THE GAME
Defending Conference USA champion East Carolina, which has
posted three consecutive winning seasons for the first time since the
1998, 1999 and 2000 campaigns, will open the new year under the
direction of fifth-year head coach Skip Holtz when the Pirates battle
Appalachian State in a non-conference matchup at Dowdy-Ficklen
Stadium. The contest against the Mountaineers also marks an [...]

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Sent to us by one of our readers by way of WGHP’s web site(www.myfox8.com):
Items Belonging to Athlete Killed in Crash Stolen from Home
GUILFORD COUNTY, N.C. – The mother of a Southern Guilford High School football player killed in a car crash last year said someone broke into her home Friday and stole items that belonged [...]

Read The Complete Article - Stealin’ a young man’s memories

To put this is sports street terms, great move by Jeano to promote Lowe….
Bob can do the job, and how about this new team of:
Lojko and Lowe…….
(I will wait patiently for a bonus for my most recent original creation. The working team of Lojko and Lowe, this idea must have come from a pro, [...]

Read The Complete Article - Lowe on the go upward, as the new GC assistant AD

Monday, August 31
4:30PM Girls Varsity Tennis High Point Central High School Home
Tuesday, September 01
4:00PM Girls Varsity Tennis Reynolds at Reynolds Park Away
4:55PM Boys Varsity Cross Country City County Meet Away
5:00PM Girls Junior Varsity Volleyball Glenn High School Home
5:25PM Girls Varsity Cross Country City County Meet Away
5:30PM Boys Junior Varsity Soccer Reynolds High School Away
6:00PM Girls [...]

Read The Complete Article - Northwest Guilford Athletics Schedule 8/31-9/4

Monday 31-Aug
Girls Varsity Tennis
Southwest Guilford HS
Away 4:00pm
Tuesday 1-Sep
Cross Country
Guilford County Championships
Away 4:30pm
Tuesday 1-Sep
Girls JV Volleyball
Parkland High School
Home 5:00 pm
Tuesday 1-Sep
Girls Varsity Volleyball
Parkland High School
Home 6:30 pm
Tuesday 1-Sep
Boys JV Soccer
Grimsley High School
Away 5:30pm
Tuesday 1-Sep
Boys Varsity Soccer
Grimsley High School
Away 7:00pm
Wednesday 2-Sep
Girls Varsity Tennis
Northwest Guilford HS
Home 4:30pm
Wednesday 2-Sep
Girls JV Volleyball
Page High School
Home 5:00pm
Wednesday 2-Sep
Girls Varsity Volleyball
Page High School
Home [...]

Read The Complete Article - Ragsdale Athletics Schedule 8/31-9/4

This guy did it all and now it is all gone. Tom Berry(age 48) passed away on Sunday and he leaves behind a wife and three daughters and many memories after many years of covering sports in Guilford County.
Tom was a sportswriter for the High Point Enterprise and he covered it all. The [...]

Read The Complete Article - Guilford County loses another sportswriter(Tom Berry) way too soon

Here are some of the stats we have been able to check on already by way of maxpreps.com and more are coming in soon…..
Ragsdale Tigers:
Passing-Luke Heavner 187.5 yards per game with 4TD’s….
Rushing-D’onovan Smith 93.5 yards per game 1 TD…
Receiving-DeSean Anderson 111.5 yards per game with 2TD’s….
Luke Sonrricker 69 yards per game with 2 TD’s….
Tackles-Darius McQueen [...]

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from Will Cornelius Hoppers media:
Kannapolis Downs Hoppers With Solid Pitching Performance
GREENSBORO, NC – The Kannapolis Intimidators, the Northern Division’s second half leaders, traveled to NewBridge Bank Park Saturday evening and downed the Grasshoppers 7-2 in front of a crowd of 8,027.
The Intimidators, who had won nine of their last 10 games entering tonight’s contest, kept [...]

Read The Complete Article - The Will call on Hoppers-Intimidators on S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y night

Still watching for Justin Parker(Southern Guilford) and David Moore(Grimsley) in that Quaker offensive backfield and I remember playing against the Shipbuilders from Newport News back when I was in college and in those days they were coached by former Wake Forest quarterback and NFL mainstay Norm Snead.
I have often wondered if Norm Snead is related [...]

Read The Complete Article - Newport News Apprentice Downs Guilford in Controlled Scrimmage‏

GREENSBORO, N.C. – Rookie Brittany Freeman had 11 kills and 14 digs to help Guilford College past visiting Davidson County Community College, 4-0, in preseason exhibition volleyball match. Laura Kopald and Mary Moody (Asheboro, N.C../Asheboro) both added nine kills for the Quakers.
Lauren Leonard led the Storm with a game-high nine kills.
The Quakers open [...]

Read The Complete Article - Guilford over DCCC in volleyball exhibition

Durham, NC — Duke Univeristy defeated Greensboro College, 4-0, in an exhibition at Duke on Saturday. The Pride’s Mazi Heydary (Greensboro, N.C., Ragsdale)had four saves in the contest.
The Blue Devils collected 17 shots to 15 for GC. Dennis Geoffrey (Elon, NC/Western Alamance) had a team high three shots for The Pride.
Duke led 1-0 at the [...]

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Jim Ross from JR’s blog on Jeff Hardy being gone from World Wrestling Entertainment:
Ross on Jeff Hardy: “Jeff will be away TFN for a much needed sabbatical, for the lack of a better term. I think Jeff is being very wise in taking some time off of a business that has no official off season [...]

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MBi Sports Agency, based out of Greensboro NC, has signed Outfielder Luis Del Rosario of the Kansas City Royals Organization.
Luis was drafted on August 1, 2007 out of the Dominican Republic by the Royals and is completing the season in the Rookie Appalachian League.
Luis is currently hitting around .270, with [...]

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The game was delayed for about an hour and a half, due to lightning.
Davie scored first to make it 6-0 early, Page blocked the PAT and that swung the momentum for the rest of the game. Page played some smash-mouth football and ran it straight down the throat of the Davie defense. Huge chucks of [...]

Read The Complete Article - Page Rushes Past Davie County

This season is already turning out to be a hard one to predict.
Smith has now won two straight games to start the season and Southwest Guilford is (2-0) and where did that come from? This might end up being a very tough one to call, so all we can do is sit back and [...]

Read The Complete Article - HS Football Saturday morning rewind

Saturday, Sunday and Monday are the last three home games for the Greensboro Grasshoppers this season. They are planning to go out with a BLAST!.
Saturday Night – Fireworks. (limited tickets remaining)
Sunday Night – 7:05 PM Start Time! – PLUS Post-Game Fireworks – PLUS All Tickets Just $5.
Monday – 12:35 PM Start Time – $1 [...]

Read The Complete Article - Grasshopper Final Homestand Specials

Like the impending rain Northern Guilford held of Northeast Guilford 26-20 in front of a packed house at Bill Bookout Stadium as Northern made their first trip to what for many Nighthawk students was their former school.
The Nighthawks struck quickly as on the thrid play of the night Rocco Scarfone hit Maurice Harris with [...]

Read The Complete Article - Nighthawks hold off Rams 26-20

While Andy and Jim are on the AIR at WPET-950AM, I’m back in the Greensboro Sports Web Central taking sports scores and reports. Twitter HASH TAG – GSOFOOTBALL, or comments here. You can call the game reports in for LIVE Reports (contact Andy Durham for info at durhamandy@live.com)
UPDATED 10:02 PM
Final
Dudley – 8
Ragsdale – [...]

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After the recent problems that have surfaced surrounding Kurt Angle, you have to wonder if he is falling into a similar pattern to that of Chris Benoit, who left us on his own terms, but they were not good terms.
Is Kurt capable of going down that same road that Chris Benoit traveled? Chris killed [...]

Read The Complete Article - Is Kurt copying Chris?

from Thursday:
Greensboro
Asheville
(Postponed)
Looking to get in two today in Asheville……..

Read The Complete Article - Hoopers will play two today in Asheville