WT – School Sports

One by one, heroes emerged for the Wilson Prep baseball team Friday night against an upset-minded Warren County in the second round of the NCHSAA 1-A playoffs. The Tigers needed all of them to pull out a 2-1 victory in the third meeting this season between the 1-A Tar-Roanoke Athletic Conference foes. Senior Gage Lockhart kept the Eagles at bay […]

STANHOPE — A base hit, a walk, an error, a base-running mistake or a mental blunder could have been the difference in Friday’s NCHSAA 3-A second-round playoff encounter between undefeated Southern Nash and Eastern Alamance, which won 3-A championships in 2019 and 2022, on the Southern Nash diamond. But Southern Nash avoided such a dilemma in the anything-could-happen sixth inning […]

It won’t be a spring sweep for Wilson Christian Academy. which is hosting Saturday’s North Carolina Christian School Association 2-A championships in baseball, girls soccer and softball, but the Lady Chargers can go 2 for 2. Wilson Christian, the defending NCCSA 2-A girls soccer champion, slugged Wilmington Christian 6-0 on Friday evening at home in the semifinals while on the […]

BENSON — Hunt High may have finished fourth in the 3-A Quad County Conference varsity baseball regular season but the Warriors are the QCC champions of the postseason after eliminating Quad County top seed West Johnston on Friday in the second round of the NCHSAA 3-A playoffs. Hunt, the 3-A East No. 18 seed, is going to the third round […]

The best season in the brief history of Sallie B. Howard School varsity girls soccer ended the same way it began — with a loss. The Eagles, in just their third varsity season, saw their dream of a Carolina Athletic Association for Schools of Choice championship dashed in a 2-1 overtime loss to Winston-Salem Christian in the CAASC final Thursday […]

Host Wilson Christian stormed into the semifinals of the North Carolina Christian School Association 1-A/2-A softball playoffs with an 11-0 conquest of Calvary Christian of King on Thursday, May 9, at Turnage Athletic Complex. The Lady Chargers, the No. 2 seed from the East, will take a 9-6 mark into Friday’s 5 p.m. semifinal matchup with West top seed Oak […]

Caleb Maddrey is hoping that the transition to his next baseball team is as smooth and rewarding as it was transferring to Fike High after his family moved from the Hunt district over the summer.  Maddrey was the piece the Golden Demons were looking for behind the plate and now the son of Stacey and Gene Maddrey of Wilson hopes […]

STANHOPE — Six seniors were honored for the Southern Nash High girls soccer team before the Ladybirds celebrated their seniors the right way with a 3-0 defeat of visiting Franklinton in Thursday’s regular-season finale. Southern Nash, 15-5 overall, and Franklinton, both 3-A teams, tied for third in the 2-A/3-A Big East Conference at 8-4 while 3-A Northern Nash and 2-A […]

Led by junior Tristan Stancil, three Greenfield School pitchers limited visiting Fayetteville Christian batters to five hits in a 5-1 victory for the Knights in the second round of the NCISAA 2-A baseball playoffs Wednesday at Ralph Hodge Family Field. It was the first postseason game for the No. 2-seeded Knights, who will take a 14-5 mark into Saturday’s home […]

Maybe the Fike High boys tennis team should adopt the slogan (apologies to the Beastie Boys): “No rest ‘til Burlington,” which is the next stop for two-thirds of the Golden Demons lineup. Fike will get a day off Thursday after winning its second NCHSAA 3-A dual-team tennis playoff match in as many days with a 5-1 conquest of Croatan. The […]

With second-place in the 3-A Quad County Conference at stake and a sure spot in the upcoming NCHSAA 3-A girls soccer playoffs, Fike High dealt a little revenge to C.B. Aycock in a make-up game Wednesday evening on the Golden Demons’ pitch. Fike, which lost 2-0 at Aycock on April 22, finished the regular season 17-3-1 overall and 11-3 in […]

Two years after starting a varsity girls soccer program, Sallie B. Howard School is going to be playing for a state association championship. The Eagles crushed American Leadership Academy-Johnston County by a 12-3 score Tuesday, May 7, in the Carolina Athletic Association for Schools of Choice semifinals at Gillette Soccer Complex. It was the 12th straight win for Sallie B. […]

Extensive travel has always been prevalent in the young life of Hunt High multi-sport standout Gracelynn Wolzen. After all, her family traveled from Nebraska to locate in  Wilson when Wolzen, now age 18, was just 5-6 years old. Thousands more miles could well be in her near future at NCAA Division II Lock Haven University in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania. In […]

PIKEVILLE — Don’t suggest to the Hunt High and Charles B. Aycock varsity teams that baseball is not a game of inches. By the margin of maybe an inch, Hunt celebrated an 8-7 thriller in the opening round of the NCHSAA 3-A playoffs on the Charles Davis Baseball Field at CBA on an ideal Tuesday evening. Trailing 8-4 heading into […]

GREENVILLE — High school baseball teams from Wilson have not fared well traditionally playing in Greenville, particularly against J.H. Rose High. The Rampants lived up to their considerable reputation as the East region’s overall No. 1 seed with 10-0 win over Fike, the No. 32 seed, in the first round of the NCHSAA 3-A playoffs Tuesday, May 7. Senior pitchers […]

The ball did not go into the goal on either end of Wilson Christian’s soccer field in the first 20 minutes of the Lady Chargers’ NCCSA 2-A quarterfinals match against Alamance Christian on Tuesday, May 7. Then it wouldn’t stay out of the Warriors’ goal as Wilson Christian, the No. 1 seed in 2-A East region and defending state champion […]