By Andy | February 28, 2009 - 5:53 pm - Posted in College

North Carolina 104, Georgia Tech 74
Chapel Hill, N.C.
TV: CBS
Wake Forest 70, Virginia 60
Charlottesville, Va.
TV: Raycom
Florida State 73, Clemson 66
Tallahassee, Fla.
TV: Raycom
Duke 72, Virginia Tech 65
Blacksburg, Va.
TV: ABC

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Pride Women Come up Short in USAS Final, 66-58
Newport News, Va. – Greensboro College’s comeback came up short as Christopher Newport defeated The Pride, 66-58, in the USA South Championship game on Saturday. CNU (22-6) gets the automatic bid to the NCAA tournament and GC (26-2) waits until Monday for a possible at-large selection. [...]

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By Andy | - 5:47 pm - Posted in High School

1-A Tuesday at UNCG:
Hiawasse Dam(28-5) vs. East Surry(25-5) 7PM
Bishop McGuinness(26-4) vs. Robbinsville(25-2) 8:30 PM
2-A Wednesday at UNCG:
East Davdson(30-0) vs. Smokey Mountain(24-3) 7PM
Mitchell(27-2) vs. Salisbury(26-3) 8:30PM

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Lineup for the Men’s West Regional:
1-A West:Greensboro Coliseum Special Events Center
Friday March 6-Bishop McGuinness(28-2) vs. Hendersonville(17-9) 7PM
Cherryville(22-8) vs. South Stokes(12-15) 8:30PM
2-A West:GCSEC
Tuesday March 3-Shelby(26-2) vs. West Caldwell(22-6) 7PM
East Lincoln(26-4) vs. Ashe(25-3)
4-A West:UNCG’s Fleming Gym
Thursday March 5-Huntersville Hopewell(27-0) vs. Ardrey Kell(21-8) 7PM
Mount Tabor(28-1) vs. Myers Park(24-6) 8:30 PM

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Here are the girls’s 3-A East Regional pairings with Round One games coming up on Thursday night March 5, at JH Rose High School in Greenville, N.C.
The Dudley Panthers defeated the Rockingham County Cougars 58-56 on a last-second shot by Breonna Patterson last Friday night in the Triad 3-A Conference Tournament Championship game at Northeast [...]

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The High Point Andrews Red Raiders will be action on Wednesday night at the Greensboro Coliseum Special Events Center.
Charlotte Catholic will also be there and they come into town with a record of (13-15), having won three straight last week to claim a sectional title. As of last Monday, Charlotte Catholic was [...]

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By Andy | - 4:31 pm - Posted in High School

Here it is from nchsaa.org site and we were right, they have split Dudley and Northern Guilford and here are the pairings for this Friday night March 6, at the Minges Coliseum on the East Carolina campus.
Northern Guilford(27-3) vs. Bertie(22-4) 7PM
Dudley(26-3) vs. Kinston(26-3) 8:30PM

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Will Dudley and Northern Guilford meet again for a fourth time this season in Greenville at East Carolina University?(I am starting to lose count after that conference tournament final.)
If they don’t re-seed the teams they will play in the first round of the East Regionals next week at ECU. If they do [...]

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By Andy | - 11:16 am - Posted in College

Men’s Basketball
Georgia Tech @ North Carolina
12:00 PM
Chapel Hill, N.C.
TV: CBS
Men’s Basketball
Wake Forest @ Virginia
2:00 PM
Charlottesville, Va.
TV: Raycom
Men’s Basketball
Clemson @ Florida State
2:00 PM
Tallahassee, Fla.
TV: Raycom
Men’s Basketball
Duke @ Virginia Tech
3:30 PM
Blacksburg, Va.
TV: ABC

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By Andy | - 10:48 am - Posted in High School

Mount Tabor 64, Greensboro Page 58
Josh Hicks scored 14 of his 24 points in the first half, and weary Mount Tabor held on in the second half to finish off Greensboro Page for a 64-58 win in the Class 4-A West Sectional 1championship game last night.
With Hicks knocking down four of his five 3-pointers in [...]

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By Andy | - 10:32 am - Posted in College, High School

by Tony Sutphin
I made the trip to Mt Tabor to watch the State Playoff Basketball game against Page because I knew the atmosphere and game would be worth it.
The gym was packed and Mt Tabor had a little too much for Page whom played well and had a great season – my good friend Brandon [...]

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Graham 61 Eastern Guilford 56‏
Eastern Guilford fell behind Graham 29-13 at the half and nearly rallied in the second half before coming up short 61-56 to the state’s fifth ranked team. Graham showed experience as to why they have been to the big dance for two straight years. Eastern put on a gutsy performance [...]

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Newport News, Va. – Danielle Duncan (Greensboro, NC/Ragsdale) scored a game-high 16 points and Kim Enoch (Mebane, NC/Bartlett Yancey) notched a double-double (11 points, 10 rebounds) as 18th ranked Greensboro College (26-1) defeated Shenandoah, 64-50, in a USA South semifinal game on Friday afternoon. Dione Eccles added 10 points for GC.
The Pride women’s basketball [...]

Read The Complete Article - USA South WB Semis: Greensboro College Pride 64, SU 50/Finals 2pm today

SALEM, Va. – Eighth-seeded Washington and Lee University started the 2009 Old Dominion Athletic Conference Men’s Basketball Tournament with a bang Friday afternoon, posting an 82-76 double-overtime upset of top-seeded Guilford College. The hard-fought game featured 11 ties and 17 lead changes.
The victory marked just the second by the number-eight seed in the tournament quarterfinals. [...]

Read The Complete Article - College Men’s Basketball Final – Washington and Lee 82, Guilford 76 (2OT)‏

While sitting in the Cigar Room at JR Cigars in Burlington on Thursday afternoon, I happened across an interesting piece in the sports section of the Raleigh News and Observer. The article was about Lou Hudson, a basketball player who starred at Dudley High School in the early 1960s and went on to find [...]

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By Don | February 27, 2009 - 8:27 pm - Posted in High School

FINAL Via the WPET Audio Stream
Page 58
Mt. Tabor 64
Other Games Tonight:
Ragsdale Girls 58
Concord 60
High Point Andrews Boys 48
West Rowan 36
Dudley Girls won by 35
Dudley Boys 92
Oxford Web 66
Northern Guilford 61
North Vance 59

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from charlotteobserver.com:
The Wachovia Championship has been replaced by the Quail Hollow Championship.
The annual PGA Tour stop in Charlotte – scheduled April 27-May 3 this year – has been renamed for the course where it is played, another result of the on-going financial crisis.
The official announcement wss expected at noon today.
Tournament officials said Wells Fargo, which [...]

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By Andy | - 12:08 pm - Posted in High School

Boys poll
#1) Greensboro Day School(28-3)
#2) Northern(26-3)
#3) Dudley(25-3)
#4) Ragsdale(26-2)
#5) High Point Andrews(23-4)
#6) Page(22-6)
#7) Grimsley(18-8)
#8) High Point Central(15-11)
#9) Western(14-11)
#10) Southeast(14-11)
Girls poll:
#1) Dudley(25-2)
#2) Ragsdale(24-4)
#3) Eastern(18-10)
#4) Northwest Guilford(22-3)
#5) Southeast(20-7)
#6) Smith (13-12)
#7) Northern(15-11)
#8) High Point Central(18-9)
#9) High Point Andrews(13-11)
#10) Southwest Guilford(13-13)

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By Andy | - 11:47 am - Posted in College

Women’s Basketball
Boston College @ Maryland
7:00 PM
College Park, Md.
TV: RSN

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By Andy | - 11:40 am - Posted in College

Men’s results:
Wake Forest Downs NC State 85-78
James Johnson had career highs with 28 points and 18 rebounds to lead No. 13 Wake Forest past North Carolina State 85-78 on Thursday night.
Ishmael Smith added a season-high 18 points and Chas McFarland had 15 for the Demon Deacons (21-5, 8-5 Atlantic Coast Conference).
They shot 52.5 percent and [...]

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