Quick Hits
Thursday, June 26
Former Cape Fear Christian Academy varsity girls basketball coach Bobby Lamb has been approved to work in that capacity at Union High School in Sampson County. Randy Jordan, who has coached at Anson County and Clinton in recent years, is the new varsity boys...
Wednesday, June 25
Ryan Thompson (Campbell) got the win in relief for Arizona as the Diamondbacks topped the host Chicago White Soz, 4-1, on Tuesday night. ... Chase Burns (Wake Forest) started in his MLB debut for Cincinnati and had eight strikeouts in five innings as the Reds won,...
Triton
Sewell NCBCA all-state; Bates, Brown all-region
Chase Sewell has earned a berth on the 3-A all-state team selected by the North Carolina Baseball Coaches Association after hitting .458 as a junior at Triton. Sewell had eight doubles, two triples and one home run with 13 RBIs as the Hawks went 15-11 and reached the...
Triton honors top athletes for 2024-25 academic year
Ro'mello Pegues has been named Male Athlete of the Year at Triton and Mary Charlotte Pope is Female Athlete of the Year for the Hawks. Pegues averaged 20.2 points in basketball for a 19-10 team that reached the second round of the NCHSAA 3-A playoffs. He has been...
Midway
Raiders roll past Hobbton in Barrett Sloan’s return
Barrett Sloan made a successful return to Midway on Friday night as the first-year coach of the Raiders with a 34-0 win over visiting rival Hobbton at Tommy Sloan Stadium, which is named for his father. The younger Sloan played quarterback for his dad at Midway before...
Midway edged in state softball final, 3-2, by SW Randolph at UNCG
Midway was the runner-up in the NCHSAA 2-A softball tournament for the second straight season after a 3-2 loss to Southwestern Randolph at UNC Greensboro on Saturday. The Raiders (21-5) gave no evidence of giving up after a 13-0 loss in five innings to the Cougars...
Results / Schedule
Wednesday, May 7
High School Girls Soccer
S. Lee 3, Triton 0
Thursday, May 8
High School Baseball
NCISAA 1-A Quarterfinal
Crossroads 2, CFCA 1
NCHSAA Second Round
Triton 4, C.B. Aycock 3
Friday, May 9
College Baseball
Elon 10, Campbell 8
High School Baseball
NCHSAA Second Round
Jacksonville 7, S. Johnston 3
Midway 3, Ayden-Grifton 0
High School Softball
NCHSAA Second Round
Midway 2, E. Duplin 0
E. Alamance 2, Harnett Central 0
S. Johnston 1, W. Carteret 0 (8 innings)
Saturday, May 10
College Baseball
Campbell 11, Elon 6
Campbell 6, Elon 0
Monday. May 12
High School Girls Soccer
MCHSAA First Round
Princeton 5, Midway 0
W. Alamance 9, Triton 0
Wednesday, May 14
High School Baseball|
NCHSAA Third Round
Midway 4, E. Carteret 0
S. Alamance 7, Triton 1
Thursday, May 15
College Baseball
Campbell 18, Delaware 6
High School Softball.
NCHSAA Third Round
Midway 3, Seaforth 2 (9 innings)
S. Johnston 5, Richlands 0 (8 innings)
NCISAA 1-A Semifinals
CFCA 7, Ridgecroft 1
Friday, May 16
College Baseball
Campbell 6, Delaware 1
High School Baseball
NCHSAA Quarterfinals
Midway 2, SouthWest Edgecombe 0
High School Softball
NCHSAA Quarterfinals
S. Granville 3, Midway 2
S. Johnston 5, S. Nash 0
Saturday, May 17
College Baseball
Delaware 5, Campbell 3
Tuesday, May 20
High School Baseball
NCHSAA 2-A Semifinal Series
Midway 8, S. Lenoir 1
High School Softball
NCHSAA 3-A Semifinal Series
Scotland Co. 7, S. Johnston 2
NCISAA 1-A Final Series
at N.C. Wesleyan, Rocky Mount
CFCA 3-6, Lawrence 2-5
CFCA wins series, 2-0
Wednesday, May 21
College Baseball
CAA Tournament
Mount Pleasant, S.C.
Campbell 10, Elon 9
Thursday, May 22
College Baseball
CAA Tournament
Mount Pleasant, S.C.
UNC Wilmington 6, Campbell -0
High School Baseball
NCHSAA 2-A Semifinal Series
S. Lenoir 9, Midway 8 (8 innings)
(Best of three tied, 1-1)
High School Softball
NCHSAA 3-A Semifinal Series
Scotland Co. 8, S. Johnston 1
(Scotland Co. wins best of three, 2-0)
Friday, May 23
College Baseball
CAA Tournament
Mount Pleasant, S.C.
Charleston 12, Campbell 11
Saturday, May 24
High School Baseball
NCHSAA 2-A Semifinal Series
S. Lenoir 5, Midway 4
(S. Lenoir wins series, 2-1).
Friday, August 22
High School Football
Midway at Hobbton, 7 p.m.
Northwood at Harnett Central, 7 p.m.
Overhills at S. Lee, 7 p.m.
Oxford Webb at W. Harnett, 7 p.m.
S. Johnston at Smithfield-Selma, 7 p.m.
Triton at Willow Spring, 7 p.m.
Cape Fear
Christian Academy
Linwood Smith looking forward to continuing CFCA’s success as AD
Linwood Smith will have to figure out where to store some trophies in the athletic director's office at Cape Fear Christian Academy as he takes on the AD responsibilities for the Eagles. The trophy haul in 2024-25 included state championship hardware in girls golf,...
Athletes celebrated as Eagles claim WF Cup
Cape Fear Christian Academy recognized athletes for spring sports and end of the year awards at a banquet in the school gym on Monday. CFCA won the Wells Fargo Cup for overall athletic performance in the North Carolina Independent School Athletic Association 1-A class...
Central
Central pulls away to 11-5 softball triumph at Triton
Harnett Central broke a 1-1 tie at Triton on Tuesday with four runs in the fifth inning and the Trojans went on to remain unbeaten in varsity softball in the All American Conference with an 11-5 win. The Trojans added six runs in the sixth inning in improving to 12-4...
Will Gage reflects on 33 years as coach at Central
Will Gage coached his last game at Harnett Central on Monday night in the first round of the All American Conference varsity boys basketball tournament. The seventh-seeded Trojans were topped, 66-58, in double overtime at second-seeded Triton So ended Gage's tenure...
South
Scotland Co. sweeps South in 3-A Eastern softball final
Visiting Scotland County took an 8-1 softball win at South Johnston on Thursday night to close out the best of three series for the NCHSAA 3-A East region championship. The Fighting Scots scored a run in the top of the first and held the lead the rest of the way in...
Lannah Price hits walk-off home run to give South diamond playoff split
Lannah Price added to her lustrous athletic legacy at South Johnston with a walk-off home run in the eighth-inning for a 1-0 second-round playoff win over visiting West Carteret on Friday night. The blast from the Virginia Commonwealth volleyball signee gave South a...
News & Features
55 captures First Flight in Educators golf at Keith Hills
The team of Steven Hamby, John Hardee, Lindsey Hardee and Mark Whitman shot 55 in the Superball format at Keith Hills on Monday to win the first flight in the 40th annual Harnett Educators Golf Tournament. The first flight played the Orange to Black nines. Second...
East Carolina, Duke, UNC take wins in NCAA baseball
East Carolina opened play in the NCAA baseball tournament regional at Coastal Carolina on Friday with an 11-6 win over Florida. Host North Carolina topped Holy Cross, 4-0. Duke rolled past Oklahoma State, 12-5, in the Athens regional at Georgia. Sophomore left-hander...
