NEW LONDON — While three of Stanly County’s five varsity high school baseball teams have each amassed over ten victories and a winning record, only one of them remains undefeated a month and a half into the 2025 season.
The North Stanly Comets (15-0, 6-0 Yadkin Valley) have navigated their current campaign with ease, outscoring their opponents by a run margin of 124-39 since Feb. 26.
Six games into conference play, the Comets hold the first-place spot in the YVC standings, sitting one game above the Mount Pleasant Tigers (10-6, 5-1 YVC) and two games above Union Academy Cardinals (6-8, 4-2 YVC) among the six teams in the conference.
Rounding out the rest of the local baseball squads in the county, the South Stanly Bulls (12-4, 3-3 YVC), Gray Stone Knights (5-9, 0-6 YVC), Albemarle Bulldogs (1-10, 0-6 YVC) and West Stanly Colts (11-5, 6-0 Rocky River) have a combined 29-28 record so far this season.
As the reigning YVC regular-season champions, the Comets have picked up right where they left off from last season’s undefeated conference campaign. Last year’s squad put together a 24-5 record (10-0 conf.) and made it all the way to the fourth round of the NCHSAA 2A state playoff bracket, where the Comets lost 5-2 to Burns in Lawndale.
This year’s team has been dominant in its ability to generate blowout wins — seven of North’s 15 wins so far have been by at least five runs.
Most recently, the Comets defeated A.L. Brown (4-11, 1-7 Greater Metro) in a 16-6 home matchup on April 2 before knocking off South Stanly in a 12-3 home finish on April 4.
The Comets have scored at least a dozen runs in five of their past six games, leveling up after a stretch where the team scored under ten runs in eight consecutive matchups.
North squared off with Gray Stone on Wednesday in New London, and will now travel to East Davidson (8-6, 6-0 Central Carolina) on Thursday before heading to Misenheimer for a rematch with the Knights on Friday.
Next week, the Comets have an important conference test as they host Mount Pleasant on April 15 and then travel to challenge the Tigers again two days later.