Cycs top Quakes; Bulldogs triumph 12-11

The Charles L. Coon Cyclones kept their chances alive to win the Eastern AAA Conference baseball tit...

Bill Taylor wins 40-lap race at Wilson Speedway

Bill Taylor survived not only two restarts under the red flag but also the skills of expert drivers ...

McKeel, Warriors rule 3-A Big East

PINETOPS — Hunt High senior Chris McKeel claimed his third straight 3-A Big Eight Conference boys go...

Barnes hurls 4-hit game, loses

ROCKY MOUNT — Charles L. Coon High pitcher Richard Barnes held HOST Rocky Mount to just four hits bu...

Hunt breaks through

After 77 scoreless minutes in Hunt’s home girls soccer match against C.B. Aycock, the Lady Warriors ...

Damsels cruise by WCD

Greenfield got just what it needed after a physical nonconference girls soccer loss to Ravenscroft with a 6-0 romp over 1-A Coastal Plain Independents Conference visitor Wayne Country Day.

Thompson a splash as a swimmer

Ten-year-old Will Thompson was making a name for himself in the pool as the Elvie Street School four...

Bruins, Demons blow away competition at Wilson County championships

Beddingfield used the distance running events to distance itself from Fike and Hunt as the Bruins ha...

Fike Cyclones nip Broughton

RALEIGH — Fike High took another step toward the Eastern 4-A Conference baseball pot of gold with a ...

Bulldogs near tourney spot, rap Guilford, 8-1

Sophomore Joe Brogden went the distance on the mound as the Atlantic Christian College baseball team...

Tobs open Class B Carolina loop slate at Danville

Minor league baseball was back in Wilson for the first time since 1952 as the Wilson Tobs launched t...

Firebirds, Nash Central win Classic crowns

ROCKY MOUNT — Southern Nash got points from many places as the Firebirds won the Scott Jones Memorial Classic as presented by The Wilson Times for the second time in four years.

Davis, Rodri, Mercer, Walston lead initial county statistical release

Seniors Christy Rodri and Tommy Walston of Hunt and senior Mark Davis and junior Woody Mercer of Bed...

Carolina coach begins 32nd year in baseball

CHAPEL HILL — With the start of baseball season at the University of North Carolina, Wilson resident...

Defending champion Southern Nash trims Fike, 4-3, to reach title game again

ROCKY MOUNT – A failed bunt attempt by catcher David Denton proved to be beneficial to his Southern ...

Lucama will battle Rock Ridge; Panthers have date with Rebs

Rock Ridge’s sole ownership of first place in the Wilson County Conference baseball standings was at...

Good day to be a ‘Hunt’

The Hunt High boys golf team put forth a record-tying performance at the second of five 3-A Big Eight Conference outings while another Hunt, Fike sophomore Richie Hunt, had his own record-setting day at Wedgewood Public Golf Course.

Local highs blanked by Weldon nine, 2 to 0

WELDON — The Charles L. Coon High baseball team was victimized by a pair of home runs in a 2-0 win b...

Lee Woodard responding well to championship expectations

The Lee Woodard High baseball team was showing signs of dominance after the Panthers of head coach W...

Cycs play at Rocky Mount, seek fourth conference win

Head coach Irv Dickens’ Charles L. Coon High Cyclones were riding high in first place in the Eastern...

Golden Leaf tourney has staying power

C.B. Aycock High added its name to the list of winning teams in the fifth rendition of the Golden Le...

Area tracksters make honor roll

Several high school track and field athletes who competed in a just-held meet at Fike High showed up...

Cycs tangle with Dunn High nine at Dunn

Head coach Red Benton would take his Charles L. Coon High baseball team to a game at Dunn before the Blue and Gold Cyclones would host Dunn the following week in a pair of nonconference game. Pitchers Horne and Griffin were expected to be given the starting nod by Benton.

Webb’s 1-under 70 at Maccripine achieves position to challenge

PINETOPS — SouthWest Edgecombe junior golfer Chad Webb shot a 1-under-par 70 at Maccripine Country C...

Atlantic Christian raps Elon, 5-4, in league opener

Freshman pitcher Frank Harper proved clutch in a relief role for his Atlantic Christian College base...

Bruins get what they need — win

Beddingfield used mistakes by visiting Hunt and solid pitching by Jeremy Oxendine and Phillip Johnso...

Guilford Quakers defeat Bulldogs

Guilford College pitcher Swain won his duel with Atlantic Christian College’s Jernigan as the Quakers notched a 4-2 victory over the Bulldogs on the Charles L. Coon High diamond.

Fike wins in track meet over Eagles

Fike High needed a strong effort in the two-mile run to pull out a victory in a home track and field triangular meet against Elizabeth City Northeastern and Perquimans.

Stantonsburg nips Elm City 5-4 in only county tilt played

Wet weather postponed all but one early season Wilson County Conference baseball action as head coac...

Head games: Fike blanks Ladybirds 3-0 in Big East girls soccer

Despite cranking out 31 shots to none by visiting Southern Nash, it took the Fike girls soccer team until the second half to get more than one goal before the Lady Demons eventually prevailed 3-0 in the 3-A Big East Conference opener.

Fike thinclads leave Hunt 4th straight victim

The Fike High track and field team won its fourth straight meet, this time claiming 4-A Big East Con...

Gilliland here to give Tobs boost, helped Wilson stay in baseball

Eddie Gilliland, who once helped minor league baseball stay in Wilson, returned to the city as a con...

Greatest Bulldogs season ends with loss in Elite Eight

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — The greatest season in Barton College men’s basketball history came to an end i...

Firebirds ‘awe’ coach, pound Hunt in nonconference victory

Southern Nash High baseball head coach Tommy Warrick said he was “awed” by his team’s offensive disp...

‘Piece of the rock’ enables Lamm, Fike nine to emerge with freakish 7-6 victory vs. Lucama

Fike High junior right-hander Mike Lamm not only picked up his third pitching win of the week, but a...

Cyclones host Red Devils; Lee Woodard visits Gardners nine

Following a 17-4 loss at Roanoke Rapids to open the season, the Charles L. Coon High baseball team, the defending champion of the North Carolina High School Athletic Association Eastern AAA Conference, was set to host the Kinston High Red Devils.

Fike routs Bulldogs

Sophomore A.J. Gunter capitalized on his chance to start at the No. 6 singles spot for the Fike High...

Romanoff meets Kid Ellis at Farmer's Warehouse

Farmers Warehouse was the place to be as the third Turberville wrestling series show featured popula...

Seventh-inning error boosts Fike past SWE

Errors, eight of them, proved costly for the SouthWest Edgecombe High varsity baseball team in an 8-...

Balance key to success for tourney-bound Darden

Darden High boys basketball head coach Sam Gray had a problem any coach would like to have — decidin...

Bulldogs win tournament crown

After a downpour delayed the final round of the Lee Nissan Barton College Intercollegiate at Wilson ...

Blue honored as Titans' cage MVP

For the second year in a row, Thomas Blue was saluted as the Fike High varsity boys basketball MVP at the team’s annual awards banquet, which featured former Boston Celtics great and then North Carolina Central head coach Sam Jones as the guest speaker.

Fike offers ‘perfect combo’; North Johnston among newcomers

GREENVILLE — With three freshmen in the starting lineup, Fike High had perhaps the youngest team as ...

WCA vaults Faith

A potential base-running mistake turned out just fine for Wilson Christian, which rallied to win its...

Lucama, Saratoga sweep berths on girls all-county team

Led by Lucama High’s Janie Pope, the only unanimous selection, the Daily Times unveiled its All-Wils...

Wilson stars scare opposition with point-making cage antics

The numbers kept adding up for Wilson co-captains Billy Lyles and Len Brooks, who combined for 278 p...

Broughton 12, Fike 10 in baseball marathon

The season opener for the Fike High varsity baseball team seemed like it lasted half the season as t...

Darden’s Trojans battle Ligon

A first-place finish in the North Carolina High School Athletic Conference 4-A District No. 1 boys basketball standings sent the Darden High Trojans directly into the tournament semifinals against Raleigh Ligon.

South Edgecombe plays for state title

RALEIGH — A missed free throw by Cleveton Arthur of Belhaven John Wilkinson High with no time left a...

Big time! Bulldogs fend off arch rival Mount Olive in instant classic

In front of a national television audience and a packed house at Wilson Gymnasium, Barton College su...

Locals’ string of victories snapped

The five-game winning streak of the Charles L. Coon High Blue and Gold Cyclone was snapped by an opp...

BC women denied 80-76

The Barton College women’s basketball team’s hopes for a first trip to the NAIA national tournament ...

Demons done in by South Central 77-57

WINTERVILLE — Fike High’s varsity boys basketball season ended in the third round of the North Carol...

Cycs visit Rocky Mount tonight

Arch rivals Fike and Rocky Mount were set to meet for a third time during the Eastern 4-A Conference varsity boys basketball season with a berth in the conference tournament semifinals at stake.

Hunt mat trio aims to achieve at state

Seniors Henry Coleman and George Daniels, along with junior Tommy Edmundson, weren’t satisfied just ...

‘Dogs bow to Bucs in finale, play Panthers in tourney

GREENVILLE — East Carolina’s Charlie Adams hit four free throws in the final 14 seconds as the Pirat...

Onward to CC tournament: AC loses to Newberry

Atlantic Christian College finished its men’s basketball regular season with a 92-87 loss to Newberry at Wilson Gym, but it established the Bulldogs as the darkhorses in the Carolinas Conference tournament that was set to start.

High sparks ‘Birds to victory

STANHOPE — Kimberly High was more than visiting Pender County could handle as the sophomore led her Southern Nash girls basketball team to a 64-49 victory in the first round of the North Carolina High School Athletic Association 3-A playoffs.

Locals in final conference tilt

The Charles L. Coon High boys basketball team was set to host rival Rocky Mount in the regular-season finale as the Cyclones eyed a chance to share the Eastern Class A Conference title.

Back on top: Lady Bruins seal EPC’s No. 1 playoff spot

For the first time in four years, Beddingfield High ruled as 2-A Eastern Plains Conference girls basketball champion as the Lady Bruins crunched visiting North Johnston 63-30 to lock up at least a share of the title.

Fike girls denied by No. 1 SWE

PINETOPS — In a battle of super sophomores, Fike’s Roc Canady won the personal matchup but SouthWest...

Bulldogs’ title hopes lessen as Bears top Christians

The dream of a North State Conference championship for the Atlantic Christian College men’s basketba...

Deaths devastate sports scene

In his column, “Off The Record,” Daily Times sports editor Tom Ham lamented the recent loss of three...

Lucama rips Saratoga, 65-56, on early rally

Bill Langston scored 14 of his Lucama High boys basketball team’s 22 points in the opening quarter a...

Northern Nash sweeps past Fike

RED OAK — The first-place dreams of both Fike High varsity basketball teams were swept aside by host...

Hunt: Winner, still champion

Hunt High took the drama out of the 3-A Big Eight North Conference varsity boys basketball race with a dominant final 13 minutes to down host Beddingfield 76-61 in the final regular-season game.

Blackbirds-Cyclones mix in conference go

The Cyclones of Charles L. Coon High sought revenge for a one-point loss earlier that season to Rock...

Give him two!

CARY — Hunt High senior Shawn Hunter ended his high school swimming career with not one, but two sta...

Stantonsburg is defeated by Lucama in Wilson County cage activity

The home court wasn’t enough for the Stantonsburg High boys and girls basketball teams as Lucama swe...

Humor stokes Hot Stove coals

Featured speakers Al Forman, a former National League umpire, and J.T. Knowles, a Wake County histor...

Nine points separates Fike from tripleheader sweep

KINSTON -— It took a supreme effort from Kinston High senior star Charles Shackleford to upend visit...

Exchange Club to sponsor sale of Tobs season tickets

The Wilson Exchange Club announced it would sponsor the sale of season tickets for Wilson Tobs baseball home games for the 1960 Carolina League season.

Magnolia trims local sextette

Magnolia prevailed over the “local high school lassies” by a 40-25 score “in a one-sided and raggedl...

Lucama rallies for victory; Eagles top West in triple OT

Lucama High rallied late in the third quarter to stun host Lee Woodard with a 61-50 varsity boys bas...

Cyclones tangle with Hugh Morson High in Coon gym

In what amounted to an elimination game for the loser, varsity boys basketball teams from Charles L. Coon and Hugh Morson high schools were set to battle at the Coon gym.

Demons have their way

Behind seniors Tyshaud Lucas and Ricky Fuller, Fike jumped out to a quick lead and then held on to beat 3-A Big East Conference visitor Nash Central 67-53.

Lee chases a dream in Daytona 200 Dash

Wilson native John Lee made his first runs on the superspeedway in Talladega, Alabama, in his quest ...

Bruins pushed into third place by Southern Wayne

With no time to savor its upset of state No. 1-ranked Kinston, the Beddingfield High varsity boys basketball missed out on its chance to move into a tie for first place in the 3-A Eastern Carolina Conference with a 66-63 home loss to Southern Wayne.

Beddingfield wrestlers overpower Hunt

Wrestling in front of the entire student body, the Beddingfield High wrestling team maintained its p...

AC Bulldogs enjoy WC’s visit

Fresh off a 101-72 romp past Western Carolina at Wilson Gymnasium, the Atlantic Christian College me...

ACC scores two easy triumphs

The varsity and freshman basketball teams of Atlantic Christian College picked up easy victories in ...

Fourth-quarter heroics save Saratoga triumph

A wild finish broke the way of host Saratoga Central as the Cougars staved off West Edgecombe to pre...

Seven of state’s 9 minor league teams to be represented at 40th annual Wilson Hot Stove banquet

The long, rich history of minor league baseball in North Carolina would be celebrated at the 40th an...

Battle of Vikings-Cougars lads may be upstaged

The always anticipated varsity boys basketball battle between Elm City and Saratoga Central would be...

ACC Bulldogs play Campbell College here

Fike faces crucial Big Eight test

Fike High head coach George Drawhorn was convinced his Golden Demons were better than what his fello...

Three-way cage race looms in county boys league

While Elm City High was still the team to beat in the Wilson  County Conference girls basketball rac...

Quakers stun Dogs with 11-point rally

GREENSBORO — An 11-point lead for the Atlantic Christian College men’s basketball team wouldn’t last...

Bruins sweep West Johnston

Beddingfield High varsity basketball teams issued a not-so-welcome greeting to the newest member of ...

Bears blast Bulldogs, 108-64

Visiting Lenoir-Rhyne let Atlantic Christian hang around for about seven minutes before the Bears took off for a 108-64 men’s basketball victory at Wilson Gym.

BC women take command

Barton College roared to a 17-2 start and coasted to a 78-42 defeat of visiting Coker College in an ...

Cyclones rack up victory in initial championship battle, 39 to 22

Head coach Leon Brogden’s Blue and Gold Cyclones took the first step toward the Eastern Class A bask...

Parade Magazine All-America honor provides fitting finish for Gliarmis

Fike High senior Lee Gliarmis was presented with his plaque signifying his status as a Parade Magazi...

Atlantic Christian bombards St. Andrews by 104-56

The Atlantic Christian College men’s basketball team enjoyed the end of its losing streak with a 104...

Bulldogs battle Indians

The Bulldogs of Atlantic Christian College were set to tip off their Little Seven Conference opener against Catawba College in the Charles L. Coon High gym.

Hunt boys picked No. 1

In a poll conducted by the Daily Times sports staff, 3-A Big Eight Conference basketball coaches picked the Hunt boys to win the league for a fourth straight year while deadlocking on Fike and Beddingfield in the girls race.

Preps usher in new year with busy slate

Three days into the new year of 1989, area high school basketball courts and wrestling mats would be busy as teams returned to action from the holiday break.

Wilson’s grid heroes arrive home

The 25 youngsters who played for Wilson in the Santa Claus Bowl football game in Lakeland, Florida, arrived back home by train — sleepy, but happy, as they were greeted by family and friends at the Atlantic Coast Line station here at 3:15 a.m.

SWE denied by Tarboro

ROCKY MOUNT — Tarboro High, not SouthWest Edgecombe, was the Edgecombe County school taking home the...

Clarks-Hartleys to play for family title

The 1948 version of the National Family Basketball Tournament would be a chalk final as the top-seed...