🗞️ Four wins and three shutouts: Kernersville swept Friday night

🗞️ Kernersville Middle opened its title defense with a 20-1, three-inning rout

🗞️ WSSU's first AI summit brought students and teachers to Benton to talk about using it well

🗞️ A record 16 restaurants fed Kernersville's teacher grants on Wednesday

☀️ Mostly sunny | High: 89°F | Low: 68°F

Saturday's storms clear out overnight, and Sunday is the nicer half of the weekend by a mile: mostly sunny, a high near 89 and a light northwest breeze, with no rain in the forecast. Church at the Lake and the 3 PM Back to School Sunday at Crosspointe are both in the clear. Sunday night drops to 68 under mostly clear skies. Monday is sunny and 88, and Tuesday cools to 82 as drier air settles in, so the week starts with some of the most comfortable mornings since spring. Wash the car. It will stay clean for a while.

It was a good night to be from Kernersville.

All four area teams won on Friday, and three of them did not give up a point. East Forsyth, a week after coming up a yard short against defending state champion Grimsley, took it out on Ragsdale in a 44-0 rout at home. The Eagles are 3-1 and have outscored opponents 113-27 this season, and the win came the same evening the school held its "Still Standing, Still Soaring" ribbon-cutting for its new spaces before kickoff. Next up is a road trip to Mooresville on Friday at 7.

Glenn kept the shutout theme going with a 12-0 win at Southwest Guilford. The Bobcats are 3-1 as well, with their only loss the season opener against East Forsyth, and they play at Southeast Guilford on Friday at 7:30. Walkertown bounced back from a rough night against West Rowan with a 20-0 win at East Surry and is 3-1 heading into its conference opener at home against Reidsville.

And Bishop McGuinness got the one it needed most. The Villains had been outscored 86-20 through three losses; on Friday they put up 56 at Trinity in a 56-21 win, their first of the season. They visit South Davidson on Friday.

Elsewhere in Forsyth County: Reagan 59, Northern Guilford 6; Reynolds 21, Southeast Guilford 9; West Forsyth 45, Mount Tabor 14; Parkland 13, North Forsyth 8. Game stories and player stats from the Kernersville News should land early this week.

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The Hawks did not need a full game to make a point.

Kernersville Middle School beat Northwest Middle 20-1 on Tuesday afternoon at Ivey M. Redmon Sports Complex, and the 10-run rule ended it after three innings. Colton McClendon scored four runs on two hits, including a first-inning home run to left. Austin Allison got the win without allowing a hit and struck out four, and Carter Martin closed it out with three strikeouts after driving in two runs with a single. Kamden Rice doubled home three, Jacob King and Jayden Rangel each doubled in two, and the Hawks piled up 11 hits and 11 walks.

Kernersville went 10-0 last year and won the WS/FCS middle school championship, and coach Chad Delp likes what is behind the starters. "We have a few real good bats, a handful of some consistent bats," he told the Kernersville News, adding that the staff is "rolling with about eight pitchers deep." The Hawks host Lewisville at Ivey Redmon on Tuesday around 3:15 PM.

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Winston-Salem State University held its first AI Summit on Thursday at the Benton Convention Center, bringing students, educators and industry leaders together for sessions on AI literacy, hands-on uses of the technology, and how to use it responsibly across different careers.

"With any new technology that is introduced into our society, as educators, as an institution, it becomes incredibly vital in preparing students for the next phase of their lives," said Dr. Jack Monell, director of WSSU's Center for Innovative and Transformative Instruction. Dr. Siobahn Day Grady, founding director of N.C. Central's Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Research, said campuses are moving past basic literacy toward students learning "not only how the technology works, the underpinnings, but also how to use it to build something."

N.C. Central graduate student Dawn Midest took the optimistic view: "As long as we stay in the loop, I don't see it getting out of hand." For families with East Forsyth and Glenn seniors weighing college programs, it is a useful look at where the local campuses are headed.

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The Heart of the Triad Choral Society took its Wednesday supper to The Loop Pizza Grill, and a slice of the check went to a teacher.

That was Eating for Education, the Kernersville Chamber of Commerce's one-day fundraiser in which participating restaurants give a portion of the day's sales to the Chamber's teacher grant program. This year a record 16 restaurants signed on: Blue Skies Creamery, Captain Tom's Seafood, Chicken Salad Chick, Domino's, East Coast Wings & Grill, Fitz on Main, Fresh Monkee, Gypsy Road Brewing, the Walkertown McDonald's, Mr. Poke's, Outwest Steakhouse, Sammy's Sliders, Sixty-Six Grill, Smitty's Grille, The Loop and Whataburger. The choral society's table included Lizzy, Claire and Katherine Manning, Ray and Brigitte Woloszyn, Nancy Copeland, Lotus Greene, Laurel Webber and Sandra Presnell.

Last year the program awarded 24 grants of up to $1,000 each to local teachers. "The Kernersville community has done an amazing job in helping our teachers to provide exciting and innovative lessons for their students," Chamber president Chris Comer said. If you missed Wednesday, there is one more way in: Savage Roasters will round up purchases for the fund from Oct. 5 through 31.

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