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High School
By Mike London mike.london@salisburypost.com LANDIS — Like every potential football hero, South Rowan quarterback Brooks Overcash entered his first jayvee game with hopes of being ...
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by Mike London, Thursday, August 24, 2023 12:00 am
High School
By Mike London mike.london@salisburypost.com MOUNT ULLA — West Rowan volleyball coach Jan Dowling may have mellowed a bit over the years, but there’s still some ...
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by Mike London, Thursday, August 24, 2023 12:00 am
Sports
By Mike London mike.london@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — Things are looking up for Catawba athletics. The women’s soccer team is nationally ranked in the preseason polls and ...
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by Mike London, Tuesday, August 22, 2023 12:00 am
College
By Mike London mike.london@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — It’s a Wednesday afternoon, and new head coach Tyler Haines is ready to brave the North Carolina heat for ...
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by Mike London, Sunday, August 20, 2023 12:00 am
High School
By Mike London mike.london@salisburypost.com LANDIS — South Rowan senior Jamie Klassette is a neat story. As a junior quarterback hopeful, Klassette lost the battle for ...
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by Mike London, Thursday, August 17, 2023 12:00 am
Sports
By Mike London mike.london@salisburypost.com GRANITE QUARRY — It’s been a hard football ride for the East Rowan Mustangs in this century. East has been home ...
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by Mike London, Thursday, August 17, 2023 12:00 am
Sports
By Mike London mike.london@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — Another high school football season begins in Rowan County on Friday night. For me, personally, it will be ...
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by Mike London, Thursday, August 17, 2023 12:00 am
Sports
By Mike London mike.london@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — The Salisbury-Rowan Sports Hall of Fame grew a bit larger and more distinguished on Saturday with the addition of ...
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by Mike London, Tuesday, August 15, 2023 12:00 am
Sports
CHARLOTTE, (AP) — Bryce Young’s preseason debut didn’t go exactly as planned. The No. 1 pick in the NFL draft was 4 of 6 ...
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by Mike London, Monday, August 14, 2023 12:10 am
Sports
By Mike London mike.london@salisburypost.com MOUNT ULLA — There have been some break-evens, some 6-6 records here and there, plus a 4-4 in the shortened COVID ...
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by Mike London, Sunday, August 13, 2023 12:00 am
High School
By Mike London mike.london@salisburypost.com SPENCER — North Rowan quarterback Jeremiah Alford turned 16 recently with 42 touchdown passes and 5,180 yards of total offense already ...
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by Mike London, Saturday, August 12, 2023 12:00 am
Sports
By Mike London mike.london@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — It’s been a terrific run for Salisbury Hornets football, with six straight winning seasons, including a 31-5 mark the ...
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by Mike London, Thursday, August 10, 2023 12:00 am
Sports
By Mike London mike.london@salisburypost.com CHINA GROVE — Carson was a better football team in 2022 than most people realized. While a 5-6 bottom line won’t ...
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by Mike London, Thursday, August 10, 2023 12:00 am
College
By Mike London mike.london@salisburypost.com MOUNT ULLA — West Rowan graduate Lucas Graham will quietly head to Surry Community College for baseball and classes on ...
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by Mike London, Sunday, August 6, 2023 12:00 am
High School
By Mike London mike.london@salisburypost.com LANDIS — South Rowan head football coach Chris Walsh was out walking the dog when a lady spied his Raider T-shirt ...
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by Mike London, Saturday, August 5, 2023 12:00 am
High School
By Mike London mike.london@salisburypost.com MOUNT ULLA — Louis Kraft V was named as West Rowan’s head football coach at a challenging moment in world history. ...
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by Mike London, Thursday, August 3, 2023 12:00 am
Sports
By Mike London mike.london@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — July is too hot for football, but there was a time when Greensboro’s annual East-West All-Star football game demanded ...
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by Mike London, Thursday, August 3, 2023 12:00 am
College
By Mike London mike.london@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — Chris Green II, who will be a transfer football player for Catawba College this fall, is proud that ...
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by Mike London, Tuesday, August 1, 2023 12:00 am
News Main
Staff report SALISBURY — The Rowan County Lady Legion team played short-handed on Wednesday and lost 12-2 to Davidson County. But the focus was ...
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by Mike London, Sunday, July 30, 2023 11:45 am
Sports
By Mike London mike.london@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — It’s a mismatch. Taylor Walton, a Division I college player who starred at West Rowan, is pitching to ...
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by Mike London, Sunday, July 30, 2023 12:00 am
Sports
By Mike London mike.london@salisburypost.com BROWNS SUMMIT — East Rowan rising senior Landon Merrell had been in a little bit of a slump — at least ...
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by Mike London, Thursday, July 27, 2023 12:00 am
News Main
By Mike London mike.london@salisburypost.com LILLINGTON — Rowan County has never failed to win a game in the American Legion baseball state tournament, but that’s a ...
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by Mike London, Wednesday, July 26, 2023 12:00 am
Sports
By Mike London mike.london@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — Jack Thompson passed away on Friday morning while doing what he loved to do most — playing tennis. For ...
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by Mike London, Tuesday, July 25, 2023 12:00 am
Sports
By Mike London mike.london@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — The shin guards. The face mask. The chest protector. The “tools of ignorance” is what catcher Muddy Ruel famously ...
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by Mike London, Sunday, July 23, 2023 12:00 am
College
By Mike London mike.london@salisburypost.com CHINA GROVE — Larry Lentz scored the last of his college buckets 30 years ago in Kansas City, so he’d stopped ...
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by Mike London, Thursday, July 20, 2023 12:00 am
High School
By Mike London mike.london@salisburypost.com SPENCER — This year’s female winner of the annual J.T. Bost Sportsmanship Award is recent North Rowan graduate Chloee Stoner. “It’s ...
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by Mike London, Sunday, July 16, 2023 12:00 am
High School
By Mike London mike.london@salisburypost.com GRANITE QUARRY — Dylan Valley was really good at basketball but he was never saw his life revolving around putting a ...
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by Mike London, Saturday, July 15, 2023 12:00 am
Sports
By Mike London mike.london@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — Romar Morris and John Knox were responsible for 30 touchdowns apiece for Salisbury High’s 2010 football state champions, so ...
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by Mike London, Thursday, July 13, 2023 12:00 am
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