HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL: Draughn hires former Freedom player as head coach

By CHRIS HOBBS HobbsDailyReport.com VALDESE – Draughn High is bringing a former Freedom football player home to lead is 10th season of varsity football and then take the program into its second decade. Chris Powell — an assistant with experience coaching offense and defense the last four seasons at Chester (S.C.) High after five seasons as an assistant at Boiling …

HIGH SCHOOL SCHEDULE: Thursday, Friday 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 …

COLLEGE INDOOR TRACK AND FIELD: Bears’ Drummonds shares league award

HobbsDailyReport.com HICKORY – Lenoir-Rhyne University’s Savannah Drummonds shares the Field Athlete of The Week in the South Atlantic Conference (SAC) for this week, the league announced Tuesday. She finished seventh in the women’s pole vault (10-feet, 6 inches) at the Mountain Open last weekend and shares the league award with To’Mara Carmichael of Queens. A junior from Palm Coast, Fla., …

HIGH SCHOOL X-C: Bunker Hill’s Hilliard signs with Lenoir-Rhyne

HobbsDailyReport.com CLAREMONT – Bunker Hill High cross country and track and field star Caroline Hilliard will continue her running career at Lenoir-Rhyne University. Hilliard, last season’s Northwestern Foothills 2A Runner of the Year, signed her national letter of intent on Tuesday at Bunker Hill. She won the West 2A Regional title and capped her prep career with a 12th-place finish …

HIGH SCHOOL BOYS BASKETBALL: Tuesday’s game summaries

HobbsDailyReport.com SOUTH FORK 2A MAIDEN 61, BANDYS 35 Bandys                14    4    9    8—35 Maiden                16 17   15   13—61 BANDYS 35—Maxwell 2, Stryborski 7, Gywn 6, D. Clanton 5, Ja’Tay Culliver 11, Reavis 4. MAIDEN 61—Caleb McDaniel 14, Coulter 9, Richardson 8, Stinson 6, Mason High 20, Morris 1, Copeland, Wicker, Cooke, Bonheimer. Notes: Maiden has won seven straight over the …