By CHRIS HOBBS HobbsDailyReport.com CLAREMONT – Patrick Clark — an assistant coach at Maiden High for the last three seasons whose career also includes stints at North Gaston and Cherryville – is the next head football coach at Bunker Hill. He has been an assistant football coaches for 13 seasons and only two of the teams he helped coach did …
HIGH SCHOOL DUAL-TEAM WRESTLING: State 2A playoffs pit N-C against Foard first
HobbsDailyReport.com Eight high school wrestling teams from the Greater Hickory area have qualified for state dual-team tournaments that begin Tuesday night, highlighted by Newton-Conover facing unbeaten Fred T. Foard in the opening round of the West 2A bracket. On Monday, the North Carolina High School Athletic Association (NCHSAA) released brackets for four classification championship tournaments. The pairings were predetermined – …
HIGH SCHOOLS: This week’s scheduled athletic events
HobbsDailyReport.com HIGH SCHOOL WINTER SPORTS SCHEDULE A schedule of winter sports events for varsity sports teams in the South Fork 2A, Northwestern Foothills 2A and Northwestern 3A-4A, compiled from schedules of schools that responded to a request from HobbsDailyReport.com. The schedule includes all varsity basketball teams and all varsity wrestling teams, at this point, other than North Lincoln from the …
HIGH SCHOOL WRESTLING: South Fork 2A regular-season champ W. Lincoln adds tourney title
HobbsDailyReport.com MAIDEN – The same 1-2 battle that defined the South Fork 2A’s first regular season in wrestling repeated itself on Saturday in the conference tournament at Maiden. Regular-season champion West Lincoln won the tournament, scoring 234 ½ points, in a virtual head-to-head battle with Newton-Conover. The Red Devils, who has 197 ½ points on Saturday, finished second in the …
HIGH SCHOOL WRESTLING: Tigers grab 5th straight league tourney title; next up is N-C
HobbsDailyReport.com NEWTON – Wrestling in their own gym, Fred T. Foard High’s Tigers kept on cruising Saturday by winning the Northwestern Foothills 2A tournament title, their fifth consecutive conference tournament victory. After winning four straight league tournaments in 3A, Foard won another in its first season in its new 2A conference by scoring 275.5 points to easily outdistance second-place Bunker …