Aiden Taylor, who played quarterback in football and catcher in baseball, is the Male Athlete of the Year at Harnett Central. Co-winners of the Female Athlete of the Year award are Kalina Monte and Victoria Langdon. ... The 39th annual Harnett County Educators Golf...
Midway has some significant arrivals and departures. Barrett Sloan is the new football coach at Midway after Kyle Stevens left to be defensive coordinator at Holly Springs. Sloan played quarterback for the Raiders when his dad, Tommy Sloan, for whom Midway's football...
Former Midway and Campbell baseball star Matthew Barefoot has retired from professional baseball due to back and shoulder issues. He was a sixth-round draft choice by Houston in 2019. Barefoot hit 23 home runs and stole 23 bases in portions of four minor league...
Vance Honeycutt hit two home runs for UNC in a 6-2 win over defending College World Series champion LSU on Saturday in the Chapel Hill regional. The Tigers face Wofford in an elimination game. The winner would have to top the Tar Heels twice to win the regional. ......
After stints at Southern Nash, Bunn and East Wake, Gerald Melton has been named varsity boys basketball coach at South Johnston. ... Tamia Gwynn had Midway's only hit in a 13-0 loss in five innings to Southwestern Randolph in the first game of the best of three series...
Midway has a .369 team batting average going into its NCHSAA 2-A softball championship best of three series with Southwestern Randolph, which starts tonight at 7:30 at UNC Greensboro. Freshman Kylie Stonerock has six home runs for the Raiders (21-3). ... Wanda Watkins...
Paul Gervase (Harnett Central, LSU) has three saves in seven appearances for the Binghamton (New York) Rumble Ponies in the Double-A Eastern League. Gervase has 14 strikeouts in nine and one-third innings with a 1.93 earned run average and 1-0 record. Binghamton...
Zach Bingham of Harnett Central is Coach of the Year in baseball in the All American Conference after the Trojans went from 10-13 in 2023 to 20-9 in 2024. Player of the Year honors in the AAC in baseball went to Aiden Taylor of Central. Taylor hit .500 (27-for-54) as...
The brackets for the NCAA baseball tournament were announced on Monday. Host N.C. State meets Bryant on Friday (ESPN+, 7 p.m.). South Carolina and James Madison also play in the Raleigh regional on Friday (ESPN+, 2 p.m.). ... UNC was awarded the No. 4 national seed...
Ben Miller had three hits with two home runs and six RBIs for Duke in a 16-4 win over Florida State for the ACC baseball tournament championship on Sunday in Charlotte. ... Teams designated as regional hosts for the NCAA baseball tournament on Sunday night include...
Hobbton's run in the NCHSAA 1-A girls soccer playoffs ended with an 8-0 fourth-round loss at Voyager in Durham on Friday night. ... Midway (21-3) will take on Southwestern Randolph (21-7) in a best of three series for the NCHSAA 2-A softball championship. ... Grayson...
New Campbell football coach Braxton Harris was the guest speaker for the graduation ceremony at Cape Fear Christian Academy on Friday night. ... In the ACC baseball tournament on Friday in Charlotte, Florida State was a 12-7 winner over Virginia, Clemson edged...
