CHAPEL HILL — It could soon be every man for himself.
BURNSVILLE — A halftime lead for the Freedom boys basketball team became a 15-point deficit, which in turn led to a big road rally and a go-ah…
The Table Rock Middle boys basketball squad got past cross-county rival Heritage (1-2) on Monday in the Falcons’ Foothills Athletic Conference…
CHAPEL HILL — The NCHSAA on Saturday released volleyball state playoff pairings, and No. 13 seed Patton (12-2) will open 2A West play on Tuesd…
ICARD — The two-time defending Foothills Athletic Conference champion East Burke Middle girls basketball team opened the 2021 season in electr…
ICARD — The Patton volleyball team ended the regular season late Thursday with its first match that went over three sets, beating cross-county…
PHOTOS BY RUSTY JONES, WAYNE WHALEY AND JAMES LYNCH JR./THE NEWS HERALD
SAWMILLS — Boys sophomore runner Colby Anderson (18:55.05) led the way for Freedom with an 11th-place finish individually at the Northwestern …
The Patton JV boys basketball team rallied from an 11-1 deficit to start Wednesday’s season opener to take a narrow 34-32 home win over West I…
CLAREMONT — The East Burke boys basketball team was resurgent last year, finishing 9-5 in the Northwestern Foothills 2A Conference and making …
VALDESE — With its lead down to one point, the Draughn girls basketball team outscored visiting Hibriten 8-2 in the final 2 minutes to capture…
The Patton boys basketball team waited until after halftime Wednesday night but eventually exploded for a big quarter that made the difference…
With the high school volleyball season drawing to a close, in-county rivals Patton and Draughn did battle Tuesday night in Morganton, with eac…
HICKORY — The Freedom boys basketball team started the defense of its NCHSAA 3A state co-championship with a more gradual type of win at St. S…
The Table Rock Middle boys basketball team on Tuesday turned a contest pitting last season’s second- and third-place Foothills Athletic Confer…
The defending Foothills Athletic Conference champion Walter Johnson Middle boys basketball team won its season opener emphatically at home Mon…
The host Patton volleyball team defeated Hibriten on Monday evening, 25-17, 25-11, 25-8, to seal a second consecutive NCHSAA 2A state playoff …
Six of the 10 Burke County middle school boys and girls basketball programs recently announced rosters for the modified 2021 season, in which …
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 …
PINEHURST — Three Burke County prep golfers capped stellar years by participating in the 73rd annual Donald Ross Jr. Championship held at the …
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CLAREMONT — A week after just its second loss of the season, the Patton volleyball team got back into the win column in its customary fashion …
ICARD — For the first time since 2016, the Draughn volleyball team swept the regular-season series from rival East Burke, claiming a road vict…
A first-ever North Carolina basketball home loss to Clemson to start, and the Tar Heels accepting a New Year’s Six bowl bid — their first majo…
GAMEWELL — The East Burke volleyball team regrouped quickly over the short four-day Christmas break and emerged victorious Monday night in a N…
Draughn volleyball player Chloe Gary is The News Herald’s Farm Bureau high school county athlete of the week for Dec. 21-26.
The events of 2020 denied us quite a few of the local sports traditions we look forward to every year. Perhaps none of those is bigger than th…