The Bobby Purvis Memorial Golf Tournament gets underway at Chicora today at 8:30 a.m. The event honors the former Union Pines athletic director and raises funds for a scholarship for a Vikings student. ... The 124th U.S. Open begins today at Pinehurst No. 2. The Cape...
Wayne Hall has been promoted to associate head coach for men's soccer at Campbell in his fifth year on the Camels staff. ... South Carolina has named Paul Mainieri as its new baseball coach. Mainieri has coached previously at LSU and Notre Dame. Mainieri, who is...
Cape Fear Christian Academy's varsity boys basketball team will take on Douglas Byrd, Falcon Children's Home and Richmond County at a camp at Methodist on Saturday. ... N.C. State filled the final spot in the College World Series in Omaha with an 8-5 win at Georgia on...
The city of Dunn will be hosting the 8-and-under (Coach pitch) Dixie Youth state baseball tournament at Tart Park from June 29 to July 3. ... C.J. McBride cleared seven feet, 1.5 inches to finish 10th in the high jump in the NCAA nationals in Eugene, Oregon, on Friday...
Florida State, UNC and Virginia won their Super Regionals on Saturday in the NCAA baseball tournament. ... Tennessee was topped, 10-8, by Evansville to force a deciding game three in Knoxville tonight (ESPNU, 6 p.m.). ... N.C. State downed host Georgia, 18-1, on...
Triton will take part in 7-on-7 football scrimmages at Midway on Wednesday beginning at 8:30 a.m. ... Vance Honeycutt hit a 2-run homer in the bottom of the ninth inning to give host UNC an 8-6 win over West Virginia in the first game of a Super Regional in the NCAA...
Triton will be scrimmaging in the Cumberland County Jamboree at Gray's Creek on Friday, August 16, at 7 p.m. against the Cape Fear Colts. Western Harnett will take on Douglas Byrd at the same venue at 6 p.m. ... Landon Dudley of South Johnston is planning to play...
Recent Cape Fear Christian Academy graduate Zeke Brock visited William Peace in Raleigh on May 30. Brock scored 2,064 points during his career at CFCA with 534 assists and 313 steals. He made the NCISAA 1-all-state team as a junior and senior. Peace competes in the...
Aiden Taylor, who played quarterback in football and catcher in baseball, is the Male Athlete of the Year at Harnett Central. Co-winners of the Female Athlete of the Year award are Kalina Monte and Victoria Langdon. ... The 39th annual Harnett County Educators Golf...
Midway has some significant arrivals and departures. Barrett Sloan is the new football coach at Midway after Kyle Stevens left to be defensive coordinator at Holly Springs. Sloan played quarterback for the Raiders when his dad, Tommy Sloan, for whom Midway's football...
Former Midway and Campbell baseball star Matthew Barefoot has retired from professional baseball due to back and shoulder issues. He was a sixth-round draft choice by Houston in 2019. Barefoot hit 23 home runs and stole 23 bases in portions of four minor league...
Vance Honeycutt hit two home runs for UNC in a 6-2 win over defending College World Series champion LSU on Saturday in the Chapel Hill regional. The Tigers face Wofford in an elimination game. The winner would have to top the Tar Heels twice to win the regional. ......
