HIGH SCHOOL WINTER SPORTS: This week’s scheduled events, Monday-Saturday

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 Lake Norman Charter and Lincolnton …

HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL STANDINGS: Current heading into playoff’s second round

HIGH SCHOOL VARSITY FOOTBALL STANDINGS (Through first round of state playoffs) SOUTH FORK 2A                                                                              Conf.                                             All                          PF                     PA Maiden                                                               7-0                               …

HIGH SCHOOL SOFTBALL: Foard’s Settlemyre will play at North Carolina

HobbsDailyReport.com NEWTON – Fred T. Foard High star Abby Settlemyre has signed to play college softball at North Carolina. Settlemyre hit. 714 last season with three home runs, seven doubles and two triples and stole 26 bases for the Tigers as a junior. She also drove in 18 runs, walked 15 times, had 45 hits and scored 44 runs. The …

STATE 2AA FOOTBALL PLAYOFFS: Foard stuns previously unbeaten Maiden, advances

HobbsDailyReport.com MAIDEN – Derrick Minor won’t be the only one with a super sweet memory when he one day recalls the 12th time he walked off a high school football field as a winning head coach for Fred T. Foard. That came Friday night, in the opening round of the state 2AA playoffs, when Minor’s Tigers focused very little on …

STATE 2AA FOOTBALL PLAYOFFS: Witherspoon-led Hibriten overpowers Bandys

HobbsDailyReport.com LENOIR – Hibriten High running back McKinley Witherspoon had a huge game against an old rival on Friday night – averaging 40 yards per rush – as the unbeaten Panthers hit another gear. Second-seeded Hibriten smacked visiting Bandys 56-7 as Witherspoon ran six times for 241 yards and five TDs and added a punt return TD in a first-round …