Goldsboro News-Argus | Sports: January 23, 2005 Archives

First-place Spring Creek explodes on North Duplin

CALYPSO - No comeback this time. Spring Creek's varsity men found their offensive rhythm early, posted a 31-point first quarter and turned back archrival North Duplin 94-61 in Class 1-A Carolina Conference play Friday evening. Lauren Blackmore netted a career-high...

Mount Olive men win fourth straight

From staff reports ANDERSON, S.C. - Mount Olive outscored Anderson College 14-5 over the final 31/2 minutes to pull out an 81-72, NCAA Division II Carolinas-Virginia Athletic Conference victory Saturday afternoon at the Abney Center. Mount Olive, 13-2 overall and...

Ziemer's clutch free throws lift WCDS women

Two free throws from Laura Ziemer. That's all the Wayne Country Day women's basketball team needed to overcome 21 turnovers. Ziemer converted two free-throw attempts with 3.2 seconds remaining, and senior forward Christin Grubb scored a game-high 18 points as...

Saints escape C.B. Aycock with ECC victory

PIKEVILLE - On a team that has been balanced all season, Southern Wayne's Delawn Armwood had the hot hand on Friday night at Charles B. Aycock. It was certainly within the realm of possibility for him to take the final...

MOC tennis teams to aid tsunami victims

MOUNT OLIVE - The Mount Olive College men's and women's tennis teams will conduct a series of tennis clinics on Saturday, Jan. 29, at the John Neal Walker Tennis Center on the campus of Mount Olive College. Proceeds from...

Farmville Central sweeps Rosewood in Carolina 1-A action

Final scores of Friday night's Rosewood-Farmville Central basketball games hardly tell the tale of being oh so close, and yet so far. The same bad dream kept coming true. Not only did the Eagles drop both contests to the visiting...

Anderson hands MOC women second straight defeat

ANDERSON, S.C. - Deidra Langston scored 29 points, and Stephanie Ponds added 20 to lead the 10th-ranked Anderson College women's basketball team to an 82-47 rout of Mount Olive in their NCAA Division II Carolinas-Virginia Athletic Conference game Saturday afternoon...

Eastern Wayne wrestlers continue late-season surge

The Eastern Wayne wrestling team continued its late-season surge by claiming a tri-meet Friday evening against county rival Rosewood and South Johnston. The Warriors knocked off the Eagles for the second time this season, 39-36, and nearly doubled up the...