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. After...
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, perhaps to Aug. 31 last...
Overhills routed visiting Harnett County rival Western Harnett in its first home varsity football game of the season, 34-3, on Thursday night. “I didn’t think we did a bad job considering we practiced really twice all week and that was in the gym because of the heat,”...
Host West Johnston took a 4-0 nonconference varsity boys soccer win over Triton on Wednesday night. Samuel Langness scored in the ninth minute for the Wildcats and Mason Adamof added a goal in the 26th minute as West led 2-0 at the half. Christopher Mendoza extended...
South Johnston took a 3-1 varsity volleyball win Tuesday to hand visiting Goldsboro its first loss of the season. Individual set scores were 25-14, 18-25, 25-22 and 25-12. “Other than that second set, I thought we played well,” said South Johnston coach Matthew Adams....
Cape Fear Christian Academy's volleyball teams took wins in two of three matches on Tuesday. The Eagles faced Grace Christian of Sanford, taking wins on the middle school and junior varsity levels. CFCA faced a 10-4 deficit in the first game of the middle school...
Cape Fear Christian Academy's middle school volleyball team moved to 4-0 on the season with a Southeastern Conference doubleheader sweep of visiting Freedom Christian on Monday. CFCA prevailed 2-0 in each match. The middle school Eagles are scheduled to host Grace...
Visiting South Johnston took a 3-2 nonconference varsity boys soccer win at Harnett Central on Monday night as South improved to 2-1 going into a home match tonight with Western Harnett. Central (0-2-1) visits Overhills on Wednesday. Those teams tied 3-3 on August 16....
A hot start had Triton looking to hand visiting rival Midway its first varsity volleyball loss of the season, but the Raiders rallied from down 2-0 to stay unbeaten with a five-set victory. Individual set scores were 14-25, 22-25, 25-23, 25-13 and 15-12. “The first...
South Granville seniors Austin Ferguson and Tyhagee Allen rushed for touchdowns as the host Vikings took a 14-7 nonconference football win over South Johnston on Friday night. All of the game's scoring took place in the first half as defenses dominated after...
Deshawn Lewis opened the scoring on a touchdown run for Overhills and the Jaguars never trailed in a 50-13 varsity football win at Harnett Central on Friday night. Lewis had three touchdowns for the game. After a Trojans turnover on a fumble, Overhills capitalized...
Fifth-grader Grace Viox of Cape Fear Christian Academy won her girls tennis match in the No. 5 singles at Rosewood on Friday, earning the lone team point for the Eagles in the nonconference action. CFCA coach Jay James saw significant improvement across the board from...
