From staff reports
Southern Rowan got homers from Jake Pritchard and Matt Honeycutt and won 5-3 at Kannapolis on Tuesday.
Southern Rowan (6-2) pounded out 12 hits, with Pritchard getting three. Honeycutt drove in two runs.
Blake Johnson pitched seven innings for the win and struck out six.
Johnson got relief help from Owen White and Dylan Snider.
For Kannapolis, Jackson Raper had three hits and Wyatt Taylor had two.
Daniel O’Kelly pitched a complete game and fanned six.
• Rowan County lost 2-0 at Davidson County in a weather-shortened game on Tuesday.
Lexington scored twice in the bottom of the fifth at Holt-Moffitt Field, just before the game was halted by lightning. Play never resumed after a downpour.
Tyler Scruggs pitched well for Rowan County before running into trouble in the fifth. He was relieved by Noah Jarrett.
Landon Michael was strong on the mound for Lexington. Michael Garvey Jr. had a two-run single off Jarrett in the fifth.
Rowan is scheduled to play at Mocksville in a non-league game Wednesday.

Minor leagues
Ryan Leonards smashed his first career grand slam in the seventh inning to lead the Kannapolis Intimidators to a 9-4 win at Greenville on Tuesday.
It was the 24th grand slam in Kannapolis history.
Kannapolis had not hit a home run in 17 games before Leonards connected.
Spencer Adams (2-3) notched the win, limiting Greenville to one run — a Mike Meyers homer.
Kannapolis wraps up the three-game series against the Drive on Wednesday at 7:05 p.m.
The Intimidators return home on Thursday, June 4, for a four-game series against Delmarva.
• Nick Lomascolo (Catawba) has been good in 14 pitching appearances for the Peoria Chiefs in the St. Louis farm system.
Lomascolo has fanned 35 batters in 26 innings and has a 2.42 ERA.
• Chris Dula (Catawba) had five straight scoreless relief appearances for the Hickory Crawdads.
Dula is 1-0 with two saves and a 3.93 ERA.

College softball
Campbell’s Ericka Nesbitt (East Rowan) was named to the All-State team for the third time in her career.
Nesbitt batted .441 as senior to lead the Big South Conference.

College baseball
UNC Wilmington finished a 41-18 season with a regional loss to LSU.
Andy Austin (East Rowan) batted .288 with a homer and 15 RBIs for the Seahawks. The junior outfielder/first baseman played in 43 games and started seven.
• Pitcher Ryan Foster (Davie) finished the season 7-1 for the Seahawks.
Foster made 16 starts, fanned 66 batters and posted a 4.08 ERA.
• East Carolina wrapped up a 40-22 season with a 2-0 regional loss to Florida International.
Eric Tyler (South Rowan) had two RBIs in a 6-3 regional loss to Columbia.
Tyler started 59 of ECU’s 62 games. He batted .268 with three homers and 27 RBIs and wasn’t charged with an error all season.

Prep baseball
Jerry Walser, head baseball coach at West Davidson the last nine seasons, has announced his resignation.
He goes out on top with another championship team.
“I have found that I no longer have the mental and physical energy that our baseball program demands and deserves,” Walser said in a statement. “With regret but great conviction, I am resigning as baseball coach.”
Walser coached Davie in 1997-98 and had a record of 28-19.
In five seasons at Asheboro (1999-2003), he was 77-47.
At West Davidson, Walser has been 149-78 for a 16-year record of 254-144.
He coached Asheboro to regular-season championships in 1999 and 2001 and West Davidson to titles in 2009, 2011, 2012 and 2015.
He coached four conference tournament champs, including three at West Davidson. Walser was voted conference coach of the year eight times.
• Gray Stone AD Jeff Morris announced the hiring of Barry Keith as head baseball coach.
Keith has more than 20 years of coaching experience with high school, American Legion and travel baseball programs.

NFL
The San Francisco 49ers announced Tuesday they have named Darrell Moody a regional scout.
Moody, a 13-year veteran of scouting in the NFL, joins the 49ers after spending five seasons with the Buffalo Bills as a national scout. Prior to joining the Bills, Moody spent eight seasons with the San Diego Chargers as a college scout.
Moody accumulated 31 years of coaching experience at the collegiate and high school levels. In the collegiate ranks he held coaching positions at North Carolina State (1973-74, 1976-79, 1997), Southern Mississippi (1975), LSU (1980-83), Appalachian State (1984), Tulane (1985-87), North Carolina (1988-95, 1998-00) and Clemson (1996).
Moody coached at Asheboro High (1971-72) and served as offensive coordinator at Eastern Randolph High for a year.
The Asheboro native played quarterback at North Carolina State from 1968-70, where he earned a degree in economics and a master’s in vocational education.

Sacred Heart awards
Sacred Heart held its 8th-grade athletic awards banquet.
Elizabeth Ann Graeber and Spencer Blackwell won Sportmanship awards.
Mary Sobataka and Jack Fisher won the Most Outstanding Athlete Award.
Lauren Denhard and Barney Malloy won the Mike Thompson Award, which honors athletics and academics.

Local golf
Sixty-two GARS members played a Texas Scramble at Corbin Hills.
The first-place team with a minus-12 consisted of David Adams, Johnny Shook, Larry Fowler and Bob Niekras.
The team of Guy Schenck, Gary Schenk and Don Martin shot minus-9 for second place.
Tying for third at minus-8 were the team of Winsten Mahaffey, Bobby Clark, Buddy Barger, and Clive Mahaffey and the team of Mickey Ousley, Gary Morgan, Donnie Burris and Larry Perrell.
Johnny Shook won closest to the pin on No. 2.
Tony LaBarbera won longest putt on No. 9.

Prep fishing
The Bass Federation and FLW will hold the N.C. High School Fishing Championship June 14 at Lake Norman.