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Hunt’s Clay staying home to continue basketball career
Many high school student-athletes who wish to keep playing their chosen sport at the college level h...
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TRACK AND FIELD ROUNDUP: Firebirds secure three all-state finishes
GREENSBORO – As he gathered a group of 16 performers, the largest he would ever take to the NCHSAA 3...
Area Calendar, May 21-22
May 21, 2022Saturday, May 21 High School Varsity Girls Soccer NCISAA 1-A championship at Fayetteville Academy — ...

Barton's Hart earns two postseason all region nods
Barton College pitcher Alex Hart enjoyed a stellar 2022 season for the Bulldogs. In 16 starts and 1...

Hurricanes’ Raanta rising to occasion in playoffs
After he recorded a 21-save shutout in the Carolina Hurricanes’ 2-0 win over the New York Rangers in...
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Smith, Raanta, Hurricanes top Rangers for 2-0 series lead
RALEIGH — Brendan Smith had gone nine years since last finding the back of the net in the Stanley Cu...

Curry, Warriors rally past Mavs for 2-0 lead in West finals
SAN FRANCISCO — Luka Doncic had been dominating for most of the night, yelling in celebration and fl...

Story's Monster slam lands in former Red Sox player's hands
Story's Monster slam lands in former Red Sox player's hands By The Associated Press undefined BOSTON...

Runner-up Keselowski in different spot for NASCAR All-Star
FORT WORTH, Texas — Brad Keselowski was the runner-up in the NASCAR All-Star race at Texas last year...
Area Calendar, May 21-22
May 21, 2022Saturday, May 21 High School Varsity Girls Soccer NCISAA 1-A championship at Fayetteville Academy — ...
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TRACK AND FIELD ROUNDUP: Firebirds secure three all-state finishes
GREENSBORO – As he gathered a group of 16 performers, the largest he would ever take to the NCHSAA 3...

Hunt’s Clay staying home to continue basketball career
Many high school student-athletes who wish to keep playing their chosen sport at the college level h...

Polk’s hat trick lifts Hunt past Rose in OT
Immediately after the Hunt High girls soccer team’s 4-3 overtime win over J.H. Rose in the second ro...
NCHSAA SOCCER ROUNDUP: Demons knocked out by Croatan
NEWPORT — Senior Gentry Staub punched in a couple of late goals as her Croatan High girls soccer tea...

Firebirds’ White to run, jump at Mount Olive
For three years, Zyshone White managed to tack onto his busy schedule a few appearances with the Sou...

Celebrity Golf Tourney like a family reunion
The 20th annual gathering for the North Carolina Baseball Museum's annual warm weather fundraiser, t...

Wilson City Little League Glance May 18, 2022
May 19, 2022Major League BOX SCORES Games from April 9-May 13 NC Baseball Museum - 8, Hwy 55 - 7 Hwy 55 Lineu...

Back in the spring: 20th NCBM Celebrity Golf Tournament returns to original schedule
The 20th rendition of the North Carolina Baseball Museum’s annual Celebrity Golf Tournament is back ...

Gillespie leads Wide Awake in Durham meet
DURHAM — Ayden Gillespie was the sole event winner for his Wide Awake Elite track and field team at ...

American Legion baseball, softball tryouts May 14
American Legion baseball and softball tryouts for Wilson Post 13 teams will be held Saturday, May 14...

Wilson Recreation Department Glance May 3, 2022
May 4, 2022Youth soccer RESULTS Games from April 22-29 Boys Ages 5-6 Cheetahs 2 - Chance Pitts 1, Sebastian Wo...
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Smith, Raanta, Hurricanes top Rangers for 2-0 series lead
RALEIGH — Brendan Smith had gone nine years since last finding the back of the net in the Stanley Cu...

Curry, Warriors rally past Mavs for 2-0 lead in West finals
SAN FRANCISCO — Luka Doncic had been dominating for most of the night, yelling in celebration and fl...

Story's Monster slam lands in former Red Sox player's hands
Story's Monster slam lands in former Red Sox player's hands By The Associated Press undefined BOSTON...

Barton's Hart earns two postseason all region nods
Barton College pitcher Alex Hart enjoyed a stellar 2022 season for the Bulldogs. In 16 starts and 1...

‘We’re done’: A&M’s Fisher fires back at ‘narcissist’ Saban
The Southeastern Conference spring meetings will be held in person for the time since 2019 in a litt...

Barton’s Boyette earns 4th all-region honor
For the fourth time in his Barton College men’s golf career, Bulldogs graduate student Bryson Boyett...

ACC mulling division-free football scheduling model by 2023
The Atlantic Coast Conference is mulling a change to its football scheduling model that could includ...
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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 …