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September 20, 2024
By Brian Murphy, WRAL The Carolina Hurricanes are back in the NHL Playoffs for the sixth consecutive season. And a familiar opponent awaits in the first round. The Hurricanes, the No. 2 seed in the Metropolitan Division, will take on the New York Islanders, who clinched the No. 3 seed in the division with a
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Pilot Mountain’s East Surry High School will have a new head football coach for the first time since 2018. The school announced on Tuesday that successful leader Trent Lowman has resigned. Later in the morning, West Stokes High School in King announced that Lowman was its new head coach. Lowman led East Surry to a
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Northwood High School did not take long to find its next head football coach. The Chargers announced on Tuesday that they’ve hired Dalton Brown as their next leader. Brown is an an alum of Northwood, where he played football and basketball. He attended Campbell University on a football scholarship and graduated from there in 2015
READ MOREOf the minor blemishes on Pine Lake Prep’s program-altering 20-2-2 season a year ago, was a 0-1-1 record to the eventual 1A state champions at Christ The King. Thanks to a brace from Maddyson Kerley, the Pride used Monday night at The Grey to raise the program’s bar even higher. A 4-1 win set the
READ MOREKatelyn Brandon and the Mooresville defense hunkered down on the road to start a five-game week. The Blue Devils escaped bases loaded jams in each of the first two innings with only one run allowed. Seven runs of their own in the top of the third gave them a lead that they would not relinquish
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Loaded schedules, marquee non-conference matchups, and postponed games headlined a hectic week for baseball teams across the state. With pitching staffs being pushed to the limit and conference foes securing upset victories, over 30 teams in HighSchoolOT’s area code rankings from a week ago suffered at least one loss. Eight teams that sat in last
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Four teams ranked in last week’s statewide top-10 dropped games, including Northwest Guilford who held down the No. 1 spot in HighSchoolOT’s rankings for the past four weeks. Four new teams break into the Top-25, and another half dozen found their way into the Top-15 of our area code rankings. Oak Grove’s win over Northwest
READ MOREThe changes tot his week’s HighSchoolOT statewide boys lacrosse rankings are probably best broken up into three parts. First, the top 10 saw teams rise if they got crucial victories. Cardinal Gibbons did that against Cannon School, while Middle Creek did that to avenge an earlier loss to Holly Springs. From 10-20, almost every team
READ MOREIn this, the eighth edition of the HighSchoolOT girls lacrosse rankings this season, only eight teams have made an appearance in the top five. The latest to join this exclusive group? Holly Springs, which defeated Weddington in a thriller on Friday. There were considerable rising-and-falling changes made in the top 20 or so positions, with
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It’s maybe a week late on our HighSchoolOT boys tennis “midseason” rankings, but even the extra week doesn’t explain the big changes since the season began. For starters, there’s a new No. 1 team as Providence Day takes the helm. Providence moves up to second, Jordan to third, and Cannon School to fourth. Cary Academy,
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