Published: 09:38 PM, Wed Apr 18, 2012
Prep sports athletes of the week
School: Village Christian
Sport: Baseball
Year: Junior
Notable: McDonald pitched a no-hitter in a 7-0 win over Harrells Christian. He recorded 19 strikeouts and was 2-for-4 at the plate with four RBI's.
School: South View
Sport: Softball
Year: Sophomore
Notable: For the week, Nash was 8-for-14 at the plate. She caught all three games last Saturday in the Wilmington Hoggard tournament and helped lead the Tigers to the title.
School: Cape Fear
Sport: Baseball
Year: Junior
Notable: Faircloth was the MVP of Douglas Byrd's Warren-Edwards baseball tournament last week. In the title game against Midway he struck out 13 batters. In a tournament win over East Bladen he was 5-for-5 and drove in five runs.
School: Cape Fear
Sport: Softball
Year: Junior
Notable: Blackburn was 4-for-7 with four home runs and eight RBI's in Cape Fear's Colt Classic softball tournament Saturday.
School: Jack Britt
Sport: Baseball
Year: Senior
Notable: Scott was 7-for-10 with two doubles and eight RBI's in the Triton High School baseball tournament last week. He was chosen to the all-tournament team.
School: Northwood Temple Academy
Sport: Golf
Year: Senior
Notable: Thomas recently won the Donald Ross Jr. Invitational in Pinehurst. He has a stroke average of 38.0 for nine holes in regular season high school golf matches this year.