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The 2025 North Stanly Comets baseball squad has put together the best start in the 60-plus year history of the school.

North Stanly (19-0, 10-0 Yadkin Valley Conference) swept second-place Mount Pleasant last week to win the regular-season title, the school’s fourth straight conference crown. The Comets have won the team’s past 20 conference regular-season games in a row.

In Tuesday’s 4-3 home win, North freshman Tyler Daugherty’s two-run homer in the bottom of the sixth lifted the Comets to a one-run victory.

“(The pitcher) throws high velocity; you’ve got to be on time,” Daugherty said about his approach to that at-bat. “You know he’s going to throw it to me away, and if he gets inside, just get the head (of the bat) out.”

Daugherty said North’s approach against Mount starter Gavin Norris was “widen out, choke up and get the barrel on the ball, just the basics of the game.”

Regarding his first season, Daugherty said it was “a great season so far and such a good family. I love everybody on the team.”

Senior catcher Zack Lowder, one of the team’s leading hitters this season, said beating Norris was also about shortening the swing and sending the ball to left field.

“A high-velocity pitcher will beat you away, so just choke and poke,” Lowder said.

The North senior added a pitchout pickoff in the game as well.

“It’s been a great season so far,” Lowder said. “The bonds are incredible; the chemistry unmatched.”

Noah Carter was 2-for-2 and Aiden Hamilton was 2-for-3 at the plate in the win.

“We didn’t just want to go up, get three pitches and go back to the dugout. We wanted to grind out at-bats,” North head coach Scott Clemmons said.

Clemmons said he was impressed with his team’s poise, including the freshman’s home run which gave North the win.

“I was really impressed with the composure we kept once we went down,” Clemmons said.

Regarding the team’s win streak, the North head coach said the players “are resilient. They really don’t talk about the streak that much. They just want to beat whomever is in front of them. They come out and work every day…we just want to beat whomever is in front of us and win the day.”

In Thursday’s 8-0 road win, Hamilton was 4-for-5 with an RBI while Daugherty was 3-for-5 and drove in two runs. Carter, Charlie Shaver, Hayden Moore and Heath Klenginsmith each added two hits; North had 17 hits in the victory.

Moore earned the win on the mound for North, allowing two hits with 10 strikeouts in five innings. Cameron Cooper pitched two scoreless innings of relief for the Comets, striking out five.

North Stanly plays four non-conference games this week at the Mingo Bay Classic in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.