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January 16, 2025
It’s not quite as big of a change as a week ago, but there are still significant changes to this week’s HighSchoolOT statewide Top 25 baseball rankings. Out are Wayne Country Day, Hoggard, Weddington, Wakefield, Marvin Ridge, and North Lenoir. Replacing them are Wake Forest, East Rowan, Hough, Providence, South Mecklenburg, and North Stanly. There
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Some upsets have triggered big changes to the HighSchoolOT softball statewide rankings. Franklin, Oak Grove, and Weddington are now in the top 10, while six new teams joined the top 25. No. 17 Piedmont, by virtue of its win over West Stanly, is in as well as Nos. 20-25: Bunker Hill, Parkwood, North Stanly, North
READ MOREThere are a whopping six new teams in this week’s HighSchoolOT statewide 25 girls soccer rankings. After an upset loss by Cox Mill to Mooresville, there was a shake-up in the 704 area code top 15 which started a domino effect for the statewide top 25. Sun Valley, Pine Lake Prep, Topsail, Hibriten, Hickory, and
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We’ve now been through three months without high school football in North Carolina. Today, there’s only four months between now and when games start. Throughout the month of April, we’ll have some kind of football preview coverage released to HSOT Insiders each day. First up, let’s take a look at the four defending N.C. High
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By Joseph Ochoa, WRAL multiplatform producer, and Carly Haynes, WRAL reporter Sweet 16 weekend was not only a winner for North Carolina State University and its fans, it was historic. For the first time, the NC State Wolfpack is sending both teams to the Final Four in the same year. The women’s team took care
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N.C. State extended its Cinderella run into the Final Four with the help of a half dozen players that once suited up on high school courts in North Carolina. Between the Wolfpack, and the Alabama Crimson Tide, a total of eight athletes will take the floor in Phoenix with roots to the Old North State.
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By STEPHEN HAWKINS, AP Sports Writer DALLAS — DALLAS (AP) — Bruising big man DJ Burns Jr. plays with plenty of joy, skipping on and off the floor and interacting with North Carolina State fans that he often works into a frenzy with slick moves and a soft-touch shot. “I was raised in a happy
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By EDDIE PELLS, AP National Writer DETROIT — DETROIT (AP) — By the time all the scrapping and scratching and diving on the floor was over, it felt like a shame that both those teams, and both those players, weren’t moving onto the Final Four. Just don’t expect Purdue to feel bad about it. Boilermakers
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By DOUG FEINBERG, AP Basketball Writer ALBANY, N.Y. — ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Dawn Staley has South Carolina back in a familiar place — the Final Four — and she got there this time with an entirely new starting lineup. Tessa Johnson scored 15 points and Kamilla Cardoso added 12 to help the undefeated Gamecocks
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By ANNE M. PETERSON AP Sports Writer PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Aziaha James made a career-high seven 3-poiners and scored 27 points, and third-seeded North Carolina State earned its first trip to the Final Four of the women’s NCAA Tournament since 1998, beating top-seeded Texas 76-66 on Sunday in a game played with 3-point lines
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