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January 19, 2025
The University of South Carolina has landed another defender from Eastern North Carolina. Havelock High School athlete Donovan Darden committed to the Gamecocks on Monday afternoon. According to On3, 247Sports, and Rivals, he is a 3-star prospect. The commitment comes within a month of South Carolina adding a pledge from Vance County High School edge
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For the eighth straight year, a player from North Carolina high schools was selected in the first round of the Major League Baseball Draft — this time it was Salisbury’s own Vance Honeycutt, who finished his junior season at UNC. But the North Carolina products don’t stop with Honeycutt, and that’s where this story comes
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The East never led in the N.C. Coaches Association East-West All-Star Boys Basketball Game on Monday night, and the West cruised to its third straight victory in the game. Behind a 30-point performance by Southern Guilford’s Jamias Ferere, the West beat the East 108-92 at The Fieldhouse at the Greensboro Coliseum Complex. The was tied
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Jasmine Felton’s last high school basketball game representing Northeastern was one to remember. The 5-foot-11 guard recorded a double-double en route to earning most valuable player honors in the N.C. Coaches Association East-West All-Star Girls Basketball Team. Felton’s 30-point, 10-rebound performance helped the East to an 84-68 win over the West. Felton’s scoring was efficient.
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Charlotte Christian graduate D.J. Layton became North Carolina’s second high school player selected in this year’s MLB Draft when he was taken in the 6th round, 189th overall, by the Baltimore Orioles. The first was East Rowan’s Cobb Hightower. Layton hit .449 this year with 40 hits, 34 RBIs, 30 runs scored, 19 stolen bases,
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The dream senior year for Cobb Hightower has turned into a dream summer as well. The East Rowan graduate, fresh off winning the N.C. High School Athletic Association 3A state championship, was drafted in the third round of the MLB Draft, 88th overall, by the San Diego Padres. Hightower, who is committed to UNC, has
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Flag football has exploded as a girls high school sport in the United States and in North Carolina. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools was the first district in North Carolina to adopt flag football. Union County and Cabarrus County followed. Earlier this year, Wake County, New Hanover County, Durham County, and some individual schools like Cardinal Gibbons, Vance
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Fort Worth, Texas — UNC junior Vance Honeycutt was selected 22nd overall by the Baltimore Orioles in the first round of the 2024 Major League Baseball Draft on Sunday. Honeycutt is the first Tar Heel to be drafted in the first round since Aaron Sabato was selected 27th overall by the Minnesota Twins in 2020.
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By RONALD BLUM, AP Baseball Writer FORT WORTH, Texas — FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Travis Bazzana feels like he represents an entire country, not just a college. Cleveland selected the Australian second baseman on Sunday night with the No. 1 pick in Major League Baseball’s amateur draft, and three players from Wake Forest were
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A number of roster changes for the East-West All-Star Basketball Games have been announced by the N.C. Coaches Association. There have been three changes to the girls rosters and six changes to the boys rosters. On the girls side, Laynie Smith of Chapel Hill and Zamareya Jones of North Pitt have dropped out of the
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