ICARD — Is it three? Or is it four? The short answer is yes.
ICARD — The host East Burke Middle wrestling team defeated Walter Johnson on Tuesday, 65-21, as Foothills Athletic Conference action resumed following an eight-day Thanksgiving break.
PHOTOS BY RUSTY JONES AND JAMES LYNCH JR., THE NEWS HERALD
The host Liberty Middle wrestling team gained its first victory of the season Monday as it topped Heritage in Foothills Athletic Conference action, 63-42.
PHOTOS BY JAMES LYNCH JR., THE NEWS HERALD
The Table Rock Middle girls basketball team edged rival Liberty on the road Thursday, 29-28, to open Foothills Athletic Conference with a victory.
Many of Burke County’s middle school winter sports teams recently announced their rosters for the 2021-22 seasons of boys and girls basketball as well as wrestling.
Thursday’s latest renewal of the Liberty-Walter Johnson middle school boys soccer rivalry was as riveting — albeit as rain-soaked — as ever, with the teams facing off in the title game of the first Foothills Athletic Conference tournament in five years.
VALDESE — The No. 3 seed Liberty Middle girls soccer team faced a 2-0 deficit on the road against a Heritage team that had won six consecutive games.
The Table Rock Middle volleyball team capped the regular season with a three-game streak thanks to Tuesday’s three-set road triumph at crosstown foe Walter Johnson, 25-8, 25-8, 25-9.
PHOTOS BY RUSTY JONES AND JAMES LYNCH JR./THE NEWS HERALD
The Liberty Middle boys soccer team capped a perfect Foothills Athletic Conference regular season with its biggest win of the fall, toppling second-place host Walter Johnson, 4-1, on Thursday.
The Table Rock Middle football team bounced back from its first Foothills Athletic Conference loss a week earlier to beat crosstown rival Walter Johnson at home Wednesday to end the season, 26-6.
ICARD — It was the Table Rock Middle volleyball team’s turn to rally on Tuesday.
VALDESE — The Draughn volleyball team both avenged an early-season Western Highlands 1A/2A Conference loss to Avery County and bounced back from its second league setback with a conference win over the Lady Vikings at home late Thursday.
BOSTIC — Five weeks of disappointment gave way to 48 minutes of dominance for the Patton football team Thursday night.
NEWTON — The East Burke football team didn’t quit despite being two scores down at halftime and in the third quarter to Newton-Conover on Thursday night.
LENOIR — Improbably, the Freedom football team had a chance to kick an extra point and go into halftime tied with host Hibriten on Thursday night.
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