HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL: East Lincoln wins 5th straight, battles Maiden next

HobbsDailyReport.com DENVER, N.C. – Bandys High couldn’t keep up with East Lincoln’s Joneses on Friday night. Running back Chandler Jones ran for 205 yards, and quarterback Chase Jones ran for two scores and threw for two others, as the host Mustangs trotted past the Trojans 38-13 in a South Fork 2A football game. East Lincoln (5-3, 4-0) won for the …

HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL: Red Devils score 41 in first half, hammer Trojans

HobbsDailyReport.com CATAWBA – Scoring twice in the game’s first six minutes and 41 points in the opening half, visiting Newton-Conover High ripped Bandys 55-7 on Friday night in South Fork 2A football. With Tylor Stinson rushing for two touchdowns and 123 yards and Shamar Baker throwing for 182 yards and two scores, the Red Devils (5-1. 2-0) posted their biggest …

BLAST FROM THE PAST: High-scoring Newton-Conover versus Bandys football games

By CHRIS HOBBS HobbsDailyReport.com As they prepare to play tonight for the 47th time in a series the Red Devils lead 31-15, take a trip down memory lane by reviewing the highest-scoring Newton-Conover versus Bandys varsity football games: Total points                      Year                        Results/location 103                                                              2006                             N-C 71, Bandys 32 at N-C 101                                                               2008                             N-C 60, Bandys 41 at Bandys 84                                                                 2015                              …

HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL: Mayfield’s KO return TD key as Maiden beats Bandys

By CHRIS HOBBS HobbsDailyReport.com MAIDEN – All that separated visiting Bandys and Maiden on Friday night at the half of their 65th all-time meeting in high school football was about 15 yards. The Blue Devils had gained 189 yards, the Trojans had 174, and each team had scored twice and they were tied. But less than 20 seconds into the …

BLAST FROM THE PAST: A few memories from the Bandys-Maiden football series

By CHRIS HOBBS HobbsDailyReport.com When WNNC Oldies 101.3 FM first asked me to write about some of my memories of the Bandys versus Maiden high school football series – which started three years before I was born – I cautioned that after 43 years of covering the series, the years sometimes run together. That said, here are some things that …