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Once again, facing Person brought out the best in Quinn Finnegan.
Last year, Finnegan struck out five in four innings as Cedar Ridge won in Roxboro. On Friday night, Finnegan delivered his best performance of his senior season thus far, striking out nine in a complete game two-hitter as the Red Wolves defeated Person 5-1 on Hillsborough Youth Athletic Association night at Cedar Ridge Baseball Field.
After Person’s Wyatt Carden drew a bases-loaded walk to score Gavin Dodson in the first inning, the Rockets only had one more runner reach third base the rest of the game. Finnegan saved his best for last, retiring the final 15 Person batters. The Rockets’ Brady Holmes led off the third inning with a double. It was Person’s final hit. Finnegan ended the game striking out the side in order.
Person didn’t have the lead for long. In the bottom of the first, Grant McGuffey sent a dribbler to right field to score John Grove, who led off the inning with a single.
Freshman Jesus Velazquez led off the third inning with a double to right field. After Ian McGuffey dropped down a sacrifice bunt to move Velasquez to third, Dominic Sena reached on an infield hit up the middle to give Cedar Ridge a 2-1 lead.
Finnegan and Carter Warren drew walks to start the fourth inning. Finnegan, going without a courtesy runner despite being the pitcher, stole third while Warren went to second. Ian McGuffey knocked a two-run single to centerfield to put the Red Wolves ahead 4-1.
The Red Wolves added an insurance run in the sixth inning. Velazquez earned his second hit of the game with a single to shortstop. Aidan Ryan, who was hit by a pitch to leadoff the inning, scored.
Cedar Ridge improved to 5-6 overall, 3-1 in the Central Conference. They’re tied with Person for third place as they prepare to travel to Eastern Alamance on Tuesday night.
Softball: Eastern Alamance 6, Cedar Ridge 4:
Through odd scheduling, it’s possible the two best softball teams in the Central Conference could have its entire two-game series decided before April Fool’s Day.
It’s clear that with two-thirds of the season remaining, Eastern Alamance is the favorite to win its second consecutive league title.
As was the case in its initial meeting earlier this month, the Eagles made a late rally to defeat Cedar Ridge 6-4 on Friday at Eagles Softball Field. Cedar Ridge took a 4-3 lead into the sixth inning, but the Eagles’ Edie Stewart drove in the game-winning runs with a fly ball to right field. Courtesy runner Jones Stewart and Brylea Warren scored for the margin of victory.
Cedar Ridge built a two-run lead scoring all four of its runs in the third inning. Madeline Galindo-Woodring drew a four pitch walk against Delani Straughan to lead off the inning. Mia Best sent a cue shot up the line and beat out the throw from catcher Kayden Manning. After Galindo-Woodring and Best each moved up 60 feet after a groundout, Kimber Shambley knocked in Galindo-Woodring with a sacrifice fly to right field, cutting the Eastern Alamance lead to 2-1. Reagan Simmons tied the game with a line drive to right field. Rylee Capps stroked a grounder up the middle for a single. Laci Sykes loaded the bases when she got aboard off a dropped third strike. Charlotte Lowry stroked a double to right field, leading to Qiaura Rogers scoring the go-ahead run. Capps also scored to put the Red Wolves ahead 4-2.
Eastern Alamance started with two runs in the second inning. With two out, Addison Hester knocked in Kinley Henderson and Mckenzie Blevins.
The Red Wolves will return home to face Western Alamance on Tuesday night.
Cedar Ridge waited a long time to defeat its crosstown rival in softball. Nearly six years, in fact. The Red Wolves got a complete game four-hitter from senior pitcher Charlotte Lowry to defeat Orange 7-1 on Tuesday night at Cedar Ridge Softball Field. Lowry struck out nine over seven innings. The Red Wolves used the long ball to stay ahead of the Panthers. Laci Sykes hit a two-run single to right field in the first inning. Reagan Simmons and Kimber Shambley both hit home runs for the Red Wolves. Simmons added a double as Cedar Ridge earned its fourth win of the season. Lowry, the younger sister of former Cedar Ridge shortstop Ava Lowry, also went 2-for-3 at the plate. Lowry, Sykes, Simmons and Rylee Capps each had multi-hit games. The last time Cedar Ridge defeated Orange was in 2019 during a one-game playoff to determine which team would earn the #1 seed for the 3A State Playoffs. Lowry has been a strong presence in the circle for the Red Wolves. Cedar Ridge will return to action against Western Alamance on Tuesday night in Hillsborough, the first of three straight home games. The Red Wolves will host Roxboro Community School on Thursday night, then play Walter Williams on Friday.
Cedar Ridge softball pitcher Charlotte Lowry discusses win over Orange
Cedar Ridge waited a long time to defeat its crosstown rival in softball. Nearly six years, in fact. The Red Wolves got a complete game four-hitter from senior pitcher Charlotte Lowry to defeat Orange 7-1 on Tuesday night at Cedar Ridge Softball Field. Lowry struck out nine over seven innings.
This week’s Cedar Ridge Red Wolf of the Week is sophomore cross country runner Gracie Whitaker. Last fall, Whitaker helped the Cedar Ridge women’s cross country team win the Mideast Regional Championship at Owens Recreation Park in Louisburg. She also helped the Red Wolves win the Central Conference championship, finishing sixth at Lake Cammack Cross Country Course in Burlington. She finished with a time of 23:01.63, helping the Red Wolves finish with 31 points, beating out Orange, who registered 50. At the Regional Championships, Whitaker finished 21st at 23:01.38. Whitaker had several top ten finishes last fall, including at a meet at Orange High School where she came in seventh overall, clocking in at 24:27. Whitaker finished 46th at the 40th annual Greensboro Cross Country Invitational at Hagan Stone Park in Pleasant Garden. Whitaker helped the Red Wolves finished seventh at the 3A State Championships at the Ivey Redmon Sports Complex in Kernersville. Whitaker came in with a time of 22:06.79 as the Red Wolves finished highest in the state championships than any other Central Conference team. Whitaker started the year by finishing sixth at the Eno River Academy Invitational in Hillsborough. Whitaker was among a group of young runners who stepped up last fall and helped the Red Wolves women’s cross country team to its best season as a 3A squad.
Cedar Ridge Red Wolf of the Week: Gracie Whitaker
This week’s Cedar Ridge Red Wolf of the Week is sophomore cross country runner Gracie Whitaker. Last fall, Whitaker helped the Cedar Ridge women’s cross country team win the Mideast Regional Championship at Owens Recreation Park in Louisburg. She also helped the Red Wolves win the Central Conference championship, finishing sixth at Lake Cammack Cross Country Course in Burlington.
After a four-year career at UNC Greensboro, Tori Dalehite returned to her softball roots this winter by joining the Cedar Ridge coaching staff.
Tuesday night must have brought back some pleasant memories.
The last time Cedar Ridge defeated Orange in softball, Dalehite was a senior in 2019. Takia Nichols, the all-time home run hitter in school history who now starts at North Carolina Central, was a sophomore.
Six years of frustration against Cedar Ridge’s crosstown rival ended on Tuesday.
Senior Charlotte Lowry threw a four-hitter while also going 2-for-3 at the plate to push Cedar Ridge past Orange 7-1 at Cedar Ridge Softball Field.
Seniors Kimber Shambley and Reagan Simmons each homered for the Red Wolves while Laci Sykes delivered a two-run single the first inning. The Red Wolves (5-3 overall, 3-1) remain one game back of Eastern Alamance for first place in the Central Conference. Cedar Ridge will travel to Eastern Alamance on Friday in a crucial rematch from a somewhat controversial result from earlier this month.
Lowry made sure nothing was controversial against the Lady Panthers. She struck out nine batters and didn’t allow a hit until the third inning. Orange did mount a minor threat in the first inning after freshman Kaylee Allen walked and advanced to second when Allie Carden reached on a dropped ball. Lowry retired the side when she struck out Addison Guentensberger.
When Orange made mistakes in the field, Cedar Ridge capitalized on them. Raegan Remaly reached on an errant throw to first in the opening inning. After Shambley and Simmons walked to load the bases, Remaly scored when a pitch from Guentensberger skipped away from Carden, the Orange catcher, to the backstop. Sykes dropped a two-run bloop into shallow right field to plate Simmons and Shambley and increase Cedar Ridge’s lead to 3-0.
Simmons, who played at Apex High School last year before retuning to Cedar Ridge this season, led off the third inning with a towering home run over the centerfield fence. It was her team-leading fourth home run of the year.
In her seventh start, Lowry improved to 4-1 with 38 strikeouts and seven walks.
Simmons drove in another run in the fourth when she smashed a fastball down the left field line for a double. Remaly, who was hit by a pitch earlier, scored. Rylee Capps, who hit a grand slam in last week’s rout of Southern Alamance, grooved a single to centerfield to score Simmons and increase the Red Wolf lead to 6-0. Capps leads the team with a .519 batting average.
Orange didn’t get a runner to third base until the sixth inning when Carden delivered a solo homer over left field.
Shambley, who has committed to Western Carolina, led off the seventh inning with a deep fly ball over the fence in left field that nearly hit the scoreboard. It was Shambley first home run of the season.
Now Cedar Ridge heads to Mebane for Friday’s game. The conference opener against Eastern Alamance from March 3 will be easy to remember. The Red Wolves led 3-0 after three innings against the Eagles on March 3. The Eagles scored its first run off a controversial call when Edie Stewart sent a fly ball to centerfield while Rachel Byrd was at third base. After Cedar Ridge’s Madeline Galindo-Woodring made the catch, Byrd tagged up. Originally, the field umpired ruled that Byrd had left the base early and was called out. The home plate umpire overruled the field umpire’s call and the run counted.
That proved to be costly for Cedar Ridge in the end. The Red Wolves led 4-1 in the seventh inning before Eastern Alamance scored three runs to send the game into extra innings. Brylea Warren hit a game-tying, three-run homer. The Eagles added four runs in the eighth inning.
Cedar Ridge’s last conference championship in softball was in 2019.
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Cedar Ridge baseball gained a sweep of Walter Williams to start its Central Conference season this week. On Friday night, Hudson Kelly earned his first varsity win as the Red Wolves defeated Williams 3-1 at Bulldogs Field. Kelly only allowed one unearned run off of hit over five innings. After he started the week with a win over Williams in Hillsborough, senior Quinn Finnegan came over from first base in the sixth inning and earned a six-out save. It was the second year in a row that Finnegan earned a save in a win at Williams. Kelly also drove in the game-winning run with a two-run single in the fourth inning. Williams mounted threats in the sixth and seventh innings, but Cedar Ridge’s Carter Warren made a huge catch in right field with runners at 1st and 2nd with no outs in the sixth. Warren managed to force a double play after making the big grab. After the Bulldogs got two runners on base off infield singles in the seventh inning, Finnegan struck out the final two Williams batters to end the game. Cedar Ridge is atop the Central Conference with a 2-0 record as they prepare to travel to Person on Tuesday night. The Red Wolves will also have a home game against Clover Garden School in Hillsborough on Wednesday night at 6.
Cedar Ridge baseball’s Quinn Finnnegan and Hudson Kelly discuss win at Walter Williams
Cedar Ridge baseball gained a sweep of Walter Williams to start its Central Conference season this week. On Friday night, Hudson Kelly earned his first varsity win as the Red Wolves defeated Williams 3-1 at Bulldogs Field. Kelly only allowed one unearned run off of hit over five innings.
This week’s Cedar Ridge Red Wolf of the Week is junior runner Henry Alexander. This season, Alexander helped the Cedar Ridge men’s cross country team finish second in the Central Conference. At the Central Conference championships in October, Alexander finished fourth with a time of 17:25.84. It led to the Red Wolves finishing with 44 points, second only to Orange in the conference. At the Mideast Regionals at Owens Recreation Park in Louisburg, Alexander finished seventh at 17:07.53. It led to Cedar Ridge finishing finishing second in the Mideast Region with 83 points. Alexander had a 5th place finish at a tai-conference meet at Orange High School on September 10. This winter, Alexander competed in indoor track and field. He finished fourth in the 3,200 meters at the East Chapel Hill Polar Bear inside Dave Thaden Stadium with a time of 10:49.95. At the final regular season meet on February 4, Alexander finished 5th in the 3,200 meters at 10:37.19. Since indoor season ended, Alexander has started running outdoor track and field. Last week, he started the outdoor season by running in the 800 meters inside Red Wolves Stadium. He finished in 7th place at 2:23.80 in a meet that also included Western Alamance and Southern Alamance. Alexander will spend the spring trying to qualify for the 3A State Outdoor Track & Field Championships at North Carolina A&T State University in May.
Cedar Ridge Red Wolf of the Week: Henry Alexander
This week’s Cedar Ridge Red Wolf of the Week is junior runner Henry Alexander. This season, Alexander helped the Cedar Ridge men’s cross country team finish second in the Central Conference. At the Central Conference championships in October, Alexander finished fourth with a time of 17:25.84.
