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Saints push across 2 in 7th to beat Demons
In a back-and-forth 3-A Quad County Conference varsity baseball Friday night, March 28, Southern Wayne got in the last word in an 11-10 victory at Fike High’s Gilbert Ferrell Field. The Saints pushed across two runs in the top of the seventh inning to reclaim...
Missed opportunities send Warriors to 2nd straight QCC defeat
With sole possession of the 3-A Quad County Conference baseball lead at stake on the Sid Boyette Field diamond Friday night, Hunt High clung to a 2-0 lead against front-running West Johnston after five innings, and head coach Jon Smith desperately wanted that third run...
Demons slam Saints in 5 innings, 18-5
The season hasn’t been an easy one so far for the Fike High varsity softball team, so even wins with ragged edges, dents and dings like Friday’s 18-5 decision over Southern Wayne are warmly welcomed. The five-inning mercy-rule victory was just the second win in...
AREA ROUNDUP: Cyclones thump New Life Christian 20-1
Community Christian piled up season highs in runs and hits Friday afternoon, March 28, in a five-inning 20-1 varsity baseball destruction of visiting New Life Christian. The Cyclones, now 5-4 overall, slapped 13 hits by eight different players while drawing eight walks three hit-by-pitches in...
Go toward your peace and calm
When she retired in 2016, my mom started watching “Hoda and Jenna” in the mornings. Hoda retired from the show earlier this year, so Jenna has had different celebrities co-host the show with her (now called “Jenna and Friends”). Last week, she was joined by...
Retirement at the right time for former WCC pro Hill
A new, welcomed look, certainly from the viewpoint of veteran Wilson Country Club head golf professional/director of Golf Reid Hill, accompanied the annual member-guest golf tournament at WCC last October. Hill, who would again be at the forefront in accommodating another packed field, noticed a...
Go toward your joy in this wild and precious life
I’m not a big social media person. I have accounts, but I really use Instagram to send memes or reels with a few people, and that’s about the extent of my use. BUT, every once in a while, a post that is suggested for me...
ECU soph Nate O’Neal wins 1st collegiate tournament
GREENVILLE — Back when they were setting boys golf program precedents and winning everything in sight except a state championship at Beddingfield High just a few years ago, twin brothers Nate and Drew O’Neal absolutely owned Wedgewood Public Golf Course where the siblings spent a...
No. 1 Duke finishes the job in Charlotte, on to the NCAAs
CHARLOTTE — When Duke head coach Jon Scheyer was a Blue Devils senior 15 years ago, he hit a 3-pointer with seconds to go to win the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament championship game. Afterwards, then Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski described Scheyer as playing without...
No. 1 Duke limps into semis matchup with UNC
CHARLOTTE — Top-ranked Duke’s plans for a mythical run through the Atlantic Coast Conference and NCAA tournaments hit a few bumps in the road Thursday afternoon in Charlotte. In the ACC tournament quarterfinals against Georgia Tech — a team the Blue Devils beat comfortably 82-56...
Southern National prepares for regular season after successful Speed Week
After a successful week-long opening act, Southern National Motorsports Park is only beginning its 2025 season, with seven feature races coming up on Saturday night, March 29, in The Sign Shop 215. The unorthodox Speed Week concept, which began in 2024, proved to be popular...
‘Air Doug’ takes Speed Week championship in Southern National showdown
While Doug Barnes, Jr. once again dominated at Southern National Motorsports Park on Saturday night, March 15,, his victory in the 100-lap race once again came down to a late race pass. A caution with 16 laps remaining when Casey Kelley and Cassidy Keitt tangled...
‘Air Doug’ does it again at Speed Week
“Air Doug” saved his best for last in the penultimate race of Speed Week at Southern National Motorsports Park on Friday night, March 14. Jared Fryar had dominated much of the Late Model Stock Car 50-lap race, but Doug Barnes Jr. — or “Air Doug”...