Goldsboro News-Argus | Sports: February 17, 2006 Archives

Rosewood girls reach Carolina 1-A tournament finals

MOUNT OLIVE -- Rosewood High waited nearly seven decades to seize the program's second regular-season championship in women's basketball history. The Eagles might not have to wait that long to claim their third tournament title, however. For the first time...

Gators, Eagles ousted in boys Carolina 1-A semifinals

MOUNT OLIVE -- An all-Wayne County championship in the Class 1-A Carolina Conference boys tournament looked well within reach at different stages of No. 5 Rosewood's and No. 3 Spring Creek's respective semifinal games on Thursday at Kornegay Arena. But,...

Local sports digest

WAVE 16s rally to win bronze medal GREENSBORO -- Down 11-4 in the deciding match of the championship game, the local W.A.V.E. 16 Black travelling volleyball team battled back to claim the title of the Carolina Region Women's 16-under Bronze...

Locked and loaded - Heels' Wooten ready to pitch this season

CHAPEL HILL -- During his high school pitching career at Charles B. Aycock, right-hander Rob Wooten brought home his fair share of awards. Wooten, who helped lead the Golden Falcons to the Class 3-A eastern regional final in his junior...

NO. 7 Mount Olive claims regional victory

BELMONT -- Elijah Rouse led all scorers with a career-high 23 points and Justin Melton made a steal and hit two free throws with 3.4 seconds left as regionally seventh-ranked Mount Olive defeated Belmont Abbey 75-72 in Carolinas-Virginia Athletics Conference...

Crusaders deny Trojan women in CVAC play

BELMONT -- Teneal Boone notched her fourth consecutive double-double, but it wasn't enough as Mount Olive fell to Belmont Abbey 75-62 in Carolinas-Virginia Athletics Conference women's basketball Thursday at Belmont, N.C. Mount Olive (12-12 overall, 7-10 CVAC) took an early...

Trojan diamond 9 split CVAC twinbill with Pfeiffer

Ted Pelech and Donald Huff combined on a five-hit shutout to lead Mount Olive to a 2-0 victory over Pfeiffer in game one of a CVAC baseball doubleheader Wednesday at Misenheimer. The Trojans had to settle for a split as...