By CHRIS HOBBS HobbsDailyReport.com LINCOLNTON – Former star football player Lanny Ford — who has worked in local sports since the early 2000s — has purchased WLON 1050 AM. He is returning the weekly sports show SportsTalk to the airways on Saturday morning from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. Over the previous three years, the show has aired on sportstalkguys.com, …
HIGH SCHOOL SCHEDULE: This week’s events
HobbsDailyReport.com HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS SCHEDULE A schedule of high school varsity events for this week for schools in the Catawba Valley 2A Athletic, Western Foothills 3A and Northwestern 3A-4A plus Draughn and Patton. Game times are included, if available, and are subject to change. Junior varsity basketball games generally start by 4:30 p.m. and the varsity girls play at approximately …
HIGH SCHOOL SCOREBOARD: Wednesday’s results
HobbsDailyReport.com HIGH SCHOOL SCOREBOARD WEDNESDAY’S RESULTS BASKETBALL GIRLS Catawba Valley 2A Athletic Newton-Conover 58, Maiden 35 Western Foothills 3A E. Lincoln 45, Hickory 30 Fred T. Foard 64, N. Iredell 45 Fred T. Foard at Hickory, ppd., Saturday, noon St. Stephens 66, W Iredell 16 Statesville 46, N. Lincoln 44 Others Draughn 50, Black Mountain Owen 30 BOYS Catawba Valley …
HIGH SCHOOL WRESTLING: Bandys, Foard reach state dual-team title matches
HobbsDailyReport.com Securing the wins it needed in the higher weight classes on Wednesday night, Bandys High’s resurgence in state 2A wrestling took another step with a 33-31 victory over Trinity for the West 2A dual-team championship. The Trojans, wrestling at home, eliminated Trinity after beating Catawba Valley 2A foe West Lincoln 31-30, and Trinity knocked out another CVAC 2A team, …
HIGH SCHOOL SCOREBOARD: Saturday through Tuesday results
Editor’s note: HobbsDailyReport.com is proud to note that this post is the 7,000th since we created the website in April of 2017. We thank our advertisers — who make it possible for readers to visit our site for FREE — and we thank our loyal readers. HobbsDailyReport.com HIGH SCHOOL SCOREBOARD TUESDAY’S RESULTS BASKETBALL GIRLS Catawba Valley 2A Athletic Bandys 57, …