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Fred T. Foard High has swept the awards for this season’s Northwestern Foothills 2A softball.
In voting by conference head coaches and via a press release, league officials said the Tigers’ Abby Settlemyre is the conference’s Player of the Year, teammate Adison Yoder is conference Pitcher of the Year, and the top head coach in the league is Foard’s Roland Wright.
Foard won the Northwestern Foothills 2A regular-season title, going 11-1, and is 19-3 heading into Wednesday’s third-round 2A state playoff at Foard (6 p.m.) against sixth-seeded Madison (20-0).
The Tigers led All-Northwestern 2A picks with seven.
BASEBALL
Carrington Chapman of regular-season champion Bunker Hill was named Player of the Year and his coach, Marty Curtis, won Coach of the Year.
The league’s pitcher of the year is Tripp Causby of Patton, which tied East Burke and West Iredell for fourth place.
Bunker Hill led the all-conference selections with five after going 10-2 in the league and finishing 19-6 overall after a first-round state 2A playoff loss to Hibriten.
BOYS GOLF
Will Gessner of conferce champion Patton was named the Golf of the Year while the Coach of the Year is Kenny Pressley, who led Draughn to a second place finish.
Draughn, Patton and third-place Hibriten qualified for the regionals as teams and individual qualifiers were Jordan Sain and Ben Busic of Fred T. Foard and Tyler Messick and Justin Dagenhart of West Iredell.
BOYS TENNIS
Foard, after going 6-0 in the league and 9-2 overall, won Player of the Year (Eli Mathews) and the Tigers’ Ryan Gettys won Coach of the Year.
Foard had five all-league players.
ALL-NORTHWESTERN FOOTHILLS 2A, SPRING SPORTS
SOFTBALL
Player of the Year: Abby Settlemyre, Foard
Pitcher of the Year: Adison Yoder, Foard
Coach of the Year: Roland Wright, Foard
All-conference
Bunker Hill: Payton Bryant, Kailey Travis, Payton Goble, Syndie Ammons
Draughn: Nataleigh Lail, Kira Suttles, Nikki Smith, Chloe Gary
East Burke: Chely Mull
Foard: Settlemyre, Yoder, Morgan Loftin, Morgan Smith, Emily Campbell, Madison Rowe, Ashyln Wright
Hibriten: Kyndell Warren, Davis Walker, Malea Prestwood, Zoe Waters
Patton: Makaley Lovelace, Kaylee Redwine
W. Iredell: Leanna Sherrill, Katelyn McClure
BASEBALL
Player of the Year: Carrington Chapman, Bunker Hill
Pitcher of the Year: Tripp Causby, Patton
Coach of the Year: Marty Curtis, Bunker Hill
All-conference
Bunker Hill: Chapman, Garrett Poovey, Thaxton Isenhour, Eli Moser, Chance Carden
Draughn: Nathan Treadway
East Burke: Greyson Williams, Hunter Lewis, Grant Fulbright
Foard: Tate Beaver, Dalton Lutz, Hayden Lail, Jeremiah Wike
Hibriten: Noah Haney, Tevin Williams, Jack Stevens, Luke Absher
Patton: Tripp Causby, Ty Causby, Drew Goforth, Gabe Eggers
W. Iredell: Brandon Gregory, John Payne, Nick Ward
BOYS GOLF
Player of the Year: Will Gessner, Patton
Coach of the Year: Kenny Pressley, Draughn
All-conference, based on finish: Will Gessner (Patton); Jordan Sain (Foard); C.J. Edwards (Patton); Tanner Tucker (Hibriten); Ben Leonard (Draughn); Carson Witherspoon (Patton); Dillon Robinson (Draughn); Zeke Sigmon (Draughn); Riley Avery (Patton); Carson Ashley (Draughn); Ben Busic (Foard); Travis Watson (Patton).
BOYS TENNIS
Player of the Year: Eli Mathews, Foard
Coach of the Year: Ryan Gettys, Foard
All-conference
Bunker Hill: Gavin Boyles, Cheng Moua
Draughn: Cheng Vue
E. Burke: Ethan Hallyburton, Chase Smith, Luke Parson
Foard: Mathews, Holden Aldridge, Carter Greene, Luke Fountain, Josiah Underwood
Hibriten: Ben Spears, Cameron Pennell
Patton: Charlie Gessner, Patton
West Iredell: Adams Sherrill