Goldsboro News-Argus | Sports: November 6, 2005 Archives

State champions

BURLINGTON -- Victory is like fine wine. It's years in the making and moments in the tasting. Eight-time eastern champion Greene Central finally tasted that long-awaited and sweet nectar of triumph Saturday afternoon in the N.C. High School Athletic Association...

Falcons fall in state finals

BURLINGTON -- The casual tennis observer reading the final score between Jamestown Ragsdale and Charles B. Aycock might surmise the match held little drama. That's not entirely true. The Tigers needed three tiebreakers to defeat the Golden Falcons 6-0 and...

Saints 'D' stuffs Falcons

PIKEVILLE -- Southern Wayne coach Bob Warren has seen his defense improve from week-to-week all season. Sometimes the final result and total yards allowed didn't show those positive steps, but Friday night at Charles B. Aycock, the Saints' "D" certainly...

Gators rally; grab overtime victory

SEVEN SPRINGS -- Spring Creek's football team has collected first-ever victories against Hobbton and county rival Rosewood on its way to a record-setting season. Add North Duplin to the list. Josh Wright scampered four yards for the game-winning touchdown in...

Rosewood gets 20th straight win over Princeton

None of the current Rosewood players were even born the last time a Princeton football team beat the Eagles. This year's squad made sure it stayed that way. Josh Myers ran for a game-high 114 yards and two touchdowns and...

Wallace-Rose Hill nips Tigers; wins Super Six title

WARSAW -- For the second straight year, Wallace-Rose Hill and James Kenan squared off with the Super Six 1-A championship on the line. And for the second consecutive season, the undefeated Bulldogs took the title back to southern Duplin County....

Cards come back to down Aycock

PIKEVILLE -- Halftime of a soccer match is designated for teams to rest, rehydrate and discuss strategy for the second half of play. On Saturday night at Charles B. Aycock, coach Byron Adkins almost wished there wasn't an intermission in...

Cougars crush North Pitt

By BRANDON HUGHES Courtesy Greenville Reflector BETHEL -- Goldsboro turned in a record-setting performance in a 59-0 win in its season finale at Class 2-A Eastern Plains Conference foe North Pitt on Friday. The Cougars turned in their highest point...

Rams surge past North Lenoir

By BRYAN C. HANKS Courtesy Kinston Free Press SNOW HILL -- In Greene Central's football program, junior quarterback Cameron Shelton is generously listed at 5-foot 11-inches and 175 pounds. Against North Lenoir for the Class 2-A Eastern Plains Conference championship...

Kinston gets first win against reeling Warriors

Kinston claimed its first win of the season with a 20-13 win over Eastern Wayne at the Little Big Horn on Friday night. Michael Thompson's 1-yard plunge with 17 seconds remaining broke a 13-13 tie as the Vikings ended their...