HobbsDailyReport.com CARY – Maiden High junior Zoe Huffman captured the state 2A individual girls’ tennis singles title on Saturday at the Cary Tennis Center. After beating Zoe Panizza of Lake Norman Charter 6-1, 6-1 in the semifinals, Johnson closed with the title by downing McCollough Perry of Hendersonville 6-0, 6-1. Huffman’s regular-season records logged on MaxPreps, had her at 47-1 …
HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL: Maiden goes 82 yards for winning score, nips N-C
HobbsDailyReport.com MAIDEN – Quarterback Keygan Mayfield was sure he’d find his buddy at the end of the 82 yards Maiden High needed to beat visiting Newton-Conover in the closing minutes on Friday night. “I just had so much confidence in our players and in our team,” Mayfield said in a postgame radio interview. “I just believed in us.” Directing a …
GAME PREVIEWS: N-C, Maiden battle for first; Alex Central goes for 10-0 start
By CHRIS HOBBS HobbsDailyReport.com Previewing tonight’s varsity football games (all statistical references are unofficial totals): SOUTH FORK 2A NEWTON-CONOVER (8-1, 5-0) at MAIDEN (9-0, 5-0), 7:30 p.m. Not many high school rivalry games rise to the level of the Red Devils versus the Blue Devils, a series that can boast: a) it once had a future NASCAR champion under center …
BLAST FROM THE PAST: Revisit some of the tightest N-C vs. Maiden football battles
By CHRIS HOBBS HobbsDailyReport.com NEWTON-CONOVER VS. MAIDEN VARSITY FOOTBALL The 10 closest varsity games in the Newton-Conover vs. Maiden high school football series: Margin Year Game site Result 1 1994 Maiden Maiden 28, N-C 27 1 2000 Newton-Conover Maiden 21, N-C 20 2 1995 Newton-Conover N-C 17, Maiden …
STATE GIRLS GOLF CHAMPIONSHIPS: Lang 12th as Maiden girls grab seventh place in 1A/2A
HobbsDailyReport.com SOUTHERN PINES – Kayla Lang finished 12th to lead Maiden High’s girls to a seventh-place finish on Tuesday at the state 1A/2A championship tournament. Lang finished at 171 by shooting an 83 in Tuesday’s second round as the Blue Devils closed at 187-over par at 617. They were two strokes behind sixth-place Ledford. Currituck County — which had the …