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Fike High’s Jake Herring watches a fairway shot during the second of the NCHSAA 3-A championships May 14, 2019, at Foxfire Resort and Golf Club at Foxfire Village. Herring, now a junior, finished 11th at the state tournament last season and, with this season likely canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic, won’t be to contend for the title again.
Championship dreams floating away?: Fike junior Jake Herring may never get chance at state title
Jake Herring, a 16-year-old junior at Fike High, possesses the competitive drive and certainly the talent to follow in the footsteps of John-Tyler Griffin and Bryson Boyette as Fike’s only … more
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Fike senior outfielder Lydia Hunt, a mainstay in the top of the batting order for the Lady Golden Demons, will play at Division III William Peace University.
Fike’s Hunt to extend softball career at William Peace
In the midst of an abbreviated sixth season as the head varsity softball coach at Fike High and beforehand as an assistant, Josh Jenkins has seen a few faces cycle through the outfield of the Lady … more
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Hunt senior Bria Griffith (1) dribbles as Rocky Mount freshman Caroline Thiel pursues her during an NCHSAA 3-A third-round playoff game Feb. 29 at Rocky Mount High. Both players were named to the N.C. Basketball Coaches Association’s All-District 3 first team.
Hunt’s Griffith, SWE’s Porter top area NCBCA All-District 3 picks
Seniors Bria Griffith of Hunt and Keishon Porter of SouthWest Edgecombe lead a contingent of eight players from The Wilson Times readership area to earn All-District 3 acclaim from the North Carolina … more
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Wilson Tobs infielder Chris Meyers steps into the batter’s box at Fleming Stadium during a Coastal Plain League game against the Edenton Steamers on July 30, 2019. Meyers, an All-CPL first-team selection last summer, is one of seven players returning to the Tobs for the 2020 season.
‘Lucky Seven’ back to chase Petitt Cup dreams
Chris Meyers, Jared Carr, Hunter Gore, J.T. Stone, Reese Farmer, Chase Wullenweber and Coleman Sawyer — call them the “Lucky Seven” They have been so dubbed because they are the … more
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NCHSAA extends athletic shutdown to at least May 18
The chance for high school sports to return this spring in North Carolina took another hit Monday when Gov. Roy Cooper issued an executive order closing all public schools in the state through May 15 … more
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Babe Allen has been a high school and college umpire for more than three decades. Allen, also an NCHSAA regional supervisor for umpires, said that the shutdown due to the coronavirus is taking its toll on game officials, many of whom rely on the additional income.
Sidelined: How COVID-19 affects umpires
In the days since the COVID-19 pandemic sidelined the sports world, Babe Allen’s phone has been blowing up with text messages. On March 13, the North Carolina High School Athletic … more
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Beddingfield 6-foot-4 senior center Makayla Everette poses with Lady Bruins head coach Debra Pegram after a game this season. Everette signed with Louisburg College on Monday.
Lady Bruins’ Everette to take her size, skills to Louisburg
Debra Pegram knew Makayla Everette was going to be a special player the first time the Beddingfield High varsity girls basketball coach met her future star at a summer basketball camp about seven … more
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Fike players Colton Moats (11) and Cooper Porter slap hands after Moats scored during the Golden Demons’ 4-2 win over Greenville Rose on March 13 in what could have been the final game of the season due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The cost of not playing: Shutdown will also hurt high school sports economy
While professional sports leagues and the NCAA will count financial losses in the hundreds of millions of dollars because of the shutdown due to the coronavirus pandemic, the squeeze felt by … more
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Beddingfield catcher Anna Gardner, standing at the plate during a game at Hunt on April 1, 2019, is one of two Lady Bruins seniors, along with Sheyenne Skinner, who hope the coronavirus outbreak won’t end their final high school season prematurely.
‘It just hurts’: Uncertainty of seasons weighing on coaches, senior athletes
As far as days on the sports field go, last Thursday wasn’t a good one in Wilson County. Mere minutes after the North Carolina High School Athletic Association released its decision to … more
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SouthWest Edgecombe’s Keishon Porter, left, driving against Jatavis Highsmith during a game Feb. 14 at Beddingfield, was named to the North Carolina team for the Carolinas Classic All-Star Game that was canceled due to fears of the coronavirus outbreak.
Despite Carolinas Classic cancellation, there’s no rest for SWE’s Porter
PINETOPS — Like just about any high school athlete preparing to make the jump to the next level, the spring and summer was shaping up to a busy period of preparation for SouthWest Edgecombe … more
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Fike head coach Buck Edmundson, talking to seniors Mason Lee, left, and Cooper Porter, right, during Friday’s home game against Greenville Rose, said the Golden Leaf Invitational tournament is still on for Easter weekend, April 11-14.
Golden Leaf tourney not ruled out
Amidst the upheaval of the sports calendar due to COVID-19 concerns, the prospect of holding the 2020 Golden Leaf Invitational high school baseball tournament hasn’t been ruled out just yet. … more
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Hunt High’s four varsity baseball seniors — Slade Rand, Patrick Clark, Tyson Bass, and Blake Daniels — pose with assistant coach Larry Fulghum, left, and head coach Jon Smith, right, after defeating Bunn 11-1 in five innings Saturday at Fleming Stadium in the final game before the NCHSAA-imposed shutdown until April 6.
Can this really be the end? As seasons suspended, some seniors’ careers hang in the balance
Tyson Bass wasn’t hearing any of it. His Hunt High varsity baseball team had just finished up an 11-1 win over Bunn in five innings Friday night at Fleming Stadium, mere hours before the … more
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Shutdown hopefully won’t be final memory
Sports editor Paul Durham good naturedly (at least, that was my impression) chided me last Friday night upon wrapping up my detailed account of the day’s earlier classic — the Fike High … more
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Lady Warriors blank West Johnston 3-0
With both varsity girls soccer teams set to play this weekend in The Brittany XVI, which was canceled due to the coronavirus outbreak, Hunt and West Johnston convened Friday at Hunt for one last game … more
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Fike's Mason Lee makes the turn after reaching first base in the first inning of the Golden Demons' 4-2 win against Greenville Rose at Gilbert Ferrell Field on Friday evening. The Rose third baseman is Graham Myrick (15).
Fike scraps to emotion-charged 4-2 win against Rose before shutdown
The Fike High varsity baseball team scrapped to an emotion-charged 4-2 victory on the Gilbert Ferrell Field diamond  Friday evening in the kind of game that stirrs fans to come back for … more
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Hunt's Patrick Clark, left, meets Jarrett Aycock at home plate after Aycock scored in the second inning of Friday's game against Bunn at Fleming Stadium. The Warriors won 11-1 in five innings.
Warriors close out Bunn before hiatus, 11-1
If Senior Day came early for the Hunt High varsity baseball team, then the Warriors saved some of their best baseball for a premature ending Friday night at Fleming Stadium. Entering play against … more
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Reality of no sports sets in
The news of suspensions and cancellations in the sports world hit like mortars, each one destroying months of planning and organization, on Wednesday and Thursday, leaving little time to digest the … more
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AREA ROUNDUP: Ladybirds blank Nash Central 4-0 in final Friday game
ROCKY MOUNT — With a shutdown of all sports imminent due to the threat of an outbreak of the coronavirus, varsity girls soccer teams from Nash Central and Southern Nash moved their scheduled … more
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Beddingfield’s Lynsey Reason (13) and Princeton’s Yuliana Morales vie for possession of the ball during their match at The Brittany XV on March 9, 2019 at Gillette Soccer Complex. Due to the COVID-19 virus, showcase officials made the decision to suspend the 2020 event Thursday.
The ball stops  bouncing: NCHSAA, NCISAA to halt play; The Brittany XVI suspended
Following the lead from professional and collegiate sports leagues, the fallout from COVID-19 reached the high school and local levels Thursday afternoon. On a day where the NCAA announced it … more
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Wilson Christian's Lea Gossett (20) works the ball into position to crank one of her four goals in her team's 9-0 win against Greenville Christian on the Lady Chargers' pitch Thursday afternoon. Chasing is Greenville's Grace Williams (19).
Lady Chargers inflict mercy rule on Greenville Christian
The host Wilson Christian Academy varsity girls soccer team needed less than 32 minutes to bombard the Greenville Christian Academy net for nine goals in claiming a 9-0 North Carolina Christian … more
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