Hibriten High Sports
- HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL: Hibriten cancels JV game, Friday’s varsity game at Shelby - By CHRIS HOBBS HobbsDailyReport.com LENOIR — Hibriten High announced Tuesday night it won’t be playing any football games this week because of COVID-related concerns. The Panthers were scheduled to face West Caldwell in a junior varsity game on Wednesday night at Hibriten but the game is cancelled. On Friday night, the Panthers varsity was scheduled to play at Shelby but ...
- HIGH SCHOOL SOFTBALL: Blanton retires at Hibriten, former player to replace him - Coach exiting after 17 seasons, conference title in his final year By CHRIS HOBBS HobbsDailyReport.com LENOIR – Hibriten High announced a change in girls’ varsity softball head coaches on Wednesday. In a press release, athletic director Derek Reeves said Jim Blanton has resigned after 17 seasons, effective immediately, and the new Panthers head coach is former player Brittany Morton. ...
- HIGH SCHOOL BOYS BASKETBALL: Keller resigns after 8 seasons of this tenure as head coach - He also coached at Patterson School, Patton after star career as player at West Caldwell By CHRIS HOBBS HobbsDailyReport.com LENOIR – Chad Keller has resigned as head varsity boys’ basketball coach at Hibriten High. He coached the Panthers twice – over the last eight seasons and also for three years starting in 1995-96. Keller’s head-coaching career also includes four ...
- HIGH SCHOOL SOFTBALL: 2 Hibriten stars sign with CCC&TI (photos) - HobbsDailyReport.com Caldwell Community College and Technical Institute has signed Hibriten High’s Zoe Waters to play softball next season. She is pictured with her sister Sage Sharpe (left) and her mom Joy Sharpe (right). Waters hit. 300 with two doubles a year ago when Hibriten was limited to five games. As a sophomore, Waters led an 18-7 team with 24 RBIs ...
- HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL: Hibriten’s Corpening headed to play at Averett University (photo) - HobbsDailyReport.com
- HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL: Hibriten’s Valentine will play at Averett University (photo) - HobbsDailyReport.com
- 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 ...
- BASKETBALL: Hibriten’s annual camp features instructors with NBA connections (photos) - HobbsDailyReport.com LENOIR – Hibriten High had another successful basketball camp earlier this month under the direction of head boys’ basketball coach Chad Keller. Keller, who played college basketball at East Tennessee State, had former NBA guard Keith (Mister) Jennings and Dave Hanners, an assistant coach for the New Orleans Pelicans, working at the camp.
- HIBRITEN BASKETBALL CAMP: Instructors include 2 with NBA experience - HobbsDailyReport.com LENOIR – Hibriten High’s basketball camp, scheduled June 17-20 at the school, will feature two instructors who reached the NBA. Hibriten head coach Chad Keller will provide instruction at the camp along with former Hibriten players and former NBA guard Keith “Mister” Jennings (Golden State, Denver) and Dave Hanners, currently an assistant coach with the New Orleans Pelicans. The ...
- HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS BASKETBALL: Hibriten’s Moore signs to play for William Peace (photo) - HobbsDailyReport.com
- HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL: Hibriten promotes Mackey to head coach - Defensive coordinator replacing Clay Lewis, who is leaving to be head coach at Chesnee, S.C. By CHRIS HOBBS HobbsDailyReport.com LENOIR – Hibriten High moved rapidly to select its ninth head football coach since the late 1970s, promoting defensive coordinator Sam Mackey to the post on Wednesday. In a joint announcement by press release that Clay Lewis has resigned and ...
- HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL: Report says Lewis leaving Hibriten to become head coach at Chesnee, S.C. - HobbsDailyReport.com LENOIR – Clay Lewis is leaving Hibriten High as head football coach to take the same position at Chesnee High in South Carolina, the Spartanburg (S.C.) Herald-Journal is reporting. Lewis has been head coach at Hibriten since replacing retiring Chuck Cannon in 2010. It’s unclear if and when Lewis resigned his position at Hibriten. An e-mail inquiry on Monday ...
- HIGH SCHOOL TRACK AND FIELD: Hibriten’s Lawrence signs with Lees-McRae (photo) - HobbsDailyReport.com
- WOMEN’S COLLEGE GOLF: Sandhills CC signs Hibriten’s Church (photo) - HobbsDailyReport.com
- HIBRITEN FOOTBALL: Thomas signs to play at Western Carolina (photo) - HobbsDailyReport.com LENOIR – Skylin Thomas, who sparked Hibriten High as it went 14-1 last season, signed Wednesday to play college football at Western Carolina. Thomas, a 5-foot-10, 188-pound running back-strong safety, signed in grant-in-aid at Hibriten. He had 24 carries for 330 yards and three touchdowns this season and also caught 13 passes for 273 yards with four scores. Defensively, ...
- HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL: Elon University lands Hibriten star Witherspoon (photo) - HobbsDailyReport.com
- NORTHWESTERN FOOTHILLS 2A: Hibriten smacks Bears, runs win streak to 22 games - HobbsDailyReport.com LENOIR – Hibriten High continued red-hot on Friday night in its conference football opener, steamrolling visiting Bunker Hill 55-0 to run its win streak to 22 straight games. Running back McKinley Witherspoon ran for three scores – on runs of 3, 50 and 45 yards – to lead the Panthers (6-0, 1-0), who are defending Northwestern Foothills 2A and ...
- HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL: Panthers rip Red Devils, run win streak to 21 - Hibriten scores 63 on N-C, stays unbeaten through 5 games HobbsDailyReport.com NEWTON – The wins — most of them by big margins — continue to stack up for powerful Hibriten High’s football team. The Panthers rolled to their 21st straight victory on Thursday night, spanking Newton-Conover 63-19 at Gurley Stadium to go to 5-0 in rematch of a game a ...
- NORTHWESTERN FOOTHILLS 2A ROUNDUP: Hefty Hibriten hammers Robinson, wins 17th straight game - Editor’s note: Game stories on Bunker Hill and Fred T. Foard will be posted separately on the website. HobbsDailyReport.com Hibriten High’s new football season started on Friday night much like its last one ended. The Panthers — playing at Concord Robinson and beginning defense of their state 2AA title — rolled 41-7 to win their 17th straight game. Hibriten went ...
- STATE 2AA HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP: Hibriten 16, E. Duplin 14 - HobbsDailyReport.com CHAPEL HILL – Hibriten High finished unbeaten, knocking off East Duplin 16-14 on Saturday in the state 2AA title game at North Carolina to become the first state prep football champion from Caldwell County (see graphic below). In a battle of teams both nicknamed Panthers, Hibriten (West No. 2 seed) won to finish 16-0 under head coach Clay Lewis ...
- NORTHWESTERN FOOTHILLS 2A FOOTBALL PREVIEW: Hibriten Panthers - By CHRIS HOBBS HobbsDailyReport.com Conference: Northwestern Foothills 2A. Head coach: Clay Lewis (57-22, 7 years). Last season’s records: 14-1 overall; 7-0 Northwestern 3A-4A, conference champion. Last season’s results: E. Burke, W 56-0; at Maiden, W 49-20; W. Caldwell, W 38-7; Ashe County, W 64-14; at S. CALDWELL, W 61-0; ST. STEPHENS, W 44-0; at FRED T. FOARD, W 56-7; WATAUGA, ...