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High school basketball: Carson girls will be stout again

Third in a series of previews on local basketball teams … CARSON GIRLS Coach: Brooke Stouder (15th season, 216-158, 2nd all-time in wins for Rowan ... Read more

by Mike London, Sunday, January 3, 2021 12:00 am

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East girls: Mustangs start over

Fourth in a series of previews on local basketball teams … EAST ROWAN GIRLS Coach: Kevin Holland (5th season, 43-60) 2019-20: 20-7 overall, 7-3 3A ... Read more

by Mike London, Sunday, January 3, 2021 12:00 am

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Women’s basketball: Road win for shorthanded Catawba

  Staff report HICKORY — Catawba’s women’s basketball team overcame COVID quarantines and a feisty bunch of Lenoir-Rhyne Bears to stay unbeaten on Saturday afternoon. ... Read more

by Mike London, Saturday, January 2, 2021 9:55 pm

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High school basketball: South boys starting fresh with new coach

Second in a series on local basketball teams … By Mike London mike.london@salisburypost.com LANDIS — New South Rowan head boys coach Daniel Blevins starts fresh ... Read more

by Mike London, Thursday, December 31, 2020 12:00 am

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High school volleyball: Carson hands Raiders first loss

By Mike London mike.london@salisburypost.com LANDIS—Carson senior Jaden Vaughn was marvelous again, and she got the help she needed on the road on Wednesday night. Carson ... Read more

by Mike London, Thursday, December 31, 2020 12:00 am

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College basketball: Indians set to take on Wake Forest

Staff report Catawba men’s basketball team is scheduled to take on Wake Forest at Joel Coliseum on Thursday afternoon at 3 p.m. The contest will ... Read more

by Mike London, Wednesday, December 30, 2020 4:25 pm

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High school basketball: Young South girls look for a step forward

This is the first in a series of high school basketball previews. SOUTH ROWAN GIRLS Coach: Alex Allen (2nd season, 4-21) 2019-20: 4-21 overall, 3-152A ... Read more

by Mike London, Tuesday, December 29, 2020 12:00 am

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College football: ‘No better player per pound’ than Boyden star Bobby Weant at UNC in 1940s

By Mike London mike.london@salisburypost.com SALISBURY— The 22nd page of the football program for the epic 1948 North Carolina-Duke game declares that there is “no better ... Read more

by Mike London, Sunday, December 27, 2020 12:00 am

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High school baseball: Legend Tommy Eaton, a pitching staff of one

By Mike London mike.london@salisburypost.com SALISBURY—  The triumphs of the 1955 Salisbury American Legion team that led to the program’s appearance in the American Legion World ... Read more

by Mike London, Sunday, December 27, 2020 12:00 am

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High school boys cross country: A changing of the guard for Julians

By Mike London mike.london@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — The present and recent past of Rowan County cross country is senior Noah Julian, but the future is his ... Read more

by Mike London, Thursday, December 24, 2020 12:00 am

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Cross country: Nolan Miller has been huge cog for South

By Mike London mike.london@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — South Rowan senior cross country runner Nolan Miller resembles someone slightly more famous — his teammate Noah Julian, the ... Read more

by Mike London, Thursday, December 24, 2020 12:00 am

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High school girls cross country: South overachieves as fourth seed

By Mike London mike.london@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — While the championship by the South Rowan boys in Tuesday’s Central Carolina Conference Championship Meet fell into the business-as-usual ... Read more

by Mike London, Thursday, December 24, 2020 12:00 am

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Girls cross country: South surprises everyone — even South

By Mike London mike.london@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — South Rowan’s girls weren’t supposed to win Tuesday’s Central Carolina Conference Championship Meet. Heck, the Raiders weren’t supposed to ... Read more

by Mike London, Wednesday, December 23, 2020 12:00 am

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Boys cross country: Raiders dominate CCC boys meet

By Mike London mike.london@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — The Salisbury Community Park cross country course is usually described as hills and thrills, more ups and downs than ... Read more

by Mike London, Wednesday, December 23, 2020 12:00 am

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High school volleyball: Special Senior Night at Carson

By Mike London mike.london@salisburypost.com CHINA GROVE — The happiest person in the Carson gym for Senior Night wasn’t a senior; it was a senior citizen. ... Read more

by Mike London, Tuesday, December 22, 2020 12:00 am

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South volleyball: Raiders roll on at Salisbury

By Mike London mike.london@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — South Rowan’s 31st consecutive Central Carolina Conference victory met with only sporadic resistance in the Salisbury Hornets’ gym on ... Read more

by Mike London, Monday, December 21, 2020 11:23 pm

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High school athletics: Special two-sport career for Salisbury’s Yang

By Mike London mike.london@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — Ellen Yang’s batting averages during her Salisbury High softball career look like typos — .514 as a freshman, .549 ... Read more

by Mike London, Saturday, December 19, 2020 5:00 pm

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College basketball: Indians blown out by Lincoln Memorial

By Mike London mike.london@salisburypost.com SALISBURY  — A 6-foot-8 forward named Shaquille Rombley jumped off the Lincoln Memorial bench and accumulated 12 rebounds faster than a ... Read more

by Mike London, Thursday, December 17, 2020 12:00 am

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High school football: Zeek is unique — now it’s official that Georgia Tech will be his next team

By Mike London mike.london@salisburypost.com SALISBURY  — West Rowan defensive lineman Zeek Biggers, all 78 inches and 330 pounds of him, officially signed with Georgia Tech’s ... Read more

by Mike London, Thursday, December 17, 2020 12:00 am

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College football: Chrismon made the most of every day as part of UNC football team

By Mike London mike.london@salisburypost.com CHAPEL HILL — Senior Day in Chapel Hill was carefully orchestrated alphabetically and his surname begins with a ‘C’ so former ... Read more

by Mike London, Thursday, December 17, 2020 12:00 am

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High school volleyball: Hornets win on Senior Night

By Mike London mike.london@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — East Davidson jumped a little higher, moved a little quicker and had the only dominant player on the floor, ... Read more

by Mike London, Tuesday, December 15, 2020 12:05 am

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High school: West’s Smith to continue baseball career at Caldwell

By Mike London mike.london@salisburypost.com MOUNT ULLA — West Rowan senior Steven Smith is wound tight, but he’s 5-foot-9, 150 pounds, so the shortstop/pitcher is never ... Read more

by Mike London, Tuesday, December 15, 2020 12:00 am

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High school football: 10th anniversary of Rowan’s biggest day

By Mike London mike.london@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — Former Salisbury High football coach Joe Pinyan wonders sometimes how many ex-Hornets use 12-11-10 as their computer password. There ... Read more

by Mike London, Sunday, December 13, 2020 12:00 am

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High school sports: No complaints from North Rowan on realignment

By Mike London mike.london@salisburypost.com SPENCER — North Rowan athletic director Mark Woody greeted Thursday’s N.C. High School Athletic Association proposal for new conference realignment in ... Read more

by Mike London, Friday, December 11, 2020 12:00 am

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High school cross country: ‘Total dream’ for Julians, South

By Mike London mike.london@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — South Rowan boys cross country coach Scott Julian had engineered two straight county titles, while watching his son, Noah, ... Read more

by Mike London, Thursday, December 10, 2020 12:00 am

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High school cross country: Corley leads Carson girls to another victory

By Mike London mike.london@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — Carson junior Camden Corley liked the cool weather, liked the way she felt and liked the new course that ... Read more

by Mike London, Thursday, December 10, 2020 12:00 am

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College basketball: Duke gets down early vs. Illinois

Ayo Dosunmu DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — Ayo Dosunmu scored 18 points and sixth-ranked Illinois shot 58% to beat No. 10 Duke 83-68 on Tuesday night ... Read more

by Mike London, Wednesday, December 9, 2020 12:11 am

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Catawba Chiefs: Still going strong in a pandemic

By Mike London mike.london@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — How do you maintain support for Catawba College athletics when a potential championship baseball season was halted in its ... Read more

by Mike London, Tuesday, December 8, 2020 12:00 am

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