South Charlotte Panthers

MAY 29 UPDATE 

TYLER TEWELL 2009 Butler hit for the "CYCLE" in a 17-6 victory over East Meck. He had a triple in the third inning, a three run HR in the fourth (his 3rd of the season); a two run single in the fifth and a two run double in the seventh. Tyler finished 4 for 6 with 7 RBIs to add to his team leading 24. As if hitting for one "CYCLE" in a season was not enough; Tyler repeated the accomplishment one week later versus Independence when he went 5 for 5 including a single, double, triple and his fourth HR while driving in 6 Runs!

 CORBIN SHIVE (11-1) 2009 East Rowan had a career game in a key conference match up versus Mooresville. Corbin hit a monster 3 run HR in the first inning then shut down the Mooresville nine on the mound with 6 innings of shut out pitching with 6 strike outs for his sixth win. He capped the night off with his second HR to end with 4 RBIs. Corbin added to his record this week going to 7-0 on the season with a win over S. Rowan. The win helped lead the Mustangs to the NPC Conference Championship crown. Corbin continued his hot streak the next week with a 1 run victory over North Irdell to take his  record to 8-0. After giving up a run in the first Corbin retired 13 of the next 14 hitters including 8 Strike Outs before finishing his night after 5 innings. Round one of the NC State 3A Play Offs found Corbin on the mound where he ran his record to 9-0 ; leading East Rowan to a 3-0 win over SW Randolph. THEN IS WAS 10. East Rowan and Corbin continue to roll as they knocked off Lake Norman in the third round of the 3A NC Play Offs behind Shive's tenth victory of the season. Corbin entered the fourth round play off game versus Mooresville and although giving up a walk and HR earned the win after The Mustangs made a remarkable 7th inning comeback to gain a spot in the 3A Western Region Finals. For the season Corbin has an ERA of 1.25; and has 76 Strike Outs in 67 Innings Pitched

Starting pitcher COREY ROBERTS (6-3) 2009 Olympic helped the Trojans lock up the Queen City Conference championship with an 8 inning victory over rival Charlotte Catholic. Corey struck out 15 on the mound as well as contributing 3 hits and 2 RBIs in the contest. This week Corey once again went 8 innings and earned his fifth victory of the season in a 4-3 victory over conference rival West Meck. Corey struck out 11 in helping Olympic tie an all time victory record with 17. The Trojans broke the all time wins record in the first round of the NC3A play offs behind starting pitcher Corey Roberts who struck out 10 on his way to his 6th victory of the season. The Trojans streak ended in 4-1 loss to Ryan Arrowood and RS Central in the third round. Corey took the loss in the game after giving up only 1 earned run and striking out 9.

Providence HS CF TYLER ZUPCIC added to his team leading steals with a steal of home base in conference action versus East Meck. Tyler took the Panther philosophy of aggressive base running to a next level. Tyler finished that week going 3 for 5 in the Panthers doubleheader win over Wautaga including the game winning HR in a 1-0 victory. Tyler stayed hot going 2 for 2 in a win versus East Meck in conference tournament action followed by a 3 for 3 night in the Panthers opening round play off win over W. Forsyth. Check out Tyler's third round heroics in the play off section.

Christian 2010 CF TY LINTON has gotten off to a blistering start with his bat in CISAA Conference action as the Knights have won 8 of 9 conference match ups. Ty finished the 3 game series versus Providence Day 5 for 10 with a double and a triple. He was 6 for 11 versus Country Day with 3 doubles and 5 RBIs.  Ty did not slow down in last weeks action helping the Knights to a three game sweep over Latin by going 2-3 with 2 Doubles and 1 RBI in game 1 and then hitting Grand Slam HRs in each of the next two games in addition to two other hits. Ty hit his 5th HR in conference tournament action prior to the Knights start of state play offs. As they say in the video games; "He's On FIRE".  Christian lost out in the finals to a strong Wesleyan team but not before Ty collected his sixth HR for the season in the finals. Ty was recently honred as a selection to the NCISAA ALL STATE TEAM

2008 Panther RYAN ARROWOOD (10-0)continues to make a strong case for North Carolina PLAYER OF THE YEAR honors leading Charlotte Observer Sweet 16 # 4 and State 3A #3 ranked RS Central High School to an 22-3 record. As of May 1 Ryan was 8-0 on the mound with an area leading  101 stike outs and an ERA of 0.94. At the plate he is leading the team with 5 HRs; 28 RBIs and a .469 batting average.

Since then Ryan has earned the win in both round one and three with dominating performances on the mound. In his round three win over Corey Roberts and Olympic; Ryan struck out 13 and gave up 1 run off 3 hits. RS Central advances to the fourth round this week where they will take on South Pointe.