UPDATE: Hickory's varsity football record now 0-13
Hickory High has forfeited nine varsity football games – all eight of its wins and a tie from last season -- for inadvertently using an ineligible player.
View ArticleMaiden picks assistant from Goose Creek (S.C.)
Maiden High named Buddy King, a former assistant coach at six colleges who has also been an assistant in the United States Football League (USFL), as its new head football coach on Tuesday afternoon.
View ArticleUPDATE: Maiden selects King as new head football coach
After reviewing more than 60 applicants and conducting detailed interviews with 12 possible candidates, Maiden High has settled on its new head football coach.
View ArticleArea will end up with one more league in 2013-14
Nothing changed on Wednesday in the plans for where high schools currently in the Greater Hickory area conferences will play in the next statewide athletic realignment.
View ArticleUPDATE: Proposed 1A-2A league draws mixed reviews
More travel – and at an increased cost – is part of the landscape that concerns area high schools apparently headed to a new 1A-2A combination conference in the next athletic realignment.
View ArticleNewton-Conover holds on for West 2A regional title
Newton-Conover High got in position to win the West 2A Regional on Saturday, then got a little help from another Catawba Valley Athletic 2A wrestler to take the title at West Lincoln.
View ArticleArea teams gain 10 home games in first round
There’s a tasty first menu for Greater Hickory area high school basketball fans in this season’s state basketball playoffs.
View ArticleMaiden fans invited to meet new head football coach
Maiden High’s athletic department will welcome new head varsity football coach Buddy King on Friday from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Brookwood Family Restaurant in Maiden.
View ArticleNewton-Conover has 2 state wrestling champs in 2A
Newton-Conover High had two wrestlers leave the Greensboro Coliseum Special Events Center on Saturday with their hands held high as state 2A champions.
View ArticleThird draft moves Draughn, East Burke, West Caldwell
The latest statewide athletic realignment draft -- the third and the final one void of appeals for procedural errors -- moves Draughn, East Burke and West Caldwell out of a 1A/2A conference.
View ArticleMaiden's Callahan throws another softball no-hitter
Maiden High’s Hannah Callahan threw her third no-hitter of the season on Friday in the Blue Devils’ 13-0 home victory over West Caldwell.
View ArticleSouth Iredell edges Maiden, takes over first place
Maiden High seemed to have found a winning formula in a three-game run that had it in a first-place tie in Catawba Valley Athletic 2A baseball.
View ArticleBunker Hill's O'Shell silences Maiden's hitting
Kadi O’Shell limited visiting Maiden to two hits and threw her second shutout of the season on Wednesday night as Bunker Hill High clipped the Blue Devils 9-0 in Catawba Valley Athletic 2A softball.
View ArticleBunker Hill goes for third straight Classic baseball title
Bunker Hill High’s chance to three-peat as Catawba County Easter Baseball Classic champion starts Monday.
View ArticleBunker Hill again hottest team headed for Classic
The exact circumstances are starkly different, but Bunker Hill High’s Bears should be familiar with the expectations.
View ArticleMaiden nips St. Stephens, reaches Classic semifinals
Maiden High jumped on St. Stephens over the first two innings on Monday night, putting the Indians in an early five-run hole.
View ArticleFifth-seeded Maiden earns first shot at Classic crown
Maiden High head baseball coach Caine Houser doesn’t like to think of his team as a Cinderella squad.
View ArticleBunker Hill scores 6 in final at-bat, stays atop league
Bunker Hill High scored six runs in its final at-bat on Tuesday afternoon, overcoming Draughn 10-6 in Valdese and widening its lead in Catawba Valley Athletic 2A baseball.
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