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EPC finals set for Saturday, Big East to play Friday night
Conference championship implications will be at stake in the 2-A Eastern Plains Conference on Saturday night.
As for the 3-A Big East Conference, it’s wait and see.
With the North …
DUKE NOTEBOOK
For Duke, NC State loss is a one-off
RALEIGH — The last two times Duke won national championships in 2010 and 2015, the Blue Devils’ regular season included a double-digit loss at N.C. State’s arena. The Wolfpack won …
Lady Chargers move past Alamance in NCCSA 2-A quarterfinals
GREENSBORO — Facing a man-to-man defense against a team that has given it trouble historically, the Wilson Christian varsity girls basketball team authored a 50% showing from the field Thursday …
Taking action with a crisis
I wrote about the crisis currently going on in the United States with declining hunting and fishing license sales, despite a growth in population over the past couple of decades. The dollars …
Area calendar, Feb. 21-22
Friday, February 21
College Men’s Volleyball
Barton at Queens, 7 p.m.
High School Varsity Boys Basketball
NCISAA 1-A playoffs at Matthews Covenant Day, semifinals — Greenfield …
Student-athlete of the week
Farris & Thomas Law Attorneys Student-Athlete of the Week: Madison Carnes, Wilson Christian Academy
Madison Carnes was a central factor in an undefeated week for her Wilson Christian Academy varsity girls basketball team, making her this week’s Farris & Thomas Law Attorneys …
Guess Who?
Guess Who?
“Guess Who?” is a weekly photo feature from The Wilson Times sports photo archives that will run each week in the Times sports section. If you know or would like to guess who is in the …
Lady Bruins play for a cause
A 61-47 win for the Beddingfield varsity girls basketball team before a home crowd on Wednesday night in the semifinals of the 2-A Eastern Plains Conference tournament marked a three-game sweep of …
Fike trips Hunt to reach Big East finals
For much of the 3-A Big East Conference schedule, the Fike High varsity boys basketball team had been flirting with knocking off a top team.
Thursday night in the semifinals, the Golden Demons …
Curtain lifts Friday on NCHSAA wrestling championships
Eighteen wrestlers from The Wilson Times readership area will launch bids at a North Carolina High School Athletic Association individual state championship when action gets underway at Greensboro …
AREA ROUNDUP: Lady Warriors reach Big East finals, top Northern Nash
ROCKY MOUNT — Recovering from a slow start, the Hunt High varsity girls basketball team turned to senior Imani Sutton to help steady the course in the second quarter and send the Lady Warriors …
Big East finals, others now in limbo
The 3-A Big East Conference basketball tournament championship games are now in limbo.
After Wilson County Schools opted to cancel after-school activities Wednesday, scheduled Thursday title games …
It's the state championship edition of The Life and Times Podcast as the boys discuss Southern Nash impending title game against Charlotte Catholic as well as a quick overview of what's happened so …
Wolfpack shows NCAA form with rout of No. 6 Duke
RALEIGH — Ah, this must have been what it was like in the older, smaller ACC days when N.C. State played on an NCAA Tournament level with neighboring Duke and North Carolina for bragging rights …
Balanced attack carries Bulldogs past Trojans
Isaiah Reddish and company left no doubt before a home crowd on Wednesday night as the Barton College men’s basketball team led from tipoff to final buzzer in an 84-61 Conference Carolinas …
Community Sports
Wilson Recreation Department Results
Youth futsal
RESULTS
Matches from Feb. 8
Ages 5-6
Green 18 – Blue 0: Green- Connor Patterson 7, Shradha Das 6, Mason Burnette 3, Isabel Herrera 2
Orange 11 – Red 3: …
Pro Sports
HORNETS NOTEBOOK
Charlotte looks to get younger after releasing vets Williams, MKG
CHARLOTTE — The inevitable moves happened Saturday as a pair of long-time Charlotte Hornets were jettisoned to make way for a commitment to the youth movement.
Marvin Williams and Michael …
College Notebooks
Duke Notebook
Coach K pleased with the growth of his young Blue Devils
DURHAM — Mike Krzyzewksi, Duke’s hall-of-fame basketball coach, sounded positively giddy Monday night, just three days before his 73rd birthday. And that’s a good thing not to be …
UNC Notebook
UNC fans can be forgiven if they feel like they’re living the plot of Groundhog Day, watching the same game on repeat. North Carolina gets a second-half lead and appears to be in control, then …
NC State Notebook
The NET ratings, strength of schedules, win-loss records within certain quadrants, and other mitigating factors that determine the NCAA Tournament worthiness of a team are not needing dissection at …
ECU Notebook
It’s atypical to see a college football program sign three scholarship quarterbacks in one recruiting class, but East Carolina felt the talented trio the Pirates inked as part of the 2020 cycle …
Carlester Crumpler.
Car-les-ter. Crump-ler.
The alliterative rhythm of the name lends to the overall legend of its owner, who … Read More
In the end, it was just like head coach Henry Trevathan said it would for his Fike High Cyclones football team in 1969.
The veteran … Read More
Wedged among the layers that make up the remarkable tale of Fike High School’s three straight state 4-A championships in … Read More
