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Warriors no match for Trojans

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The Hunt High softball team learned Tuesday that it’s a long way to the top of the 3-A Quad County Conference standings — even if you’re halfway up the ladder. The Warriors got rocked at home by first-place South Johnston 16-0 in four innings Tuesday night. Hunt stats show two hits off Trojans junior pitcher Ava Strickland while the South […]

Farris & Thomas Law Attorneys Student-Athlete of the Week: Gracie Beamon, Community Christian School

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Gracie Beamon helped her Community Christian School varsity girls soccer team win three big matches last week, making her this week’s Farris & Thomas Law Student-Athlete of the Week. Gracie scored her first career goal and passed out an assist Thursday in the Cyclones’ 9-0 victory at Bethel Assembly Christian in Windsor. She played well in the midfield in Friday’s […]

Area Calendar, March 28-29, 2023

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Thursday, March 28 High School Baseball North Johnston at Beddingfield, 6:30 p.m.; Franklinton at Southern Nash, 6:30 p.m.; Hunt at Southern Wayne, 7 p.m.; South Johnston at C.B. Aycock, 7 p.m. High School Softball Southern Nash at Nash Central, 6 p.m.; North Johnston at Beddingfield, 6:30 p.m.; Hunt at West Johnston, 7 p.m.; Fike at Southern Wayne, 7 p.m. High […]

AREA ROUNDUP: Firebirds win, Ladybirds 2nd in Big East meet

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ROCKY MOUNT – Southern Nash’s boys track and field team won Tuesday’s three-team meet against 2-A/3-A Big East Conference foes Nash Central and host Rocky Mount while the Ladybirds took second behind the Gryphons. Junior Tylik Mitchell won four events and Chris Harris took home two first places as well to power the Firebirds’ dominance as they scored 77 points […]

Evans pitches, hits Hunt past Southern Wayne

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A big night on the mound and at the plate for Hunt High junior Seth Evans sparked the Warriors to an 11-1 victory in six innings Tuesday night against Southern Wayne. Hunt won the 3-A Quad County Conference game at Sid Boyette Field via mercy rule with four runs in the bottom of the sixth inning. It was the first […]

Warriors crunch Trojans to keep QCC pace

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Junior Natalie Capps continues to make the most of her increased offensive touches this season for her Hunt High varsity girls soccer team with a hat trick Tuesday evening in the Warriors’ 10-1 win at home over South Johnston. Capps, a natural defender who has mostly held down the Hunt back line in her career, connected on three of her […]

Thorne powers Demons past Warriors

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Cayden Thorne scored five goals for his Fike High boys lacrosse team Tuesday, enough to beat archrival Hunt by himself but he had plenty of help from his Golden Demons teammates in the 11-4 victory. The win was the first for Fike after six losses in 4-A Northern Athletic Conference play as the Golden Demons emerged 2-7 overall. Hunt, which […]

Unbeaten Demons rout Comets

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Junior Karys Wheeler notched a hat trick (three goals). Mallory Jenkins, a 6-foot-4 senior, collected a pair of goals despite being situated on the back line in the second half. Senior Erin Pope knocked in a milestone goal to go along with three assists. And the end result Tuesday night on the Fike High pitch was a 6-0 victory for […]

Pope hits century mark in goals

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“Ah, just another goal!” The reaction could have been similar from Fike senior Erin Pope after knocking in the second goal in Fike’s 6-0 nonconference victory against 4-A Clayton on the Fike pitch on a cool Tuesday evening. However, Pope would soon learn far more significance was attached to the second point on the scoreboard of Fike’s sixth shutout in […]

AREA ROUNDUP: Baza goal gives Bruins win in Neuse 6 opener

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GOLDSBORO – For the first time in three seasons, Beddingfield was victorious in its 2-A Neuse 6 Conference girls soccer opener after the Bruins clipped host Goldsboro 1-0 on Tuesday. The game’s only goal came off the foot of junior Isabel Baza with 4 minutes, 26 seconds left in the match. Beddingfield’s Iris Martinez took a shot that was saved […]

MIDDLE SCHOOL ROUNDUP: Elm City 4-0 after stopping Red Oak

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RED OAK – Elm City Middle’s club boys tennis team took the top three singles matches and swept doubles in a 6-3 victory Tuesday, March 26, at Red Oak. The win was the fourth for the unbeaten Vikings, who got singles wins from Nos. 1 Landon David, Mitch Thurston and Quinn Thurston, respectively. Davis-Quinn Thurston ruled No. 1 doubles 8-2 […]

Area Calendar, March 27-28, 2024

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Wednesday, March 27 College Men’s Volleyball Mount Olive at Barton, 7 p.m.. College Softball UNC Pembroke at Barton (DH), 2 p.m. College Women’s Lacrosse Lees-McRae at Barton, 4 p.m. High School Baseball Fike at Smithfield-Selma, 7 p.m. High School Softball C.B. Aycock at Smithfield-Selma, 6 p.m. High School Girls Soccer SW Edgecombe at Tarboro, 4 p.m.; C.B. Aycock at Smithfield-Selma, […]

Demons fill up plate vs. Rams, 18-8

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It’s been mostly feast or famine for the Fike High varsity softball team this season as the Golden Demons have not been involved in any close games. Monday night at home against Greene Central, the Demons sat down to eat in an 18-8 nonconference victory — their third in 10 overall games. Fike, which has double-digit victories over winless Rocky […]

Team Black tops Gold in ENC Classic at Greenfield

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Ten seniors from Wilson high school boys basketball teams got a chance to shine one last time on the Greenfield School court Sunday night with the ENC Classic High School Senior All-Star Game. The event was a partnership between Power Basketball, The Hoop State Network and Warriors Life Foundation to “showcase the top high school seniors in eastern N.C. on […]

AREA ROUNDUP: Spartans steal one from Warriors

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Playing once again without injured senior No. 1 singles player Alex Ellis and No. 5 Gavin Harris, the Hunt High boys tennis team got three wins at the top of the lineup to split singles and then the first two doubles matches on court Nos. 2 and 3 in a 3-A Quad County Conference home match against Smithfield-Selma on Monday. […]

MIDDLE SCHOOL ROUNDUP: Wheeler fires 3-inning gem for Vikings

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Elliott Wheeler pitched a three-inning perfect game as his Elm City Middle baseball team wrecked Darden 29-0 on Monday. Wheeler struck out seven of the nine batters he faced as the Vikings won for the fourth time in five games. Jordan Creech-Jones collected three hits to lead Elm City’s 12-hit offensive while Lawson Boykin, Rodrigo Viva and Wheeler each had […]

Area Calendar, March 26-27, 2024

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Tuesday, March 26 College Men’s Volleyball Virginia Wesleyan at Barton, 6 p.m. College Baseball Barton at Virginia State, 3 p.m. College Tennis Chowan at Barton, 2 p.m. College Men’s Golf Barton at Tennessee River Rumble, WindRiver Golf Club, Lenoir City, Tenn., all day High School Baseball John Paul II Catholic at Greenfield (DH), 3 p.m.; Pitt County Easter Tournament – […]

Demons look at 40

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Fike celebrates '84 Demons, Reid


Nearly 40 years to the day when they won a state championship in Greensboro, 11 members of the 1983-84 varsity boys basketball team at Fike High returned to the spot where the bonds were formed and strengthened. On the court where so much blood, sweat and tears had been shed, the ’84 Golden Demons gathered under the sign proclaiming it […]

Chargers set PRs at Athens Dr. Friday Night Lights

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RALEIGH – Under the stadium lights in the capital city Friday night, four personal-record times were posted by Wilson Christian runners while two other Chargers were just shy of their personal bests. Senior Brett Walston had twin PRs in the 1,600 and 3,200-meter runs while classmate Lin Scott also had a PR in the 1,600 to spark the Chargers to […]

Area Calendar, March 25-26, 2024

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Monday, March 25 College Baseball North Greenville at Barton, 1 p.m. College Men’s Golf Barton at Tennessee River Rumble, WindRiver Golf Club, Lenoir City, Tenn., all day High School Baseball Stow-Munroe Falls vs. SW Edgecombe at Farmville Central, 3:30 p.m.; Community Christian at Elizabeth City New Life Academy, 4 p.m. High School Softball Wayne Prep at Community Christian, 4 p.m.; […]


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