Maliah Banks for the girls and Laderique McNeill for the boys have been honored as Athletes of the Year at Harnett Central. Banks averaged 16.5 points, 4.3 assists and 4.5 steals for a 21-5 girls basketball team. She also was eighth in the 3-A girls state track meet...
Harnett Central, which won the Tri-County Six 3-A Conference sportsmanship award for the 2017-18 school year, has announced its all-conference selections for the spring. Laderique McNeill was Runner of the Year in track and field, Fallon Wimberly was Pitcher of the...
After a meal catered by Ed’s Family Restaurant, Harnett Central held its annual athletic awards presentations in the cafeteria on Thursday night. Athletic director Will Gage said the athletes of the year would be recognized later at a school assembly. Central...
Harnett Central’s softball team was topped 8-4 at Western Alamance in the third round of the NCHSAA 3-A playoffs on Tuesday night. The Warriors (23-3) took a 6-0 lead in the first two innings. Central, the champions of the Tri-County Six Conference, finished...
Harnett Central defeated host Southern Nash 6-1 in the second round of the NCHSAA 3-A softball playoffs on Friday night. The Firebirds had a 16-game winning streak halted as they finished the season at 22-5. Fallon Wimberly pitched a complete game two-hitter, helping...
Johnny Grizzard drove in Paul Gervase and Jackson Yarbrough to give Harnett Central a 2-1 lead in the fifth inning of a first round NCHSAA baseball playoff game at D.H. Conley on Wednesday night before the Vikings rallied for a 3-2 win. Central completed the season...
Harnett Central’s girls soccer season ended Tuesday night with a 4-0 loss at New Hanover as the Wildcats, the No. 5 seed in the Eastern bracket, pulled away in the second half. Central, the No. 28 seed, finished with an 8-7 record. New Hanover (10-8-3) advances...
Host Harnett Central won its fifth straight one-run game in the first round of the NCHSAA 3-A softball playoffs on Tuesday night. The Trojans, seeded No. 10 in the Eastern bracket, improved to 16-8 with a 4-3 win over No. 23 East Wake (9-9). Ansley Lee had an RBI...
For the third time in the past eight days, a softball game between Harnett County rivals Triton and Harnett Central was decided by one run with a game-winning play in the final inning. On Thursday, the Trojans edged the visiting Hawks 4-3 on a walk off hit from...
Harnett Central’s girls were second and its boys team was third in the team standings as the Tri-County Six 3-A Conference held its track and field championships at Union Pines on Wednesday. The host Vikings won the girls title with 239 points. Central had 123...
Top-seeded Harnett Central avoided an upset in the Tri-County Six 3-A Conference softball tournament Tuesday, winning a hard-fought battle with visiting county rival Western Harnett 3-2 when Tanner Williford drove in fellow senior Alexis Carroll with a walk off...
The Tri-County Six 3-A Conference spring sports tournaments in baseball, girls soccer and softball have progressed to the championship matchups on Thursday (May 3) night. In baseball, regular-season champion Southern Lee hosts No. 2 seed Western Harnett at 7 p.m. In...
