By Don | February 29, 2008 - 11:02 pm - Posted in College

Rams Men’s Tennis Captures First Victory; Defeats Guilford College 4-3 WSSU wins doubles point for first time this season Feb. 29, 2008
Winston-Salem, N.C. – The Winston-Salem State men’s tennis team captured its first victory on Friday afternoon when it edged Guilford College, 4-3, at the WSSU Tennis Complex. The Rams improved to 1-11 on the [...]

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By Don | - 10:02 pm - Posted in College

Greensboro, N.C. — Hampden-Sydney defeated Greensboro College 8-1 in a non-conference tennis match played at Bur-Mil Park on Friday.
H-SC improved to 2-0 while The Pride dropped to 0-2.
GC’s only point was earned by David Sutton at #1 singles. He bested William Moss 4-6, 7-6, 10-7.
The full match results are below.
Tennis Match Results Hampden-Sydney vs Greensboro [...]

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SALEM, Va. — The ODAC Men’s Basketball Tournament opened with seedings in place in Friday afternoon as #1 Guilford College made its way past Eastern Mennonite University, 81-66, in the Salem Civic Center. The Quakers, now 22-4 on the season, are ranked 12th in this week’s D3hoops.com Top 25 Poll. The Royals bow out [...]

Read The Complete Article - Guilford Men’s Basketball 81 – E. Mennonite 66

Greensboro, N.C. – Chris Schmidt scored four goals and an assist in visiting St. .John Fisher’s 13-6 men’s lacrosse victory over Guilford College Friday afternoon.
The Cardinals move to 2-0 and complete a sweep of their two games in Greensboro after beating Greensboro College, 12-4, Wednesday. Guilford falls to 0-2.
Schmidt first dent the twice late [...]

Read The Complete Article - Guilford Men’s Lacrosse Final 6 – St. John Fisher 13

Result from USA South Women’s semifinal game: GC 117, Ferrum 113 hosted by CNU.
Newport News, Va. — Greensboro College junior guard Dione Eccles scored a USA South record 54 points as The Pride women’s basketball team advanced to the finals of the USA South tournament with a thrilling 117-113 double overtime victory this afternoon over [...]

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By Don | - 6:13 pm - Posted in College

Andy and I rarely travel to UNC-G due to parking issues (we travel in personal vehicles and pay our own parking tickets), so we didn’t cover Kyle Hines like some of the other media. Needless to say, UNC-G has a major athlete in Kyle Hines. They retired his Jersey this week at his [...]

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Greensboro College junior Dione scored (Clemmons, NC/West Forsyth) 54 points in The Pride’s 117-113 win over Ferrum in today’s USA South semifinal game. That number is the most ever by a USA South basketball player (men’s or women’s).

Read The Complete Article - Greensboro’s Dione Eccles Nets 54 – NO SHE SHOOTS THE LIGHTS OUT!

By Don | - 5:26 pm - Posted in College

The BORG is alive and well. They are assimilating colleges and universities from Winston-Salem. NC. They go by the carbon-based life-form name of “ISP Sports”. They recently assimilated the University of Nebraska at Omaha, University of Richmond and Valparaiso University. That’s over 50 schools marching in-step. Other BORG-Like Alliances include [...]

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By Don | - 2:10 pm - Posted in College

“The Bravery” has been booked for the Tournament Town Block Party that will be held Saturday, March 29 in Downtown Greensboro. This is part of the Greensboro Coliseum’s NCAA Womens Regional Games on March 30 and April 1.
Last year, Chris Daughtry played before 25,000 fans (8,000 could see). But who cares???? It’s [...]

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By Andy | - 2:09 pm - Posted in College, High School

We learned yesterday that Boo Hook is Andrew Hook and today we see that our pick for one of the top 3-A teams in the state, the Southeast Guilford Falcons nailed the Rockingham County Cougars yesterday 10-0. Third baseman/catcher Jeff Medley was red-hot with 4 hits in 4 official plate appearances and Brian Webb, [...]

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By Andy | - 1:29 pm - Posted in College

MAYBE ROB WAS RIGHT AND WE SHOULD HAVE JOINED FORCES WITH CLEMSON. Here’s what happened to Wake Forest last night in their 74-70 loss to Maryland.
from theacc.com:
James Gist scored a career-high 31 points and Maryland held off Wake Forest’s late rally, beating the Demon Deacons 74-70 on Thursday night.
Greivis Vasquez added 24 points [...]

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By Andy | - 1:23 pm - Posted in High School

The Trinity Bulldogs put and end to the season for the High Point Andrews Red Raiders last night with Josh Pittman hitting for 22 points in the ‘Dogs 57-37 victory. What is it about Trinity and all these kids named Josh? Josh Pittman, Josh Jones, both on this year’s squad and Josh King [...]

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By Andy | - 12:06 pm - Posted in High School

The season is running out on us and the polls are growing smaller and this week we will make a focus five poll for the boys and girls and we will also update the sectional playoffs in another article. Here’s this week’s lineup:
Boys:
#1)Greensboro Day(30-4) Season complete, lost in the NCISAA 3-A finals to Christ [...]

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By Don | February 28, 2008 - 9:53 pm - Posted in College, Photos

Greensboro, N.C. — Guilford College senior Ben Strong (Chapel Hill, N.C./Chapel Hill) received his second straight Kurt Axe Memorial Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) Men’s Basketball Player of the Year Award Thursday night at the league’s tournament banquet in Salem, Virginia. The league’s 10 head coaches nominated and selected two six-member all-star teams and the [...]

Read The Complete Article - Guilford’s Ben Strong Wins Second ODAC Player of the Year Award

Dudley 72 – Oxford Webb 56
Dudley vs Southern Lee AT Dudley (Andy Durham Game of the Week 7:00 PM on WPET AM 950)
Page 56 – Watauga 49
Page vs North Mecklenburg at 7 PM
Grimsley beats Charlotte Gerringer
Southern Lee beats Northeast Guilford

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SALISBURY, NC — Catawba won two doubles then swept six singles matches to claim an 8-1 win over visiting Guilford in men’s tennis action on Thursday afternoon at the Johnson Tennis Center. The Catawba Indians improve to 4-3, while the Quakers fall in their opener.
MEN’S MATCH RESULTS
CATAWBA 8, GUILFORD1
Singles
#1 Sean Soltan (C) d. Jose [...]

Read The Complete Article - Guilford Men’s Tennis Result – Catawba 8, Guilford 1

By Andy | - 12:37 pm - Posted in College

Jason Rich scored 21 points Wednesday night to help Florida State(17-12/6-8) beat North Carolina State 72-62.
Trevor Ferguson had a career-high 17 points to lead the Wolfpack, who continued their late-season freefall. N.C. State (15-13, 4-10) has lost six straight games to slip to the bottom of the league standings after being picked in the [...]

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By Andy | - 12:21 pm - Posted in High School

Baseball yesterday on the High School scene, Ragsdale pulled out a close one with Mount Tabor with the Tigers taking the Spartans 4-3. Ryan Andrejco, DeSean Anderson, Nick McBide, and Kyle Brandenburg all had key hits for the Tigers.
Reid Holmes saw his Southwest Guilford Cowboys shut out Southern Guilford 3-0, with ace Blaine McCraw [...]

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By Andy | - 11:59 am - Posted in High School

Folks-
Tonight’s Men’s basketball Game here at Page vs. Watauga has a new start time of 6:00 PM. This time change was to accommodate a request from Watauga High School due to travel concerns after the game. (in light of the recent snow storm in the Boone area). Can you help spread the word?
DONE

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By Andy | - 11:42 am - Posted in High School

We lost a few more of our girls teams last night and some of those we saw get knocked out caught us off guard, but some of the ones that moved forward have made today’s installment the center of our attention.
The Dudley girls and Helen Terry took to the road and picked up a huge [...]

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