UNC now has 2 of Catawba County’s top stars for 2023 college season By CHRIS HOBBS HobbsDailyReport.com HICKORY – The future of North Carolina football now includes two top players from Catawba County. Two weeks after the Tar Heels landed Maiden High wide receiver Chris Culliver, they also got Hickory defensive end Rico Walker. Walker (6-foot-3, 233 pounds) announced …
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 …
OBIT: Former South Caldwell star, head coach Hardee dies at 62
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HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL: S. Caldwell picks up forfeit win, record shifts to 8-2
By CHRIS HOBBS HobbsDailyReport.com HUDSON — South Caldwell High picked up a forfeit varsity football win for last season on Wednesday that adjusts the Spartans’ record to 8-2. When Chambers became the third Charlotte-Mecklenburg school to indicate it must forfeit games from last season — Myers Park and West Charlotte have also since the season ended — and South Caldwell …
HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL: Kirkpatrick, first HC at South Caldwell, dies
“Red” was also the last head football coach at Granite Falls; sons followed him into coaching By CHRIS HOBBS HobbsDailyReport.com GRANITE FALLS – Don “Red” Kirkpatrick — the last head football coach at old Granite Falls High and the first at South Caldwell — died on Tuesday morning. His son, Marc, notified HobbsDailyReport.com on Tuesday that his father passed …