Walk‑Off Double Wins Game
Carson high school won on a dramatic, bases‑clearing double by Maverick Walters in the bottom of the seventh — the kind of late-game finish that defines local baseball nights. (salisburypost.com) The same recap also listed East’s baseball victory and wins by the Hornets and Mustangs in tennis, giving a compact snapshot of spring high-school competition. (salisburypost.com)
One swing ended six scoreless innings of frustration in China Grove on Wednesday, when Carson’s Maverick Walters lined a bases-clearing double in the bottom of the seventh to beat Corvian Community School 3-2. The hit erased a 2-0 deficit and finished a game that had been tight from the first pitch. (salisburypost.com) Carson had almost nothing to show offensively through six innings because Corvian’s Brennan Frey was dominant on the mound and also added a triple at the plate. Corvian scored its two runs in the fifth and looked in control with one inning left. (salisburypost.com) The game stayed alive because Carson starter Jacob Prevette kept the first four innings scoreless and struck out four batters. Cameron Williamson then took over in the fifth and finished the game, giving the Cougars a chance to steal it late. (salisburypost.com) That comeback mattered for a Carson team that had taken a 7-1 conference loss to East Rowan one day earlier on Tuesday, April 8. East’s Charlie Lefler worked six strong innings in that game, and the defeat dropped Carson to 6-3 in South Piedmont Conference play at the time. (salisburypost.com) Walters had already been one of Carson’s hottest bats this month before the walk-off. On April 1, he hit his first home run of the season in a 13-2 win against Concord, scored four runs, and collected two hits in that five-inning game. (salisburypost.com) The same Wednesday roundup showed how packed these local spring nights can get, because East Rowan also won in baseball while Salisbury and East Rowan won boys tennis matches. One recap moved from a walk-off baseball finish in China Grove to tennis results in the same county, which is how high school sports pages often capture one evening at a time. (salisburypost.com) East’s baseball win in that roundup was a 10-0 result against Concord, with the Mustangs piling up 14 hits and getting a two-hit pitching effort from Charlie Lefler and Julian Cauble. That followed East’s 7-1 win at Carson on April 8, so East carried momentum into the middle of the week while Carson answered its own loss with a seventh-inning escape. (salisburypost.com)
