"We're ready" - GHS girls take ECC tournament championship

It wasn't just a win. It was a statement, made by Goldsboro High School's girls basketball team Friday night as the lady Cougars took on Kinston for the Class 3-A Eastern Carolina Conference tournament championship. The message -- "we're...

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WCDS girls win CPIC tourney

HENDERSON -- Wayne Country Day's Louise Northington came up big in the final 15 seconds of the game as the Chargers defeated top-seeded Greenfield School 31-29 in the opening round of the Coastal Plain Independent Conference tournament at Kerr-Vance Academy....

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Kenan loses in Super Six finals

Courtesy Warsaw-Faison News HOBBTON -- A pair of old rivals dashed James Kenan's attempt at a pair of upsets over top seeds in the Super Six 1-A Conference tournament championship games Saturday night. In the boys final, top-seeded Wallace-Rose Hill...

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NJ can't stay with Farmville in Carolina girls title

MOUNT OLIVE -- North Johnston girls basketball coach David Bagwell knew coming into the game that stopping Farmville Central's do-it-all point guard Megan Zullo would obviously be a huge key in the Class 1-A Carolina Conference Tournament championship. There...

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NL girls win EPC tourney crown

Courtesy Kinston Free Press BETHEL -- North Lenoir's Shannon Plymouth and Lonnie Jones helped their team shake off a slow start and pull away from SouthWest Edgecombe 50-41 to win the Eastern Plains 2-A Conference Tournament and the league's top...

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NL boys fall to bad slump in EPC title game

Courtesy Kinston Free Press BETHEL -- North Lenoir had the Eastern Plains Conference tournament title in their hands as the fourth quarter opened in Friday night's EPC title game at the North Pitt gym. The Hawks had built a 14-point...

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Gator boys fall in Carolina boys championship

MOUNT OLIVE -- It's an adage that Spring Creek boys basketball coach Sonny Kilpatrick has subscribed to since he began his coaching career -- "Put yourself in position to win in the end, and you've got a chance." His...

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