RALEIGH, N.C. – In a highly anticipated matchup of a pair of defending state champions, it was the defending 3A State Champions, Cox Mill, that held on to down last year’s 2A State Champions, Northside-Jacksonville, by a narrow 65-63 margin. The two teams played a very tight first half, with Cox Mill taking a slim…
RALEIGH, N.C. – Northern Guilford led the whole way and pushed out to as much as a 19-point lead in the first half, as the Nighthawks powered their way past Jacksonville to the 3A Women’s Basketball State Championship. The Nighthawks earned their second straight State Championship with the victory. Northern Guilford is used to tight…
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – Southeast Raleigh built a 12-point lead early in the first quarter, but the defending 4A State Champions from Northwest Guilford slowly battled and scrapped their way back into the game for a 44-36 victory and their second straight State Championship. Southeast Raleigh jumped out of the gates on fire, Jada McMillian…
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – The Forest Hills Yellow Jackets saw their State Championship dreams die in the Regional Finals each of the last two years. This year’s team got over that hump, earning the school their first state championship berth since 1964, and with a 63-59 win over Greene Central in the 2A State Championship,…
Winston-Salem Prep dominated defensively in the second half, holding Pamlico County to just 16 points in the final 16 minutes, on the way to a 70-46 victory and the Phoenix’s fifth State Championship in school history. Pamlico led by as many as six points early in the second quarter, but Winston-Salem Prep kept the Hurricanes…
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – North Pitt never trailed North Wilkes as the Panthers powered their way to a 63-42 victory over the Vikings in the 2A Women’s Basketball Championship. The Panthers claimed the school’s third State Championship in Women’s Basketball. Nyjanique Langley was the star two years ago for North Pitt in their 2016 2A…
RALEIGH, N.C. – Mount Airy and Pamlico County faced off in the 1A Women’s Basketball State Championship Game for the second year in a row, and once again the Granite Bears came out firing on all cylinders on their way to a 69-32 victory and a second straight state championship. Jo Snow put the Bears…
Chapel Hill, N.C. – Moe’s Southwest Grill locations in the Triangle, in conjunction with the North Carolina High School Athletic Association (NCHSAA), has selected Charles Johnson from Heritage High School in Raleigh, N.C., Daryl Anderson of Chapel Hill High School in Chapel Hill, N.C., and John Hammett from Northern Durham High School in Durham, N.C., as…
CHAPEL HILL, NC – In February, the North Carolina High School Athletic Association (NCHSAA) and the Governor’s Highway Safety Program held a t-shirt design contest for students across the state of North Carolina. The purpose of the contest was for students at NCHSAA member high schools to create a t-shirt design promoting the “Click it…
CHAPEL HILL — Cassidy Coleman of Western Alamance High School and Justin Jarvis of Lake Norman High School were named recipients of the NCHSAA Performance of the Week awards. Each week, two athletes in North Carolina High School Athletic Association competition are selected for this award from nominations submitted by media and school administrators. Coleman,…
