Southern Wayne improved to 2-0 with a resounding 56-14 win at Goldsboro on Friday night. The Saints won their third consecutive meeting with the Cougars, and improved to 2-0 for the first time since 2011. Southern Wayne has a bye week before visiting Rosewood at 7 p.m. on Sept. 8.… read more »
Below are high school football scores from around the area from Aug. 25:
C.B. Aycock 33, Eastern Wayne 20
Southern Wayne 56, Goldsboro 14… read more »
DUDLEY – What may have seemed like a routine 7-on-7 session in the scorching heat of a relentless North Carolina summer to some coaches, was a glimpse inside the soul of the program that first-year Southern Wayne head coach Matt Hine had inherited.… read more »
PIKEVILLE – What a difference a week makes.
C.B. Aycock entered its season opener in the Little River Rivalry with Rosewood last week with plenty of questions to answer after numerous key players were lost to graduation following a 9-2 finish in 2022.
Below are scores from the first week of high school football in the area: C.B. Aycock 43, Rosewood 19 Southern Wayne 22, Eastern Wayne 20 Farmville Central 57, Goldsboro 16 Princeton 36, South Johnston 28 Lakewood 50, Spring Creek 8 North Duplin 20, Southside 18 Wayne Christian 18, Beacon Hill Home School 0 The area…… read more »
PIKEVILLE – There are certain benchmarks on the calendar that sports fans use to mark the time.
Major League Baseball has Opening Day.
The NFL has its annual Thursday night opener featuring the reigning Super Bowl champions.
For high school football fans here in Wayne County there’s the Little River Rivalry.
The annual clash between Rosewood and Charles B. Aycock signifies the start of the high school football season.… read more »
Johnny Holland is a living testament that there’s no room for excuses in the midst of full and joyous lives.
Holland, 58, is originally from Fayetteville, and has been a Goldsboro resident for more than 25 years. A retired Army veteran, Holland was left paralyzed from the waist down following a car accident in 1987 that caused injuries to his C6 and C7 vertebrae.… read more »
SEVEN SPRINGS – Begin a conversation with Ronnie Wise and one emotion immediately begins to drip from every word he speaks with his New York accent and raspy voice that both seamlessly interweave their way around his infectious laugh.
That emotion you ask? It’s undoubtedly his enthusiasm. … read more »
PIKEVILLE – As Charles B. Aycock prepares to enter year three under head coach Tom Zietlow the Golden Falcons are hoping to build off a 2022 season that was full of positives despite a disappointing finish.
Aycock went 9-2 a year ago, finished first in the 3-A Quad County Conference before losing the regular season finale to county rival Southern Wayne. The Golden Falcons’ season came to an abrupt end with a 53-28 home loss to Triton in the first round of the NCHSAA 3-A state playoffs.… read more »
MARION – Wayne County Post 11 recently captured senior and junior legion softball North Carolina state championships.
Both teams went undefeated during their respective tournaments.… read more »
