STATESVILLE — After climbing into the win column last week against West Caldwell, the East Burke girls basketball team came into Tuesday night…
LENOIR — When the Hibriten girls basketball team hit visiting East Burke hard to start Friday night’s Northwestern Foothills 2A Conference gam…
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 …
ICARD — The fifth member of her immediate family to compete in athletics at East Burke, Riley Haas was a part of history for the Lady Cavalier…
ICARD — The East Burke girls basketball team has now reached at least the second round of the postseason 10 consecutive years, as the No. 2 se…
ICARD — The only basketball team who has ever played the East Burke girls to within five points in the three-year existence of the Northwester…
STATESVILLE — Nothing caps a season — especially a season that saw the East Burke girls basketball team go undefeated for a third straight yea…
As conference schedules hit the midway point Tuesday night, both the Freedom and East Burke girls basketball teams remain undefeated league le…
GAMEWELL — The East Burke girls basketball team started slowly but worked into an offensive groove in claiming a season-best sixth consecutive…
ICARD — It was sweet revenge Friday night for the East Burke girls basketball team hosting defending 2A state champion Mountain Heritage for t…
ICARD — Following the graduation of standout Lauren Arney in 2014, her younger sister Brooke followed her footsteps two years later with the E…
ICARD — The difference in Saturday night’s NCHSAA 2A state playoff third-round game was the East Burke girls basketball team executed its plan…
ICARD — A 16-5 third-quarter advantage was the key for the fourth-seeded East Burke girls basketball team in the fourth meeting of the season …
ICARD — The fourth-seeded East Burke girls basketball team was rolling right out of the gate, then used a huge 23-4 second quarter to take com…
Seven years ago, I wrote a column depicting Burke County high school basketball squads’ three conference tournament titles on the same night a…
ICARD — The Patton boys basketball team jumped to a big first-half lead Wednesday at East Burke thanks to its rebounding, then after a Cavalie…
LINCOLNTON — Senior guard Brooke Arney gave the East Burke girls basketball team an early lift by starting the game with three consecutive 3-p…
ICARD — East Burke senior Ariana Hawkins made it official Wednesday in the early signing period as she will continue her education and basketb…
ICARD — Trailing by three with 3.4 seconds left and a third straight trip to regionals on the line, the No. 4 East Burke girls basketball team…
Burke County’s basketball dominance in the new Northwestern Foothills 2A Athletic Conference has extended into the realm of accolades.
VALDESE — What appeared it might be a recipe for an upset turned into a runaway.
Thanks to the efforts of a pair of standout sophomores, the East Burke girls basketball team reversed its recent fortunes against rival Freedo…
ICARD — During the run the East Burke girls basketball team made to its first-ever regional championship appearance, Kieran Smith served as on…