From staff reports
It took 18-year-old Kannapolis native Corey Seager 25 games to hit his first professional homer, which finally came on Saturday night.
The wait wasn’t as long for his second and third homers in the Pioneer League.
The L.A. Dodgers’ first-round pick hit a two-run homer in the first inning and a three-run homer in the sixth to lead Ogden to a 15-11 win against Grand Junction on Sunday.
Seager went 4-for-4, stole a base and lifted his batting average to .283.
Daniel Wagner (South Rowan) stole his 19th base and drove in a run for Winston-Salem in a 6-4 Carolina League win against Potomac on Sunday.
Whit Merrifield (Davie) stole his 25th base for Wilmington in a Carolina League game on Sunday.
Rudy Brown (South) allowed a run on Sunday for the first time since July 4, but he did OK, pitching two innings, allowing one run and striking out three. He helped the Kane County Cougars beat the Cedar Rapids Kernels 5-4 in a Midwest League game.
The Kannapolis Intimidators ended Rome’s 13-game winning streak on Sunday.
Kannapolis limited the Braves to two hits and rolled 9-1 in South Atlantic League action at CMC-NorthEast Stadium.
A.L. Brown graduate Drew Maher is one of the umpires for the series. He was on the bases on Sunday.
Arguably, the wildest play of the season at CMC-NorthEast unfolded in Sunday’s game.
Kannapolis scored the game’s first two runs on a wacky play that featured three throws to the plate and two errors. With runners on first and second and two outs in the first inning, Bill Rice’s single ricocheted off the first-base bag into right field. Joey DeMichele rounded third as a throw came home from right field, and DeMichele’s slide knocked the ball free from Rome catcher Ryan Query (A.L. Brown, Catawba).
Chris Curley followed down the third base line, and a throw back home sailed wide, from one on-deck circle to another. Rice, who never stopped running on the play, rounded third and headed home as Query tracked down the loose ball and threw to third baseman Brandon Drury who applied a tag on Rice at the plate to end the inning.
Chase Anselment homered for the Braves.
DeMichele had a bases-clearing double for the Intimidators.
Kannapolis and Rome play again tonight.
Local golf
Steve Lillard had a hole-in-one at The Warrior on Sunday. Lillard used a 7-iron on the 159-yard No. 6 hole.
Witnessing the feat were Greg Hamm, Philip Piersol, Chris Arena and Mackie Gallagher.
The McCanless Couples played a four-man Texas Scramble on Sunday.
Winning team members were Gene Seaford, Don Goodnight, Phyllis Myers and Sharon Miller. Coming in second were David Huneycutt, Tim Earnhardt, Ty Cobb and Bev Cobb. The closest to the pin on No. 3 was won by Walt Kincaid. The longest putt on No. 7 was won by Tim Trexler.
Michael Childress, 12, finished 53rd out of 160 golfers at the U.S. Kids World Junior Golf Tournament held at Pinehurst No. 4.
Childress shot 77-78-76 — 232 to finish 20 shots off the pace.
Childress qualified for the event by winning the U.S. Kids Charlotte Spring tour.
Matthew Crenshaw of Burlington won the North Carolina Amateur Match Play Championship of the Carolinas Golf Association hosted by Forest Oaks Country Club in Greensboro on Sunday.
American Legion
Wilmington routed Cherryville 11-1 on Sunday to win its ninth state title. Wilmington didn’t lose in the double-elimination event.