HIGH SCHOOL SOFTBALL: Foard’s Settlemyre will play at North Carolina

HobbsDailyReport.com NEWTON – Fred T. Foard High star Abby Settlemyre has signed to play college softball at North Carolina. Settlemyre hit. 714 last season with three home runs, seven doubles and two triples and stole 26 bases for the Tigers as a junior. She also drove in 18 runs, walked 15 times, had 45 hits and scored 44 runs. The …

STATE 2AA FOOTBALL PLAYOFFS: Foard stuns previously unbeaten Maiden, advances

HobbsDailyReport.com MAIDEN – Derrick Minor won’t be the only one with a super sweet memory when he one day recalls the 12th time he walked off a high school football field as a winning head coach for Fred T. Foard. That came Friday night, in the opening round of the state 2AA playoffs, when Minor’s Tigers focused very little on …

HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL PLAYOFFS: Final pairings, as released by North Carolina High School Athletic Association

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: Foard rides 1-2-3 punch past East Burke

HobbsDailyReport.com ICARD – Fred T. Foard High’s 1-2-3 punch knocked out East Burke 49-6 on Friday night in Northwestern Foothills 2A football. Getting just shy of 340 rushing yards from running backs Corey Siemer and Tate Beaver and quarterback Jack Colosimo, the Tigers (7-3, 3-2) reached seven wins in a season for the 10th time in school history. Siemer led …

HIGH SCHOOL ROUNDUP: No. 13 Foard trips No. 4 Ledford, advances in volleyball

HobbsDailyReport.com Fred T. Foard High’s volleyball team is paying little attention to its seed – West No. 13 – and has advanced to the third round in the 2A playoffs by knocking off higher-seeded Ledford. The Tigers, playing on the road, knocked the fourth-seeded Panthers out of the playoffs on Tuesday, winning 25-17, 21-25, 25-22, 27-25. Foard (19-8) advances to …