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Hunt to host second Mojo Invitational 7-on-7 football tournament
The start of the 2022 NCHSAA football season is still about two months away, but 12 high school team...

LITTLE LEAGUE ROUNDUP: WCLL Ages 10-12 all stars open District 6 tournament victorious
The Wilson City Little League Ages 10-12 all stars opened the North Carolina Little League District ...
Tobs drop tight one at Marlins
MOREHEAD CITY — The Wilson Tobs could not make an early 5-2 lead stand up Friday night in a key Coas...
Area Calendar, June 25-26
June 25, 2022Saturday, June 25 Summer Collegiate Baseball Wilson Tobs at Florence Flamingos, 7 p.m. American Leg...

UNC-Indiana, Ohio State-Duke headline ACC/Big 10 Challenge
National runner-up North Carolina, a strong contender for the No. 1 spot in the preseason polls with...

Underdogs Ole Miss, OU set for College World Series finals
OMAHA, Neb. — Less than a month ago, Mississippi players and coaches didn’t know if they would make ...

Banchero arrives in Orlando, a day after becoming No. 1 pick
ORLANDO, Fla. — The secret about how Orlando was going to take Paolo Banchero with the No. 1 pick in...

Take two: Steve Clifford returns to Hornets as head coach
CHARLOTTE — Steve Clifford is heading back to Charlotte. Clifford has agreed to a multiyear contract...

Lightning win Game 5, deny Avs chance to take Stanley Cup
DENVER — The Tampa Bay Lightning spoiled Colorado’s party to stay in the hunt for a third straight S...

Astros win 3-1, end Yankees' 15-game home winning streak
NEW YORK — Justin Verlander pitched four-hit ball over seven innings, Kyle Tucker hit a three-run ho...

Hunt to host second Mojo Invitational 7-on-7 football tournament
The start of the 2022 NCHSAA football season is still about two months away, but 12 high school team...

Battle takes over Firebirds baseball
Football has played a big part of Kwamaine Battle's life, taking him from Southern Nash High to Virg...

Ladybirds' top weapon Patterson earns Big East honor
With its best girls soccer season in school history, Southern Nash High had an array of weapons it e...

Dickinson wins Big East Pitcher of the Year; Ladybirds well represented on all-conference team
The 2022 spring softball season was the first season of Southern Nash pitcher/third baseman Anna Dic...

SouthWest Edgecombe’s Fuller heads to Louisburg College
As he began his high school baseball career at SouthWest Edgecombe High, Jake Fuller started to drea...

Tigers in training: WPA holds first football workouts
The future is coming fast for the start-up football program at Wilson Preparatory Academy but the pr...

LITTLE LEAGUE ROUNDUP: WCLL Ages 10-12 all stars open District 6 tournament victorious
The Wilson City Little League Ages 10-12 all stars opened the North Carolina Little League District ...
Area Calendar, June 25-26
June 25, 2022Saturday, June 25 Summer Collegiate Baseball Wilson Tobs at Florence Flamingos, 7 p.m. American Leg...

Council, O'Neals headline Jr. Golf Championships field
All 11 age-group champions from 2021 are in the field for the 43rd Larry Pittman Memorial/Wilson Cou...

WCLL 8-10 All Stars bring home District 6 pennant
It’s been a banner week for Wilson City Little League in the North Carolina District 6 tournament, a...
Area Calendar, June 24-25, 2022
June 24, 2022Friday, June 24 Summer Collegiate Baseball Wilson Tobs at Morehead City Marlins, 7 p.m. Saturday, J...

Wilson Bulldogs seize NC JTT championship
The Wilson Bulldogs tennis program stepped out of the North Carolina Junior Team Tennis Downeast Lea...
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Lightning win Game 5, deny Avs chance to take Stanley Cup
DENVER — The Tampa Bay Lightning spoiled Colorado’s party to stay in the hunt for a third straight S...

Take two: Steve Clifford returns to Hornets as head coach
CHARLOTTE — Steve Clifford is heading back to Charlotte. Clifford has agreed to a multiyear contract...

Banchero arrives in Orlando, a day after becoming No. 1 pick
ORLANDO, Fla. — The secret about how Orlando was going to take Paolo Banchero with the No. 1 pick in...

UNC-Indiana, Ohio State-Duke headline ACC/Big 10 Challenge
National runner-up North Carolina, a strong contender for the No. 1 spot in the preseason polls with...
Tobs drop tight one at Marlins
MOREHEAD CITY — The Wilson Tobs could not make an early 5-2 lead stand up Friday night in a key Coas...

Tobs repel Chilis, hold onto division lead
The Wilson Tobs are closing in on a first-half division championship after rallying to beat the Tri-...

DeLucia shuts out Arkansas, sends Rebels to 1st CWS finals
OMAHA, Neb. — Dylan DeLucia was really good in Mississippi’s first College World Series game. He was...
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The quiet superstar: Unassuming Crumpler the central player of Fike dynasty
Carlester Crumpler. Car-les-ter. Crump-ler. The alliterative rhythm of the name lends to the overall legend of its owner, who now in his late 60s possesses the same athletic grace he did some …
Wilson Fike: State champs of the 4-A football circuit
In the end, it was just like head coach Henry Trevathan said it would for his Fike High Cyclones football team in 1969. The veteran coach proclaimed that each week of the postseason would get …
Plan of attack: Fike’s formations played a major role in championship seasons
Wedged among the layers that make up the remarkable tale of Fike High School’s three straight state ...
Cycs rally to stop E.E. Smith
Even with state 4-A championships from the previous two seasons and nine victories in the 1969 regular season to their credit, the Fike High Cyclones had to fight for their lives against E.E. Smith …