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Across the nation in high school sports (April)

Alabama

Trae Strain of Woodland High was named the state’s Scholar Athlete Award winner and LaTashia Greer of Dadeville High was the Achievement Award winner at the 22nd annual Bryant-Jordan Student Athlete Awards Banquet in Birmingham. Strain, a three-sport athlete, is his class valedictorian with a 4.0 grade-point average, scored 29 on the ACT and is president of the Student Council and Beta Club. He holds the school’s basketball single game scoring record, 48 points. Greer overcame a difficult home environment to become an honor student and star on her school’s volleyball, basketball and track teams.

Alaska

Danielle McMullen celebrated her 18th birthday by scoring the game-winning goal as Eagle River Chugiak High beat Anchorage Robert W. Service High 1-0, snapping a streak of 24 matches without a victory over the Cougars that had extended back to 1994, when Chugiak last beat Service by a 4-1 score. McMullen scored off a header from Heidi Brehmer with 10 minutes remaining in the second half. The Mustangs improved to 4-0 overall and beat Service for just the fifth time in school history. The Cougars lead the all-time series 44-5-6.

Arizona

Ray Polk of Phoenix Brophy Jesuit Preparatory School ran the 110-meter hurdles in 13.93 – the nation’s sixth-fastest time this year – to win the fourth annual Mesa Tribune Invitational at Mesa Westwood High. Polk finished the event .26 seconds ahead of Chandler High’s Ashtyn Lamb. Polk has his sights set on the state record of 13.69 seconds. Phoenix Desert Vista High won the boys title, outscoring Chandler 107-104. Mesa Mountain View (97) won the girls title. Phoenix Mountain Pointe High’s Polyanna Trotter won the 100 (12.38 seconds) and the 200 25.53).

Arkansas

Karisa Hendrix pitched a two-hitter and struck out 13 to lead the Hardy Highland High softball team past Wilson Rivercrest High 8-2 in the 4A-3 district final. The win gave the Lady Rebels (19-8), which had finished the regular season with six consecutive losses, a No. 1 seed in the regional tournament. Jessica Sellers’ two-run double in the first inning gave Highland the lead for good. Samantha McNulty had a two-run single and Whitney Crook and Allison Price also had RBIs in a four-run fifth inning. Hendrix (17-8) retired nine of the first 10 batters she faced and struck out four of the final five hitters.

California

Chris Done, one of two finalists from Clovis Buchanan High, won the 103-pound title to lead California to the Chase Metcalf Memorial state team title in the NHSCA National High School Seniors Wrestling Championships. Done beat Taylor Louie of West Covina High 6-2 in an all-California final. Nektoe Demison (112) of Bakersfield High, state champions Nikko Triggas (119) of Moraga Campolindo High and Justin Danz (171) of Shingle Springs Ponderosa High and two-time state champions Boris Novachkov (125) of Fremont High and Ryan Flores (215) of Buchanan also advanced to the finals.

Colorado

Down 4-0 after facing just four batters in the top of the first inning, Scott Anundsen shut the door as Littleton Columbine High (11-4, 6-1) took over first place in the 5A Jefferson County League with a 5-4 victory over cross-town rival Chatfield High. Elliott Riege’s grand slam home run gave Chatfield (11-5, 6-2) its 4-0 lead before Columbine rallied. Steve Autienrieth had a pair of RBI singles for Columbine and Curtis Cunningham was 2-for-3 with a run scored and a RBI. The loss snapped Chatfield’s six-game winning streak.

Connecticut

A rematch of last year's Division 1 girls lacrosse semifinal between defending champion Wilton High and Glastonbury High was closer on the field Thursday than on the scoreboard. Wilton won 10-2 by scoring the game's last five goals in the final 12:40. Wilton (5-1) led 4-1 at halftime before its second-half explosion. All-State players Ali Davala and Emily Kager each had two goals and two assists for Wilton. Kacie Johnson had three goals and two assists and Kindall Healy added two goals. Emily Allen and Candace Underhill scored for Glastonbury (4-1).

Delaware

Top-ranked Wilmington Friends School’s boys tennis team (7-0) edged No. 3 Wilmington Salesianum School 3-2. The Quakers earned the win by sweeping all three singles matches. Freshman Troy Beneck won 6-4, 6-2 at No. 1, Curtis Fincher rallied to win in three sets, 4-6, 6-3, 6-1 at No. 2 and Travis Peck won in straight sets at No. 3. Beneck piled up a 14-2 edge in winners in his win and Fincher overcame three key double faults late in his first-set loss. Salesianum (5-2) swept the doubles matches, getting wins from Andrew Shectman and John Price (No. 1) and Jacob Anderson and James Sullivan (No. 2).

Florida

Six valedictorians and 17 three-sport athletes headline this year’s 23-member Florida High School Athletic Association Academic All-State Team. Those valedictorians include Caitlin Greskovich, of Pensacola Catholic High (soccer, track and field, cross country); Ilona Juan of Homestead South Dade High (basketball, volleyball, track and field); Jamie Loud of Jupiter Christian School (soccer, volleyball, track and field); Kathryn Ostrander of Leesburg High (tennis, soccer, cross country); Weston Palmer of Wauchula Hardee High (baseball, basketball, football); and Jacqueline Sullivan of Palm Harbor University High (cross country, soccer, track and field).

Georgia

Dublin West Laurens High (14-3) advanced past the first round of the girls soccer playoffs for the frirst time in school history, getting goals from Courtney Crabb goal and Megan Schafer to rally for a 2-1 victory over Cairo High in first-round play. Cairo (9-2-2) scored three minutes into the match on as a West Laurens player deflected the ball into her own net. But Crabb converted a Marissa Hatem cross into the tying goal midway through the first half and Schafer’s penalty kick five minutes into the second half proved to be the game-winner.

Hawaii

Senior Colin Fujishige of Kaneohe Castle High swept defending champ Matt Tavares of Honolulu McKinley High 6-4, 6-0 in the Oahu Interscholastic Association boys tennis final. It was his second victory over Tavares in three meetings this season. Tavares had beaten Fujishige 6-3, 6-4 in the Eastern Division final the previous week. In a battle of juniors, Mililani High’s Megan Yoshimoto swept longtime rival Tezra Damaso of Pearl City High 6-3, 6-4 to win the OIA girls singles championship.

Idaho

Junior Jordan Huttash’s third hit of the game, a two-run single in the bottom of the sixth inning, helped Boise Bishop Kelly High (19-1, 11-0) retain the top spot in the 4A Southern Idaho Conference with a 5-2 win over Mountain Home High. Britney Croner (19-0) allowed just three hits, one of them a two-run homer by senior catcher Sammy Dodge in the top of the sixth. The Tigers then advanced the tying run to third base with one out before Croner got a grounout and a strikeout to end the threat. Mountain Home (13-6, 8-3) lost to Bishop Kelly for the second time this spring.

Illinois

Kasee Wood tossed a five-hit shutout and struck out seven and Jenny Hayden’s baserunning produced the winning run in the fifth inning as Anna-Jonesboro High (9-11) shut out Herrin High 2-0 in non-conference play. Hayden, who had two hits, singled to lead off the fifth and wound up on third base when the ball bounced past the field fielder and all the way to the fence. She scored the game’s first run with sliding around the catcher on Hillary Abernathy’s groundout. Wood singled home Rachel Hayden with an insurance run in the xixth.

Indiana

After three line drives ended in a double play and two lineouts, Lafayette McCutcheon High center fielder Maggie Tull’s game-winning hit barely traveled 10 feet in the bottom of the sixth inning. The hit scored Kristen Garza and gave McCutcheon (12-2), ranked No. 6 in 4A, a 5-4 victory over Frankfort Clinton Prairie High. Junior left-hander Tori Collins (5-2), who once attended Clinton Prairie, earned the win in relief by retiring the last 12 batters she faced against her former team. Clinton Prairie (6-8), paced by Amanda Stephens’ two-run single, took a 4-0 lead before McCutcheon rallied.

Iowa

Senior Stephen Dak of Marshalltown High won the 3,200 meters with a personal-best 9:15.24 and junior Matt Banse of Strawberry Point Starmount High won the shot put with a throw of 60-11¾ at the prestigious Drake Relays. Noah Kittelson of Indianola High (6-5) won the high jump. Des Moines Lincoln High's Jordan Bernstine, an Iowa football recruit, was to compete in the long jump and two relays, but did not after sustaining minor injuries in an automobile accident earlier in the week. Bernstine and fellow qualifiers Adam Robinson and Baley Johnson were en route to a meet at Des Moines North High when the accident occurred.

Kansas

Wichita East High’s girls swimming team beat Wichita Heights High 58-43 and edged Wichita Kapaun-Mount Carmel High 52-49 to remain unbeaten in Wichita City League meets. The key race for the Aces was the 50-yard freestyle. Kapaun-Mount Carmel's Jane Gaulding (26.42 seconds) won the race, but East senior Amy White's second-place finish produced the points necessary for East to win the meet. Shannon Sullivan won the 200 individual medley (2:13.35) and the 100-yard breaststroke (1:10.10), while Kristin Person won the 500-yard freestyle (5:48.27). Meredith Matthies won the 100 (55.10) and 200 freestyle (2:00.42) for Kapaun-Mount Carmel.

Kentucky

Top-rated Lexington Catholic High's baseball team, the state champion a year ago, got three-hit pitching from its ace pitcher, junior left-hander Nick Maronde, and a bases-loaded triple from Georgia signee Ben Revere highlighted a five-run fourth inning in a 7-0 victory over Lexington Tates Creek High (12-4) in district play. Maronde struck out seven in five shutout innings to improve his record to 17-0 over the last two years. Jordan Root had three hits and also drove in three runs as Lexington Catholic (16-1) notched its 13th win in a row.

Louisiana

Class 5A New Orleans O. Perry Walker High and 4A Watson Live Oak High both won quarterfinal games early Friday to open the State Farm-Louisiana High School Athletic Association state softball tournament. Walker (21-9-3) defeated West Monroe High 7-5 as Hali Westmoreland hit a two-run homer, Kaylee Guidry added a three-run triple and Lacey Sewell scattered 10 hits to earn the win. Live Oak (22-5-4) got a two-hitter from Heather Desselle (18-1-2), who struck out 13 in a 4-0 win over West Ouachita High. Desselle also scored two runs. Tiffany Alello and Sarah Anthony had RBI doubles for the Eagles.

Maine

Pat Thibodeau hit a two-run single in the eighth inning to lift Caribou High to a 6-4 victory over host Ellsworth High in the second game of a doubleheader, earning a split. Caribou took the first game, 6-3. Phil St. Peter hit a double and three singles to drive in four runs for Caribou and Dustin Haines singled twice in the nightcap. Greg Berry and Nick Hunnewell each doubled and scored a run for Ellsworth. In the first game, Eric Folmer singled twice to knock in two runs for Ellsworth and Pat Kelley doubled and singled while pitching a six-hitter. Hunnewell and Berry each singled twice and Jon Noyes singled twice for Caribou.

Maryland

The Baltimore Roland Park Country School girls lacrosse team upset No. 4 Baltimore Bryn Mawr School 5-4 as Courtney Kirk’s goal, her second of the game, with 3:18 remaining decided a defensive struggle in the 75th anniversary of the first game played between the neighborhood rivals. The Interscholastic Athletic Association of Maryland A Conference game was tied three times before Kirk’s goal gave the Reds (8-7) the win. Second-half Kirk and Miller Hughes gave the host Reds a 4-2 lead, but Annie Thomas answered with two free-position goals for the Mawrtians (13-2), the last coming with 7:10 to go.

Massachusetts

In a battle between the Boston Globe’s top two baseball teams, top-ranked Boston Catholic Memorial High (6-2) scored all three of its runs in the fifth inning and held off a late rally for a 3-2 victory over previously-unbeaten Boston College High. After Boston College (3-1) used two errors to take a 1-0 lead in the top of the fifth, Chris Rooney’s sacrifice fly tied the score in the bottom of the inning and Marc Perdios singled home the go-ahead runs. Jim Albano’s RBI single made it 3-2 in the sixth, but senior pitcher Nick Peters stranded two runners in the sixth and seventh innings to preserve the win.

Michigan

St. Clair Shores Lake Shore High junior right-hander Kevin Vangheluwe struck out 10 and allowed three hits in six innings in a 3-0 victory over Harrison Township L'Anse Creuse High. Vangheluwe (3-1) lowered his earned-run average below the 0.20 mark with the win. The Shorians (12-1) are ranked No. 1 in the Division 2 coaches poll. Catcher Brett Mazmanian went 3-for-4 for Lake Shore and designated hitter Jim Harsen, who pitched a scoreless seventh for his fourth save, went 2-for-3. Right-hander Phil Verniers tossed a complete game with four strikeouts for L'Anse Creuse (7-6).

Minnesota

Five-time Class A champion Zach Sanders (119) of Wabasha-Kellogg High, headed to Minnesota, rallied for a 7-6 victory over California state champion Nikko Triggas of Moraga Campolindo High to win the NHSCA National High School Seniors Wrestling Championships. Sanders also won the NHSCA National Juniors tournament a year ago. Two-time state champion Jake Deitchler of Anoka High scored the only pin of the National Juniors finals, scoring a defensive pin against Johnny Koepp of Dallas (Texas) Bishop Lynch High 45 seconds into the 145-pound final.

Mississippi

Sophomore left-hander Andrew McQuirk went the distance on a five-hitter to give Ridgeland High (22-10) a 6-3 victory, forcing a third and 4A playoff game against Oxford Lafayette County High with a 6-3 victory. McQuirk (6-2) struck out five. Jonathan Howard ignited a four-run fifth inning for Ridgeland with a single and Michael Barnett capped it with a two-run double. Howard's hit was the first of the game for the Titans, who were stymied by Commodore pitcher Jake Mills (6-2) the first three innings. Lafayette County (21-8) is trying to become the first repeat 4A state champion since then-4A Hattiesburg Oak Grove High in 1993 and 1994.

Missouri

Visiting St. Charles Francis Howell Central High (12-6) scored five runs in the fifth inning and four more in the sixth, coming from behind to beat St. Peters Fort Zumwalt South High 10-3 in Gateway Athletic Conference play, snapping a two-game losing streak. snapped a two-game skid, improving to 12-6, 4-1 in league play. Down 2-1, Central sent 11 batters to the plate in the fifth, with Tad Jilek’s two-run single capping the rally. Steve Bonney reached base four times, going 3-for-3 with his first homer of the season, three RBIs and a pair of stolen bases. Fort Zumwalt South (10-3) had won five straight and 10 of 11.

Montana

Kalispell Flathead High swept the Missoula Hellgate track and field triangular meet. The boys team rolled up 106 points to 45 for Sentinel and 29 for Hellgate as Seth Grossman swept the 1,600 (4:32.2) and the 3,200 (10:02.9). Seven other Braves also won individual events, including Ty Thomas, who threw the shot put 50 feet, 7 inches to move among the state leaders. Sentinel’s Tyler Smith won the 100 (11.4), 200 and 400. The girls team outscored Hellgate 88-62, though Hellgate won eight events. Flathead’s Elysia Andrews won the 3,200 (12.28.2) and Kendalyn Habel took the 200. Hellgate's Kiandra Rajala swept the shot put (state-best 39-11) and discus.

Nebraska

Crete High’s John Levorson, Marissa Kastanek and Ashley Fey are all Division 1 college prospects in sports other than track and field. But they combined for nine gold medals in the Crete Invitational. The 6-foot-4 Levorson, an all-state football and basketball player, ran the 100 for the first time ever and won it (11.2), along with the high jump (6-4) and Crete‘s school record-setting 400 and 1,600 relays. Kastanek, a sophomore two-time all-state girls basketball player, won the 800 (2:24.9) and anchored the 1,600 and 3,200 relays. Fey, a 6-foot-1 junior volleyball standout, won the 100 hurdles (15.3) and the shot put (38-2).

Nevada

Playing their fifth game in four days, Las Vegas Bishop Gorman High’s baseball team still had a quality pitching performance up their sleeve. Paul Sewald threw a five-hitter to lead Gorman to a 13-2 win over Sandy (Utah) Jordan High in the championship game of the Bishop Gorman/Calvary Chapel Easter Bash. Sewald allowed two runs in the first inning before settling in and shutting down the Beetdiggers, ranked 15th in the nation by Baseball America. Jeff Malm's three-run double highlighted a four-run fourth as the Gaels, ranked 16th by Baseball America, snapped a 2-2 tie. Malm had two doubles, Scott Dysinger was 3-for-5 with a double and two runs and Sewald helped himself with two hits and two RBIs.

New Hampshire

Rochester Spaulding High built a 15-1 lead after three innings, but had to hold on a 16-11 victory over Londonderry High. Jamie Ferullo had four hits, scored four times and drove in two runs, Chris Campbell had three hits, four runs scored and two RBIs, Mark Wiggins had three hits and five RBIs and Eric Labatte added a two-run homer to pace Spaulding (3-1), which had 17 hits, to its big early lead. Londonderry (1-2) scored four runs in the fourth and six more in the fifth as Brian Finnegan had a pair of RBI doubles, Mark McAdam hit a three-run triple and Ryan Lambert and Chris Caron added home runs.

New Jersey

Westwood High’s Dylan Cacciola tossed a four-hitter with a career-tying 16 strikeouts to lead the Cardinals to a 4-1 victory over Oradell River Dell High in a rain-shortened six-inning Bergen County Scholastic League American Division baseball game. A senior left-hander, Cacciola (5-0) leads North Jersey in wins and strikeouts (61). Westwood (11-1) had only two hits, but junior courtesy runner Alex Protin helped manufacture two Westwood runs, stealing two bases and scoring from second on a passed ball. Danny Asbaty also stole two bases and scored a run in the first to help provide a 2-0 lead.

New Mexico

Matt Ortega (125) of Rio Rancho High, a four-time state champion, made a first-period takedown stand up for a 2-1 victory over two-time California champion Boris Novachkov of Fremont High to win the title in the NHSCA National High School Seniors Wrestling Championships. Four wrestlers from Rio Rancho earned High School All-America status. Four-time state champion Vicente Varela (135) won eight straight in consolations to take third place and Dominic Valencia (130) finished eighth. Ortega’s brother, Max, a three-time state champion, was the National High School Sophomores runnerup at 130.

New York

The Empire State won the team titles in the NHSCA National High School Sophomores Wrestling Championships and the inaugural National Freshman Championships. State champions met in the 112-pound National Sophomores final, with Division 2 champion Kyle Dake of Lansing High scoring a takedown at the end of overtime for a 3-1 victory over two-time Division 1 champion Paul Liquori of Wantagh High. Two wrestlers from Troy LaSalle Institute, Zach Clemente (135) and Ken Altarac (215), also won National Sophomores titles, as did Ryan LeBlanc (160) of Morrisville-Eaton High.

North Carolina

The stars came out in the 51st Queen City Relays at Charlotte Myers Park High. West Charlotte High's Trenton Guy won the 100 (10.69) and ran on the winning 400-meter relay, sprint medley and 1,600-meter relay. Charlotte Providence High's John Curtiss ran the opening leg of the 3,200 relay in 1:57, Providence winning by 7.47 seconds. Matthews David W. Butler High's Spencer Adams won the 300 hurdles in a meet record 37.45. Butler junior Aslynn Halvorson won the shot put by 3½ feet (39-6) and the discus by more than six feet (135-3).

North Dakota

West Fargo High’s girls 800 relay team is making a habit of breaking 20-year-old meet records this spring. Andrea Muller, Cassie Shorma, Ellie Grooters and Sarah Denne ran a meet record 800 (1:46.28) in the Fargo American Legion-Shanley track meet. The previous week, West Fargo set the 800 relay record at the Grand Forks Sertoma meet, a mark that had also stood for 20 years. Grooters also took first place in the 100 and 300 hurdles as the Packers edged Moorhead (Minn.) High 95-92 for the team title. Jamestown High senior Sam Larson shared male Athlete of the Meet honors after winning the 1,600 and 3,200. He set a meet record in the 1,600 (4:18.35).

Ohio

Three-time state champion Colt Sponseller (160) of Millersburg West Holmes High was voted the Outstanding Wrestler of the NHSCA National High School Seniors Wrestling Championships after posting a default win, a technical fall and two major decisions to win one of the tournament’s toughest weight classes. Brendan Barlow (285) of Westerville Central High finished second. Two-time state champion Collin Palmer (130) of Lakewood St. Edward High and Nicholas Mills (171) of Hunting Valley University School were National High School Sophomores champions.

Oklahoma

Five Oklahoma track standouts rank among the top five in the nation in their events. Owasso High's Kylie Spurgeon holds the top girls discus throw in the nation with a 173-foot, 2-inch throw at a meet at Edmond North High. Oklahoma City Millwood High's Gil Roberts has the second-best 200-meter dash time (21.11) this season and Weatherford High's Whitley Williams ranks third in the nation (21.13). Ardmore High's Geoffrey Tabor ranks second in the discus (203-3) and third in the shot put (63-10¾). His cousin, Cameron Tabor of Norman High, is fourth in the shot put at 63-9½.

Oregon

Julie Drescher of St. Paul High and Matt Best of Damascus Christian High were named Class 1A basketball Players of the Year. Only a sophomore, Drescher helped lead the Buckaroos to the girls state championship with a 54-49 win over Joseph High. She had 20 points and 11 rebounds in the win. Best, a senior, paced his team to the state championship game. The Eagles lost, 65-64, to Mohawk High in double overtime despite his 33 points and 13 rebounds. St. Paul's Michael Murphy (girls) and Mohawk's Bart Rothenberger (boys) were named Coaches of the Year.

Pennsylvania

Senior right-hander Cody Bridenbaugh tossed a five-hitter and also had two hits to lead Martinsburg Central High to the semifinals of the fifth annual Dean Patterson Curve Classic at Altoona, 4-2 over Ebensburg Central Cambria High. Adam Petrosky’s double and Matt Cornetti’s sacrifice fly gave Central Cambria a 1-0 lead in the first inning, but Central snapped a 1-1 tie with three runs in the fifth inning. Josh Greenleaf singled home the go-ahead run and Drew Ebersole tripled home a run, then scored on a wild pitch.

Rhode Island

With a record of 6-0, Esmond Smithfield High boasts the only unbeaten softball team in Division 2. With the score tied at 1-1 going into the top of the seventh, sophomore Ashlee Martin hit a grand slam to give the Sentinels a 5-1 win over Providence Classical High. Jessie Reniere pitched a two-hitter and struck out 10. Brittany Annunziata, one of Smithfield’s five senior captains – the Sentinels return seven starters from last year’s fourth-place state team – had two hits and two runs scored in the victory.

South Carolina

Columbia Irmo High boys soccer coach Phil Savitz picked up his 500th career victory in style as his team shut out North Augusta High 14-0 to close the regular season. The Yellow Jackets (12-7) scored seven first-half goals and added seven more in the second half, with Garrett Lay and Joe Tuohy, two of only five seniors on the team, scoring in the opening 17 minutes. Now 500-62-5 in his career, Savitz’s teams have won 13 state championships and finished runner-up six times in his 27 seasons. He is the only coach in South Carolina history with 500 wins.

South Dakota

In the first of two regular season matchups between Aberdeen’s two high schools, Roncalli High lost just one flight of singles and one flight of doubles on the way to a 7-2 win over Central High. Roncalli swept the first four singles matches as Robert Carlson (No. 1), Michael Zerr (No. 2), unbeaten Nick Ochsner (No. 3) and Sean Solberg (No. 4). J.D. Carrels (No. 6) also won. Eighth-grader Brett Lorenz prevailed in three sets at No. 5 for Central. Carlson and Zerr (No. 1) and Oliver and Carrels (No. 3) added doubles wins for Roncalli. Central’s Joey Jangula and Jamie Link won at No. 2 doubles.

Tennessee

Ashley Smith’s two-out single generated the lone run in a duel of Midstate softball aces as Hendersonville High (36-10), ranked No. 3 in the Midstate by the Nashville Tennessean, edged No. 7 Madison Goodpasture High 1-0. Smith lined a full-count pitch from Goodpasture’s Devon Schmidt (19-8) into the right-center field gap to score Sara Nicholson in the bottom of the sixth inning. That provided Lady Commandos pitcher Kacy Meek (23-6), who tossed a two-hitter and struck out three, with all the support she needed. Goodpasture (25-12) has won four consecutive state titles.

Texas

Mesquite Poteet High (24-8) ended its regular season with two straight losses to Forney High, the second of which cost them the District 10-4A title. But Poteet started its Region 2 bi-district tournament with a 4-0 victory over Frisco Centennial High. Bradie Baker threw a two-hitter as Poteat advanced to play Mount Pleasant High in the second round. Leadoff hitter Kersti Rowan, who was 3-for-3, singled and scored on Baker's RBI groundout for a 1-0 lead. In the third, Rowan singled and scored on Lindsay Barsoum’s triple.

Utah

Greg Madsen was a one-man wrecking crew for Bountfiul Viewmont High. Madsen went 4-for-4 and drove in six runs with a home run, two triples and a double, then got both the win and the save on the mound as Viewmont edged Ogden Weber High 11-10. By coming in to pitch in relief in the fifth inning, Madsen was in line to record the victory, and he left with the Vikings ahead 11-5 heading into the seventh inning. But when the Warriors mounted a five-run comeback against the Viewmont bullpen, rallying with two outs to cut the lead to one, Madsen returned to the mound, coming in from center field to record the final out.

Vermont

Arlington Memorial High senior Matt Walsh had never competed in the high jump before, but won the event with a jump of 6 feet, 2 inches in a meet at Bennington Mount Anthony High, qualifying for the state meet. Mount Anthony senior Jason Allard won the shot put (39.4 feet) and the triple jump (35.8). On the girls side, Mount Anthony’s Jen King won the javelin (76.3) and the discus (76.11). Other individual event winners: Kris Haynes (400, 50.75), Chris Allison (javelin, 112.1), Ian Dulin (pole vault, 10 feet), Emily Pietrucha (400, 63.69), Kelsey Blakeney (1500, 5:48) and Mekenzie Krause (3000, 11:53).

Virginia

A hotly-anticipated pitching matchup went to Chesapeake Greenbrier Christian Academy's Gary Bulman. The Tennessee recruit pitched a five-hitter and struck out 11 as the Gators outlasted Virginia Beach Cape Henry Collegiate School 4-1 to take first place in the Tidewater Conference. Shad Conrad and Bret Mitchell hit solo home runs against Cape Henry 's Robert Morey, a Virginia recruit who struck out 16 and allowed only four hits in the loss. The two right-handers recorded 16 of the game’s first 18 outs via strikeouts as more than a dozen professional scouts watched. Jonathan Whited doubled home Cape Henry's only run.

Washington

Junior pitcher Sydney Qualey (7-0) pitched a no-hitter as Ferndale High (13-3) handed Nooksack Valley High its first loss of the season, 5-0 in Northwest Conference play. Qualey, who struck out 12, improved her strikeout total to 113 and her earned-run average to 0.38. The Golden Eagles broke open a 1-0 game with four runs in the bottom of the sixth. Amanda Flores (.482 batting average), who singled home Brittany Cagey with the first run in the opening inning, singled to lead off the sixth and scored on Hannah Kranz’ single. Cassie Arestad added a two-run double.

West Virginia

Nine meet records were set during the opening day of the 72nd Charleston Gazette/Wendy’s Relays. The final one came under the cloak of darkness when Sissonville High’s Sydney Cummings cleared 5 feet, 7¼ inches in the Class AA high jump. Other girls AA records: Jenna Howell of Shinnston Lincoln High in the 100 hurdles (15.3), Rachel Buser of Berkeley Springs High in the 3200 (11:17.96) and Sarah Lee of Huntington South Point High in the long jump (17-8½). Two Lost Creek South Harrison High athletes set Class A records, Andy Nottingham in the 110 hurdles (15.1) and Olivia Lambert in the 100 hurdles (15.3). Buffalo High pole vaulter Seth Beckner (14-6) bettered the record he set last year.

Wisconsin

Tony Zacharias and Kevin Rotherham pitched shutouts to lift host Green Bay Notre Dame High to a sweep of Manitowoc High in a Fox River Valley Conference doubleheader. The Tritons (6-1) limited the Ships (2-4) to five hits for the day. Zacharias pitched a three-hitter in the In the first game, a 2-0 Tritons victory, Zacharias allowed three hits and one walk while striking out three. Greg Harrill drew a bases-loaded walk in the first inning, and Matt Hannon had an RBI double in the second. Rotherham pitched a two-hitter and struck out seven and Mac Gardonhad a two-run double as the Tritons won the nightcap 5-0.

Wyoming

Casper Natrona County High’s soccer team, battling injuries that forced them to cancel a game earlier in the week, rebounded with a 4-1 victory over Sheridan High. The Mustangs outshot Sheridan 16-4 in the first half, taking a 2-0 lead on freshman Derek Gibbins’ penalty kick six minutes into the game and Gentry Shreve’s conversion of a Luke Coulridge pass in the 30th minute. Senior Dillon Fuller scored twice in the second half to put the game away Michael Phillips scored in the 64th minute to help Sheridan avoid a shutout.