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  • HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS BASKETBALL: White will be back as Newton-Conover’s head coach - By CHRIS HOBBS HobbsDailyReport.com NEWTON – Sylvia White is back as the varsity girls’ basketball coach at Newton-Conover High. She was approved by the Newton-Conover Board of Education earlier this week as a non-faculty coach, effective immediately. This will technically be White’s fourth tenure as girls’ head coach with the Red Devils – she coached them for two different four-year ...
  • CVAC 2A FOOTBALL PREVIEW: Newton-Conover Red Devils - NEWTON-CONOVER RED DEVILS   Conference: Catawba Valley 2A Athletic Head coach: Steven Pack (16-25-0, 4 years; 6-11-0 at Newton-Conover, 2 years) Assistant coaches: Chris Hinson, DC-assistant head coach; Chip Watts, OC; Logan Hollingshead, ILBs-JVs head coach; Sean Kilby, WRs; Dominique Bunn, OL; Jaden Adair, OL; Cameron Stanley, DBs; Jay Parrish, DL; Jacob Sigmon, OLBs; Kyuan McClain, WRs Last season’s records: ...
  • HIGH SCHOOL BOYS BASKETBALL: Red Devils promote Wilson to head coach - Foard graduate has been assistant at N-C, head JV coach for 6 years   By CHRIS HOBBS HobbsDailyReport.com NEWTON – Nicholas Wilson, an assistant coach on varsity boys’ basketball teams at Newton-Conover High that won 54 games over six seasons and also head junior varsity coach, has been promoted. In a press release on Tuesday, the Newton-Conover City Schools (N-CCS) ...
  • BREAKING NEWS: N-C girls’ head coach retires from administrative position - Whether she will coach basketball again yet to be clarified   By CHRIS HOBBS HobbsDailyReport.com NEWTON – Sylvia White — whose third tenure as head girls’ basketball coach at Newton-Conover High ended on Thursday night — retired from her administrative position with the Newton-Conover City Schools on Friday. White exits her position as Executive Director of Operations, and the school ...
  • BREAKING NEWS: Wilkinson resigns as varsity boys’ coach at N-C - He also coached Bunker Hill varsity boys for 11 seasons   By CHRIS HOBBS HobbsDailyReport.com NEWTON – More than 20 years ago, Matt Wilkinson set the criteria for when he would give up coaching. He said Wednesday that time has come. Wilkinson — head boys’ varsity basketball coach at Newton-Conover High the last six seasons after holding the same position ...
  • HIGH SCHOOL SOFTBALL: UNC Greensboro signs Red Devils’ Loftin - HobbsDailyReport.com
  • HIGH SCHOOL GOLF: Red Devils’ Allison will play at Lenoir-Rhyne (photo) - HobbsDailyReport.com
  • HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL: Red Devils’ Cornwell named state player of the year by Associated Press - By CHRIS HOBBS HobbsDailyReport.com RALEIGH – Chyna Cornwell, who averaged a double-double and led Newton-Conover High to a co-state 2A girls’ championship, was named Friday as the top girls’ basketball player in North Carolina. In voting by 15 writers who cover high schools around the state, Cornwell — a 6-foot-3 senior — had seven votes to earn the player of ...
  • HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL: Red Devils’ Johnson says he will play at Duke - By CHRIS HOBBS HobbsDailyReport.com NEWTON – Brandon Johnson, a top receiver and defensive back last season for an eight-win team at Newton-Conover High, announced this week he will play college football at Duke. Johnson (5-foot-10, 175 pounds) revealed his decision in a video he posted on twitter on his mother’s birthday (https://twitter.com/i/status/1258164531626467332). He indicated he also received offers or considered, ...
  • HIGH SCHOOL TENNIS: N-C’s Reid, unbeaten in career singles, signs with UNC Asheville - HobbsDailyReport.com NEWTON — Newton-Conover High’s Brann Reid, who finished unbeaten in singles during his tennis career and won three state 2A titles, has signed to play tennis at UNC Asheville. Reid’s decision was announced by the Newton-Conover athletic department. He had records of 38-0 in the regular season and 12-0 in conference, regional and state competition, going 74-0 in singles. ...
  • NEWTON-CONOVER HALL OF FAME: Trio of new members will be added Thursday night - HobbsDailyReport.com NEWTON – Newton-Conover High will add three inductees to its Athletic Hall of Fame on Thursday night at 7 p.m. at the school gym. No tickets are required to attend a ceremony that will honor the Class of 2019 – LaShawn Coulter, John Rabold and the late Linda Richards. LaShawn Coulter A 1990 graduate, he was a three-time all-conference ...
  • HIGH SCHOOLS: Newton-Conover dedicates bleachers in memory of late principal - HobbsDailyReport.com NEWTON – Newton-Conover High has dedicated new bleachers in its gym in memory of the late Kevin Campbell, who served the school for 22 years as a teacher, athletic trainer, assistant principal and principal. The dedication ceremony was last Friday night when the Red Devils’ basketball teams played Maiden. “Mr. Campbell was the most spirited and consistent presence both ...
  • HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL: Red Devils’ Durham signs with Surry Community College - HobbsDailyReport.com
  • SOUTH FORK 2A: Wilfong runs for 100 again as N-C topples Lincolnton - HobbsDailyReport.com LINCOLNTON – Running back Allen Wilfong scored twice and ran for more than 100 yards for the fourth straight game on Friday night, leading Newton-Conover High to a 34-7 win at Lincolnton to open conference play. The Red Devils (3-2, 1-0 South Fork 2A) won over the Wolves on the road for the first time since 2003 when Wilfong ...
  • HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL: Wilfong-led Red Devils crunch East Burke - HobbsDailyReport.com NEWTON – Allen Wilfong ran for more than 170 yards and four touchdowns on Friday night, helping Newton-Conover High rebound sharply from its first loss of the football season and crunch East Burke 41-14. Playing their second game of the season at Gurley Stadium, the Red Devils (2-1) spurted to a 20-point lead by halftime. Wilfong – a 5-foot-11, ...
  • HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL: Newton-Conover pounds Bunker Hill, wins Pack’s debut game - HobbsDailyReport.com CLAREMONT – Newton-Conover High stung Bunker Hill again on Friday night in a debut game for both head football coaches in a Catawba County rivalry game. The Red Devils scored early and often, opening a 49-point by halftime, to hand new head coach Steven Pack a victory in his debut and deal Patrick Clark a loss in his debut ...
  • SOUTH FORK 2A FOOTBALL PREVIEW: Newton-Conover Red Devils - By CHRIS HOBBS HobbsDailyReport.com NEWTON-CONOVER RED DEVILS Conference: South Fork 2A. Head coach: Steven Pack (2-9, 1 year; first year at Newton-Conover). Last season’s records: 9-3 overall; 6-1 South Fork 2A, second place Last season’s results: Bunker Hill, W 51-0; at Hickory, W 45-26; at E. Burke, W 44-6; at Hibriten, L 17-18; LINCOLNTON, W 35-14; at BANDYS, W 55-7; ...
  • HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL: Pack excited about returning to Newton-Conover - By CHRIS HOBBS HobbsDailyReport.com NEWTON – Steven Pack is ready to have an immediate impact in his new job as head football coach at Newton-Conover High. “I am honored to be given the opportunity to lead the young men and coaching staff of Newton-Conover onto the field on Friday nights,” Pack said in a press release from the Newton-Conover City ...
  • BREAKING NEWS: Red Devils pick North Lincoln’s Pack as next head football coach - By CHRIS HOBBS HobbsDailyReport.com NEWTON – Steven Pack, head football coach last season at North Lincoln High, is the next head football coach at Newton-Conover. A teaching contract for Pack — whose previous coaching experience includes working as an assistant to Matt Beam at Newton-Conover and before that at Burns – was approved by the Newton-Conover City Schools Board of ...
  • NEWTON-CONOVER FOOTBALL: Report says head-coaching job opened May 5 - HobbsDailyReport.com Editor’s note: An update on the process as Newton-Conover High moves toward naming a head football coach to replace Matt Beam, who resigned May 2. When Beam resigned, school officials said assistant coach Darren Ponder would become interim head coach. Three days later, Ponder decided he would not move into that role, reporting on Thursday by Newton Observer News ...
  • HIGH SCHOOLS: N-C head football job open, candidates interviewed - By CHRIS HOBBS HobbsDailyReport.com NEWTON – Newton-Conover High’s search for a new head football coach has restarted after Darren Ponder, the interim head coach named on May 2, decided he won’t fill that role. Multiple sources told HobbsDailyReport.com a committee conducted interviews on Wednesday, as the school looks to replace Matt Beam, who resigned May 2 after four seasons as ...
  • HIGH SCHOOL BOYS TENNIS: Red Devils’ Reid repeats as state 2A singles champion - HobbsDailyReport.com Brann Reid of Newton-Conover High repeated as the state’s 2A boys’ singles champion on Saturday in Cary. Reid won an opportunity for a back-to-back singles title by ousting Seth Worley of Lexington 6-2, 6-1 in a semifinal. Pitted against a North Carolina Science and Math player for the singles title again, Reid won it by beating Josh Abrams 6-2, ...
  • HIGH SCHOOL SCHOOL FOOTBALL: Beam resigns at N-C, will open business in Lincolnton - HobbsDailyReport.com NEWTON – Matt Beam has resigned after four seasons as head football coach at Newton-Conover High. Beam came to Newton-Conover from Burns in 2013 — replacing Brint Russell — and coached the Red Devils to records of 7-4-1, 6-6, 6-5 and 9-3 and into the state playoffs in 2014, 2015 and last season. Assistant coach Darren Ponder, the Red ...