Monday, March 7

by | Mar 7, 2022 | Quick Hits

Kristina Kennedy struck out 11 and allowed six hits in a 2-1 win over Rocky Mount Academy in the Halifax First-Pitch softball event on Saturday. Cailee Ray scored CFCA’s first run on a passed ball after getting a hit and stealing second and third. Claire Parker drove in Kim Bordeaux with the winning run in the seventh. Bordeaux went 2-for-3. … Longwood jumped out to a 17-0 lead and defeated Campbell, 86-47 for the Big South Conference women’s basketball tournament championship in Charlotte on Sunday night. The Lady Camels will be in the Women’s NIT, which will announce its bracket on March 13. … No. 3 N.C. State claimed its third straight ACC women’s basketball tournament championship by defeating Miami, 60-47, in Greensboro on Sunday. … In college baseball on Sunday, East Carolina downed visiting Maryland, 6-3, to finish 3-0 in the Keith LeClair Classic, host UNC swept Coastal Carolina to improve to 11-1 and N.C. State (8-4) lost its fourth in a row with a weekend sweep by Northeastern. … Alondes Williams of Wake Forest was named ACC Player of the Year in men’s basketball today and Steve Forbes of the Demon Deasons received the league’s Coach of the Year honor. ,,, N.C. State won its fourth straight ACC championship in wrestling in Charlottesville on Sunday. … Alex Bowman won Sunday’s NASCAR Cup race in Las Vegas. … Scottie Scheffler won the Arnold Palmer Invitational in Orlando by one shot at 5-under par.

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