Carson is O'Neal of the Week!

The team is Ocracoke’s first school baseball team, following on the success of last year’s first Babe Ruth league team, the Raptors. Carson played for the Raptors last year and will play in the Babe Ruth 13 – 15 year-old league after the school baseball season ends. The 13 – 15 team is still unnamed, although the “Rays” is a likely choice.

Carson turned 13 in January, is in 7th grade at Ocracoke School, and also played middle school basketball this year. He’s a Boy Scout and a member of the Methodist Church youth group. He plays guitar and his favorite school subject is history.

His parents are Vince and Sue O’Neal, and he has an older sister, Katie, and a younger brother, Noah. His grandmother, Peggy O'Neal, lives on the island, too. He’s lived on Ocracoke all his life and gets to eat at the Pony Island Restaurant whenever he wants!

Ocracoke Current: What did you have for breakfast?

Carson: Pancakes, at the Pony.

OC: What’s your favorite food?

Carson: A barbeque sandwich with cole slaw

OC: Where do you like to go out to eat when you’re not at the Pony?

Carson: Jason’s. I like the fried chicken wrap.

OC: If you were a cartoon character, who would you be?

Carson: Popeye

OC: Do you have a summer job lined up?

Carson: I’ll be bussing at the Pony. It’s my first year. I also fish nets with my dad. 

OC: What’s the last movie you saw in the theater?

Carson: Hunger Games

OC: What was your favorite part of school camp?

Carson: The Confederate White House at the Museum of the Confederacy.

OC: What’s the farthest you’ve traveled from Ocracoke?

Carson: Cape Cod to the north, Florida to the south, and West Virginia to the west.

OC: What’s your favorite local music?

Carson: Aaron Caswell Band

OC: What’s you favorite part of summer?

Carson: Going to baseball camp.

OC: Which do you like better, baseball or basketball?

Carson: Baseball. It’s entertaining and fun.

OC: Who’s your favorite team?

Carson: The Philadelphia Phillies

OC: Obviously! What about basketball? Duke or Carolina?

Carson: Neither, but I like Carolina over Duke. I’m an NC State fan.

OC: What do you think about the plans to build a baseball field on Ocracoke?

Carson: I really hope that we get the field so we can have home games and a field to practice on.