By CHRIS HOBBS HobbsDailyReport.com Thoughts and observations from the South Fork 2A basketball tournament championship games on Friday night at Lincolnton, and the season so far: Just scary good If Newton-Conover High head coach Sylvia White is correct – and she knows her basketball – this is just simply scary for players hoping to defend the Red Devils’ Chyna Cornwell. …
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 …