Goldsboro News-Argus | Sports: January 20, 2006 Archives

Opinion - Patrolling the paint

I've got to admit, as a former guard in my backyard hoops playing days, I'm partial to the individuals and teams that can dribble, pass and shoot it from long range. There was a guy on the floor at Duke...

ECC 3-A wrestling - Golden Falcons pummel Warriors

PIKEVILLE -- Unemotional and focused on its immediate task, Charles B. Aycock's wrestling team grabbed its lunch pail and turned in a blue-collar effort Thursday evening against Wilson Hunt. The Golden Falcons notched seven falls and two decisions in 11...

Local sports digest

Greene Central matmen seize first-ever EPC 2-A title TARBORO -- Phillip Freeman notched the match-clinching fall and Greene Central nipped Tarboro High 36-33 for its first-ever Class 2-A Eastern Plains Conference regular-season, dual-team championship Thursday evening. The Rams (10-3, 3-0...

No. 17-ranked Trojan men conclude three-game homestand Saturday

The nationally 17th-ranked Mount Olive men's basketball team should be well rested going into Saturday's game. Not only have the Trojans not played since Monday, all but three players were in the game for less than 20 minutes. No. 17...

Mount Olive women prepare for Lees-McRae

Mount Olive head women's basketball coach Wendy Lee might have preferred that her team had played virtually every night this week, rather than have a four-day gap between games. She doesn't want the Trojans to lose any momentum after recording...

Women's soccer trio honored by NCCSIA

Mount Olive placed three players on the 2005 NCCSIA All-State College Division Women's Soccer Team, as selected by members of the North Carolina Collegiate Sports Information Association. Midfielder April Jacobs was named to the team for the second year in...