HobbsDailyReport.com SALISBURY – Kenyatta Greene finished with a game-high 142 yards and two touchdowns on 19 carries, leading Catawba to a 24-20 win over Lenoir-Rhyne University in South Atlantic Conference (SAC) football on Saturday. Greene broke a 17-all tie with a 5-yard run that capped an eight-play, 75-yard drive with five minutes, nine seconds left in the third quarter as …
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