Pine Forest defeated E.E. Smith 22-0 Friday night as Cumberland County Schools football teams took the field. Among other scores, Harnett Central topped Terry Sanford 45-28.
Earl Vaughan Jr. | Cityview Sports Columnist
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Cape Fear tennis, Pine Forest football standouts recognized for achievements
These students are the Athletes of the Week in Cumberland County based on their standout performance in tennis and football.
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Turf-marking machine takes work out of preparing athletic fields for games
David Culbreth is always on the lookout for technological advances that will save school coaches time from certain aspects of their work so they can devote more of it to their students and families. His latest discovery is the Turf Tank Two, which tackles the arduous task of lining athletic fields for play and turns it into a job for one person and one machine.
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General Assembly completes dismantling of High School Athletics Association
The North Carolina General Assembly has penned a 21st-century version of the Hans Christian Andersen classic “The Emperor’s New Clothes.” State Senate Bill 452 has completed the stripping of power from the N.C. High School Athletic Association that began four years ago as a personal crusade by Sen. Tom McInnis, a Republican who represents Cumberland and Moore counties, and his two top helpers, Sens. Todd Johnson, R-Union, and Vickie Sawyer, R-Mecklenberg, as well as the rest of the Republican majority in the state House and Senate.
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Gray’s Creek defeats Douglas Byrd; Pine Forest edges Terry Sanford
Here are the scores from Friday night’s slate of high school football scores for Cumberland County Schools.
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South View, Cape Fear standouts are athletes of the week
Here are your high school athletes of the week in Cumberland County schools: Dontario Austin, South View, football Austin, a junior inside linebacker, had 19 tackles, six of them solos, and …
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Cape Fear kicker ‘like an explosion’ on the field as leader in scoring
Clint Eastwood starred in a movie called “Trouble With the Curve,” in which he played an aging baseball scout losing his vision who relied on the sound of the ball coming off the bat to know if a young prospect was pro material. Jake Thomas coaches football, not baseball, at Cape Fear, but he was impressed with the sound of the ball coming off the foot of kicking prospect Francisco Garcia-Rodriguez.
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Village Christian cross country coach encourages personal best, teamwork
When you’re in the second year of building a cross country team like Danyl’ Bush is at Village Christian Academy, it helps to have an athletic-minded principal. Few are more supportive of high school sports that new Village principal Bob Barnes.
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Athletics association facing uncertain future under pending legislation, commissioner says
Que Tucker, commissioner of the N.C. High School Athletic Association, visited Fayetteville Monday and made some comments regarding legislation passed by the N.C. General Assembly that is now awaiting the governor’s signature. If the bill becomes law, it will be the strongest action yet taken by the legislature to strip power from the association and hand it to the N.C. Department of Public Instruction and the state superintendent.
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Seventy-First racks up big win over Gray’s Creek; Westover loses in overtime
Most Cumberland County schools rescheduled Friday night’s games to Thursday because of the threat of stormy weather caused by Tropical Storm Ophelia. In addition, two games that remained …
