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8 I APRIL 17,2019 Sports The fabric of Bertie County since 1832 BERTIE LEDGER-ADVANCE ' * '■ * 'i 'f' ■ ■ % ' # ♦ ' iS'-. i* David Friedman i"' i>. {'■'Si . »>» '*S1( ANDRE ALFRED/A. A. Imaging Bertie High School’s Jaiquan Vick prepare to field a ball to third base during the Falcons’ nonconference win over Northside last week. Falcons win all three Bertie baseball sweeps Northeastern, edges N'side m cm- « S^i A-:'". s:Sap*-»g tz lie ANDRE ALFRED/A. A. Imaging Aydan Harmon delivers against Northside. Bertie High School’s varsity baseball team has a winning streak go ing. The Falcons earned victories in all three games they played last week - defeating North eastern 3-2 on Friday (April 12), Northside 7-6 on April 11 and North eastern 4-0 on April 10. Bertie (6-10, 2-4) fin ished with seven hits in Friday’s win over North eastern. Trenton White, Alden Cottle and Caleb Damo had two each, while Aydan Harmon added the other hit. Evan Wells started on the mound for the Fal cons. He worked four innings and allowed five hits and two runs with three strikeouts and one walk. White toiled the last three innings and sur rendered two hits while striking out three. Two days before, Cottle fired a complete- game two-hit shutout and struck out 12 while walking two in Bertie’s win over Northeastern. The Falcons finished with five hits in the win. White, Cottle, Jaquan Vick, Damo and Dylan Hoggard had one hit each (Cottle doubled, while Damo tripled). Cottle threw 100 pitches, with 72 called for strikes. Bertie continued the week with a nonconfer ence win over Northside. The Falcons used four pitchers against the Panthers: Harmon, Damo, Wells and White. Harmon gave up two runs on no hits in four innings with two strike outs and four walks. Damo allowed three hits and four runs in one-third of an inning with one strikeout and two walks, while Wells walked one and gave up two hits in 1.2 frames. White allowed one hit and fanned one in one inning. White went 3-for-4 with a double, a run scored and two RBls for Bertie. Wells added two hits and an RBI, while Cot tle, Hoggard, Damo, Ja’Klese Freeman and Willie Alston provided one hit each. ^ I# ’ Mil Bertie girls take 2 of 3 ANDRE ALFRED/A. A. Imaging Northside baserunner Riley Norman races to third as Bertie’s Lindsey Dickens fields a grounder. Bertie High School’s softball team finished with two wins in three games last week. Bertie High School’s softball team emerged with a sweep over Northeastern April 10 in Northeastern Coastal 2A Conference play. The Falcons won the first game 11-4 and the second game 7-3. In the first game, Ber tie trailed 4-2 before erupting with nine runs in the top of the fifth in ning to take the lead for good. In the big fifth frame, Lindsey Dickens and Stephanie Castelloe each collected two hits, while Alyssa Byrum, Miranda Meldick, Brie Cowand and Taylor Scott added one hit each. Kaleigh Freeman walked and Ra chel Hoggard was hit by a pitch in the inning. Singles from Byrum and Castelloe and a dou ble by Elizabeth Eure produced two runs for 1 don’t golf. The folks that 1 know who do golf spend a lot of time and money doing it, and 1 don’t have much of either of those things. You have to play the game to appreci ate what it means to have Tiger Woods re turn as The Masters champion. Tiger makes golf somewhat interesting for people like me. If you play golf, then you likely watch golf ,and if you watch golf then you are probably watching The Mas ters no matter who is playing. People like me are not likely to watch golf unless we see Ti ger wearing red. History tells me that the sight of Tiger in red means that he is in the final round of the tournament and anything can happen. The problem is that with four back surger ies in the last five years, we haven’t seen Tiger in red very much. After a decade of dominating the sport of golf and making it entertaining to an entire generation and race that hadn’t pre viously cared. Tiger’s life took a major turn. The physical, emo tional, and personal challenges that Tiger faced over the next decade have been widely discussed. When you take those into consideration, it makes his comeback story all that much more compelling. It’s important to keep in mind that we are just a few years removed from Ti ger telling others he wanted to return to a point where he could spend quality time with his kids without being in pain. One of the world’s most well known and successful “athletes” wasn’t determined to return to his status of greatest golfer alive. Tiger simply wanted to be able to pick up his young son with out wincing in pain. He ended the 2017 golf season ranked 656th in the world, four spots worse than he finished the year before. His golf career ap peared to be over. Tiger now is the fa vorite to win the U.S. See SOFTBALL, 9 See FOURTH, 9 Bertie Ledger-Advance Bertie Ledger-Advance congratulates this week’s Athlete of the Week. Bertie Ledger-Advance 109 S. King St., RO. Box 69 Windsor, NC 27983 Athlete of the week BACA Baseball Brandon Ball
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