After a sluggish start, a dominant performance in the second and third quarters powered Harnett Central to a 61-41 win over Western Harnett in the boys consolation game of the Harnett County Tipoff Tournament at Gore Arena inside the John W. Pope Convocation Center at...
Cape Fear Christian Academy's middle school basketball teams were dealt a pair of Southeastern Conference losses at Fayetteville Christian on Monday. The hosts won the girls game 54-15 and prevailed 41-33 in the boys contest. Ella John Dupree and Aubree Bass had six...
Cape Fear Christian Academy's varsity boys basketball team defeated Heritage Christian of West Virginia, 68-42, at Methodist University on Friday night as Eagles senior E.J. Bethea had seven 3-pointers in a 30-point performance. "We played good team defense, had good...
Triton's wrestling team participated in a quad meet Tuesday night at West Johnston, winning two of three matches. The Hawks topped Fuqauy-Varina 42-33, lost to the host Wildcats, 41-36, and ended the night with a 48-27 win over South Central of Greenville. Going 3-0...
Highland successfully defended its Harnett Area Middle School Conference football championship with a second consecutive unbeaten season. Coats-Erwin was scheduled to host 2018 runner-up Harnett Central on Monday with a chance for the Falcons to claim second place but...
Triton senior Alexis Howard, of Dunn, signed on Tuesday to play college softball at Louisburg College. “I was thinking about giving up on softball and not going,” Howard said. “(Louisburg coach) Eric (Lee) reached out to me and I knew that was what I wanted to do. I...
Triton and Western Harnett opened their respective varsity boys basketball seasons Tuesday at Harnett Central with a double-overtime thriller that saw the Hawks edge the Eagles with a 62-58 win to advance to the Harnett County Tipoff Tournament championship for the...
Harnett Central rebounded from a narrow loss to Overhills on Monday night by routing visiting Triton 64-28 in the girls consolation game of the Harnett County Tipoff Tournament on Tuesday evening. “I told the girls the one big difference between last night and...
South Johnston opened its 2018-19 varsity boys basketball season on Monday night with a 66-42 win over visiting Midway as C.J. Ray led the Trojans with 24 points. Thomas Dees had 10 points in the win. Jacob Thornton and JaQuain Smith added eight points each. "We shot...
The Midway varsity girls basketball team opened its season on Monday night with a 43-24 win at South Johnston as Alyssa Wrench had 19 points and eight rebounds. Wrench made eight of 13 field goal attempts. Jenna Pope had eight points and 13 rebounds for the Lady...
Boys basketball teams from Cape Fear Christian Academy took a pair of wins at Southern Wake Academy on Monday night. The CFCA junior varsity boys improved to 4-0 with a 43-40 win as Zeke Brock scored 13 points. The CFCA varsity boys (5-1) had an easier time with a...
Overhills, the defending champion in both the boys and girls Harnett County Tipoff Tournament, advanced to the championships again Monday with wins over host Harnett Central. In the girls game, a rematch of last year’s championship, a late surge helped Overhills edge...
