2023: A look back at the year in sports
The late radio great Larry King used to say that people don’t read stories wrapping up the biggest news of the year because everyone already knows what happened. One thing he didn’t …
Veteran basketball coaches return to Pine Forest, prepare for Holiday Classic games
Timing it’s said is everything, and it couldn’t have worked out better this year for a couple of veteran basketball coaches.
He guided Seventy-First to two state championship and won five altogether. He says this year’s team is ‘a really special bunch of kids.’
When it comes to talking state football championships at Seventy-First High School, no man has more experience than the guy who won a pair of them for the Falcons, then added another at South View and two more at Asheville Reynolds before retiring.
Seventy-First football team looks toward the Eastern 3A NCHSAA championship football playoffs
Catching Z’s is a good thing for someone who’s tired, but for opponents of the Seventy-First football team it would be wise to seek something else. The Z’s in particular …
Preview: Seventy-First hosts Southern Alamance on Friday
Seventy-First linebacker Zayvion Hill still has powerful memories of summer workouts with his Falcon teammates, particularly a practice staple that high school football coaches call the county fair. …
Cumberland County high school basketball 2023-24 season preview
Here is our high school basketball preview for Cumberland County for 2023-24. Schools missing from the preview either asked not to be included or did not respond to multiple emails …
Preview: 2023 NCHSAA 3A football championship goes into third round of play
Seventy-First and Terry Sanford continue their respective quests for the NCHSAA 3-A football championship tonight as they advance into the third round of play. Here’s a capsule look at …
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Terry Sanford, Seventy-First, Cape Fear continue runs in state playoffs
A trio of Cumberland County schools head into the second round of the state football playoffs Friday night. Here’s a quick look at each matchup.
Seventy-First quarterback feels extra scrutiny from coach who played same position
In his classic football diary “Instant Replay,” former Green Bay Packer great Jerry Kramer wrote that because he played right guard for the Packers like his legendary coach, Vince Lombardi, did for Fordham, Lombardi was harder on Kramer than any player on the team. DeAndre Nance finds himself under a similar spotlight at Seventy-First, where…
Athletics chief says respect for officials is essential to integrity of game
Of the 418 high schools in the North Carolina High School Athletic Association, only 106 made it through the 2022-23 school year without having a coach or athlete ejected from a contest. Two of those schools are in Cumberland County: Gray’s Creek and Seventy-First.
Seventy-First gets big win over Hoke County in football
Here are the scores from Friday night for Cumberland County Schools football: Scotland 40, Jack Britt 35 Laney 28, Cape Fear 21 Seventy-First 38, Hoke County 0
