Goldsboro News-Argus | Sports: February 14, 2006 Archives

Jackson sparks Lady Cougars to first round win

FARMVILLE -- Fifth-year Goldsboro High women's basketball coach Gladys McClary finally got to see the passion, determination and hustle that's been missing from her team Monday evening. And it came from one player -- senior Chevoya Jackson. "She must have...

SW girls, Bruin boys emerge

WILSON -- Keyed by improved defense in the second half, Southern Wayne's girls basketball team erased a seven-point halftime deficit and claimed a 47-38 win over rival Eastern Wayne in the first round of the Class 3-A Eastern Carolina Conference...

Spring Creek and Princeton girls advance to semifinals

PRINCETON -- Spring Creek forward Brittani Billups has shot thousands of backyard layups with her father Brian. It's the simplest shot in basketball, but she knows that in the Carolina 1-A conference tournament, no shot is a gimme. Especially with...

Local sports digest

WILSON -- Charles B. Aycock's Rob Phillips scored a team-high 18 points as the Golden Falcons suffered a 74-51 loss at Wilson Hunt in the quarterfinals of the Class 3-A Eastern Carolina Conference tournament on Monday in the Warriors' gymnasium....

Young scores 1,000th for MOC

MOUNT OLIVE -- Melvin Creddle scored all of his 15 points in the first half and senior Victor Young became the second Mount Olive player this season to reach 1,000 career points as regionally seventh-ranked Mount Olive College defeated Coker...

Corley breaks assists record

MOUNT OLIVE -- Keona Corley broke her own school record with 12 assists and Teneal Boone notched her third consecutive double-double with 19 points and 13 rebounds as Mount Olive defeated Coker 65-53 in a Carolinas-Virginia Athletics Conference women's basketball...

MOC softball ready to make strides

Moments after finishing a softball practice in the fall, fourth-year Mount Olive College coach Jamie Kylis-Higginbotham pulled Erin Wilson to the side. Wilson had torn the cover off the ball all afternoon and a puzzled Kylis-Higginbotham silently wondered what had...

MOC baseball ranked No. 31

MOUNT OLIVE -- For the second week in a row, Mount Olive narrowly missed breaking into the top 30, finishing in a tie at No. 31 this week in the Collegiate Baseball Division II Top 30 national poll, it was...