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 …
STATE 2AA FOOTBALL PLAYOFFS: Mount Pleasant shuts down E. Lincoln offense, wins handily
HobbsDailyReport.com MOUNT PLEASANT – Holding a lively East Lincoln High offense to fewer than 100 yards sparked Mount Pleasant’s 35-0 victory over the visiting Mustangs to open the state 2AA football playoffs on Friday night. The fourth-seeded Tigers (10-2) earned a second round home matchup next Friday against another set of Tigers, as No. 12 Fred T. Foard (9-3) stunned …
STATE 2AA FOOTBALL PLAYOFFS: Shelby shuts down N-C running game, wins by 29
HobbsDailyReport.com SHELBY – Shelby High eliminated visiting Newton-Conover High from the first round of the state 2AA football playoff Friday night, winning 49-20. Click the link below for coverage of the game compliments of a link to the Shelby Daily Star, one of the state’s leaders in high school sports coverage: http://www.shelbystar.com/sports/20171110/shelby-bombs-red-devils-with-early-barrage