Friday, February 10, 2017
BOYS' BASKETBALL: Gators earn share of Carolina 1A crown
SEVEN SPRINGS -- League champs. That phrase lingered long after the final buzzer Thursday night, as Spring Creek boys' varsity basketball enthusiasts properly celebrated the school's second Carolina 1-A league title in three years, following a 71-49 thumping of rival...Published: Feb 10, 2017 10:00 AM Full Story
BOYS' BASKETBALL: CBA gains controversial win over EW
rcoggins@newsargus.com PIKEVILLE -- Eastern Wayne, for the second time in a two-day period, seemed destined to stage another heart-stopping comeback Thursday night. A human error thwarted the Warriors' rally. Down 73-71 with 5.5 seconds remaining, EW's Eric Agee took the...Published: Feb 10, 2017 10:00 AM Full Story
BOYS' BASKETBALL: Pope John Paul stuns top-seeded WCDS
WILSON -- Jamal King logged a double-double -- 21 points, 15 rebounds -- during Wayne Country Day's stunning, semifinal-round 57-50 loss to Pope John Paul II in the Coastal Plains Independent 1-A Conference tournament Thursday evening. Jimmie Sanders contributed 16...Published: Feb 10, 2017 10:00 AM Full Story
GIRLS' BASKETBALL: WCDS advances to CPIC title game
WILSON -- Jala Holloman pumped in 19 points and Wayne Country Day defeated Greenfield, 57-24, in semifinal-round play of the Coastal Plains Independent 1-A Conference tournament Thursday evening. Holloman added five assists and five steals. Lexi Jeffreys contributed a double-double...Published: Feb 10, 2017 10:00 AM Full Story
SWIMMING: Rosewood's Lyon finishes 8th in 200 IM at state meet
CARY -- Rosewood freshman Jack Lyon touched the wall eighth overall in the boys' 200-yard individual medley during the season-ending N.C. High School Athletic Association Classes 1-A/2-A state championship meet Thursday afternoon. Lyon posted a time of 2 minutes, 10.09...Published: Feb 10, 2017 10:00 AM Full Story
GIRLS' BASKETBALL: BOX -- N. Duplin @ S. Creek
North Duplin 5 3 3 4 -- 15 Spring Creek 17 14 12 10 -- 53 NORTH DUPLIN (0-21, 0-14 CC) Logan Jones 0 0 2-2 2, Tori Jones 1 0 0-0 2, Mary Taylor Jones 1 1 0-0 5,...Published: Feb 10, 2017 10:00 AM Full Story
GIRLS' BASKETBALL: BOX -- E. Wayne @ CBA
Eastern Wayne 7 11 13 11 -- 42 C.B. Aycock 7 6 8 11 -- 32 EASTERN WAYNE (16-7, 6-6 ECC) Channing Williams 0 0 0-0 0, Taniyah Oates 0 0 0-0 0, Tammaria Smith 0 0 2-2 2, Treycie...Published: Feb 10, 2017 10:00 AM Full Story
GIRLS' BASKETBALL: Spring Creek cruises past Rebels
SEVEN SPRINGS -- Destiny Sutton scored a game-high 19 points as an efficient Spring Creek varsity girls outfit rolled to a 53-15 Carolina 1-A triumph over North Duplin at "The Swamp" on Thursday evening. The victory moved the Lady...Published: Feb 10, 2017 10:00 AM Full Story
GIRLS' BASKETBALL: BOX -- Princeton at Rosewood
Princeton 11 10 10 8 -- 47 Rosewood 8 3 13 7 -- 39 PRINCETON (18-4, 13-1 CC) Megan Bryant 1 0 0-0 2, Jordan Benson 3 1 1-1 10, Madison Adkins 1 1 1-3 6, Emily Ricks 4...Published: Feb 10, 2017 10:00 AM Full Story
GIRLS' BASKETBALL: Princeton clinches Carolina 1A crown outright
bcoley@newsargus.com PRINCETON -- All Paula Wooten needs is a year, and she'll get you a conference title. She did it in 1987 in her first year as Princeton's girls' basketball coach. Thirty years later -- in her second stint as...Published: Feb 10, 2017 10:00 AM Full Story
PREPS DIGEST: JV, middle schools
JV * Boys' basketball: C.B. Aycock 52, Eastern Wayne 38 -- Tyrie Artis pumped in a game-high 13 points for the Golden Falcons, who finished the year 14-8 overall and 8-4 in Eastern Carolina 3-A/4-A Conference play Thursday evening....Published: Feb 10, 2017 10:00 AM Full Story
GIRLS' BASKETBALL: Eastern Wayne eases past CBA
PIKEVILLE -- Tangela Faulkner saw it coming. Her Charles B. Aycock team never made the adjustment. Eastern Wayne -- again -- pulled the "four corners" offense out of its playbook cruised past its county rival, 42-32, in the Eastern...Published: Feb 10, 2017 10:00 AM Full Story
BOYS' BASKETBALL: BOX -- Princeton at Rosewood
Princeton 5 7 12 15 -- 39 Rosewood 11 7 14 15 -- 47 PRINCETON (10-14, 4-10 CC) Landon Futrelle 1 0 0-0 2, Colby Sullivan 1 2 6-8 11, Earl Gibson 1 0 0-0 2, Austin Sullivan 2...Published: Feb 10, 2017 10:00 AM Full Story
BOYS' BASKETBALL: Rosewood dials in from the perimeter
Thanks in part to nine 3-pointers from Rosewood, the Eagles handed Princeton a 47-39 loss in Carolina 1-A Conference play Thursday night. "We've struggled to shoot the ball from the perimeter for most of the season," said Eagles' head...Published: Feb 10, 2017 10:00 AM Full Story
BOYS' BASKETBALL: BOX -- N. Duplin @ S. Creek
North Duplin 7 13 9 20 -- 49 Spring Creek 21 20 13 17 -- 71 NORTH DUPLIN (5-15, 4-10 CC) Chase King 0 0 5-6 5, Terrion Addison 3 1 0-1 9, Benson Jones 0 1 0-0 3,...Published: Feb 10, 2017 10:00 AM Full Story
BOYS' BASKETBALL: BOX -- E. Wayne @ CBA
Eastern Wayne 12 11 21 29 -- 73 C.B. Aycock 11 20 21 28 -- 75 EASTERN WAYNE (10-13, 6-6 ECC) Yeonte Royal 7 1 0-0 17, Kris Clark 0 1 0-0 3, Eric Agee 8 0 3-5 19,...Published: Feb 10, 2017 10:00 AM Full Story