COMMENTARY: Loss is gain for state’s high school seniors

HobbsDailyReport.com By QUE TUCKER N.C. High School Athletic Association (NCHSAA) Commissioner And KRIS NIEHOLFF Executive Director of the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFSHA) CHAPEL HILL – Have you ever wondered what life would be like without sports? Now we know. And it isn’t fun. No NCAA basketball tournament. No traditional Major League Baseball Opening Days. No professional …

HIGH SCHOOLS: Patterson to coach Hibriten varsity girls, Christas moves to swimming

By CHRIS HOBBS HobbsDailyReport.com LENOIR – Hibriten High is making a change in head coaches in varsity girls’ basketball and in boys’ swimming. In a press release on Thursday morning, Panthers athletic director Derek Reeves announced: — George Christas, the Panthers’ varsity girls’ basketball head coach the last three seasons, will coach the swimming team. — Maury Patterson, a former …

WOMEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL: CCC&TI hires new head coach

By CHRIS HOBBS HobbsDailyReport.com HUDSON – Caldwell Community College and Technical Institute (CCC&TI) has a new head coach for women’s basketball, hiring former Black Mountain Owen High coach Anderson Bynum. Bynum replaces Richie Covington, who resigned to enter private business. “Coach Bynum came highly recommended to us from several sources,” CCC&TI interim Athletics Director Jeff Link said in a press …

HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL: N. Lincoln has 2 West All-Stars, team also includes Cougars’ Montgomery

West coaching staff includes Indians’ Hicks, ex-Hibriten head coach Cannon   By CHRIS HOBBS HobbsDailyReport.com GREENSBORO – The West All-Star football team includes five players from Greater Hickory area conferences – two of them from North Lincoln High – for a July game against the East. West head coach Doug Robertson, whose staff includes St. Stephens head coach Wayne Hicks …