HobbsDailyReport.com STATE FOOTBALL PLAYOFF PAIRINGS GREATER HICKORY AREA CONFERENCES Pairings for next Friday’s first-round state high school football playoff games that involve teams from the South Fork 2A, Northwestern Foothills 2A and Northwestern 3A-4A. The games are at the higher seed’s home field with 7:30 p.m. kickoffs: WEST 2A No. 16 W. LINCOLN (4-7) at No. 1 Reidsville (11-0) No. …
HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL: Carter’s Cougars win big, takes Northwestern 3A-4A title
HobbsDailyReport.com HUDSON – Alexander Central High collected its fourth varsity football title since 1982 on Friday night, steamrolling South Caldwell 57-14 on the road to win the Northwestern 3A-4A crown. The Cougars (10-1, 6-1) rebounded from their only loss, against Hickory last week, to beat the Spartans (1-10, 1-6) and finish a game ahead of Watauga in the conference race. …
HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL: Hickory hands Alexander Central first loss of season
HobbsDailyReport.com HICKORY – Putting together two scoring drives in the final three minutes, Hickory High continued its season-long rebound from its past football struggles and knocked off previously unbeaten Alexander Central 38-28 at Barger Stadium on Friday night. The Red Tornadoes — who had won four of 33 games in the previous three seasons – improved to 7-4 overall and …
GAME PREVIEWS: N-C, Maiden battle for first; Alex Central goes for 10-0 start
By CHRIS HOBBS HobbsDailyReport.com Previewing tonight’s varsity football games (all statistical references are unofficial totals): SOUTH FORK 2A NEWTON-CONOVER (8-1, 5-0) at MAIDEN (9-0, 5-0), 7:30 p.m. Not many high school rivalry games rise to the level of the Red Devils versus the Blue Devils, a series that can boast: a) it once had a future NASCAR champion under center …
HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL: Cougars roll, clinch at least share of league title
HobbsDailyReport.com TAYLORSVILLE – It took Alexander Central High a bit more than nine minutes to score on Friday night then the floodgates opened en route to a 59-21 football victory over visiting St. Stephens. After quarterback Gunnar Anderson opened the scoring on a 4-yard TD run with two minutes, 56 seconds left in the first quarter, the Cougars scored four …