Hobbs Daily Report.com
The two highest remaining seeds in the West 2A bracket — No. 26 South Stokes and No. 14 Draughn — meet this week at Draughn in the third round.
Draughn High’s girls definitely want to keep playing.
On Saturday, the visiting Wildcats rallied after they were down to their last two outs and surprised third-seeded Forbush 4-3 in a second round game of the state 2A softball playoffs.
Draughn (17-6), a No. 14 seed, advances to play No. 26 seed South Stokes (14-12) in a third-round game that must be played by Tuesday.
If Draughn wins again, it will travel to No. 6 Parkwood (20-2) or No. 2 West Wilkes (25-1) in the fourth round.
On Saturday, the Falcons had the Wildcats down 3-1 before Draughn, coached by Chris Cozart, rallied to post its eighth straight win.
Natalie Lail had the game-winning RBI for the Wildcats and was the winning pitcher after she got the Falcons (19-3) in order in the seventh inning.
No. 2 West Wilkes 5, No. 15 East Lincoln 1: West Wilkes (25-1) won at home in a second round 2A match, shutting the visiting Mustangs down after they scored a run in the first inning.
West Wilkes answered East Lincoln’s first-inning run with four in the bottom of the inning.
Up next for West Wilkes is a third round game at home against No. 6 Parkwood (20-2), and the Blackhawks would be at home in the fourth round if they were to win – against No. 26 South Stokes or No. 14 Draughn.
4A
No. 7 South Caldwell 4, No. 20 Hopewell 0: Scoring twice in the first and in the sixth inning on Saturday afternoon, the host Spartans (21-6) advanced to the third round.
South Caldwell had only six hits and was aided by four Hopewell errors.
The Spartans now go to No. 3 North Davidson (23-5) in a third-round game that must be played by Tuesday.
Head coach Casey Justice’s Spartans are facing the Black Knights for the third straight season.
Two years ago, North Davidson beat South Caldwell 6-2 in Hudson and 2-0 in Welcome in a regional series.
Last season after the Spartans beat Mallard Creek and Asheville Roberson to get a shot at North Davidson again, the Black Knights won 9-3 at North Davidson.
NOTES
4A: Mooresville (20-3), seeded No. 10 in the West 4A bracket, learned Saturday who its next opponent will be – No. 6 Charlotte Catholic (18-4) in Charlotte in the third round.
Catholic advanced by beating No. 19 Hough 1-0 in nine innings.
3A: No. 9 West Iredell (14-8), which eliminated Fred T. Foard in Newton on Friday night, is going to be at home in the next round since No. 13 Sun Valley (17-6) knocked off third-seeded Enka (19-3) in the mountains on Saturday.
2A: No. 5 R-S Central (20-2) will travel for a third-round game, going to No. 4 Lake Norman Charter (19-2), a 4-3 winner Saturday at North Mecklenburg High over No. 13 Black Mountain Owen.