High Schools

Central splits on diamond with 4-A foes

Harnett Central's varsity baseball team avenged a 6-5 loss at 4-A Cary on March 28 by beating the Imps 7-3 on Wednesday night at Central. The Trojans improved to 5-7 going into a Tri-County Six 3-A Conference game at Western Harnett on Friday night. Central topped the...

Jack Britt tops Hawks, 8-6

Jack Britt tops Hawks, 8-6

Jack Britt took a 7-1 lead and held off Triton for an 8-6 nonconference varsity baseball win in a make-up game on Wednesday night. The Buccaneers (9-6) scored two runs in the second, third and fifth innings. The visitors put up single runs in the fourth and sixth....

SJ softball downs Vikings, 10-2

SJ softball downs Vikings, 10-2

South Johnston bounced back from a narrow 4-3 loss to Greater Neuse 3-A Conference rival West Johnston Tuesday by taking a 10-2 non-conference win over visiting Union Pines on Wednesday night. “I felt like the girls were focused from the very beginning from the time...

Leah Williams signs with Mount Olive

Leah Williams signs with Mount Olive

Leah Williams of Midway signed to play basketball at the University of Mount Olive on Wednesday in the high school's media center. Williams was the Player of the Year in the East Central 2-A Conference as a senior and has been selected to play in the East-West...

West Johnston tops South

West Johnston took a pair of diamond wins at South Johnston on Tuesday night. The Wildcats won the varsity baseball matchup, 5-3, to put South at 7-7 for the season and 1-2 in the Greater Neuse 3-A Conference. West edged South (6-4, 2-1) by a 4-3 margin in softball....

HC Trojans nip Western, 4-3

N.C. State signee Baker Nelson pitched five and two-thirds innings as host Harnett Central took a 4-3 Tri-County Six 3-A Conference varsity baseball win over Western Harnett on Tuesday night. Nelson allowed three hits and three runs (all earned) while walking three...

Midway baseball downs Goldsboro, 16-6, as Raiders sweep

Midway's varsity baseball team scored six runs in the sixth inning to close out a 16-6 East Central 2-A Conference win over visiting Goldsboro on Tuesday night. Sophomore Drew Matthews had two hits and drove in three runs as the Raiders improved to 9-3 overall and 4-1...

Hawk softball takes 12-0 win to prevent Southern Lee sweep

Hawk softball takes 12-0 win to prevent Southern Lee sweep

Triton’s softball team had a much-needed strong performance in a 12-0 win over visiting Tri-County Six 3-A Conference foe Southern Lee in five innings Tuesday. “We had a really good practice yesterday,” said Triton coach Mark Whitman. “We really worked on hitting...

Union Pines wins golf at Whispering Pines with Weaver medalist

Union Pines won a Tri-County Six 3-A Conference golf match for the fourth time in four tries this season, hosting play and getting a 78 for medalist honors from Allen Weaver on the way to a 328 team total at Whispering Pines on Monday. Western Harnett was second at...

Triton moves baseball game with Jack Britt to Wednesday

Triton moves baseball game with Jack Britt to Wednesday

Triton has moved its nonconference baseball games with Jack Britt from tonight (Monday, April 9) to Wednesday (April 11) due to wet weather. The Hawks will play the Bucs in a junior varsity game at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday with the varsity game at 7 p.m. Triton is...

Different type of game in Central’s second loss to C.B. Aycock

Different type of game in Central’s second loss to C.B. Aycock

One day after falling 10-6 in a slugfest to Charles B. Aycock, Harnett Central was topped again by the Golden Falcons, this time in a 1-0 pitchers’ duel in the last game of the Harnett Central Spring Break Softball Tournament on Wednesday. “Pitching did well,” said...

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