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Jamie Nunn, who played his high school baseball at Mount

Tabor High, has developed into Appalachian’s ace.

By Sam Davis

Triad Sports Weekly

Jamie Nunn sub-

scribes to all the old

adages that hard work

pays off. Nunn, a junior

pitcher at Appalachian

State, has seen his stock

rise considerably in the

Southern Conference.

This season the former

Mount Tabor standout has

emerged as one of the

conference’s top pitchers.

He attributes his success

to working hard and hav-

ing faith in his ability.

“Right now we’re

playing well as a team and

personally I doing very

well,” he said, during a

recent telephone inter-

view. Anytime you work

really hard you expect

success to come if you are

patient enough to wait on

it.”

Nunn has

emerged as the

Mountaineers ace, mean-

ing he’s usually the starter

during the team’s Friday

games. It came quickly,

earlier in the season, and

Nunn said he was pre-

pared to accept it.

“At the start of

the season I didn’t know I

would be the Friday

starter,” he said. “It wasn’t

until the (North Carolina)

State game that I found

out. I just rolled with it

and went out and tried to

do everything that I could

FCD’s Smith plays major role in ACC title

Former Spartan standout is Mountaineer ace

Sprinter continues to postnew marks at Wake Forest

Mytoia Gathings

By Sam Davis

Triad Sports Weekly

Lacrosse is a

relatively new sports for

most native North

Carolinians. However,

its popularity has soared

in recent seasons and

kids in the state are

choosing to play the

sport with a pace that

exceeds the growth of

any other.

The Univ. of

North Carolina’s

lacrosse program has

been one of the tops in

the ACC for several

decades. However, the

Tar Heels didn’t sign a

North Carolina athlete

to a scholarship until

three years ago, when

they signed Jordan

Smith, who starred for

four years at Forsyth

Country Day. Smith

hasn’t disappointed

either. The defenseman

has started since mid-

way through his fresh-

man season and helped

lead the Tar Heels to

their first ACC Lacrosse

championship since

1996.

Smith has start-

Former

Forsyth

Country

Day star

sticks out

for UNC

Jordan Smith, who played at Forsyth country Day helped lead the Univ. of North Carolina’s defensve unit to its title.

See Smith on 2

Photo Credit: Jeffrey A. Camarati, UNC Athletic Communications

By Sam Davis

Triad Sports Weekly

Mytoie

Gathings helped estab-

lish the girls track pro-

gram at Parkland as

one of the tops in the

state for producing

quality sprinters.

Gathings and her team-

mates set dozens of

Mustangs records and

won state titles in indi-

vidual and relay races.

But while the careers of

many ended at the con-

clusion of their senior

seasons at Parkland,

Gathings has continued

to blaze a path on the

track.

Recently,

Gathings broke her own

record at Wake Forest

in the 100 meter dash,

MustangsGregory headed toPikevilleBy Sam Davis

Triad Sports Weekly

Darryl Gregory

III didn't have to look

far to find his motiva-

tion for Parkland High's

football team during the

2012 season. His father,

Darryl “Pooh” Gregory

Jr. passed away unex-

pectedly four years ago

after being overcome by

carbon monoxide fumes

from a furnace. His dad,

a former standout at

linebacker for East

Forsyth in the early

1990's, was like a best

friend and confidant.

His dad, was

also a coach in Pop

Warner football and

Little League baseball.

He introduced him to

both sports at an early

age.

“My dad was

Darryl Gregory III

see Gregory on 3 See Gathings on 3

see Nunn on 2

ed in 12 of the Tar

Heels' 15 games this

season. North Carolina

is 12-3 after having

defeated Virginia for

the ACC championship.

On the season,

Smith has recorded

seven ground balls and

has been a force for the

Tar Heels' defensive

unit, which has yielded

only 150 goals all sea-

son while they have

scored 200. Smith has

been a starter in nine of

the Tar Heels' 12

games.

At the time that

he announced his deci-

sion to accept a

lacrosse scholarship

from the Tar Heels,

Smith became the first

native North Carolinian

to accept at lacrosse

scholarship to the Univ.

of North Carolina. In

the past most of the Tar

Heel players came from

the mid-Atlantic states.

A pair of con-

ference champions will

meet in the first round

of the 2013 NCAA

Division I Men's

Lacrosse Championship

as Smith and the

University of North

Carolina will play host

to Lehigh this Saturday

at Fetzer Field in

Chapel Hill, N.C.

Game time is 12 Noon.

North Carolina

and Lehigh have the

two longest winning

streaks in the nation

heading into Saturday's

game. The Tar Heels

have won nine in a row

and captured the

Atlantic Coast

Conference champi-

onship two weekends

ago, UNC's first victo-

ry in the event since

1996. Lehigh brings a

seven-match winning

streak to Chapel Hill.

The Mountain Hawks

have won back-to-back

Patriot League champi-

onships.

North Carolina

will make its 28th

overall appearance and

seventh successive

appearance in the

NCAA Division I

Men's Lacrosse

Championship when it

plays host to Lehigh on

Saturday.

From Staff Reports

ATHENS, Ga. - The

19th-ranked Wake Forest

men's tennis team will begin

play in the NCAA

Championship against No. 36

Northwestern on Friday at 10

a.m. at the Dan Magill Tennis

Complex on the campus of

the University of Georgia in

Athens, Ga.

Wake Forest, which

finished second in the ACC

championships a week ago,

put three players on the 2013

All-ACC team with David

Hopkins, Amogh Prabhakar

and Adam Lee all earning all-

conference honors.

Hopkins was named

to the team for the second

year in a row, while Lee and

Prabhakar were honored for

the first time. All three play-

ers have been nationally

ranked in both doubles and

singles this season.

The Demon Deacons'

top doubles team of

Prabhakar and David Hopkins

currently sits at No. 35 on the

national charts, moving up 13

spots after their win over

then-No. 3 Jarmere Jenkins

and Mac Styslinger of

Virginia in the ACC

Championship final.

Hopkins is a

Winston-Salem native, who

captured the state individual

championship while playing

at Winston-Salem Prep

Academy. A fifth-year senior,

he has been a standout for the

Demon Deacons throughout

his career at Wake Forest and

has played a prominent role

in the program’s revival..

The Demon Deacons

(20-8) enter the tournament

on a hot streak, having

reached the final of the ACC

Championship after knocking

off No. 9 Duke in the semifi-

nals.

The winner of

Friday's match will advance

to take on either No. 3 seed

Georgia or Binghamton in the

second round on Saturday at

3 p.m.

By ranking, Wake

Forest is the most improved

team in the country from last

season. The Demon Deacons

are currently ranked No. 19

nationally, rising 50 spots

from last year's No. 69 end-

of-season ranking.

Wake Forest was also

the most improved team in

the ACC, finishing in third

place with a 7-3 conference

record after recording a 10th-

place finish a year ago.

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Jordan Smith

David Hopkins in action for Wake Forest.

Hopkins named All-ACC

David Hopkins

Jamie Nunn

to get the team a win.”

Nunn has done a good

job in holding down the ace

slot on the mound for the

Mountaineers. His record is 9-

3 thus far with an Earned Run

Average of 3.12. He has

appeared in 12 games for

Appalachian, starting each

one.

He also leads the team

in most categories, including

innnings pitched (83.2) and

strikeouts (69).

He says he hopes to

keep things going for the

Mountaineers as they

approach the Southern

Conference Tournament and

hopefully lead ASU into the

NCAA Regionals.

“We have talked about

some of those things,” he said.

“Obviously we would like to

win the regular season in the

Southern Conference and it

would definitely help to win

the tournament.

“Right now we’re

more concerned with just win-

ning every game that we play

and I’m trying to do my best

every time Coach gives me the

baseball.”

A junior, Nunn will

have another year of eligibility

left with the Mountaineers. If

he continues to improve he

would likely be looked upon

favorably by major league

baseball teams for their ama-

teur draft next year. But it

could also happen this season.

“You can’t really look

at that kind of stuff and start

speculating,” he said. “You

just have to continue working

as hard as you have in the past

and hope that those kind of

things will fall in place. I have

to focus on getting one player

out at a time and not let any-

thing affect my rhythm.

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Eagles hold off Bobcats in PTC 4-A softball thriller

By Kevin Pearman

Triad Sports Weekly

In a recent

showdown, the East

Forsyth Lady Eagles

defeated crosstown rival

the Glenn Lady Cats in

a barn burner, 9-8.

The first two

innings were scoreless

until the bottom third

when East center fielder

Kiersten Berrier drew a

walk and in feilder Julia

Barnes hit a base hit

double driving Berrier

in to take a 1-0 lead.

The Lady Cats

tied the game up 1-1 in

the top of the fourth

when first baseman

Ashley Hurd hit a single

driving in right fielder

Elizabeth Toler.

In the bottom of

the fourth Eagles first

baseman Macy George

hit a triple and pitcher

Kasey Todd bunted

George home. Later in

the inning third base-

man Amanda Trivette

hit a double driving

home courtesy runner

Alex Watson who was

on second base to make

the score 3-1.

The Lady Cats

had a huge inning in the

top of the fifth as center

fielder Samantha

Stilling hit a triple fol-

lowed by a single by

short stop Heather

Burton driving Stilling

home to trim the Eagles

lead to 3-2, singles by

second baseman Tracy

Haynes and right fielder

Elizabeth Toler and a

grand slam by pitcher

Karen Foley would put

Glenn up 6-3.

Glenn's defense

would come up strong

in the bottom of the

fifth as East came up

scoreless in their half of

the inning. The Eagles

in return retired the

Lady Cats in the top of

the sixth and in the bot-

tom of the sixth, they

too would put up five

runs as in fielder Julia

Barnes hit a double

driving in second base-

man Abbey Lamendola

and third baseman

Amanda Trivette to

make the score 6-5

Glenn.

The scoring

would continue in the

inning for the Eagles as

short stop Sarah Beth

Ashley hit a single and

Macy

George hit

a double

driving in

Ashley

and

Barnes to

put East

up 8-6. In

the top of

the sev-

enth the

Lady Cats

tied the

score at 8-

8 thanks

to a solo home run by

Tracy Haynes and a

double from Karen

Foley driving home

courtesy runner Morgan

Carter.

In the bottom of

the seventh Lady Eagle

catcher Sidney Kaydo

would step up to the the

plate as the lead off bat-

ter in her third at bat of

the night, the first two

pitches wound up being

strikes, the third pitch

however was a solo

home run to give East

the win 9-8 and to also

help East

tie

Northwest

Guilford

for a share

of the

Peidmont-

Triad 4A

confer-

ence

champi-

onship.

Despite

hitting the

game win-

ning home

run, Kaydo said that she

was real nervous when

she was up at the plate

at bat.

''I was nervous

because I had two

strikes already and I

was just hoping that I

wouldn't strike out,” she

said. Kaydo went on by

saying that she was very

happy when she lifted

the solo homer.

''When I hit it

over I was real happy

and so were my team-

mates because not only

did we defeat Glenn but

we also won a share of

the conference champi-

onship, so everybody

was happy.''

With the win

the Lady Eagles now

stand at (16-4) overall

and finish the confer-

ence regular season

with a (10-2) record and

will begin play in the

Peidmont-Triad 4A con-

ference tournament later

on this week and Kaydo

says that their win on

Friday will give them a

big boost of confidence

as they head into the

tournament and play-

offs.

“It definitely

gives us an edge

because we clinched a

share of our conference

title plus we finished

the regular season off

with a win so it defi-

nitely gives us a boost,''

said Mike Muse, Lady

Eagles head coach. who

says that winning last

Friday night will also

help them out seeding

wise for the NCHSAA

softball playoffs which

will begin next week.

''It will give us

a couple of home games

heading into the state

playoffs next week and

having a home field

advantage is always a

great thing to have

especially when your in

the state playoffs.''

Congratulations to the

Lady Eagles on clinch-

ing a share of the

Peidmont-Triad 4A con-

ference regular season

championship and we

wish them the best of

luck as they participate

in their conference tour-

nament this week and in

the NCHSAA state

playoffs this week.

East Forsyth’s Sidney Kado hits game-winning homer with game on the line

''When I hit it over I

was real happy and so

were my teammates

because not only did

we defeat Glenn but

we also won a share

of the conference

championship, so

everybody was

happy.''

- Sydney Kado

more like an older

brother. We could talk

about anything. We had

a very nice relationship.

We could talk about

anything.”

At the time his

dad passed away,

Gregory was playing in

his final season of Pop

Warner Football. That’s

when he began to take

football seriously.

“My father’s

death motivated me,” he

said. “I was a backup

linebacker and I came

into the game and

played the best game of

my Pop Warner career. I

made 10 tackles and had

an interception.”

At Parkland he

teamed up with his

cousin, Carlos Gregory

and was a terror from

the start. He finished

second on the Mustangs

in tackles as sophomore

and led Parkland in

2011 and 2012, finish-

ing with 105 tackles, six

forced fumbles, three

fumble recoveries and

an interception as a sen-

ior.

At Pikeville, an

NAII program, he will

be playing alongside

cousin Carlos once

again.

“They’re talking

about keeping me at

linebacker or moving

me to safety,” said

Gregory, who stands 5-

11 and weighs approxi-

mately 190 pounds. “I

think I’m ready for it.

When I went there I had

a chance to see their

spring game and experi-

ence what college life

would be like. I grew a

lot mentally over the

last year and learned

how to read offenses

and figure out what they

were trying to do.”

clocking a time of 11.8

during a meet at the

Raleigh Relays. That

time eclipsed the time of

11.89 that she had previ-

ously set for the Wake

Forest school record at

the Wake Forest open.

Gathings has

also helped set the Wake

Forest record in the

4x100 relay. She teamed

with Myesha Barr,

Montasia Golden, and

Brianna Dekine to set

the school record at

46.96. In addition the

quartert finished in fifth

place at the ACC meet

with that time.

A record-setter

throughout her career at

Parkland, Gathings is

also closing in on the

Wake Forest record in

the 200 meter dash. The

current mark is 23.94

and Gathings is within

.4 of a second in estab-

lishing a record in that

event.

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Sam Baughan,

Gray Galloway and

Tripp Showfety

scored three goals

each to lead Forsyth

Country Day to a 12-

4 victory over Kerr

Vance Academy of

Raleigh on Senior

Night.

Devon

Winbush added two

goals for the Furies

and Hamilton Ross

rounded out the scor-

ing with one goal.

Baughan and

Showfety also led the

team in assists

with three and

two, respec-

tively. Winbush

also added two

assists. Ross

and Will Perry

contributed one

assist each for

FCDS.

In a previous

game, Forsyth

Country Day

School traveled

to Cary, North

Carolina to

play an exhila-

rating game

against Cary

Academy. The

Furies took

control early

and fervently

battled to

maintain the

lead for the

entire contest.

Team defense

was key

throughout the

competition as

Coleman

Johnson,

Weston Pruitt,

Alex

Rickabaugh,

Jay Cavenaugh,

David Kim,

Evan Noble,

Christian

Powell, John

Craig and

Lathan

Verwoerdt kept

the Chargers

away from the goal.

Goalie, John

Showfety provided 10

well needed saves

throughout the

evening. Offensively,

Sam Baughan had 2

goals and 1 assist;

Tripp Showfety 2

goals and 1 assist;

Devon Winbush 2

goals; Walker

Cullinan 1 goal and 4

assists; Will Perry,

Hamilton Ross and

Christian Powell each

added one goal

apiece.

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From Staff Reports

FCDS finished

off the 45 hole confer-

ence schedule with a

resounding 75 shot

victory over second

place Wesleyan

Christian Academy.

Five Furies made all-

conference led by 3

time PACIS

Conference player of

the year Ben

Schlottman who

defeated runner-up

Gray Townsend of

FCDS by 1 stroke. Jay

Hunt and Salah Sayess

finished tied for 5th

and Tyler Hartley

rounded out the group

with a 7th place finish

in the conference to

earn all-conference

honors.

The final nine hole

match at Tanglewood

was won by the Furies

with a 2 over par score

of 146. Gray Townsend

fired a 2 under par 34

to take the individual

victory followed by

Ben Schlottman with a

36 and Hunt and

Sayess with 38's. The

Furies will play the

state championship at

Bryan Park Champions

course on May 13th

and 14th.

Schlottman, Townsend lead Furies in PACIS

Forsyth Country Day wins on Senior Night

Sam Baughan

Furies lacrosse team takes 12-4 victory over Kerr Vance Academy

Gray Townsend

Ben Schlottman

Forsyth Country Day gears up for state

championship at Greensboro’s Bryan Park

Tripp Showfety scored three goals to help lead

Forsyth Country Day to victory.

From Staff Reports

Vontisha Woods, a for-

mer Winston-Salem State

standout, has signed to play

semi-pro basketball with the

Winston-Salem Lady Warcats

for the 2013 season.

The Lady Warcats par-

ticipate in the Women's Blue

Chip Basketball League

(WBCBL), and provides an

opportunity for women ages 21

and up to pursue an athletic

career in bas-

ketball

beyond ama-

teur status.

Woods

will return to

the hardwood

after returning

from overseas;

She was a mem-

ber of the

McDonalds

Depiro Squad in Mosta, Malta.

At WSSU, her senior year,

she " managed to score in excess of

a 1000 points and grabbed over 900

rebounds. In her last year in col-

lege, she averaged 11pts and 8.5

rebounds per game." She also

snagged awards such as 2011 All-

CIAA Women's Team and First

Team Honors on the NCAA

Division I All-Independent team

(2010).

"Vee", as she likes to be

called, will play in her first game as

a Lady Warcat on Saturday, May

11th at 2:00pm. This game will be

the first game, and first home game

for the Warcats, taking on "cross

town" rival, the USA Elite of

Greensboro, NC.

The series match-up is 2-2.

Who will win the "Battle of the

Triad" this year? Warcats home

games are played at the Fulton

Family YMCA, (385 W. Hanes Mill

Road, Winston-Salem, NC 27105).

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Rams capture title, prepare for playoffsFrom Staff Reports

Petersburg, VA – On the

third and final day of competition at

the 2013 CIAA Spring Sports

Festival, Winston-Salem State

University defeated Chowan

University 9-1 in the championship

game to claim their third consecutive

conference title at the Whaley

Colbert Field on the campus of VSU.

The Rams finished 3-0 during the

tournament in order to hoist the

championship plaque.

WSSU wasted no time get-

ting on the scoreboard with three

runs in the first inning. Chowan went

three up and three down in the top of

the first. The Rams produced three

hits and three runs in the bottom of

the first, including a RBI double

from Tyler Hickernell.

Both teams went scoreless in

the second and third innings. The

Hawks earned a run in the fourth off

a RBI single from Evan Holton. The

hit from Holton scored Brandon

Mack from third base. The inning

came to a close with one run, two

hits, an error, and two left on base.

Unfortunately, that would be the

only run generated by Chowan in the

contest.

Winston-Salem State

responded with two runs in the fifth

and four runs in the sixth to secure a

victory. Neither team scored after the

sixth inning. First baseman Aaron

Jones had clutch day at the plate for

WSSU with four hits off five at-bats,

three runs scored and a RBI.

Hickernell controlled the

game on the mound and picked up

the win. He pitched eight innings

with five strikeouts, only allowing

six hits and one run scored en route

to being named Tournament MVP.

Seth Mahaffey checked in for the

save in the ninth. He struck out two,

walked one, and had one ground out.

The Rams earn an automatic

bid to the NCAA Division II playoffs

and await the tournament seeding

announcement for their opponent.

Below is a complete break-

down of the 2013 CIAA All-

Tournament Baseball Team:

NAME, POSITION, SCHOOL

Colton Gunn, Pitcher, Virginia State

Levi Grassley, Third Base, WSSU

Nicholas Christopher, Short Stop,

Virginia State

Tyler Hickernell, Pitcher/DH, WSSU

John Hunter, First Base, Chowan

Aaron Jones, First Base, WSSU

Blake Leebrick, Catcher, Chowan

Percy Evans, First Base, Virginia

State

Ryan Moore, Designated Hitter,

Chowan

Evan Holton, Outfield, Chowan

Rafael Gonzalez, Second Base,

WSSU

Josh Markins, Utility, Virginia State

2013 CIAA Baseball Tournament

MVP

Tyler Hickernell, Pitcher/DH,

Winston-Salem State

Winston-Salem State baseball team wins its third consecutive CIAA crown

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