Published: March 27, 2008 10:52 pm      

Graham tennis tops Demons

Prep roundup

BLUEFIELD, Va. — Alexander Azzo defeated top-seeded Patrick Cox, and the Graham boys tennis team rolled to a 8-1 non-district win over Christiansburg on Thursday at Fincastle Country Club.

Geoff Kade, Matthew Hurt, Jeremy Johnson and Alex Marrs also earned wins in singles matches, while the G-Men swept the doubles competition, led by Azzo and Johnson.

Graham (2-1) will host Marion in a Southwest District match on Monday.



Singles

Alex Azzo (G) def. Patrick Cox 8-0; Geoff Kade (G) def Aaron Digastyne 8-2; Matthew Hurt (G) def Geoff Sweet 8-1; Jeremy Johnson (G) def Isaac Nagle 8-3; Alex Marrs (G) def Forrest Rush 8-6; John Willard (C) def Zain Mohiuddin (G).

Exh: Graham’s Patrick Staton and Jeremy Rash won exhibition singles matches 8-4

Doubles

Azzo-Johnson (G) def Cox-Charlie Stoner 8-4; Kade-Hurt (G)def Digastyne-Forrest Rush 8-3; Alex-Zain Mohiuddin (G) def Nagle-John Willard 8-5

Exh: Staton-Rash won their doubles exhibition match 8-6.



Baseball

Princeton 11, Summers County 1

PRINCETON — Garrison Shay and Aaron Bailey had three hits apiece, and Cameron Mallory tossed a three-hitter, leading the Tigers to a win over the error-prone Bobcats at Hunnicutt Field.

Princeton (2-4), which plays Bluefield today at Bowen Field at 5 p.m., also received two hits, including a triple, from Jeremy McCormick. Bailey scored two runs and drove in a run, while Rob Dominiquez had a double, single, walked three times and drove in a pair of runs.

Mallory allowed three hits, struck out seven and walked just one for the Tigers.

Summers County committed nine errors.



Summers County.............010 000 — 1 3 9

Princeton..........................350 003 — 11 15 3

Tanner Lilly, Toran McKinney (5) and Jake Meade. Cameron Mallory and Aaron Bailey. W—Mallory; L—Lilly.



Softball

Princeton 11, Montcalm 1

MONTCALM — Jessie Moses slugged a home run and two doubles, and also struck out eight batters in three innings in the circle, leading the Tigers to a win over the Generals.

Kayla Lafferty relieved Moses in the fourth and finished with seven strike outs.

Amanda Fields and Kayla March had three hits apiece for Princeton, while Heather Walters added a triple and single. Lafferty added two hits, while Brandi Buchanan, Emily Blankenship, Whitney Hill, Kayla Kline, Mandi Asbury and Kelsey Lane had a single apiece.

Lindsey Hamblin had a single and RBI for the Generals, while Kaytie Davis and Kayla Dinger had a hit apiece in the loss.

Princeton (3-2) will look for its first-ever MSAC win today when they host Ripley at 1 p.m. The Tigers will also host Liberty on Saturday at the same time.



Princeton....................301 303 1 — 11 19 2

Montcalm....................000 .001 0 — 1 3 7

Jessie Moses, Kayla Lafferty (4) and Kayla Marsh. Kara Robbins and Andrea Agnew. HR—Jessie Moses (P) 4th, 2 on.