From the outside, the trajectories of the Hunt High and Southern Nash varsity football teams couldn’t be any different heading into Friday’s 3-A Big East Conference affair inside …
Barton dealt another OT league loss
Not again! For the fifth time in eight NCAA Division II Conference Carolinas women’s soccer matches, Barton College was extended into overtime on a Thursday night when it honored seniors …
Student-athlete of the week
Thomas Law Attorneys Student-Athlete of the Week: Graham Walston, North Johnston High
Graham Walston helped …
Guess Who?
Guess Who?
“Guess Who?” is a weekly photo feature from The Wilson Times sports photo archives that will run each Saturday in the Times sports section. If you know or would like to guess who is in the photo, …
Football Forecast
Football Forecast Week 10
With 11 games last week, Sheldon Vick moves into second place as this week sees little deviation in picks.
AREA ROUNDUP: Franklinton bests Hunt for Big East tournament championship
FRANKLINTON — The 3-A Big East Conference varsity volleyball season, in regards to Franklinton and Hunt, followed the same script for the second straight year.
Franklinton, in its …
Toisnot moves to 5-0, routs Springfield
The undefeated Toisnot football team left Springfield its fifth victim by a 46-0 margin Thursday in remaining atop the South Division in the Tri Counties Conference.
Scoring …
Growing by leaps and bounds
“Good, better, best! Never let it rest until your good is better and your better’s best. Never settle for less than God’s best.”
It’s a saying with which students and teachers at Wilson …
AREA ROUNDUP: Fike stops Jacksonvillle 5-1 in 3-A tennis playoff first round
JACKSONVILLE — Junior Reagan Brown, who learned Monday she would be in the starting lineup, registered the clinching point for the 3-A Big East Conference champion Fike High girls tennis team that …
Fike to the finish
The Fike High varsity boys soccer team wrapped up a dominating 2018 season against archrival Hunt — and the rest of the 3-A Big East Conference — with a 4-0 Senior Night triumph Wednesday …
MIDDLE SCHOOL ROUNDUP: Wildcats, Vikings end in a draw again
For the second time this season, boys soccer teams from Elm City and Springfield battled to a tie.
The host Vikings and Wildcats finished 2-2 after two 30-minute halves …
Short-handed NCSsD blasted by South Carolina SD 40-14
MORGANTON — The combined North Carolina Schools for the Deaf eight-player football team dropped to 0-2 on the season with a 40-14 loss to South Carolina School for the Deaf on Oct. 6 on the campus …
FIKE@50
The story: Durham 21, Wilson 6
The Fike High Cyclones got a dose of reality from a familiar source in the sixth game of the 1968 varsity football season.
Fike, on its way to the second of its three straight North Carolina High …
From the game’s first play of scrimmage, the air space over the field at Cyclone Country Stadium at Fike High belonged to the … Read More
FIKE @ 50
After spotting host Raleigh Broughton an early touchdown, the Fike High Cyclones played impeccably on both sides of the … Read More
Saintsing headlines Barton Hall of Fame five-member induction class Friday
Veteran women’s basketball coach Wendee Saintsing heads the five-member induction class for the Barton College Athletic Hall of Fame that will be enshrined Friday evening.
Saintsing, heading …
Dahl leads Bulldogs in Donald Ross Intercollegiate
MORGANTON — The Barton College men’s golf program entered five players but did not compete as a team in the Donald Ross Intercollegiate at Mimosa Hills Golf and Country Club on Monday and …
Community Sports
Walston Martin part of USTA 18&Over 4.5 national champions
ARLINGTON, Texas — Mary Katherine Walston Martin, a 2004 graduate of Fike High and a two-time North Carolina High School Athletic Association doubles champion, was part of a Raleigh-based team …
Area calendar, Oct. 19-20
Friday, October 19
College Women’s Volleyball
Emmanuel at Barton, 5 p.m.
High School Varsity Football
C.B. Aycock at Southern Wayne, 7 p.m.; Farmville Central at …
Pro Sports
Freeman comes up short in NABF title shot
LAS VEGAS — Despite going the distance in Saturday’s bout for the vacant North American Boxing Federation junior middleweight title, Wilson boxer Jamar Freeman lost an eight-round …
College Notebooks
NC State Notebook
Wolfpack can take the next step with victory at Clemson
N.C. State has put itself in a position where a magical season is attainable.
To open doors to possibilities of division or conference titles, and perhaps beyond, the Wolfpack has to finish a …
UNC Notebook
Some losses definitely hurt more than others, and Saturday’s last-second loss to Virginia Tech …
