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Preps digest: JV, middle schools

JV * Boys' basketball: D.H. Conley 60, C.B. Aycock 32 -- Sophomore Michael Evans led the Golden Falcons with 12 points. Freshman Tayquan Hampton added eight points. * Girls' basketball: D.H. Conley 49, C.B. Aycock 43 -- Hannah Vinson...

Gators avenge double-OT loss against Bulldogs

[email protected] SEVEN SPRINGS -- Spring Creek wanted revenge. With the memory last week's double-overtime loss still fresh in their minds, the Gators played with intensity and defeated Princeton, 59-53, in Carolina 1-A Conference play Tuesday evening. Trey Hammonds led Spring...

Freeman scores career-high 23 points, Chargers lose heart breaker

Pope John Paul turned a last-second turnover into a game-winning layup and nipped Wayne Country Day, 41-39, in a Coastal Plains Independent 1-A/2-A Conference game. WCDS committed a turnover with 8 seconds to play. Lillian Freeman torched the nets for...

Ricks, Cox provide majority of Princeton's offense vs. SC

SEVEN SPRINGS -- Emily Ricks and Charley Cox were a two-woman wrecking crew Princeton defeated Spring Creek, 34-31, in a Carolina 1-A Conference game at "The Swamp." The two combined for 30 points -- Cox had 11 and Ricks had...

Atkins scores 29 points in Saints' league loss

Zaria Atkins pumped in a game-high 29 points in Southern Wayne's 61-52 loss to Eastern Carolina 3-A/4-A foe South Central on Tuesday eening. Iyahna Bess added seven points. The Saints (6-12 overall, 2-7 ECC) visit New Bern on Friday....

Kinston girls complete league sweep of GHS

KINSTON -- Goldsboro faltered in the third quarter against Eastern Carolina 2-A foe Kinston for the second straight time, and fell 53-45 on Tuesday evening. The Vikings, led by four three-pointers, scored 25 points and held Goldsboro to five points....

Golden Falcons' second-half offense disappears against DHC girls

HOLLYWOOD CROSSROADS -- D.H. Conley held C.B. Aycock to seven second-half points and cruised to a 50-29 win in Eastern Carolina 3-A/4-A Conference play Tuesday evening. Taylor Daniels and Lorie Edmundson scored eight points apiece for the Golden Falcons. Ashley...

Mozingo drops in 13 points, unbeaten Warriors pick off Rose

GREENVILLE -- Megan Mozingo emerged as the lone scorer in double figures with 13 points, and Eastern Wayne remained unbeaten with a 45-35 conquest of Eastern Carolina 3-A/4-A foe J.H. Rose on Tuesday evening. Shontel Monk supplied eight points and...

Rosewood girls keep share of Carolina 1A lead

CALYPSO -- Rosewood seized a 24-point halftime lead and cruised past North Duplin, 54-21, in Carolina 1-A Conference play Tuesday evening. Lexi Mercer led all scorers with 22 points for the Eagles. Deja Aycock led North Duplin with six. North...

Rosewood grapplers thrash Pamlico County

Rosewood emerged victorious in the first 10 individual bouts and dismantled Pamlico County, 74-6, in opening-round action of the N.C. High School Athletic Association 1-A dual-team playoffs Tuesday evening. The Eagles (40-4 overall) face wild-card entrant East Montgomery (22-15) in...

Conley boys slip past Aycock in ECC 3A/4A hoops

HOLLYWOOD CROSSROADS -- Cameron Kornegay collected a team-high 15 points in Charles B. Aycock's 49-43 loss against D.H. Conley on the Eastern Carolina 3-A/4-A Conference scene Tuesday evening. Ian Best provided 13 points....

Chargers' Miller knocks down 24 points in regular-season home finale

Victor Miller led three Wayne Country Day players in double figures with 24 points in an 83-70 triumph over Pope John Paul II Catholic HS in Coastal Plains Independent 1-A/2-A Conference play Tuesday. Jamal Forde added 14 points, while DJ...

Mitchell, Eagles cruise by North Duplin

CALYPSO -- Rosewood outscored North Duplin 26-6 in the third quarter and triumphed 75-49 in Carolina 1-A Conference play Tuesday evening. Dennis Mitchell poured in a game-high 28 points for the Eagles, who extended their win streak to six. Zack...

Boxscores: Princeton-Spring Creek boys

Princeton 6 19 10 18 -- 53 Spring Creek 14 12 18 15 -- 59 PRINCETON Michael Wooten 4 2 1-3 15, DeMarcus Ellis 2 1 2-2 9, Tanner Woodard 5 0 0-0 10, Tyler Beasley 0 0 2-2 2,...

Frasier stays put, signs with N.C. State

[email protected] PRINCETON -- Derrick Minor had never seen his running back smile more than the day Florida State University offered him a scholarship to play football. "I think it was like his dream school, because of how good they were,...

Kinston defense shuts down Goldsboro's outside shooting

[email protected] KINSTON -- When Goldsboro and Kinston squared off two weeks ago, Cougars guard Myron Carmon knocked down big shot after big shot, hit deep 3-pointers and got into the lane to finish at the rim. Goldsboro couldn't even get...

Boxscores: Goldsboro-Kinston boys, girls

BOYS Goldsboro 10 19 21 7 -- 57 Kinston 19 13 20 19 -- 71 GOLDSBORO Rasheen Artis 6 1 7-8 22, Myron Carmon 2 2 4-4 14, Joe Baker 1 0 0-0 2, Jaylin Thomas 3 0 0-2 6,...

CBA-Northern Nash wrestling box

2014 N.C. High School Athletic Association Class 3-A Dual-team playoffs (at C.B. Aycock HS, Pikeville) 1st round Northern Nash 40 C.B. Aycock 36 152 -- Daniel Bryant (CBA) wbf Jalen Spooner, 2:24; 160 -- Joshua Wallace (CBA) wbf Javon...

Knights bump Golden Falcons from 3A dual-team wrestling playoffs

[email protected] PIKEVILLE -- One thread unraveled. Then another. And another. Charles B. Aycock did its best to "patch" the holes, but dropped a season-ending 40-36 decision to Northern Nash in opening-round action of the N.C. High School Athletic Association Class...