May 25, 2010
GREENSBORO — P.J. Hairston, the rising senior basketball star who has committed to play for North Carolina starting in the fall of 2011, will not return to Dudley for his final high school season and will instead attend Hargrave Military Academy in...
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GREENSBORO — Phil Johnson still has the yellow piece of notebook paper on which his then-8-year-old son, Drew, hatched an idea that would bring him national recognition. On a challenge from his father of how to amplify his work with the Piedmont Tri...
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May 19, 2010
HIGH POINT — Southwest Guilford opened this girls soccer season by losing 10 of its first 12 games, and save for four straight critical wins to end its regular season, would be sitting at home tonight with a bowl of popcorn and a date with "Ame...
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May 14, 2010
Jonathan Frye never thought he’d find himself in this position again, feeling through the recruiting tango with colleges lining up for his services like Sadie Hawkins suitors.
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May 13, 2010
GREENSBORO — On the eve of what could be a deep run in the state baseball playoffs, Northeast Guilford junior Luis Paula has removed another stress from his life by committing to play for North Carolina.
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May 10, 2010
Local high school football coaches applauded the intentions of the state association's decision to shorten the season by a week and adopt a pod seeding system for the playoffs to reduce travel costs, but several questioned whether the savings would justif...
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May 7, 2010
Megan Buckland didn't go to the University of North Carolina on Tuesday intending to commit four years of her life to the school. The rising Bishop McGuinness senior, one of the most sought-after female basketball players her age in the country, visited w...
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GREENSBORO — Landon Kimrey avoided one very wet gift on his 29th birthday, instinctively ducking out of harm's way when his Northern Guilford baseball team tried to celebrate its freshly-minted Mid-State 3-A tournament title by dousing its head coac...
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GREENSBORO — The Page girls lacrosse team gets its third crack this season at Western Guilford in a quarterfinal of the NCHSAA playoffs tonight, but the Pirates' losing streak to the Hornets goes back further, beyond Page head coach Hank Hiser's rec...
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May 6, 2010
The NCHSAA Board of Directors voted Wednesday to shorten the football season to 11 weeks from its current 12, retaining an optional endowment game that would be dropped for seeding purposes starting with the 2011-2012 academic year.Also approved at the as...
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May 4, 2010
GREENSBORO — Grimsley golf coach Joe Franks doesn't like to pull his team off the course for rain unless an ark is liable to appear over the horizon. "If the course is open, we go play," he said. "That's part of golf."
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May 3, 2010
Two of the county's most notable unsigned basketball players have taken themselves off the market — Bishop McGuinness point guard Aaron Toomey has committed to play at Amherst College, while High Point Christian's Joseph McManus will play for Guilfo...
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April 30, 2010
GREENSBORO — One entered the program "a local legend," in her coach's words, the other a novice whose assessment of his freshman season was something like "I wasn't very good."
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April 29, 2010
GIBSONVILLE — When Joe Brady's home alarm went off for a moment at midday recently, he got a phone call about it but didn't give it much more thought. "Figured the wind blew," he said.
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April 28, 2010
Northern Guilford basketball star Jonathan Frye, the Mid-State 3-A Player of the Year, has been granted a release from his letter of intent to Appalachian State, his father confirmed Tuesday.
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April 27, 2010
GREENSBORO — Steve Davis learned quickly that you can't take the fullback out of Kennedy Tinsley.
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GREENSBORO — There was no shortage of applicants when Southeast Guilford went looking for a head baseball coach last year.The Falcons were three seasons removed from playing for a state title and had enough talent to make any would-be coach salivate...
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April 26, 2010
GREENSBORO — Steve Davis learned quickly that you can't take the fullback out of Kennedy Tinsley.
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A win Tuesday at Asheboro would assure Northeast Guilford a share of the Mid-Piedmont 3-A baseball title. Northeast emerged atop the murky conference standings after a pair of wins last week.
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April 21, 2010
GREENSBORO — Western Guilford is fed up with being the bridesmaid of girls lacrosse.The Hornets are the sixth-ranked team in the state and have already wrapped up their fifth consecutive conference title. But that run of local dominance has yielded...
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April 20, 2010
GREENSBORO — Will Saunders' life changed when he turned the shower knob to hot instead of cold.He had just left everything he knew in England to pursue a life of basketball in America, but now this unexpected burst of scalding water sent him looking...
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April 17, 2010
Quincy Miller, rated the third-best basketball prospect in the class of 2011 by scout.com, is expected to transfer from Quality Education Academy in Winston-Salem to Westchester Country Day in High Point, making the Wildcats a strong contender for a state...
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April 16, 2010
GREENSBORO — Trevor Brackett was boiling over on the mound, spouting verbal grenades at no one in particular as one of his first efforts as a pitcher was being thumped around the diamond like he was throwing a pinata. A fuming Brackett took the loss...
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JAMESTOWN — Billy Stone and Luke Sonricker made a promise to each other in fifth grade, as much as any 10-year-olds can mortgage their future. One day, they said, we're going to play college football together.
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April 15, 2010
GREENSBORO — Molly Plomaritis abbreviated golf career at Grimsley paid off for both sides.For the Whirlies, it meant consecutive top-five finishes in the state. For Plomaritis, it reminded her that golf didn't have to be a lonely walk.
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