Freedom High Sports

  • HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL: Freedom-Crest JV, varsity games cancelled - By CHRIS HOBBS HobbsDailyReport.com MORGANTON — Freedom High announced on Monday it has cancelled its first junior varsity and varsity football games of the year due to COVID. Patriots athletic director Antonio Lyerly said Thursday’s  Crest at Freedom JV game won’t be played and Friday’s Freedom at Crest varsity game is also off. He said the moves were COVID-related, and ...
  • HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL: Schedule set for Burke County Jamboree at Freedom - By CHRIS HOBBS HobbsDailyReport.com MORGANTON – The schedule for the 2021 Burke County Jamboree for varsity football has been set. The event is Aug. 13 at Freedom High with a $10 admission. Gates open at 4:15 p.m. The schedule: Freedom vs. R-S Central, 5 p.m. Patton vs. Hickory Hawks, 6 p.m. E. Burke vs. W. Wilkes, 7 p.m. Draughn vs. ...
  • HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL: Freedom hires Shelby defensive coordinator, former Maiden player - HobbsDailyReport.com MORGANTON – Freedom High’s new head football coach played for one area power and has coached at another. In a press release on Wednesday, the Patriots announced they’ve hired former Maiden player Justin Hawn – defensive coordinator at Shelby since 2013 – as the 12th head football coach in school history. He replaces Luke Little, who left after two ...
  • HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL: Little leaving Freedom for job at Wilmington Laney - HobbsDailyReport.com WILMINGTON – Luke Little, head football coach at Freedom High the past two seasons, is the new leader at Wilmington Laney. Laney officials announced Friday on Twitter they’ve hired Little to replace Ashaad Yeoman, who coached six seasons at his alma mater (31-38 record). Little — a second generation head coach with stints at South Stanly and Whiteville before ...
  • HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL: Zimmerman promoted to head boys’ coach at Freedom - HobbsDailyReport.com MORGANTON – Clint Zimmerman on Monday got the endorsement of — and an opportunity from — the man he’s worked so closely with to maintain the tradition in boys’ basketball at Freedom High. The Burke County Schools announced in a press release that Casey Rogers, Freedom’s new principal, has selected Zimmerman to replace him as head coach of the ...
  • HIGH SCHOOL BOYS BASKETBALL: Rogers giving up coaching to become principal at Freedom - By CHRIS HOBBS HobbsDailyReport.com MORGANTON – Casey Rogers is a month away from a new path toward impacting the community he grew up in. Rogers — head boys’ varsity basketball coach at Freedom High and a former star player for his father at his alma mater — has resigned to that he can become principal at Freedom. He has been ...
  • WEST 3A GIRLS REGIONAL BOX: Cuthbertson 41, Freedom 37 - HobbsDailyReport.com NCHSAA 3A WOMEN BOX
  • TUESDAY’S HS BOYS BASKETBALL SUMMARIES: Abee scores 33 in win, becomes Freedom’s all-time scoring leader - HobbsDailyReport.com TUESDAY’S HIGH SCHOOL BOYS BASKETBALL SUMMARIES NORTHWESTERN 3A-4A   FREEDOM 76, WATAUGA 53 Freedom     14     19     17     26—76 Watauga      11      9      10    23—53 FREEDOM 76—Fletcher Abee 33, Jakari Dula 14, James Freeman 12, Birchfield 5, Logan 3, Moore 2, Rice 1, Davis 4, Johnson 2. WATAUGA 53 (incomplete)—Blaine St Clair 13, West 4, Freeman 2, Sears 3, Castle 2, ...
  • NORTHWESTERN 3A-4A: Freedom wins fifth straight behind Birchfield, defense - Patriots will play key conference game Friday at Alex Central   HobbsDailyReport.com MORGANTON – Freedom High — led again by quarterback Jayden Birchfield – ran its win streak to five games on Friday night, handling visiting Hickory 43-22 in a Northwestern 3A-4A game. The Patriots (5-1, 2-0) never trailed in en route to winning Game No. 30 in their series ...
  • NORTHWESTERN 3A-4A: Freedom rides defense, air game past St. Stephens - HobbsDailyReport.com HICKORY – Freedom High’s defense dominated and quarterback Jayden Birchfield threw for more than 300 yards and two scores in a 49-0 romp past host St. Stephens on Friday night to open Northwestern 3A-4A play. The Patriots held the Indians to fewer than 25 rushing yards and led 35-0 en route to beating St. Stephens for the sixth time ...
  • NORTHWESTERN 3A-4A FOOTBALL PREVIEW: Freedom Patriots - By CHRIS HOBBS HobbsDailyReport.com FREEDOM PATRIOTS Conference: Northwestern 3A-4A. Head coach: Luke Little (87-56, 11 years; 0-0 at Freedom, first year). Last season’s records: 7-5 overall; 4-3 Northwestern 3A-4A, tied for third place. Last season’s results: Shelby, L 7-14; at Draughn, W 41-6; E. Burke, W 48-8; at Patton, W 31-14; ST. STEPHENS, W 36-0; at HICKORY, W 35-30; ALEXANDER ...
  • 2018 HS FOOTBALL: Freedom’s Birchfield area’s top returning passer this season - HobbsDailyReport.com TOP RETURNING PASSERS FOR 2018 (all totals are unofficial) Editor’s note: The list of returning passers is copyrighted by HobbsDailyReport.com and may not be reproduced or republished in its entirety without permission. Email Chris Hobbs at hobbsdailyreport@gmail.com to request that permission. Note: A player’s status as “returning” determined by being listed as an underclassman on his school’s 2017 varsity ...
  • HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL: Worley, Stilwell join St. Stephens coaching staff - By CHRIS HOBBS HobbsDailyReport.com HICKORY – St. Stephens High has added two new assistants – both former head coaches – to its football staff. Former Hickory head coach John Worley is coaching offensive linemen and former North Lincoln head coach Scott Stilwell is coaching wide receivers, Indians head coach Wayne Hicks confirmed Wednesday. Worley coached offensive linemen at HHS, his ...
  • HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL: An early batch of ‘Did you know?’ (you want to…) - Statistical information compiled by and published at HobbsDailyReport.com is copyrighted and not available for re-publication — print or online — without prior written consent. Copy and pastes of the link from this item are OK. HobbsDailyReport.com A few early tidbits — the things you get from the unique at-your-finger-tips/extensive record-keeping of Chris Hobbs, HobbsDailyReport.com’s  founder — while he’s hard at ...
  • COLLEGE FOOTBALL: Ex-Freedom star Emmons leaves Alabama - HobbsDailyReport.com TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – An online college football report says former Freedom High running back B.J. Emmons is leaving the Alabama football program. Emmons is transferring to Hutchinson Community College in Kansas, an Associated Press report said, and the head coach there told the AP he has already arrived. Emmons was a top national recruit while starring at Freedom, ranked ...