MOCKSVILLE — In her first year at the helm of the Davie County girls basketball team and her inaugural season as a head coach, Freedom High gr…
Making up for lost time, the Freedom girls basketball team played its second of three games this week on Wednesday night and handily beat visi…
Tuesday night was supposed to feature three unbeaten high school basketball showdowns featuring Burke County teams fighting to stay in first p…
Fans of the Freedom High School boys and girls basketball programs have been consistently treated to a high level of play, plenty of wins and …
It’s been no secret, but now it’s official.
Burke County is home to a number of high school sports events that are high in prestige, pride and importance.
Though they haven’t physically seen each other since March, Burke County Public Schools coaches and athletes have stayed connected virtually o…
Recent Freedom graduate Josie Hise and her classmate and backcourt mate, Blaikley Crooks, were set to accomplish a Freedom first this summer a…
Blaikley Crooks excelled for the Freedom girls basketball team all four years in high school.
HICKORY — Josie Hise’s most recent basketball game, the NCHSAA 3A West Regional final, was at Lenoir-Rhyne University. Her next game will be f…
HICKORY — The Catawba Valley Community College softball program recently announced the signing of 14 players to its 2021 recruiting class. Amo…
In March of 1995, 25 years ago this week, expectations were sky-high for the Freedom girls basketball team. The Lady Patriots were defending N…
HICKORY — After a pair of opening Southeast Guilford backdoor cuts for baskets against an aggressive Lady Patriots’ halfcourt man-to-man, the …
The Freedom girls basketball team essentially has taken up a second residence in Hickory.
A nearly consensus No. 1 state ranking in both major polls all year, 29 wins without a loss, a fourth NCHSAA 3A West Regional final berth in f…
The Freedom girls basketball team saw all it needed from Enka at the FHS Christmas Invitational in their closest game of the season to know Tu…
Ahead by 19 points or not, there was no time to relax.
The Freedom girls basketball team is getting quite accustomed to this.
The Freedom girls basketball team didn’t have to wait until Tuesday night to clinch outright its fifth straight Northwestern 3A/4A Conference …
Freedom girls basketball senior guard Josie Hise has committed to play collegiately at Catawba College, FHS head coach Amber Reddick told The …
HICKORY — Led by three players with 14 or more points apiece, the consensus No. 1 Freedom girls basketball team never trailed in a 66-17 road …
Like so many of the 349 before it, Amber Reddick’s 350th win came in a runaway.
NOTE: The following story originally appeared in the March 13, 2016 edition.