Cardinal Gibbons pushed the lead to 7-4 and never looked back. Myers Park finished the season at 20-3. Gibbons, which won its second girls lacrosse title, ended the season at 20-2.

Cary’s Middle Creek High stops Lake Norman in 4A boys lacrosse final

Cary’s Middle Creek High beat Lake Norman 17-8 in Saturday’s NCHSAA 4A boys lacrosse championship, winning the school’s first boys lacrosse title.

Middle Creek got four goals and three assists from Owen Caputo, and Middle Creek’s Jared Medwar finished with five goals and two assists. The Mustangs had a 47-25 advantage on shots and won 25-of-31 faceoffs.

Lake Norman finished the sesason at 19-5. Middle Creek finished a perfect 22-0.

Charlotte Country Day tennis wins NCISAA championship

Charlotte Country Day won its first N.C. Independent Schools boys tennis championship in six years Saturday, shutting out rival Providence Day 5-0 at UNC Charlotte. The Bucs girls won the championship last fall.

In Saturday’s boys final, the Bucs earned the first two points of the morning at line one and two doubles, 8-5 and 8-2, respectively. The line three pair of Tarun Prakash and Jackson Motchar were down 4-1 before winning 8-6. That allowed Country Day to take all three doubles matches.

The Bucs dominated singles play, too, with Bennett Turner winning 6-1, 6-0, followed by a championship-clinching victory from Prakash at 6-2, 6-0.

Weddington wins NCHSAA 3A state boys track championship

Weddington won two of the four relay races and won its first NCHSAA outdoor championship. Weddington finished with 68 points, well ahead of second place Marvin Ridge (34.5).

Warrior relays won the 3200 Meter Relay and the 400 Meter Relay. Stephen Larson, Carson Glatz, Will Mazur and Kyle Durham teamed up to take down the 3200 in 7:58.75. In the 400 Relay Denison Livingston, Emerson Douds, Mark Conner and Doug Dracon churned out a :42.04 second time.

▪ Full results from 1A and 3A track below

Providence Day doubles at private 3A track; First Assembly boys take 1A/2A

Providence Day’s boys and girls track team won NCISAA 3A state track championships Saturday.

The Chargers boys totaled 100 points, edging Arden Christ School by 11 points. The Providence Day girls were dominant, winning by more than 30 points over Cary Academy.

In the 1A/2A event, Concord First Assembly totaled 73 points to edge Coastal Christian by two points for the team championship. Carolina Day (134 points) ran away with the girls championship, beating Cary Christian (55). Victory Christian (45.5) was the highest-placing area finisher, finishing fifth.

Full results below.

This story was originally published May 20, 2017 at 10:59 PM with the headline "Saturday’s roundup: Area teams grab state championships in multiple sports."