Goldsboro News-Argus | Sports: February 5, 2006 Archives

Southern Wayne takes over first in ECC

DUDLEY -- Win number 400 in Southern Wayne coach Mike Connelley's 27-year career in high school basketball couldn't have been much sweeter. Connelley, in his second year with the Saints, saw his squad turn in a near-flawless offensive performance in...

RHS girls clinch share of Carolina title

SEVEN SPRINGS -- Much of Rosewood's senior class comprises the women's volleyball team, so it was no surprise the basketball team set winning the Class 1-A Carolina Conference regular-season title as goal No. 1. Now they are 2-for-2. Clare Narron...

CBA boys, Hunt girls claim wins

PIKEVILLE -- Before Friday night's Class 3-A Eastern Carolina Conference girls basketball battle for second place between Charles B. Aycock and Wilson Hunt, Hunt's Kiara Jones was known as a practice player. Tucked safely within her gym in Wilson, Jones...

Preps roundup

Wayne Country Day's Adam Wright pumped in 35 points -- including a clutch jumper in the waning seconds that put the Chargers up for good in a 69-66 win at home over Kerr-Vance Academy in Coastal Plains Independent 1-A/2-A Conference...

Wayne County teams dominate ECC wrestling tourney

Three Wayne County teams -- Charles B. Aycock, Southern Wayne and Eastern Wayne -- combined to seize all 14 gold medals in the season-ending Class 3-A Eastern Carolina Conference wrestling tournament contested Saturday. Aycock claimed its third straight team championship...

MOC men top Anderson

ANDERSON, S.C. -- Victor Young scored a season-high 21 points and Elton Coffield added 20 points as regionally fourth-ranked Mount Olive defeated Anderson 93-79 in Carolinas-Virginia Athletics Conference men's basketball Saturday at Anderson, S.C. The Trojans used a 13-2 run...

MOC baseball sweeps opener

MOUNT OLIVE -- Southern Wayne graduate Erik Lovett's three-run homer and Eastern Wayne graduate Josh Carter's three-run double highlighted a school-record 16-run second inning as Mount Olive defeated Newberry 22-2 in game one of a non-conference baseball doubleheader Saturday at...

Outdoors - Is Navy up to old tricks?

"We want to do the right thing." That assurance came last week from Jim Brantly, spokesman for the Navy's Fleet Forces Command at Norfolk, Va. He was speaking of the Navy's environmental findings concerning its proposed sonar training range off...