By CHRIS HOBBS HobbsDailyReport.com NEWTON – Steven Pack is ready to have an immediate impact in his new job as head football coach at Newton-Conover High. “I am honored to be given the opportunity to lead the young men and coaching staff of Newton-Conover onto the field on Friday nights,” Pack said in a press release from the Newton-Conover City …
BREAKING NEWS: Red Devils pick North Lincoln’s Pack as next head football coach
By CHRIS HOBBS HobbsDailyReport.com NEWTON – Steven Pack, head football coach last season at North Lincoln High, is the next head football coach at Newton-Conover. A teaching contract for Pack — whose previous coaching experience includes working as an assistant to Matt Beam at Newton-Conover and before that at Burns – was approved by the Newton-Conover City Schools Board of …
ALL-SOUTH FORK 2A SOFTBALL: Maiden leads, sweeps top 3 awards
HobbsDailyReport.com Maiden High leads All-South Fork 2A selections with five players and the conference’s top player on offense, defense and the top coach. In voting by conference head coaches released by conference officials on Wednesday, the Blue Devils’ LaShayla Thompson was named Offensive Player of the Year, teammate Morgan Bohemier earned Defensive Player of the Year and their coach, Hugh …
HIGH SCHOOLS: N-C head football job open, candidates interviewed
By CHRIS HOBBS HobbsDailyReport.com NEWTON – Newton-Conover High’s search for a new head football coach has restarted after Darren Ponder, the interim head coach named on May 2, decided he won’t fill that role. Multiple sources told HobbsDailyReport.com a committee conducted interviews on Wednesday, as the school looks to replace Matt Beam, who resigned May 2 after four seasons as …
STATE BASEBALL PLAYOFFS: Tidbits, history for Alex, Catawba, Caldwell teams
HobbsDailyReport.com BASEBALL PLAYOFF TIDBITS ON AREA TEAMS (Alexander, Catawba, Caldwell counties only) (All facts are from playoff format/brackets started in 1984 through last season and all career coaching records of head coaches are unofficial:) WEST 2A No. 27 HIBRITEN (11-10) at No. 6 BUNKER HILL (19-5), 7 p.m. Head coaches: Gabe Gragg, Hibriten, 33-28, third season; Marty Curtis, Bunker Hill, …