Southern Lee’s varsity boys basketball team, the No. 1 seed in the Tri-County Six 3-A Conference Tournament, got off to a fast start and won its semifinal matchup with visiting Triton, 66-43, on Tuesday night. The hosts led 20-3 after eight minutes of play and...
Triton varsity girls basketball coach Keith Howard said he is stepping down from that position in the aftermath of a 56-47 double overtime loss at Western Harnett in the first round of the Tri-County Six 3-A Conference Tournament on Monday night. He plans to remain at...
Senior post player Shiquan Cox said Triton had some extra motivation in a 68-52 win over Western Harnett in the first round of the Tri-County Six 3-A Conference varsity boys basketball tournament on Monday night. Not only were the Hawks hoping to validate their resume...
Pairings for the boys and girls varsity basketball tournaments in the Tri-County Six 3-A Conference were set Saturday at Western Harnett. The boys and girls tournaments each get underway on Monday with two games and two byes in each division. The Southern Lee boys and...
UPDATE: Shiquan Cox of Triton was 10th in the shot put in the NCHSAA 3-A meet at the JDL Fast Track in Winston-Salem on Saturday with a heave of 43 feet, 8.75 inches. TyQuan Chestnut had a time of 8.57 seconds in the 55-meter hurdles for 25th.
The Triton varsity girls basketball took a 48-40 Tri-County Six 3-A Conference win at Lee County on Friday night as Ana-Beth Brewer led the way with 15 points. “We played our best game of the season,” said Lady Hawks coach Keith Howard. “It was a...
Triton sophomore Josiah Bailey scored a point for the Hawks in the NCHSAA 3-A swim meet at Cary on Thursday with a 16th-place finish in the 200-yard freestyle. Bailey had a time of one minute, 52.43 seconds in the preliminaries and was clocked in 1:53.26 in the finals...
Triton’s varsity boys basketball team snapped a five-game losing streak with a 67-65 Tri-County Six 3-A Conference win in double overtime at Harnett Central on Wednesday night. The old basketball adage about the difficulty of beating a good team three times was...
After De’Marius Staton signed with St. Augustine’s on Wednesday, Triton coach Ben Penny said it was his proudest moment as a head coach. It was more about what Staton did in the classroom than what he did on the field during his four years on the varsity,...
Triton football standout De’Marius Staton is scheduled to sign with St. Augustine’s on Wednesday. Staton had 178 carries for 1,150 yards and 10 touchdowns in 2017 as the primary fullback in the Hawks’ Wing-T. He also had five catches for 51 yards....
The Union Pines varsity girls basketball team jumped out to a 20-0 first-quarter lead and took a 55-22 Tri-County Six 3-A Conference win at Triton on Monday night. The Viking boys seemed to have similar designs to dominate as they moved out to an early 18-6 advantage,...
