LOCAL SPORTS ROUNDUP: Volleyball, tennis and cross country wrap things up

As volleyball and girls tennis wrapped up, playoffs were set for football and soccer to begin this week.

Football

■ Kayden Saunders ran for 114 yards and a pair of touchdowns as Randleman rallied from a huge deficit to beat Ledford 27-24 on Oct. 23.

The Tigers trailed 24-6 at halftime.

Quarterback Reid Herring was 10-of-16 for 107 yards and a touchdown. Christian McNair ran for 75 yards and a touchdown. Kyle Dillow had a 3-yard touchdown catch. Henry Frye caught 3 passes for 50 yards and Lincoln Lawson had 4 catches for 37 yards. Titan Burgess had a two-point conversion catch and Jeremy Vasquez was 1-of-2 on extra-point kicks.

■ On Thursday, Oct. 29, in an opportunity to tie for the Piedmont Athletic Conference title, Randleman lost 26-21 to T.W. Andrews, which clinched an unbeaten league season for Andrews.

Randleman rallied from a 20-6 deficit to take a 21-20 lead with in the fourth quarter,but Andrews went back ahead with 2:02 left and held on for the win.

Saunders rushed for 102 yards and a touchdown for the Tigers and Herring passed for 126 and two scores. Saunders put Randleman ahead just two plays into the game with a 70-yard scoring run. Herring’s TD passes went to Burgess for a 6-yard score (followed by a 2-point run by Saunders) and to Lincoln Lawson for a 52-yard TD, with the extra point by Connor Routh giving RHS that brief 21-20 lead.

■ In other final regular season action Friday, Southwestern Randolph thumped North Moore 35-7 and Wheatmore shutout Trinity 46-0.

Volleyball

■ Avalynn Johnson had 42 assists as No. 2 Trinity rallied for a 3-2 win (20-25, 25-16, 18-25, 25-21, 15-12) over No. 3 East Surry in the fourth round of the 3-A state playoffs. Hayli Cox had 24 kills and a block. Mya Hooker had 12 kills and a block. Ari Pinkston had 5 kills and 4 blocks. Charlee Phillips had 18 digs and Cadence Mortensen had 12.

■ Caroline Way had 16 kills, 2 blocks and 2 aces in No. 1 Uwharrie Charter’s 3-0 sweep (25-20, 25-16, 25-10) of No. 4 Bunn in the fourth round of the 4-A state playoffs. Carly Rush had 11 kills, 10 digs and 2 blocks. Amya Brewer had 5 kills and 5 blocks. Alyvia Spinks had 30 assists and an ace.

■ Spinks had 50 assists, 4 blocks and a kill as No. 1 Uwharrie Charter outlasted No. 10 Carrboro 3-2 (25-16, 20-25, 18-25, 15-11) in the 4-A Western Regional championship. Way pounded 28 kills to go along with 4 aces and a block. Kenzie Cain had 24 digs and an ace. Kam Leach had 4 kills, 5 blocks and 2 aces.

The win advanced the Eagles to the state championship match.

Boys Soccer

■ Zamire Bush scored three goals in Asheboro’s 5-0 win over Southern Guilford. Ivan Castaneda got the other two goals. Kevin Martinez Cruz, William Miranda, Daniel Troya, Alexander Diaz and Castaneda had the assists.

■ Bush, Castaneda and Macias scored the goals as Asheboro edged Northern Guilford 3-2. Jonathan Ortega,

Manuel Alarcon and Cruz had the assists.

■ Griffin Hall scored three goals and Manny Dominguez-Torres got two in Southwestern Randolph’s 7-0 win over North Moore. Alejandro Jimenez and Gio Hernandez scored the other goals. Holt Tyl had three assists while William Gutierrez had two. Cristobal Lopez, Jayden Santos and Dominguez-Torres each had one assist. Troy Adkins and Hayden Morrow both made two saves.

■ Kevin Bautista-Jimenez and Saul Cortes-Aguirre scored the goals while each had an assist in Providence Grove’s 3-2 loss to Thomasville.

■ Erick Delgado, Aaron Vasquez and Ivan Collazo scored the goals as Randleman beat Ledford 3-2. Delgado had two assists and Deaton Davis made 10 saves.

Girls Tennis

■ Wheatmore’s doubles team of Tatum Wagner/Leah Puckett fell 6-0, 6-2 to North Carolina School of Science and Math’s team of Emily Tang/Hridya Ajith in the quarterfinals of the 3-A state tournament.

Cross Country

Regional cross country meets were held on Saturday, Oct. 31, at Ivey Redmon Sports Complex in Kernersville setting up this week’s state championship meets on Friday and Saturday, Nov. 6 and 7.

■ Wheatmore’s boys finished fourth in the 3A Central Regional. The Warriors had 89 points, with Ayden Fitzgerald fourth overall at 17:03.80, nine seconds off the lead.

Teammates Daylan Rada (14th), Tyler McCormick (18th) and Jake Hollingsworth (19th) were also in the top 20.

Trinity finished 8th with 194 points. The Bulldogs’ top finisher was Tommy Smithers (28th).

■ In the girls 3-A meet, Trinity was 5th with 126 points and Wheatmore 7th (146).

Wheatmore’s Scarlett Hildreth was 8th overall at 21:09.56. Trinity’s top runner was Madison Hill at 15th.

■ In 4-A, Randleman finished 10th in the boys meet. Top runner was Jack Gilmartin at 31st.

In the girls meet, the Tigers finished fifth. Laurel Bernhardt was fifth overall with a time of 20:18.89. Teammate Reagan Henley was 20th.

Uwharrie Charter Academy’s girls finished 11th with 293 points. Top runner was Gracilyn Elliott at 28th.

■ In the 6-A meet, Asheboro’s boys finished 9th with 288 points. The top Blue Comet runner was Ellis Leroy at 51st.

The girls finished eighth with 220 points. Waverly Adams was the top Blue Comet runner at 34th.