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Hunt’s season ends as Northern Durham survives Warriors rally
Hope stirred for the Hunt High varsity baseball team in the seventh inning of Tuesday’s North Caroli...
Fike’s Bullock rules 3-A East Regional
MOREHEAD CITY — Fike High senior Jayleen Bullock continued his unbeaten season Tuesday by winning th...
Area Calendar, June 16-17
June 16, 2021Wednesday, June 16 American Legion Softball Wayne County at Wilson Post 13 (Rock Ridge), 7 p.m. Thu...
Post 13 softball on short end of wild 13-11 outcome at JC
BENSON -— The Wilson American Legion Post 13 softball is still seeking the first win in program hist...
Tobs come up short vs. Marlins
A five-game homestand for the Wilson Tobs started with a 4-3 loss to the Morehead City Marlins on Tu...
Breaking down the CWS teams
OMAHA, Neb. — A look at the eight teams competing in the College World Series, which starts Saturday...
Durant’s sensational performance sends Nets to 3-2 lead
NEW YORK — Kevin Durant had 49 points, 17 rebounds and 10 assists in one of the most spectacular per...
Anderson: QB Sam Darnold has different ‘aura’ in Carolina
CHARLOTTE — Carolina Panthers wide receiver Robby Anderson couldn’t help but notice a difference in ...
Nashville Superspeedway welcomes Cup debut as track reopens
Erik Moses attended his first NASCAR race in 2019 as an XFL executive looking to poach marketing ide...
DeChambeau-Koepka spat overshadowing tough US Open course
SAN DIEGO — Torrey Pines has had its share of conflict over the years involving some of the top play...
Walker fans 12 as surging Mets edge Cubs 3-1
NEW YORK — Taijuan Walker struck out a career-high 12, Pete Alonso drove in three runs and the surgi...
Fike’s Bullock rules 3-A East Regional
MOREHEAD CITY — Fike High senior Jayleen Bullock continued his unbeaten season Tuesday by winning th...
Area Calendar, June 16-17
June 16, 2021Wednesday, June 16 American Legion Softball Wayne County at Wilson Post 13 (Rock Ridge), 7 p.m. Thu...
Post 13 softball on short end of wild 13-11 outcome at JC
BENSON -— The Wilson American Legion Post 13 softball is still seeking the first win in program hist...
Hunt’s season ends as Northern Durham survives Warriors rally
Hope stirred for the Hunt High varsity baseball team in the seventh inning of Tuesday’s North Caroli...
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 ...
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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Walker fans 12 as surging Mets edge Cubs 3-1
NEW YORK — Taijuan Walker struck out a career-high 12, Pete Alonso drove in three runs and the surgi...
DeChambeau-Koepka spat overshadowing tough US Open course
SAN DIEGO — Torrey Pines has had its share of conflict over the years involving some of the top play...
Nashville Superspeedway welcomes Cup debut as track reopens
Erik Moses attended his first NASCAR race in 2019 as an XFL executive looking to poach marketing ide...
Breaking down the CWS teams
OMAHA, Neb. — A look at the eight teams competing in the College World Series, which starts Saturday...
Tobs come up short vs. Marlins
A five-game homestand for the Wilson Tobs started with a 4-3 loss to the Morehead City Marlins on Tu...
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...
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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 …