Goldsboro News-Argus | Sports: February 8, 2004 Archives

MOC baseball splits home opener with Catawba

MOUNT OLIVE -- Veteran Mount Olive College baseball coach Carl Lancaster hasn't quite figured out if Ricky Duke will crack the starting pitching rotation. Duke lobbied his case Saturday afternoon. The right-handed junior scattered six hits in a six-inning...

Warriors take pair from Southern Wayne

Eastern Wayne's senior basketball players made their last regular season game in New Hope home one to remember. The Warriors won both games against Eastern Carolina 3-A Confer-ence foe Southern Wayne Friday night. The girls' 55-37 win and the...

Tired Gators fall to Ayden-Grifton

SEVEN SPRINGS -- Spring Creek's boys basketball team knew first place in the Class 1-A Carolina Conference was on the line Friday night at home against Ayden-Grifton. The Gators wanted it. They just didn't have the legs. Playing its fifth...

Prep boys for weekend

Free-throws proved a huge difference in the outcome of Rosewood's clash at home with North Johnston Friday. The Panthers made 82 percent of their foul shots, knocking down 14-of-17 on the game. The Eagles made just four-of-18 from the stripe,...

Hawks sweep North Pitt

Courtesy Kinston Free Press LAGRANGE -- North Lenoir junior Justin Dunn added another chapter to his growing legend Friday night, exploding for 16 of his 30 points in the pivotal third quarter of the Hawks' 74-55 win at home against...

Goldsboro's girls, Kinston's boys clinch titles

The humidity was the topic of conversation Friday as Goldsboro and Kinston staged another basketball war. But even the unusual heat -- and the condensation that sopped the floor of Goldsboro High School's gym -- could not stop two...

Girls weekend roundup

North Johnston's Helen Moore scored a game-high 17 points as the Panthers slipped past Rosewood 52-46 in a crucial Class 1-A Carolina Conference showdown at the Eagles' gymnasium. Moore also had nine rebounds and six steals. With the win, North...

Trojan Men's Basketball Defeats Coker

HARTSVILLE, S.C. -- Marcus West scored 20 points and Sean Barnett added 17 points as No. 20 Mount Olive College defeated host Coker 70-46 in Carolinas-Virginia Athletics Conference men's basketball Thursday at Hartsville. The win was Mount Olive's 12th in...

Greene Central athletes mourn loss

SNOW HILL -- Charles Gamble looked upward. Tears welled up in his eyes. The public announcement was made before Tuesday's varsity boys basketball game that his friend and teammate Delaun Wade, known at the school as Delaun Sullivan, passed...

Aycock's girls win on road; boys fall

WINTERVILLE -- This time Lela Reid executed the play with perfection. Tied at 36-36, Reid threw an inbounds pass to Joyce Warrick, who converted the layup and got fouled as the ball rolled through the hoop. Warrick added the...