Paul Durham

GOLDSBORO — A rugged girls soccer season at Community Christian School started with back-to-back losses is poised to end on the highest possible note for the Cyclones.

With not a lot at stake except pride for the regular-season varsity softball finale Friday night at Hunt, the host Warriors rode a nine-run first inning to a 10-0 run-rule win over archrival Fike in five innings.

With Fike High senior pitcher Caleb Maddrey threatening to crash the Senior Night for his former Hunt teammates Nick Worrell and Khalil McIver, the Warriors’ underclassmen stepped up to save the day Friday at Sid Boyette Field. Hunt trailed by a run entering the bottom of the sixth inning when the Warriors rallied for four runs to take a 4-1 […]

GOLDSBORO — Undeterred by a six-run first inning by New Life Academy of Elizabeth City, Community Christian cut the deficit to one run after two

ROCKY MOUNT — All four of the remaining entries from the Times readership area Saturday, May 4, at the NCHSAA 3-A East Regional boys tennis tournament won a match — and lost a match.

Fike High varsity baseball head coach Jay Wheeler wasn’t sure the NCHSAA preliminary brackets were going to stand Monday around lunch time when they were first released, but by the middle of the afternoon, the Golden Demons were back in the state playoffs. “I’m just so glad the playoffs have a backdoor because that’s surely the way we’ve gotten in […]

Kailynn Williams scored four goals as her Elm City Middle girls soccer team completed an unbeaten season with a 6-0 defeat of Nash Central in the Tricounties Athletic Conference championship game Monday, May 6, at Elm City. Williams, who scored three goals in the Vikings semifinals win last week, finished her Elm City career with 84 goals. The South Division-champion […]

Southern Nash heads a short list of entries, including none from Wilson County, from the Times readership area in the NCHSAA softball playoffs that will begin, weather permitting, Tuesday, May 7. The Ladybirds, unbeaten in 0 games and the regular-season and tournament champion of the 2-A/3-A Big East Conference, earned the No. 2 seed in the NCHSAA 3-A East bracket. […]