BUIES CREEK — Chris Clemons scored 34 points, Andrew Eudy added 21, plus 14 rebounds, and Campbell defeated Hampton 86-77 on Thursday night in the quarterfinal round of the Big South Conference Tournament at Gore Arena. Jordan Whitfield added a career-high 13 points...
Triton senior Parker Crews signed to play baseball at Mid-Atlantic Christian University in Elizabeth City on Thursday. The Mustangs are starting a baseball program this season. Jason Goetz is the coach. Crews anticipates a utility role on the next level similar to the...
Area-based team won numerous championships in 2018, extending their success well beyond the boundaries of the region. The Buies Creek Astros had one chance to go out as winners as the Carolina League’s Mills Cup was shortened to one game due to weather...
The Harnett Central varsity basketball players and cheerleaders visited elementary schools in the Central district on Thursday, giving out basketballs to appreciative youngsters at Buies Creek, Lillington-Shawtown, Lafayette, Angier and North Harnett. “It gives...
Fifth-grader Eli Burns is a Cape Fear Christian Academy legacy. He plays on the middle school boys basketball team. His mother, Kamie Reaves Burns, is a former Female Athlete of the Year at CFCA. She graduated in 1998. His dad is Tommy Burns, former Harnett County...
Several Triton coaches were called on at halftime of Thursday’s home game with Harnett Central to get the current Hawks on board with the magnitude of the county rivalry. “All the coaches, we got them in there that had graduated from Triton,” said...
Triton had a touchdown pass nullified by a penalty and an interception cancelled on another flag in a 22-7 home loss to Southern Lee on Friday night. The Hawks were beset by five turnovers in falling to 1-5 overall and 1-2 in the Tri-County Six 3-A Conference....
Triton football coach Ben Penny said too many mistakes dictated the outcome in a 22-14 home loss to South Johnston on Thursday night. The Hawks (0-2) had an interception by Tyler House nullified by a roughing-the-passer penalty on South’s first scoring drive....
South Johnston topped rival Triton 22-14 at the Hawks’ stadium on Thursday night. “We had this one circled with a star on the calendar since January,” said South coach Matthew Riggsbee. The Trojans’ motivation may have gone back even farther,...
Jay James got into tennis because his older cousin needed someone to practice with before going out for the team at Eastern Wayne. James had been more focused on baseball, basketball and football before that. The Cape Fear Christian Academy girls tennis coach...
South Johnston threw for five scores in the first 20 plays as the 3-A Trojans hosted 4-A Athens Drive for a seven-on-seven passing scrimmage on South’s upper practice field on Wednesday morning. The Trojans had a downturn in consistency that wasn’t...
Paul Gervase has really grown into a college prospect, signing to play baseball at Pfeiffer on Friday. As a freshman at Harnett Central, Gervase was 5 feet, 10 inches. He was 6 feet as a sophomore, but now stands 6-7. He has played basketball, but only in gym class at...
