Scotland, St. Pauls fall in regional semifinals of state football playoffs

St. Pauls ran all the way to the 2-AA state championship game last season. This year's run has ended in the regional semifinals.

The No. 5-seeded Bulldogs (11-1, 5-1) fell at No. 1 Princeton (13-0, 7-0) on Friday night, 45-28, in the fourth round of NCHSAA playoffs.

Princeton will face Wallace-Rose Hill with a trip to the state championship on the line next Friday.

St. Pauls led 22-13 at halftime, The Robesonian's Chris Stiles reported, with Kemarion Baldwin scoring a pair of touchdowns and Mikail Bredden adding another.

Baldwin added another touchdown after Princeton scored to put St. Pauls up 28-21, but the Bulldogs would go scoreless the rest of the way.

The only other Cape Fear region team in action Friday night, Scotland fell to Greenville Rose 49-28.

The Scots were the lowest remaining seed in the field at No. 23, and No. 6 Rose knocked off No. 3 Seventy-First in Round 3 last week.

Here's a look at Friday's other results:

NCHSAA playoff scores

1-A East

• Pender County 34, Pinetown Northside 28

• Tarboro 28, Northampton County 8

1-A West

• Mitchell County 21, Mount Airy 14

• Robbinsville 28, Murphy 14

2-A East

• Princeton 45, St. Pauls 28

• Wallace-Rose Hill 57, Elizabeth City Northeastern 22

2-A West

• East Surry 36, Maiden 35

• Shelby 31, Reidsville 14

3-A East

• Greenville Rose 49, Scotland 28

• Jacksonville 27, Eastern Alamance 21 (OT)

3-A West

• Belmont South Point 34, Shelby Crest 27 (OT)

• Greensboro Dudley 20, Statesville 6

4-A East

• Raleigh Cardinal Gibbons 42, Cary Panther Creek 14

• Rolesville 47, Raleigh Leesville Road 24

4-A West

• Chambers 45, Matthews Weddington 14

• Cornelius Hough 26, East Forsyth 14

This article originally appeared on The Fayetteville Observer: NCHSAA state football playoff results for St. Pauls, Scotland