LOCAL ROUNDUP: Westchester tennis fends off O'Neal

HIGH POINT — Westchester Country Day outlasted The O’Neal School 5-3 in nonconference boys tennis Wednesday at High Point Country Club’s Willow Creek courts.Kyan Smith won a key match at No. 5 singles, rallying for a lengthy 3-6, 7-5, 10-6 victory.

Clark Clodfelter (6-0, 6-0), Preston Kendrick (6-1, 6-0) and Finch Lambeth (6-3, 6-1) also won in singles. Clodfelter/Kendrick (8-2) won in doubles.The Wildcats improved to 5-5 overall.



BASEBALL HIGH POINT CHRISTIAN, PITTSFORD (N.Y.)MYRTLE BEACH, S.

C. — High Point Christian baseball beat Pittsford (N.Y.

) 4-3 in the Ripken Experience Spring Break Tournament on Wednesday in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.Whit Butler hit a key three-run home run in the sixth inning for the Cougars (15-5). Hunter Kelley went 2 for 2 with a double and two runs.

Prince Odom also doubled, scored and drove in a run.Ty Hayes got the win in relief, striking out four while allowing just one hit in three shutout innings. Kent Woodward allowed one earned run on five hits in five innings pitched.

TRACK AT LIVINGSTONE COLLEGESALISBURY — Area athletes from East Davidson and Thomasville won nearly 20 events in Wednesday’s Central Carolina 1A/2A Conference track meet hosted by Salisbury at Livingstone College.Winning events were:East’s Jessica Eddinger (girls 400, 1:14.12), Madyson York (girls 1600, 6:09.

10), McKenzie Moroni (girls 100, 19.47; girls triple jump, 31-2), Ibelka Peralta (girls 300 hurdles, 53.00), Shelby Woodrum (girls discus, 87-5.

5; girls shot put, 27-7), Donte Tuttle (boys 200, 24.15), Isaac Machorro (boys 1600, 5:07.52) and Gray Owenby (boys 110 hurdles, 19.

86; boys triple jump, 33-5), as well as the girls 4x200 (2:07.21), girls 4x400 (5:11.42), boys 4x200 (1:35.

94) and boys 4x800 (9:05.88) relaysThomasville’s Cordell Moon (boys 100, 11.81; boys 400, 52.

52) and Lekhi Burgess (boys shot put, 33-6).AT NORTH STOKESDANBURY — Bishop McGuinness won the girls team score and took fourth in the boys team score during Wednesday’s track meet at North Stokes.The Villains totaled 144 points on the girls side, beating second-place Alleghany with 103, and 59 points on the boys side.

South Stokes and North Stokes tied the boys team total with 106 points.Amilliana Brooks (girls 400, 1:02.56), Brianna Seivers (girls 800, 2:47.

36), Natallie Van Dyke (girls 300 hurdles, 55.43), Adrian Dancausse (boys 800, 2:11.52) plus the girls 4x400 (4:34.

69), girls 4x800 (11:35.02), boys 4x800 (9:17.04) relays won events for the Villains.

LACROSSE BISHOP McGUINNESS, ATKINSWINSTON-SALEM — Bishop McGuinness defeated Atkins 19-0 in Mid-Piedmont/Mid-State/Northwest Piedmont Conference girls lacrosse Wednesday at Atkins.Kate Dennen and Ella Suire each scored four goals to lead the Villains (16-2 overall, 7-0 conference), who clinched their fourth straight conference title.In the boys match, Bishop won 13-7 to improve to 8-8 overall and 7-2 in the conference.

BOYS GOLF AT MEADOWLANDSWALLBURG — Ledford defeated Central Davidson 153-178 in boys golf Wednesday at Meadowlands Golf Club.HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY WOMEN’S GOLF FALLS IN CONFERENCE TOURNEY SEMISFRIPP ISLAND, S.C.

— High Point University won the individual medalist and took second in stroke play. But the Panthers fell to eventual champion Radford in the semifinals of match play in the Big South Conference women’s golf championship Monday through Wednesday at Fripp Island Resort.Julia McLaughlin fired rounds of 70, 73 and 77 for a 220 total — two shots ahead of Charleston Southern’s Katie Stephens.

Anais Arafi (T9, 76-76-78-230), Ella Perna (T14, 79-76-77-232) and Anna Howerton (T21, 82-79-76-237) also finished inside the top 25.High Point totaled rounds of 304, 303 and 308 for a 915 team score, which placed them second behind Charleston Southern by a shot. In match play against third-place Radford, Howerton won 8-7.

But the Highlanders won three of the five matches to advance, then later in the day beat Charleston Southern 3-1.Radford won its first league title and advanced to the NCAA Regionals. McLaughlin also received an automatic berth in the NCAA Regionals.

The conference also announced its year-end awards. Howerton was selected Golfer of the Year, while Arafi was named Freshman of the Year and Lyndsey Hunnell was chosen Coach of the Year.Howerton was named to the first team all-conference, while Perna, McLaughlin and Arafi earned second team all-conference.

Arafi was also named to the all-freshman team, while McLaughlin was selected for the all-academic team..