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Taking aim at a national title: Area trio headed to 4-H shooting championships
A trio of young men is headed west next week to take aim at making a dream come true. Zack Reaves an...
Hunt’s Loftin to take relentless motor to Barton
If there was a play to be made on the defensive side of the ball for the Hunt High varsity football ...
Warriors’ Kovach, Stokes make next-level football decisions
A.J. Kovach and Derek Stokes lined up on opposite sides of the line of scrimmage for the Hunt High v...
Area Calendar, June 15-16
June 15, 2021Tuesday, June 15 High School Varsity Baseball NCHSAA playoffs, first round — 3-A: Northern Durham at...
Tobs get busy after taking Monday off
Hopefully the Wilson Tobs summer collegiate baseball team enjoyed its night off Monday because it’s ...
Virginia staves off elimination for 6th time to reach CWS
No team’s road to Omaha was as bumpy as Virginia’s. The Cavaliers staved off elimination for the six...
Chris Paul, like it or not, is the favorite now
It seems like Chris Paul relishes the notion of being the underdog. That’s why, when the Western Con...
Mickelson at home and running out of time for US Open title
SAN DIEGO — Phil Mickelson accepted a special exemption from the USGA with reason to believe this mi...
Kyle Larson appears to be unstoppable at Hendrick
CHARLOTTE — Everybody knew Kyle Larson was going to win races once he started driving Rick Hendrick’...
Young leads Hawks’ rally past Sixers with Embiid hurting
ATLANTA — Trae Young overcame a cold start to score 25 points, including a floater that gave Atlanta...
Indians extend Orioles’ road woes, win 4-3
CLEVELAND — José Ramírez picked up a pair of RBIs — made possible by Baltimore blunders in the field...
Warriors’ Kovach, Stokes make next-level football decisions
A.J. Kovach and Derek Stokes lined up on opposite sides of the line of scrimmage for the Hunt High v...
Hunt’s Loftin to take relentless motor to Barton
If there was a play to be made on the defensive side of the ball for the Hunt High varsity football ...
Area Calendar, June 15-16
June 15, 2021Tuesday, June 15 High School Varsity Baseball NCHSAA playoffs, first round — 3-A: Northern Durham at...
Warriors draw 8 seed in 3-A East; Fike left out
Teams knew going into this year of COVID-19 that the North Carolina High School Athletic Association...
Area Calendar, June 14-15
June 14, 2021Monday, June 14 American Legion Softball Wilson Post 13 at Johnston County (Meadow School, Benson), ...
Demons pound Knights, await postseason fate
ROCKY MOUNT — After dispatching of host Northern Nash 11-1 in five innings Friday afternoon, the Fik...
Community Sports
Taking aim at a national title: Area trio headed to 4-H shooting championships
A trio of young men is headed west next week to take aim at making a dream come true. Zack Reaves an...
You can’t even lose if you don’t play
I’ve lost hundreds of golf tournaments every which way you can lose them. I interviewed for six diff...
Post 13 softball program excited to get started
The schedule is set, the lineup is impressive and the excitement is building as Wilson’s Robert B. A...
Post 13 drops softball opener
APEX — Details were sparse and despite Wilson Post 13 dropping its inaugural game in North Carolina ...
Bank on it: BB&T finally wins WCLL title
Despite losing twice in the regular season and trailing unbeaten Greenlight by four runs early in Tu...
Post 13 to hold 2 more tryouts this week
Wilson American Legion Post 13 baseball head coach Matt Ballance announced that the team will conduc...
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Young leads Hawks’ rally past Sixers with Embiid hurting
ATLANTA — Trae Young overcame a cold start to score 25 points, including a floater that gave Atlanta...
Indians extend Orioles’ road woes, win 4-3
CLEVELAND — José Ramírez picked up a pair of RBIs — made possible by Baltimore blunders in the field...
Mickelson at home and running out of time for US Open title
SAN DIEGO — Phil Mickelson accepted a special exemption from the USGA with reason to believe this mi...
Tobs get busy after taking Monday off
Hopefully the Wilson Tobs summer collegiate baseball team enjoyed its night off Monday because it’s ...
Virginia staves off elimination for 6th time to reach CWS
No team’s road to Omaha was as bumpy as Virginia’s. The Cavaliers staved off elimination for the six...
NC State knocks out No. 1 Arkansas on Torres’ homer in 9th
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — North Carolina State freshman shortstop Jose Torres hit a shot heard ‘round the...
Never any doubt: Wolfpack stuns top-ranked Razorbacks to advance to Omaha
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — North Carolina State has dealt with heartbreak, on and off the diamond, since 2...
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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 …