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Sunday, November 7, 2004

MOC women win CVAC soccer title

BELMONT -- The team picked to finish last in the women's soccer conference standings is the team coming home with the championship trophy. Gina Dos Santos scored two goals and tournament Most Valuable Player Melanie Cobb capped the match...

Falcons fall in eastern regional finals

MOUNT OLIVE - A tournament-tested, offensive-minded operation. That's how veteran Charles B. Aycock girls tennis coach Luke Vail characterized juggernaut East Chapel Hill - the six-time defending N.C. High School Athletic Association Class 3-A dual-team champion. No one will challenge...

Rams denied elusive state title

BURLINGTON -- Seven trips equals seven losses. It's a frustrating and disappointing equation that Greene Central girls tennis coach Donald Clark certainly doesn't favor. But it happens to be the result that occurs each season when the Rams appear...

Bulldogs dominate Tigers

TEACHEY -- The highly-anticipated matchup between Class 1-A Super Six heavyweights Wallace-Rose Hill and James Kenan never materialized before a standing-room-only crowd of 1,500-plus fans at Thell B. Overman Field. In fact, you could say the championship tilt went to...

Southern Wayne upsets West Craven

VANCEBORO -- Southern Wayne's Walter Best scored a touchdown to put the Saints within one at West Craven, then converted a shovel-pass for the two-point conversion as the Saints knocked off West Craven 28-27 on Friday on the road. Best...

Aycock posts huge numbers at Washington

WASHINGTON -- Charles B. Aycock quarterback Wesley Whitley threw for a season-high 302 yards with three touchdowns to three different receivers as the Golden Falcons closed the season with a 52-35 win at Washington. The point total (52) and total...

Tarboro wins EPC title

TARBORO -- North Lenoir football coach Wayne Jackson compares the Class 2-A N.C. High School Athletic Association playoffs to a game of "Football Survivor." His Hawks enter the postseason hoping to bounce back off of a 38-13 loss at Tarboro...

Warriors fall in regular season finale

KINSTON -- Eastern Wayne High School football coach Jeff Price had the look of a man that knew something special was just out of his grasp. "Our goal as a staff after off-season preparations was that we thought we had...

Rosewood tops rival Bulldogs

PRINCETON -- After their 48-6 win at Princeton, it's on to the Class 1-A N.C. High School Athletic Association playoffs for the Rosewood football team. The Eagles earned the No. 2 seed in the Carolina Conference. Coach Daniel Barrow's club...

Rebels blank Gators

CALYPSO -- North Duplin quarterback Brad Lloyd was involved in all three touchdowns as North Duplin closed out the regular-season with a 22-0 victory over Spring Creek Friday at Grubbs Field. Lloyd ran for a pair of touchdowns and threw...

Rams crush South Lenoir

SNOW HILL -- Junior tailback Chris Hodges ran for 152 yards and scored three touchdowns as Greene Central popped South Lenoir 41-6 in the regular-season finale Friday at the James R. Fulghum Ahtletic Complex. The victory puts Greene Central (6-5,...

MOC men advance to championship

BELMONT -- Mount Olive goalkeeper Chris Roush made a save on Queens' final penalty kick attempt and senior Michael Fuhrer put home the game winner as No. 4 seed Mount Olive won a penalty kick shootout over top-seeded Queens in...

Cross country championship Ñ EW's Collins finishes second, team takes fifth

CLEMMONS-- In the Class 3-A N.C. High School Athletic Association boy's state championship, Asheville T. C. Roberson had four runners among the top 18 in team scoring to take the title on Saturday at Tanglewood Park with 75 points. East...

Prep soccer playoffs

AHOSKIE -- Eastern Wayne junior Adam Corley turned in his first hat trick (three goals) of his career as the Warriors rolled past Herftord County 9-0 in the second round of the Class 3-A N.C. High School Athletic Association playoffs...

Rosewood soccer advances to third round

Rosewood used a rock-hard defense and took timely chances to make school soccer history Saturday night. The Eagles beat Pamlico 3-1 in the second round of the Class 1-A N.C. High School Athletic Association soccer playoffs at Branch Pope Field....