From staff and wire reports
South Rowan scored two runs in the second inning and four in the third before holding off Winston-Salem 8-6 in Landis on Wednesday night.
Randy Shepherd and Maverick Miles each had two-run homers and two hits. Tyler Freeze had a double and two runs for South (2-0), and Zach Wright had two RBIs.
Jordan Lowder, who recently finished his freshman year at Appalachian State, started on the mound and pitched three effective innings. He hadn’t played since completing his senior season at South Rowan High School in 2008.
South plays host to Kannapolis tonight in a non-division game.
– Rowan’s game against Western Forsyth was called off Wednesday due to wet grounds. Tonight’s game against Lexington-Davidson has been postponed because of North Davidson’s participation in the 4A playoffs.n College baseball
Catawba’s Craige Lyerly and Ryan Query were named All-Americans by the American Baseball Coaches Association.
Lyerly, a junior third baseman, and Query, a senior catcher, were third-team selections. Both were first team All-Southeast Region honorees, and senior pitcher Blake Ketner earned second team all-region honors.
Lyerly set school and conference records with 106 hits. He finished the season on a school-record 35-game hitting streak, and his .444 average was the highest since Charlie Beatty hit .504 in 1984.
Query, who led the team with 20 home runs and 75 RBIs, batted .384. He also had a team-high 21 doubles. Query finished among the top 10 career leaders in hits (240), RBIs (179), runs scored (166), doubles (49) and home runs (34).
In 14 starts, Ketner posted a 10-3 record with a 3.93 ERA. He finished his career with five shutouts, which is second only to the six hurled by Roy Hardison. Ketner’s 29 career wins rank third all-time at Catawba, and he posted a 29-15 record with a 3.74 ERA.
* Belmont Abbey stayed alive in the Division II World Series with a 9-2 victory against Mesa State (Colo.) on Wednesday.
Patrick Atwell (South Rowan) had two hits, two RBIs and one run for the Crusaders (40-25). They will face Lynn (44-16), which is unbeaten in Cary, tonight at 7 p.m.
Carlos Vasquez’s three-run homer highlighted a four-run bottom of the first for Belmont Abbey, which is one of four teams left in the event.
Atwell reached on an infield single in the fourth and later scored on a triple. He delivered a two-run single down the left-field line in the seventh.
Andrew Morton limited Mesa State ó the leading offensive team in Division II ó to just two runs, eight below its average, on seven hits while striking out nine batters in a complete-game effort.
– Major Leagues
Bobby Parnell (East Rowan) opened the seventh in relief of Johan Santana and pitched two-thirds of an inning in the New York Mets’ 7-4 win over Washington on Wednesday. Parnell struck out two batters and allowed one hit in a scoreless appearance that lowered his ERA to 2.21.
“Tonight was the most I’ve thrown the slider,” Parnell said in a phone interview.
Cristian Guzman struck out swinging, Nick Johnson singled to center and Ryan Zimmerman struck out swinging.
Zimmerman’s four-pitch at-bat consisted of only sliders. He took a third one for a ball and then failed to make contact with a swing for the third time in the AB.
“I threw two good sliders that he took swings at,” Parnell said. “I threw another slider that he looked at. I figured why not throw a fourth one and got a swing through on it. It had good action.”
Daniel Murphy’s tiebreaking homer, a call overturned by umpires in yet another replay review involving the Mets, pushed New York in front 5-3 in the sixth.
Murphy had a career-best five RBIs. Gary Sheffield hit an early two-run double.
The only lowlight: Top prospect Fernando Martinez, playing his second big league game, failed to run out an infield popup that was dropped. The 20-year-old was booed his next time up.
* A story on Parnell, who recently hit 100 mph on the Fenway Park radar gun, will appear in a future edition of the Post.
– Minor Leagues
The Kannapolis Intimidators snapped their five-game losing streak in dramatic fashion by beating the Hagerstown Suns 7-5 in 11 innings on Wednesday.
Kannapolis’ Justin Greene hit a game-tying solo home run in the top of the ninth.
After a pair of perfect innings from reliever Charlie Burdie (2-3), Kannapolis got an RBI triple from Eduardo Escobar to go ahead. Greene then knocked in Escobar.n West basketball camp
West Rowan boys basketball coach Mike Gurley will hold a camp for players in grades 2-9 from June 15-18 in the West gym.
The camp will be held from 9 a.m. until noon each day. There is a fee of $50. Campers will receive instruction and a free Falcon T-shirt. For more information, contact Gurley at 704-798-2074.