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Spring Creek's Ramfjord resigns varsity girls' basketball post

SEVEN SPRINGS -- Amanda Ramfjord says it's time to go home. The Dalton, Ga., native tendered her resignation Friday as head women's basketball and head men's soccer coach at Spring Creek High School. She'll return to her alma mater, Southeast...

All-Area Baseball: Saints' Taylor named top pitcher by peers

Jeremy Taylor has always possessed a natural competitiveness. Harnessing that inner struggle, however, was a different story ... until his junior season. The Southern Wayne right-hander realized his collegiate future would be on the mound and his success hinged upon...

All-Area Baseball: Warriors' Barnett cops Player of the Year honors

A much-needed growth spurt after his junior year transformed clumsiness into coordination, which, in turn, boosted Hunter Barnett's confidence on the baseball diamond. His self-belief grew during the summer. Barnett soaked up hitting and pitching instructions like a sponge from...

All-Area Baseball: Aycock's Davis named Coach of the Year

From unstoppable to stagnant and back to unstoppable in one season is how the 2012 campaign played out for the Charles B. Aycock baseball team. The roller-coaster ride ended with a surprising runner-up finish in the N.C. High School Athletic...

Wilmington Post 10 hands Post 11 embarassing home loss

DUDLEY -- Forget about it and move on. But learn from it. The Wayne County Post 11 coaching staff offered that simple, yet stinging advice after a 15-5, non-division loss to Wilmington Post 10 on Thursday evening at the Doyle...

Aycock spring athletes receive awards

From staff reports PIKEVILLE -- Brooke Bell and Connor Davis, who helped lead Charles B. Aycock to its first-ever state championship in softball, were accorded the school's top female honors during a season-ending athletics awards ceremony. Bell, a senior pitcher,...

Post 11-Wilmington Post 10 box

Wilmington    500    200    116    --    15    13    3 Wayne County    100    000    040    --    5    8    4 Leading hitters -- Wilmington Post 10 -- Christian Wolfe 2-4; Chance Shepard 1-3, HR, 4 RBI; Steven Linkous 2-3, RBI; Chris Hicks 2-5,...

CBA Junior Legion salvages series against Wayne North

Charles B. Aycock salvaged the final game of a three-game series by beating county rival Wayne North 11-1 in five innings on Thursday night. After failing to get big hits in a pair of losses on Tuesday and Wednesday, Aycock...

CBA-Wayne North box

C.B. Aycock    240    14    --    11    11    1 Wayne North    001    00    --    1    3    3 Leading hitters -- C.B. Aycock -- Garrett Joyner 2-3, 3B, 2B, RBI; Hank Smitherman 2-3, 2 RBI; Noah West 1-3, RBI; Jake Naughton 2-4,...