With Brooke Strickland’s 20 points leading four Lady Crusaders in double-figure scoring, Grace Christian cruised to a 66-26 win at city rival, and starting Friday night, Carolina Christian Conference rival, Lee Christian.
The largest Coach Murr’s Basketball Academy week, with more than 80 kids, about twice of last year’s turnout, hooping it up at Grace Christian, came to a close Friday.
Lee County’s first baseball season in the 3A Cape Fear Valley Conference is eight months away. The Yellow Jackets were working toward next February on their home field, under the name and jerseys of the Sanford Spinners, as the Central Carolina Scholastic Summer League baseball season opened for the Spinners and Grace Christian.
Win or lose, and score wasn't being kept between Lee County and Grace Christian on the basketball court Tuesday evening, nothing but positives came from the first night of the first season of the Sanford Area Summer League as the girls basketball league debuted at Lee County's two gyms.
Thursday was already a big day for Montgomery Kirby and Mark Riches, two Grace Christian student-athletes on their final day as Crusader seniors.
Grace Christian graduate Ashley Matthews, now a long-distance runner at Lee University, earned NAIA All-American honors for finishing seventh in the marathon at the 2013 NAIA Track and Field Championships last Saturday.
Grace Christian senior Fernando Depaz signed a scholarship offer to attend and play soccer at Columbia International University in Columbia, S.C. on Thursday afternoon at Grace Christian School.
Marcus Velazquez transferred to Grace Christian with a few goals in mind.
“I came to Grace to build my relationship with the Lord, to excel academically and to try to earn a spot playing at the next level,” Velazquez said.
Grace Christian's Madison Bolen is an unlikely two-time all-state soccer standout. First of all, she's a two-time NCISAA All-State player as an eighth-grader.
For the second straight soccer season, Epiphany ended Grace Christian’s season with a 2-1 overtime win in the NCISAA 1A State Tournament, as the host Lady Falcons edged the Lady Crusaders in a quarterfinal match Tuesday afternoon.
Boys golf
4A State Championships
Pinecrest defeated Myers Park by one stroke, 19-20, on the first hole of a sudden-death playoff to win the NCHSAA 4A state championship at Pinehurst No. 8 on Tuesday.
Baseball
NCHSAA 1A second round
- South Stanly 10, North Moore 3
NCHSAA 2A second round
- Northwood 8, Corinth Holders 6
Friday afternoon’s state tournament soccer match at Grace Christian was going to be a first one way or the other.
Baseball
NCHSAA 1A first round
- North Moore 15, Union Academy 7
- South Stokes 3, Chatham Central 2
Friday
Baseball
NCHSAA State Tournament first round
Grace Christian’s girls soccer team won its first-ever conference tournament championship on Saturday in an All-Sanford clash for the Carolina Christian Conference tournament title, beating Lee Christian 6-3 in the final hosted by Wayne Christian School.
Grace Christian won the Carolina Christian Conference Tournament championship Friday night with a 7-1 win over top-seeded Cape Fear Christian. The Crusaders won the title avenging regular-season losses to CCC rivals on back-to-back nights and did so with convincing victories.
Lee Christian and Grace Christian prevailed in the semifinals of the Carolina Christian Conference girls soccer tournament Thursday at Wayne Christian School to make Friday night’s CCC championship game a neighborhood rivalry.
Girls soccer
Overhills 4, Southern Lee 3 - OT
Grace Christian 4, Community Christian 3 - OT
* Carolina Christian Tournament semifinal
Baseball
Grace Christian 17, Northwood Temple 0
Montgomery Kirby threw a five-inning no-hitter as the Crusaders (12-7) rolled through the quarterfinals of the Carolina Christian Conference Tournament at home Tuesday afternoon.
Eighth-grader Madison Bolen struck for four goals and Grace Christian cruised through its Senior Day and the quarterfinals of the Carolina Christian Conference Tournament Tuesday evening with an 8-0 win over Neuse Christian.
It was only one school year and one basketball season, but Brooke Strickland left quite a legacy with Grace Christian's basketball program and vice-versa.
Girls soccer
Grace Christian 7, Neuse Christian 0
Freshman Torie Boyte scored a hat trick leading the Lady Crusaders (9-8-2, 6-2-0) to a Carolina Christian Conference win at Neuse Christian Friday afternoon.
Baseball
Southern Lee 7, Apex 6
The Cavaliers (18-4) edged Apex (8-10) in the last non-conference game of Southern Lee's regular season Thursday night. The Cavaliers set a new program record for wins in a season.
