In Little Tarheel League district tournament play on Friday, host Western Harnett took the 10-and-under softball championship with 23-0 and 15-5 wins over Lee County to qualify for the state tournament in Shelby. ... Host Western topped Lee County, 19-0, and will take...
Host Western Harnett defeated Laurinburg, 14-0, as Little Tarheel League district softball play got underway on Thursday night in the 12-and-under division. Western also is hosting 10-U softball. The 12-and-under LTHL district baseball tournament is in Southern Pines....
Cedric Mullins (Campbell) had two doubles and scored a run for visiting Baltimore in a 6-3 win over the New York Yankees on Wednesday night. ... Sean Murphy became the sixth Atlanta player with 15 home runs or more in an 8-1 win at Cleveland on Wednesday night. The...
Position players finished on the mound in Miami's 15-2 win over visiting St. Louis on Tuesday. Marlins catcher Jacob Stallings (UNC) yielded two runs in the ninth. Cardinals outfielder Alec Burleson (East Carolina) pitched the last two-thirds of an inning without...
Happy Fourth of July! ... The Cape Fear Christian Academy middle school baseball team will be recognized as regular-season champions of the Mid-Carolina Conference when the Carolina Mudcats host Fayetteville on Thursday at 7 p.m. ... Venus Williams played in her 24th...
After a span of significant improvement in participation and performance as coach of boys and girls tennis at Harnett Central, Jay James is leaving to take over the girls program at West Johnston. His record was 46-19 in four years with the Central girls and 27-8 in...
Right-hander Ryan Thompson (Campbell) is 2-0 on the mound in a relief role for the Triple-A Durham Bulls with 12 strikeouts in nine innings. Thompson was assigned to the Bulls from Tampa Bay on June 15. Thompson has 17 appearances for the Rays this season. ... Alec...
Campbell became a member of the Colonial Athletic Association as of midnight last night. Since rejoining the Big South Conference in 2011, the Camels won 32 league tournaments and 20 regular-season titles. ... Atlanta extended its winning streak to six games on Friday...
Lannah Price and Meagan Worley of South Johnston are on the 3-A all-state team selected by the North Carolina Softball Coaches Association. ... Michael James is the new football coach at Western Harnett. He has been an assistant at Green Hope for the last three years....
Campbell has announced its 2023 men's soccer schedule. The Camels play exhibitions at home against UNC on August 11 at 7 p.m. and Chowan on August 19 at 6 p.m. as well as a preseason matchup on the road at N.C. State on August 16 at 7 p.m. The season opener against...
Cape Fear Christian Academy finished second in the Wells Fargo Cup standings among 20 teams for the 2022-23 school year in the North Carolina Independent School Athletic Association 1-A classification. ... Dresden Simon has been named as director of operations for...
Harnett Central finished the 2023 season No. 14 in girls soccer in HighSchoolOT's rankings for the 910 area code. The 3-A Trojans had a 15-4-1 record. Hobbton, which competes on the 1-A level, was 21-2-1 and was No. 15 in the 910. ... Tommy White and Brayden Jobert...
