HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL: Bandys gains from addition to coaching staff

Trojans add assistant Mike Helms, who spent 16-plus years as boss at 6 schools   Editor’s note: All stories at HobbsDailyReport.com are copyrighted and can’t be republished or rebroadcast — other than by WNNC and WLON, our reporting partners — without crediting HobbsDailyReport.com’s reporting and/or research or by requesting a waiver of that copyright. To inquire about a waiver, e-mail …

HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL: Maiden has new QB after family moves from Ashe County

    Editor’s note: All stories at HobbsDailyReport.com are copyrighted and can’t be republished or rebroadcast — other than by WNNC and WLON, our reporting partners — without crediting HobbsDailyReport.com’s reporting and/or research or by requesting a waiver of that copyright. To inquire about a waiver, e-mail chobbs001@att.net. Thompson threw for nearly 2,000 yards as a junior, is expected to …

BREAKING NEWS: Bunker Hill hires Childers to coach varsity girls’ basketball

He’s also spent 10 years working with the Bears’ varsity baseball program   Editor’s note: All stories at HobbsDailyReport.com are copyrighted, and that includes historical research the website has done on Bunker Hill High girls’ basketball. That research can’t be republished or rebroadcast –other than by WNNC and WLON, our reporting partners — without crediting HobbsDailyReport.com or requesting a waiver …

BREAKING NEWS: Lincolnton hires former player to coach varsity boys’ basketball

  By CHRIS HOBBS HobbsDailyReport.com LINCOLNTON – Lincolnton High has hired one of its former players to coach its varsity boys’ basketball team. Jalen Littlejohn — who played for the Wolves and graduated in 2012 — was announced on Wednesday on social media as the new boys’ head coach. Littlejohn averaged 17.5 points, 5.3 rebounds, 1.4 steals and 1.3 assists …

HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL: Maiden’s Culliver says his pick is North Carolina

Blue Devils wide receiver ranked among best in the nation   By CHRIS HOBBS HobbsDailyReport.com MAIDEN — Maiden High star wide receiver Chris Culliver, who unofficially needs five catches to reach 100 for his career, celebrated July 4 by announcing he plans to sign with North Carolina. Culliver (6-foot-2, 180 pounds) posted his decision, as did Tar Heel Illustrated, on …