High School Sports

Cox Mill must win two games Sunday to win NC 3A baseball championship

tglantz@thestate.com

Cox Mill will need to get hot Sunday to win the N.C. 3A state baseball championship.

The Chargers lost 8-1 to Greenville’s Rose High in Game 1 of the best-of-3 championship series Sunday. Rose got five hits but took advantage of eight walks and five Cox Mill errors.

Game 2 of the series will be played at Fayetteville’s Terry Sanford High School at 1 p.m. Sunday. If Cox Mill wins, Game 3 will be played 30 minutes after Game 2.

The teams played at JP Riddle Stadium in Fayetteville Saturday but field conditions, after a few days of rains, forced tournament organizers to move the final.

Langston Wertz Jr.
The Charlotte Observer
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