From thepilot.com – The Pinecrest baseball team celebrates after a home run last week at home.

The Pinecrest baseball team plated nine runs in the top of the first inning to set up an 11-5 win over Hoggard on the final day of the Wilmington Classic Spring Break Tournament Wednesday.

J.C. Woolard led the Patriots at the plate with three RBIs and three hits. Tyler Skizenta and Will Chopping had two RBIs each. Liam Dutton had two hits.

Sam Cockman struck out two batters in his 2 1/3 innings of work. READ MORE.

From thepilot.com – The Pinecrest baseball team sent off its senior class with a 10-0 win at home Wednesday on senior night against Hoke County.

Eythan Reynolds and Mitchell Baek’s senior night included both driving home three RBIs, and junior Liam Dutton had three RBIs after a first-inning homer.

“I told them that this is my 26th senior class and they have meant a lot to us and the program. Five of them have been with us for four years, and one of them has come on board playing on a high school baseball team for the first time in his life,” Pinecrest coach Jeff Hewitt said. “Everything we do here at Pinecrest in the baseball program is for our seniors every year.”

Cody Hansen, Tyler Skizenta, Carter Bean and J.C. Woolard were the other seniors honored. READ MORE.

From LaurinburgExchange.com – The Scots beat the Patriots in a 5-4 final on Friday night at McCoy Field. Scotland snaps their three-game losing streak and improves to 9-6 (5-3 in conference games) on the season with the victory while Pinecrest falls to 10-6 (6-2 against conference opponents) with their second straight loss. The Scots were able to salvage a series split of the regular season series after the Patriots took the first meeting in Southern Pines on Tuesday night by a score of 11-1.

Head Coach Ricky Schattauer knows how good of a team Pinecrest has been for years. He liked how his team didn’t shy away from the challenge in front of them, especially after just losing to them earlier this week. He especially praised Garrett Manning, who has been playing through an ankle injury.

“Pinecrest has always been good and we know that when we play them this week for our kids they say is the biggest week on the schedule,” Schattauer said. “I tip my hats to Manning, he’s been hobbling on an ankle but he didn’t show any injury tonight, he put our team on his back and gave us a great outing.”

The game would start off a bit slow offensively as the first five batters would be retired, including two strikeouts. Kaden Hunsucker and Manning would then both get on base with singles before Blane Callahan would be hit by a pitch to load the bases with two outs. Robbie Peed would also be hit by a pitch to bring in the first run of the contest before Briley Lewis drove in Josh Smith (courtesy runner for Manning) with an RBI single to make it 2-0. READ MORE.