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By Mike London mike.london@salisburypost.com EAST SPENCER — Tony Hillian guided North Rowan’s girls basketball team through some challenging times for four seasons and helped them ...
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by Mike London, Tuesday, January 18, 2022 12:01 am
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By Mike London mike.london@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — A couple of Rowan County senior girls are on the doorstep of 1,000-point careers to cap four-year journeys toward ...
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by Mike London, Tuesday, January 18, 2022 12:00 am
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By Mike London mike.london@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — When people speak of the 2021 football season in years to come, they’ll have to specify spring or fall, ...
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by Mike London, Sunday, January 16, 2022 12:01 am
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By Mike London mike.london@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — Salisbury’s girls basketball team was close to perfect the first five minutes of the second half, and a blistering ...
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by Mike London, Sunday, January 16, 2022 12:01 am
Local
By Mike London mike.london@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — Rowan County American Legion coach Joe Ferebee was 60 in the summer of 1979, but Coe Brier remembers his ...
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by Mike London, Sunday, January 16, 2022 12:01 am
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Staff report GRANITE QUARRY — East Rowan’s 85-64 win against South Rowan on Friday was notable as the Mustangs’ first South Piedmont Conference victory ...
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by Mike London, Saturday, January 15, 2022 1:11 am
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Staff report SPENCER — Quashawn Carpenter hit a buzzer-beater to lift North Rowan’s boys basketball team to a 54-52 win against Community School of Davidson ...
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by Mike London, Thursday, January 13, 2022 10:22 pm
College
By Mike London mike.london@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — It was a classic matchup. Catawba’s women’s basketball team forces the most turnovers in the South Atlantic Conference, and ...
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by Mike London, Thursday, January 13, 2022 12:01 am
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Staff report SPENCER — In Rowan County’s first home basketball game since the Christmas tournament, North Rowan’s girls beat Lexington 52-28 on Tuesday. It was ...
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by Mike London, Tuesday, January 11, 2022 10:26 pm
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By Mike London mike.london@salisburypost.com SPENCER — In the midst of fluttering gold and blue balloons and smiling teammates, friends and coaches, North Rowan senior Hannah ...
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by Mike London, Tuesday, January 11, 2022 12:00 am
Sports
Staff report UNC Greensboro graduate student Nick Lyerly continues to rise in the golf world. Lyerly (East Rowan) is ranked 47th in World Amateur Golf ...
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by Mike London, Tuesday, January 11, 2022 12:00 am
College
Staff report GREENEVILLE, Tenn. — For Catawba’s women’s basketball team, there were plenty of reasons to lose this one. Long trip to the Tennessee mountains. ...
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by Mike London, Saturday, January 8, 2022 7:13 pm
High School
Staff report DENTON — For the first time in this century, North Rowan’s girls basketball team had three 20-point scorers on Wednesday. Senior Hannah Wilkerson ...
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by Mike London, Wednesday, January 5, 2022 9:52 pm
College
Staff report ANDERSON, S.C. — Catawba’s 17th-ranked women’s basketball team suffered its first defeat on Wednesday. The Indians (11-1, 8-1) made a miraculous comeback at ...
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by Mike London, Wednesday, January 5, 2022 8:56 pm
College
By Mike London mike.london@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — The Black College Football Hall of Fame announced its Class of 2022 on Tuesday. The six-man class includes Livingstone ...
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by Mike London, Wednesday, January 5, 2022 8:29 pm
High School
Staff report ORLANDO — It’s an unusual day when Salisbury High graduate Jalon Walker isn’t the best player on the field, but Walker, a 4-star ...
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by Mike London, Tuesday, January 4, 2022 12:00 am
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By Mike London mike.london@salisburypost.com Known as “The Quiet Man” in his days as the leading tackler for Purdue University, Salisbury-Rowan Hall of Famer James Franklin ...
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by Mike London, Sunday, January 2, 2022 12:01 am
High School
SALISBURY — On Friday, North Rowan boys basketball coach Jason Causby attended a wedding. In other words, life moves forward for basketball coaches, teams and ...
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by Mike London, Sunday, January 2, 2022 12:01 am
Sports
A week ago, fast-rising pitching prospect Owen White got engaged to Madison Barnhardt, his high school sweetheart in their days at Jesse Carson High. It’s ...
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by Mike London, Sunday, January 2, 2022 12:00 am
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By Mike London mike.london@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — Salisbury won mostly with defense, while Carson won mostly with offense in Wednesday’s girls semifinals in the Dale’s Sporting ...
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by Mike London, Wednesday, December 29, 2021 11:20 pm
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Staff report Favorites Salisbury and Davie rolled Tuesday and advanced to today’s semifinals. The third-seeded Hornets and second-seeded War Eagles join top-seeded North Rowan and ...
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by Mike London, Tuesday, December 28, 2021 10:58 pm
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Staff report Favorites North Rowan, Carson and Salisbury won first-round games in the Dale’s Sporting Goods Sam Moir Christmas Classic on Tuesday and advanced to ...
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by Mike London, Tuesday, December 28, 2021 10:26 pm
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By Mike London mike.london@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — The Dale’s Sporting Goods Sam Moir Christmas Classic, the biggest basketball showcase in the county and probably the biggest ...
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by Mike London, Tuesday, December 28, 2021 12:05 am
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Staff report A.L. Brown’s boys, the defending champions, are out of the Dale’s Sporting Goods Sam Moir Christmas Classic due to COVID. A.L. Brown’s girls ...
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by Mike London, Monday, December 27, 2021 6:44 pm
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By Mike London mike.london@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — Salisbury sophomore quarterback Mike Geter is the Post’s Rowan County Offensive Player of the Year. The competition for that ...
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by Mike London, Sunday, December 26, 2021 12:01 am
Sports
By Mike London mike.london@salisburypost.com KANNAPOLIS — Earl Lentz, a Catawba College Hall of Famer who passed away in 2015, was in his first season as ...
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by Mike London, Sunday, December 26, 2021 12:00 am
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By Mike London mike.london@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — Salisbury linebacker Jalon Walker is preparing for the Under Armour All-America Game in Orlando, so it may be the ...
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by Mike London, Sunday, December 26, 2021 12:00 am
High School
All-Rowan County football: Positions weren’t a consideration. Three of the county’s top 10 players were quarterbacks, so it’s not like any of them could be ...
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by Mike London, Sunday, December 26, 2021 12:00 am
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