Down East topped visiting Buies Creek 1-0 on Wednesday night to take a one-game lead in the Carolina League Southern Division first-half season baseball race. The teams play tonight at 7 at Grainger Stadium in Kinston. … Dunn Area Sports received its 33,000th view...
Erwin will be hosting Tar Heel District 4 softball tournaments for 10-and-under and 12-and-under at Al Woodall Park on July 9-11. … The Dunn Majors (12-and-under) baseball tournament has been reset for Thursday at 6 p.m. at the Nathan Harris Athletic Complex at Tyler...
Golden State moved into its fourth straight NBA finals with a 101-92 win at Houston on Monday night in game seven of the Western Conference championship series as Kevin Durant scored 34 points. The Rockets, playing without Chris Paul due to a hamstring injury, had a...
Matthew Barefoot (Midway) is hitting .357 with 54 runs, both team highs, for Campbell going into the NCAA Tournament. The Camels learn their regional destination today at noon (ESPNU). … East Carolina, North Carolina and N.C. State have been designated as regional...
Dillon Stewart (Triton) had a double and three RBIs for UNC Greensboro in a 15-7 win over Wofford in the Southern Conference tournament in Greenville, S.C. on Friday. … Cape Fear Christian Academy's varsity boys basketball team has been invited to play in the City...
Dillon Stewart (Triton) had a hit and an RBI on Thursday in an 11-7 win for UNC Greensboro (38-14) in the Southern Conference tournament in Greenville, S.C. The top-seeded Spartans were stunned 10-2 by No. 9 Western Carolina on Wednesday. … Winston-Salem topped the...
High Point's Joseph Johnson (South Johnston) pitched six innings on Tuesday but was not involved in the decision as the Panthers got past Charleston Southern 6-5 in 11 innings in the Big South Conference tournament at Liberty. The Panthers (33-21) topped Radford, 6-3,...
Cape Fear Christian Academy junior Marcus Owens is the son of former Wake Forest basketball player Trelonnie Owens. … Wake Forest won the NCAA men's tennis championship Tuesday 4-2 over visiting Ohio State. That marked two national championships in two days for the...
The Buies Creek Astros have changed their home game times. Monday through Friday, contests will get underway at 6 p.m. at Jim Perry Stadium. Play will start at 5 p.m. on Saturdays and 2 p.m. on Sundays. Buies Creek fell 9-1 to the visiting Carolina Mudcats on Sunday...
Senior Delaney Cumbie and sophomore Paige Jeffries were named to the All-Sandhills Athletic Conference softball team from Cape Fear Christian Academy. Wesley Jackson of CFCA was all-conference in baseball. ... Matthew Barefoot (Midway) is hitting .340 for Campbell...
Brooks Matthews, Pastor Ronny Holmes and NeWanda Colvin provided perspective on the exemplary life of former coach, teacher and school administrator Dan Honeycutt with their remembrances during Saturday's memorial service at Triton. We have to remember that Dan is in...
The visitation for former Triton coach, principal and Harnett County Schools administrator Dan Honeycutt is from 5 to 8 p.m. this evening at the Triton auditorium. The funeral service is at the Triton auditorium at 11 a.m. Saturday. ... The Buies Creek Astros did not...
