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Class 3-A -- C.B. Aycock 18, NE Guilford 17

PIKEVILLE -- A rain-soaked Hardy Talton Stadium in northern Wayne County seemed more like a Hollywood set Friday night. Charles B. Aycock's football team put together the kind of game-winning drive in the postseason that most coaches and players usually...

Class 3-A -- Nash Central 31, So. Wayne 20

DUDLEY -- Playing catch up. It's not a favorable thing to do in the playoffs when every play on every down is crucial, but that's the situation Southern Wayne faced 11 minutes into Friday night's battle against Nash Central. The...

Class 1-A -- Lejeune 34, Rosewood 16

The soaking, cold rain provided a provided a perfect backdrop for the mood after Rosewood's football season ended Friday night. The Eagles watched as the clock ran down to zero and visiting Lejeune had taken a 34-16 victory in the...

Class 3-AA -- E. Randolph 33, Eastern Wayne 0

RAMSEUR -- The Eastern Randolph Wildcats completed step one in their mission to return to the championship game with a 33-0 blanking of the Eastern Wayne Warriors, in first-round Class 3-AA (large school) N.C. High School Athletic Association playoff action...

Class 2-AA -- North Lenoir 24, Randleman 21

LAGRANGE -- Antonio Hamilton's four touchdowns and 333 yards of rushing led North Lenoir to a 24-21 come from behind win over visiting Randleman in the opening round of the Class 2-AA (large-school) state football playoffs. "Poetic justice," said North...

Class 2-A -- SW Onslow 22, Greene Central 0

JACKSONVILLE -- Southwest Onslow opened defense of its state championship Friday night with a 32-0 blowout of visiting Greene Central in the first round of the NCHSAA Class 2-A (small-school) playoffs. The Stallions' defense carried much of the load, limiting...

Class 1-AA -- N. Brunswick 36, Spring Creek 0

LELAND -- If one looked at the score of the opening round Class 1-A (small school) N.C. High School Athletic Association playoff game between Spring Creek and North Brunswick, the thought might prevail that Scorpions coach Garry Bishop was a...

Class 1-A -- East Wilkes 33, N. Duplin 6

RONDA -- East Wilkes had smooth sailing on a sea of mud and took a 33-6 win over North Duplin in the opening round of the N.C. High School Athletic Association Class 1-A (small-school) football playoffs, Friday night at C.E....

Gators, Eagles headline all-Carolina tennis squad

Regular-season champion Spring Creek and archrival Rosewood dominated the selections for the 2004 all-Carolina 1-A Conference girls tennis team. Leading the Gators were the No. 1 doubles of Sarah Warren-Stacy Smith, who emerged the 2004 N.C. High School Athletic Association...

Greene Central dominates, as usual, the EPC all-tennis squad

SNOW HILL -- Greene Central's entire starting lineup earned spots on the 2004 all-Eastern Plains Conference 2-A girls tennis team, while two members took the league's top awards. Junior Meredith Rouse picked up the player of the year award, while...

Seven Wayne County players earn all-ECC tennis honors

Seven players representing four Wayne County schools have earned spots on the 2004 All-Eastern Carolina 3-A Conference girls tennis team. Four-time ECC champion Charles B. Aycock had three selections -- sophomore Raychel Batts, junior Carlyn Claiborne and senior Leslie Sasser....

1-A soccer playoffs -- Devilpups survive Tigers in OT

WARSAW -- The final whistle sounded Saturday afternoon at Bill Taylor Field, signaling the end of James Kenan's best soccer season in school history after a heart-breaking 2-1 loss to Lejeune in overtime in the Class 1-A N.C. High School...

Barton stuns Mount Olive in CVAC Tournament

LAURINBURG -- The Mount Olive College volleyball team showed a great deal of heart and determination in its quarterfinal-round conference tournament match Saturday. But with the nation's fifth-leading attacker sitting on the bench with an injury, heart and determination weren't...

Mount Olive inks guard from Virginia

MOUNT OLIVE -- Mount Olive head men's basketball coach Bill Clingan has signed Justin Melton to a National Letter-of-Intent on announced Friday. Melton is the Trojans' first signee of the early signing period, which began this week. Melton, a 5-foot-10...

Trojan men gain valuable experience at UNC

CHAPEL HILL -- It can be hard to find positives from a loss, but the Mount Olive College men's basketball team learned many things from playing the University of North Carolina on Friday that will help them throughout the rest...

Class 1-AA -- James Kenan 28, Williamston 7

WARSAW -- The magic of "42" lives on for the James Kenan Tigers. James Kenan used two fourth-quarter touchdowns to put away visiting Williamston 28-7 in the opening round of the N.C. High School Athletic Association Class 1-AA (large-school) football...