BREAKING NEWS: Hickory lists girls’ varsity basketball head-coaching job as open

Barbara Helms unofficially has 442 wins ater 19 years guiding the Red Torandoes   Editor’s note: This article is copyrighted by HobbsDailyReport.com, and the record(s) of Hickory High girls’ varsity basketball have been developed by research and records kept by the website and can’t be reprinted or rebroadcast without crediting HobbsDailyReport.com or obtaining a waiver of that copyright. To inquire …

HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL: Standings through Tuesday’s first round, state playoffs

HobbsDailyReport.com HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL STANDINGS (through games of Tuesday, May 10) CATAWBA VALLEY 2A ATHLETIC                                                                                                              Conf.              All            Streak x-Bandys                                                                                           12-2             21-7           …

WESTERN FOOTHILLS 3A: Only top 4 teams will play in baseball, softball tournaments

By CHRIS HOBBS HobbsDailyReport.com Only the top four teams will advance to the Western Foothills 3A baseball and softball tournaments, conference officials said Thursday. Both tournaments are scheduled next Wednesday and Friday and all games will be played at the highest seed. The softball games will be at 6:30 p.m. for softball and 7 p.m for baseball. Opening round games …

HIGH SCHOOL SCOREBOARD: Tuesday, Wednesday varsity results

HobbsDailyReport.com HIGH SCHOOL SCOREBOARD WEDNEDAY’S RESULTS BASEBALL Catawba Valley 2A Athletic Bunker Hill 6, Newton-Conover 2 Lincolnton 5, Maiden 0 Western Foothills 3A N Lincoln 2, Fred T. Foard 1 Others Avery County at W. Caldwell Burns 8, Bandys 3 Bunker Hill at E. Lincoln, cancelled Cherryville 9, E. Lincoln 3 Hickory at Maiden, cancelled Providence 2, Alexander Central 1 …

STATE BOYS DUAL-TEAM TENNIS: Western Foothills 3A teams to battle in first round

By CHRIS HOBBS HobbsDailyReport.com The four boys’ tennis teams from the Western Foothills 3A  advancing to the state dual-team playoffs will battle in the opening round. In pairings released Monday by the North Carolina High School Athletic Association (NCHSAA), Hickory earned the West No. 3 seed, Hibriten is at No. 7, St Stephens at No. 10 and Fred T. Foard …