Alamance County baseball race tightens with three teams tied for first

A three-way tie at the top left Alamance County baseball with almost no room for error. Southeast Alamance, Western Alamance and Williams were all 4-3 in Mid-Carolina Conference play on April 23, with only three league games left before the regular season ended May 1.

That logjam gives every inning immediate weight. Eastern Alamance sat at 4-4, Roxboro Person at 3-4 and Southern at 3-5, leaving open the possibility of a five-way tie atop the standings. With the North Carolina High School Athletic Association’s baseball bracket activity set to begin in early May, the final week will shape both conference bragging rights and playoff seeding.

Williams entered the stretch with the clearest momentum, riding a six-game winning streak after a 6-2 victory at Western Alamance on April 22. Williams pitcher Cooper Marks worked six innings against his former team and also helped at the plate during a five-run fourth inning, a swing that turned the game in Williams’ favor. Liam KerrFinger added a run-scoring single in the sixth.

Western Alamance had taken a 2-0 lead early, with Frederick Harrelson Jr. helping build that advantage before Williams rallied. The result tightened a race that already had little separation between the county’s top programs and underscored how quickly a lead can disappear in the Mid-Carolina Conference.

The conference itself is part of the realignment that put Alamance County’s schools, along with Roxboro Person, in the same league. That setup has made the standings feel local in a way that matters from one campus to the next, with Western Alamance High School, Southeast Alamance High School and Williams High School all chasing the same first-place spot while Eastern Alamance High School, Southern Alamance High School and Roxboro Person High School stay within striking distance.

For Southeast Alamance, led by coach Adam Gunn, the closing stretch is about more than record-keeping. It is about whether the conference title gets settled outright, shared or pushed into tiebreakers. For Western and Williams, every remaining game carries the same burden: stay upright now, because the first week of May is about to decide who goes into the postseason with the best position and the most momentum.