Former Pfeiffer coach Jordan Stampler has joined the Campbell baseball staff as director of player development. … West Forsyth offensive guard Jared Wilson has changed his commitment from North Carolina to Georgia. A first team All-State pick, Wilson had 71 pancake blocks as a junior. … The Carolina Hurricanes completed a 3-game sweep of the […]
Quick Hits
Tuesday, August 4
The Carolina Hurricanes took a 2-0 lead in their best-of-5 NHL series with the New York Rangers as Andrei Svechnikov had three goals in a 4-1 win in Toronto on Monday. … Don Gardner has resigned as varsity girls basketball coach at Fayetteville Christian School. Gardner also coached the Warrior boys the past two seasons. […]
Monday, August 3
N.C. State alumnus T.J. Warren scored 53 points for the Indiana Pacers on Sunday in a 127-121 win over Philadelphia. … Dunn Area Sports has received its 156,000th view. Thank you! … A final round 65 helped Justin Thomas win the St. Jude Invitational by three strokes. … Brad Keselowski nipped Denny Hamlin to win […]
Sunday, August 2
The Tarboro River Bandits topped the Fuquay-Varina Twins, 2-1, at Tarboro Municipal Stadium for the Carolina-Virginia College Summer League tournament championship on Saturday as Phillip Boykin hit a walk-off home run in the bottom of the seventh. The Twins, who won the regular season, eliminated the Carolina Pirates of Lillington, 12-4, in Saturday’s first game. […]
Saturday, August 1
The host Tarboro River Bandits topped the Fuquay-Varina Twins, 3-1, on Friday night in the Carolina-Virginia Summer College League tournament. The Twins face the Carolina Pirates of Lillington today at 2 p.m. in an elimination game. The winner of that game takes on Tarboro at 5 p.m. and needs to win to force a deciding […]
Friday, July 31
The top-seeded Fuquay-Varina Twins play the host Tarboro River Bandits in the semifinals of the Carolina-Virginia Summer College League tournament tonight at 8 p.m. The Carolina Pirates of Lillington face the Roxboro Thunder in an elimination game at 5 p.m. The event can be seen on YouTube at 2020 CVCL Tournament. … River Ennis and […]
Thursday, July 30
The Fuquay-Varina Twins advanced in the Carolina-Virginia Summer College League tournament with a 7-3 win over the Carolina Pirates of Lillington on Wednesday night in Tarboro. Hunter Barnes (Harnett Central, Methodist) pitched five and two-thirds innings for the win and Kyle Davis (Mount Olive) got the save. Koby Collins (Campbell) reached base four times and […]
Wednesday, July 29
The 35th annual Harnett County Educators tournament was played Tuesday at Keith Hills. First flight winners with a 55 in the superball format over the Orange and Black nines were Bob Beasley, Hank Hurd, Marcus Stanaland and Drew Harrington. The team of Rodney Pope, Timmy Holder, Andrew Pope and Travis Godfrey won the second flight […]
Tuesday, July 28
Point guard Jamael Carter, who made All-Sandhills Conference as a senior at Cape Fear Christian Academy in 2019-20, has decided to play at Averett University in Danville, Virginia. … Campbell women’s golf coach John Crooks has added transfers Tomita Arejola from Fairleigh Dickinson, Emily Mollard from Exeter in England and freshman Sanna Lundmark of Sweden. […]
Monday, July 27
The Fuquay-Varina Twins summer collegiate baseball team swept a doubleheader with Lillington at Western Harnett on Sunday by scores of 10-2 and 7-1 (see News & Features below). … Michael Thompson won the 3M Open at the TPC Twin Cities course in Blaine, Minnesota, by two shots on Sunday, finishing at 19-under par with a […]