ZEBULON—Jonathan Caldwell's bases loaded single to right field in the bottom of the seventh brought home two runs and lifted Monroe Piedmont to a come-from-behind 9-8 victory over North Brunswick Saturday in the second game of the North Carolina High School Athletic Association state 2-A baseball championship series at Five County Stadium.

            The win gave the Panthers a sweep of the series after taking Friday night's opener 9-3.

            SeniorCameron Price of Piedmont, with three hits and three runs batted in for game two after going three for three in the opener, was voted the championship series Most Valuable Player. He also went the first five innings on the mound for the Panthers in game two, with Colby Barnette getting the win in relief.

NEW HANOVER COUNTY, NC (WECT) - Three local bridges have made AAA Carolina's substandard bridge list released Friday.

AAA Carolinas has been ranking the state's bridges since 1998, based on information gathered from the NC Department of Transportation. Substandard bridges are classified under federal guidelines as either "structurally deficient" or "functionally obsolete."

Structurally deficient means being in relatively poor physical condition and/or being inadequate to handle the weight of trucks.  Functionally obsolete is considered having an inadequate design for the current amount of traffic.

The three local bridges making the top 20 list for substandard bridges are US 17 over US 76 in Brunswick County (ranked 10th), US 76 over the Cape Fear River (ranked 11th) and US 74 & 76 over the Intracoastal Waterway (ranked 18th).  AAA notes the first two bridges were not on the rankings last year.