BUIES CREEK — Omar Banks has been named Campbell’s director of athletics, overseeing 21 Division I programs and more than 400 student-athletes. The former executive associate athletics director at Virginia Tech was formally introduced at a press conference at 11 a.m....
Ian Jones (Harnett Central) has been added to the East Carolina basketball roster after serving two years in the Pirate program as a manager. … Cape Fear Christian Academy varsity girls basketball coach Bobby Lamb took five players to scrimmages at Clinton on Tuesday....
Campbell has announced that it will introduce Omar Banks as its new athletic director today. Banks has been working with athletic finances at Virginia Tech. Wanda Watkins (South Johnston) has been serving as interim AD for the Camels. … Leigh Smith has resigned as...
The Dunn Ponytails (12-and-under) All-Stars went unbeaten in the district softball tournament in Carthage, taking the championship with a 4-1 win over Hope Mills on Sunday. Dunn scored three runs in the final inning to edge Moore County, 3-2, to reach the deciding...
Triton coach T.J. Morrison gets to do some sightseeing today after his team won the United World Games U-16 basketball championship on Sunday. The schedule calls for a trip to salt mines in Salzburg, Austria, and a visit to Hohensalzburg Castle. ... Chez Reavie won...
Triton varsity boys basketball coach T.J. Morrison guided the USA Under-16 team to the championship of the United World Games in Klagenfurt, Austria, on Sunday afternoon with a 37-31 win over a team of Americans from Stuttgart Air Force Base in Germany. Morrison's...
South Johnston matched up against Enloe in a 7-on-7 football scrimmage at N.C. State on Friday. ... Wake Forest won the Beast of the East scrimmages at East Carolina. ... Patience Marshall of Campbell set a school and Big South Conference record in the shot put at the...
Chris Clemons of Campbell has signed a free agent contract with the Houston Rockets of the NBA. … The Dunn Angels (10-and-under) and the Dunn Ponytails (12-and-under) each started Dixie district softball play in Carthage on Friday night against teams from Pembroke....
(UPDATED on Sunday, June 23) The Dunn Majors (12-and-under) All-Star baseball team started play in the Dixie district tournament in Lillington on Saturday with a 10-0 win over Hoke County. Dunn was scheduled to meet host Lillington on Sunday at 2 p.m. The Dunn team...
Joseph Johnson (South Johnston) hit .324 with four home runs and 39 RBIs for High Point in 2019. Johnson made the all-state first team selected by the North Carolina Collegiate Sports Information Association as designated hitter. Recent Houston Astros sixth-round...
Mark Kirk has retired after 41 years in coaching and Chris McGee will direct Overhills in football. Kirk will be returning to his home in Bedford, Pa., after coaching all over the country. His son-in-law, K.J. Starr, has taken a position at Fuquay-Varina. "I'll have a...
BUIES CREEK — Jesús Carralero and Cedric Henderson, Jr., have signed with Campbell, men's basketball coach Kevin McGeehan has announced. A 6-foot-8 forward from Málaga, Spain, Carralero joins the Camels after spending last season at Link Year Prep in Branson, Mo. A...
