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The R-S Central (Rutherfordton, NC) varsity baseball team won Friday's home non-conference game against Mountain Heritage (Burnsville, NC) by a score of 9-1.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	R	H	E
Mountain Heritage	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	-
R-S Central	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	9	-	-

Final score provided by S. DragonFly.

Recap
Box Score
Matchup Info

Game Stats

Mountain Heritage (25-26)

Mountain Heritage

Batting

#	Athlete Name	Avg	PA	AB	R	H	RBI	2B
	Team Totals	.115	27	26	1	3	1	2
1	Shooter Fox (So)	.000	3	3	0	0	0	0
2	Player #2	.000	3	3	0	0	0	0
3	Brayden Deyton (Jr)	.333	3	3	1	1	0	1
7	Taylor Bryant (Jr)	.000	3	3	0	0	0	0
8	Mason Silvers (Jr)	.667	3	3	0	2	0	1
11	Cason Jones (Sr)	.000	3	3	0	0	1	0
12	Carter Bennett (Sr)	.000	3	2	0	0	0	0
17	A. Honeycutt (Jr)	.000	3	3	0	0	0	0
18	Easton Cooper (Jr)	.000	3	3	0	0	0	0

Mountain Heritage

#	Athlete Name	K	HBP	ROE	FC	OBP	SLG	OPS
	Team Totals	7	1	2	1	.148	.192	.340
1	Shooter Fox (So)	1	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000
2	Player #2	1	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000
3	Brayden Deyton (Jr)	0	0	1	0	.333	.667	1.000
7	Taylor Bryant (Jr)	2	0	1	0	.000	.000	.000
8	Mason Silvers (Jr)	0	0	0	1	.667	1.000	1.667
11	Cason Jones (Sr)	1	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000
12	Carter Bennett (Sr)	1	1	0	0	.333	.000	.333
17	A. Honeycutt (Jr)	1	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000

Mountain Heritage

Baserunning

#	Athlete Name	SB	SBA
	Team Totals	2	2
3	Brayden Deyton (Jr)	2	2

Mountain Heritage

Pitching

#	Athlete Name	ERA	APP
	Team Totals	1.17	3
11	Cason Jones (Sr)	0.00	1
12	Carter Bennett (Sr)	2.33	1
18	Easton Cooper (Jr)	0.00	1

Mountain Heritage

#	Athlete Name	IP	H	R	ER	BB	K	BF	AB
	Team Totals	6	5	9	1	8	7	39	30
11	Cason Jones (Sr)	1	0	4	0	4	0	10	6
12	Carter Bennett (Sr)	3	4	5	1	3	4	19	15
18	Easton Cooper (Jr)	2	1	0	0	1	3	10	9

Mountain Heritage

#	Athlete Name	OBA	OBP	WP	HBP	#P
	Team Totals	.167	.359	2	1	156
11	Cason Jones (Sr)	.000	.400	2	0	41
12	Carter Bennett (Sr)	.267	.421	0	1	74
18	Easton Cooper (Jr)	.111	.200	0	0	41

R-S Central (25-26)

R-S Central

Pitching

#	Athlete Name	APP
	Team Totals	3
2	Austin Hopper (Jr)	1
11	Harrison Coffey (Jr)	1
15	Xavier Trejo (Fr)	1

R-S Central

#	Athlete Name	#P
	Team Totals	81
2	Austin Hopper (Jr)	42
11	Harrison Coffey (Jr)	26
15	Xavier Trejo (Fr)	13

Game Story

North Carolina High School Baseball - Mountain Heritage loses to R-S Central

March 6, 2026: Rutherfordton, NC 28139

In Friday's non-league bout, the R-S Central Hilltoppers (Rutherfordton, NC) baseball squad overwhelmed the visiting Mountain Heritage Cougars (Burnsville, NC), by a tally of 9-1.

Next up, the Hilltoppers encounter the Draughn Wildcats (Valdese, NC) in a Western Piedmont 3A/4A challenge, on Tuesday, March 10. R-S Central will attempt to better on its 4-0 season record. The Wildcats go into the challenge with a 0-3 record after their 2-0 non-league loss to Freedom (Morganton, NC).

With the defeat, Mountain Heritage drops to 0-3 on the year. The Cougars host Erwin (Asheville, NC) to clash with the Warriors in a non-league challenge on Tuesday, March 10. The Warriors go into the challenge with a record of 2-3. Erwin won 16-9 in their recent non-league challenge against Tuscola (Waynesville, NC)

MHHS @ R-S Central Baseball Game Info

Fri., Mar. 6, 2026 @ 7p

The R-S Central (Rutherfordton, NC) varsity baseball team won Friday's home non-conference game against Mountain Heritage (Burnsville, NC) by a score of 9-1.

Rankings & Records

Mountain Heritage (25-26)

NC	Class
463	54

Overall	Conference	Home	Away	Win %	Conference %	RF	RA
3-16	3-9	2-7	1-9	.158	.250	64	145

R-S Central (25-26)

NC	Class
84	8

Overall	Conference	Home	Away	Neutral	Win %	Conference %	RF	RA
19-6	10-4	12-1	6-4	1-1	.760	.714	194	87

Team Scoring Averages

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	R	H	E
Mountain Heritage	.7	0	.8	.1	.5	.6	.4	.7	.5	2.0	3.4	6.7	2.0
R-S Central	1.3	.4	.9	1.9	1.0	1.5	1.0	-	-	-	7.8	7.2	1.3

Team Stat Comparison

Mountain Heritage		R-S Central
.266	Batting Average	-
.329	On Base Percentage	-
.331	Slugging Percentage	-
.968	Fielding Percentage	-
1.000	Win Loss Percentage	-

Team Leaders

Mountain Heritage		R-S Central	National Avg.
#3 Brayden Deyton.452	Batting Average	-	.243
#3 Brayden Deyton.534	On Base Percentage	-	.385
#3 Brayden Deyton.629	Slugging Percentage	-	.312
#1 Shooter Fox1.000	Fielding Percentage	-	.859
#18 Easton Cooper1.000	Win Loss Percentage	-	.530

Common Opponents

School	Common Opp. Rec.		School	Common Opp. Rec.
Mountain Heritage	0-4		R-S Central	5-0

Date	Away	Home	Result	Date	Away	Home	Result
3/13/26	Mountain Heritage	North Buncombe	(L) 10-0	4/6/26	North Buncombe	R-S Central	(W) 5-2
3/24/26	Mountain Heritage	Polk County	(L) 6-0	2/25/26	Polk County	R-S Central	(W) 6-1
3/27/26	Polk County	Mountain Heritage	(L) 12-2
3/26/26	Draughn	Mountain Heritage	(L) 8-4	3/10/26	Draughn	R-S Central	(W) 5-2
				3/13/26	R-S Central	Draughn	(W) 10-0
				4/8/26	Draughn	R-S Central	(W) 9-3

Record Breakdown

Mountain Heritage (25-26)		R-S Central (25-26)
3-16	Overall	19-6
3-9	League	10-4
0-7	Non-League	6-0
0-1	Head to Head	1-0
0-4	Common Opponent	5-0
2-7	Home	12-1
1-9	Away	6-4
0-0	Neutral	1-1
0-0	Playoff	1-1
3-16	In-State	18-6
0-0	Out-of-State	1-0