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West Johnson cruises past Spring Creek

SEVEN SPRINGS -- Sometimes in sports it's not about how a team plays. It's all about who a team plays. Spring Creek ran into defending state Junior American Legion baseball champion West Johnston on Friday night and the mismatch was...

Wayne North takes doubleheader from Snow Hill

Junior Legion Wayne North 3, Snow Hill 2, Game one Wayne North 12, Snow Hill 0, Game two * Wayne North picked up its third and four victories in less than 24 hours with a Junior American Legion sweep of...

Wayne North-Wilson boxes

Wilson Red 011 00 -- 2 7 4 Wayne North 261 03 -- 12 12 2 One out when winning run scored Leading hitters -- Wilson Red -- Isaih White 1-3; Mitchell Staals 1-1; Cody Pittman 1-2; Duane Cook 1-3,...

Wayne North picks up pair of victories from Wilson

Learn from the past and move on. Wayne County North shook off a difficult loss and bounced back with a pair of wins on Friday evening in New Hope. Two days after squandering a late lead in a loss at...

Coggins: 'Pay for play' is cost-effective, economic remedy for prep athletics

A co-worker said one day that there's good and bad in every situation. I couldn't agree more. But pay for play? Or consolidating sports? Either one, or both, of those situations could occur if the current economic recession doesn't improve....

Wayne County gets comeback win in wild affair with Wilson

WILSON -- An ugly ballgame. Oh yeah. A much-needed win? Definitely. What shaped up as a "same story, different opponent" outing turned into a grind-it-out, comeback affair for Wayne County Post 11 on Friday evening. Reliever Jordan Quinn induced two...

Wayne County Post 11-Wilson Post 13 box

Wayne County 002 023 231 -- 13 16 7 Wilson Post 13 301 033 000 -- 10 16 3 Leading hitters -- Wayne County -- Tyler Farmer 2-4, HR, 4 RBI; Cody Davis 2-5; Jonathan Taylor 3-5, 2 RBI; Zach...

Saints' all-conference performer selects Mount Olive

Khari Faison looked across the country for an opportunity to play college basketball. In the end, his best offer came from his own backyard. The power forward from Southern Wayne High School will join head coach Joey Higginbotham and the...

Spring Creek-West Johnston box

West Johnston 610 07 -- 14 11 1 Spring Creek 000 00 -- 0 2 5 Leading hitters -- West Johnston -- Jack Sherrill 2-4, 2B, 2 RBI; Tyler Mashburn 2-3, RBI; Jayce Sorrell 1-2, RBI; Kessler Sorrell 2-3, RBI....