GIRLS HOOP PLAYOFFS TIDBITS: Red Tornadoes’ 28th straight bid starts with Ashbrook

Can Freedom join Bandys by winning sixth state title?   By CHRIS HOBBS HobbsDailyReport.com Tidbits about the high school girls’ basketball teams from the South Fork 2A, Northwestern Foothills 2A and Northwestern 3A-4A that are in the state playoffs, which begin Tuesday night at the higher seed(s): 2A No. 18 Madison (16-10) at No. 15 Bandys (16-8), 6 p.m.: Trojans …

FINAL STATE BOYS BASKETBALL PLAYOFF PAIRINGS: N-C at Maiden, Patton at Draughn highlight first round

HobbsDailyReport.com FINAL BOYS STATE HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL PLAYOFF PAIRINGS (First round games are Tuesday at highest seeds; second round, Thursday; third round, Saturday; fourth round, Tuesday, March 5; West Regionals, Saturday, March 9  at LRU and CVCC) GREATER HICKORY AREA GAMES (times TBA unless noted) 2A #1 E. Lincoln (25-2) vs. #32 N. Surry (9-14) #16 Bunker Hill (16-10) vs. …

FINAL STATE GIRLS BASKETBALL PLAYOFF PAIRINGS: 6 area teams have home first-round games

HobbsDailyReport.com FINAL GIRLS STATE HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL PLAYOFF PAIRINGS (First round games are Tuesday at highest seeds; second round, Thursday; third round, Saturday; fourth round, Tuesday, March 5; West Regionals, Saturday, March 9  at LRU and CVCC)   GREATER HICKORY AREA GAMES (times TBA unless noted) 2A #5 Newton-Conover (23-4) vs. #28 N. Wilkes (14-12), 6 p.m. #12 W. Wilkes …

STATE HOOP PAIRINGS: All finalized; boys’ first round includes N-C at Maiden, Patton at Draughn

HobbsDailyReport.com CHAPEL HILL – The second set of state boys’ basketball playoff pairings on Saturday — which still have another 20 minutes to be reviewed before they could be finalized (as of 3:30 p.m.) – have two first-round rematches among Greater Hickory area schools. Changes to the first batch of pairings released, needed because some game scores were missing on …

CONFERENCE TOURNEY GIRLS SUMMARIES: N-C, E. Burke, Freedom capture championships

HobbsDailyReport.com Editor’s note: All box scores received are posted on our website, with the person(s) reporting the information to us and their school affiliation listed. If you are a fan or reader who doesn’t find a box on the school(s) that interest you, please encourage that school’s athletic department to send game reports to chobbs001@att.net and hobbsdailyreport@gmail.com. FRIDAY’S HIGH SCHOOL …