THE BEST YEARS A look at the most varsity football wins for each school that will play this season in the South Fork 2A, Northwestern Foothills 2A and Northwestern 3A-4A. How far back records HobbsDailyReport.com has for each school is noted and they carry from that year through 2016: School Most 2nd most Alex Central (1978) 11, 1983/2009 9, 2006/2010 …
HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL: 2 East Lincoln stars leaving the Mustangs
HobbsDailyReport.com DENVER, N.C. — A development that will impact one of the South Fork 2A teams in the league’s first season of varsity football. More top notch coverage by The Gaston Gazette, which by leaps and bounds provides the best high school football coverage you’re going to find among the region’s newspapers. If you’re not familiar with that coverage, once …
HIGH SCHOOLS: Fred T. Foard assistant coach facing charges
HobbsDailyReport.com NEWTON – A former Fred T. Foard High football player who now teaches at his alma mater has been charged with one count of statutory rape and one count of a sexual offense with a student. Jeb Stuart Bass, who played primarily wide receiver on Foard’s varsity football teams in 2005 and 2006 (he graduated in 2007), made his …
HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL: Marc Kirkpatrick interim head coach at South Caldwell
By CHRIS HOBBS HobbsDailyReport.com HUDSON – South Caldwell High football has come virtually full circle with assistant coach Marc Kirkpatrick now coordinating the program on an interim basis. Kirkpatrick, as assistant football coach for the Spartans, is the son of the school’s first head football coach, Don (Red) Kirkpatrick, and he’s a former South Caldwell athlete. On Tuesday, Spartans athletic …
HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL: South Iredell star QB says he will sign with Charlotte
HobbsDailyReport.com TROUTMAN – Brady Pope, who has thrown for 224 yards per game the last two seasons for South Iredell High, is going to continue his football career at Charlotte. The Vikings’ football staff said last week in an online post that Pope, a 6-foot-3, 175-pound rising senior, has decided to play for the 49ers. Pope helped South Iredell go …