2012-03-06

Carr-Graham

Summer Lee Graham and Marshall Taylor Carr, both of Goldsboro, exchanged marriage vows Sept. 10 in a 5 p.m. ceremony at First Pentecostal Holiness Church in Goldsboro. The Rev. Bill Rose officiated.

The bride is the daughter of Jerry and Deborah …

Hunt turns back Bruins

Warriors claim first 2012 county battle

With spectators shivering because of the icy wind, Hunt High struck first in 2012 Wilson County varsity baseball competition with a 7-1 non-conference victory against visiting Beddingfield on Monday evening.

The Warriors of the 3-A Big East …

Boston makes all the plays for Bulldogs

Barton Championship Notebook

Wearily, and almost sheepishly, Gerald Boston lifted himself out of his chair on the visitors’ bench in Kornegay Arena and walked toward midcourt after hearing Conference Carolinas President Alan Patterson call his name Sunday afternoon. …

Barton women’s tennis sweeps Lenoir-Rhyne


The Barton College women’s tennis team picked up its second win in two days Monday with an 8-1 defeat of visiting non-conference foe Lenoir-Rhyne, while the Barton men stopped the Bears 6-3.

The Lady Bulldogs, 6-4 overall, rolled to an 8-1 …

Atkinson, UNCA teammates ready to dance


Jeremy Atkinson and his UNC Asheville men’s basketball teammates earned a couple of days off after their Big South Conference tournament championship win Saturday night.

Now the Bulldogs might want to work on their dance moves because …

Claytor rips a 70 to lead Bulldogs at Rendleman Invite


SALISBURY — Barton College junior Daniel Claytor sank four birdies in a round of 36-34—70 in his first tournament of the spring to help the Bulldogs to the fifth-place position after Monday’s first round of the Richard Rendleman …

Junior varsity roundup

C.B. Aycock blanks Rosewood

PIKEVILLE — The Charles B. Aycock High baseball team received a combined shutout from starting pitcher Logan Runyan and Tim Naughton as the Golden Falcons blanked Wayne County rival Rosewood 9-0 Thursday. …

Demons overcome wind, Greene Central

Area roundup

SNOW HILL — Visiting Fike High battled gusty winds as well as Greene Central but the Golden Demons won a pair of third-set tiebreakers on the way to an 8-1 boys tennis win Monday afternoon.

Fike of the 3-A Big East Conference got three-set …

CBA sweeps S. Johnston for 3rd win

PIKEVILLE — Host Charles B. Aycock dropped just six games in singles as the Golden Falcons steam-rolled 3-A Eastern Carolina Conference foe South Johnston 9-0 on Monday afternoon.

The Falcons, tied for ninth in the initial N.C. High School …

McKenzie Blackwell continues tear in Hunt romp

STANHOPE — Sophomore forward McKenzie Blackwell continued her early season offensive tear Monday afternoon as the Hunt High varsity girls soccer team kicked off 3-A Big East Conference play with an 8-0 win at Southern Nash.

Blackwell …

Lady Demons blanked at E. Wayne

GOLDSBORO — Despite cracking out five hits, the Fike High varsity softball team couldn’t get a run across the plate in a 5-0 non-conference loss at Eastern Wayne on Monday.

The Lady Demons got two hits each from Madison Ward and …

Lady Demons win 2-1 at Rose

GREENVILLE — Visiting Fike scored twice in the first 19 minutes of the match and made the goals stand for a 2-1 varsity girls soccer win at Rose on Monday.

Alexis Taylor took a pass from Katie Stokely for a breakaway goal in the 14th …

New Library Books

Following are new books at the Wilson County Public Library.

 

Adult Fiction

Seven-day checkout. A book may be renewed one time unless there is a reserve on it, in which case it cannot be renewed, unless it is New Adult Fiction with …

Nash supports Sanderson Farms despite protests


NASHVILLE — Rose Ann Shearin held up a poster board to show the Nash County commissioners what she believes could happen to the water supply if Sanderson Farms eventually located in the area.

On the poster board was a hand-drawn water …