Prep hoops: Saints play spoiler

PIKEVILLE -- The stage was set for a storybook ending. Despite entering senior night with an 0-23 record, the Charles B. Aycock Golden Falcons seemed determined to remove the goose egg from their record in the final minutes of Thursday...

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College basketball: Trojans win sixth straight

LAURINBURG -- Mount Olive freshman Josh Brown hit both ends of a 1-and-1 with 10.5 seconds left and scored all of his 12 points in the second half as Mount Olive extended its winning streak to six with an 83-80...

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College basketball: Lady Trojans come up short

LAURINBURG -- Helen Moore scored 14 of her 16 points in the second half as Mount Olive rallied from an eight-point deficit, but regionally sixth-ranked St. Andrews pulled away for a 67-60 win over the Trojans in Carolinas-Virginia Athletics Conference...

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Local digest

Lady Warriors win in OT Avoid South Central. Fourth-year Eastern Wayne women's basketball coach Brent Holland reminded his team that a loss could set up a possible first-round playoff meeting against the state-ranked Falcons. Holland needn't worry now. The Warriors...

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