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: Red Devils corral Mustangs, finish second in league
HobbsDailyReport.com NEWTON – Newton-Conover High scored 32 first-half points on Friday night en route to a 39-21 home victory over East Lincoln that netted a second-place finish in South Fork 2A varsity football. The Red Devils (9-2, 6-1) finished a game behind Maiden in the conference race. Their only losses are two unbeaten teams, Hibriten by one point and Maiden …
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 …