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GREENVILLE -- Local school officials are seeking information to improve the health and safety of middle and high school athletes.
School officials representing 13 Eastern NC counties attended a conference in Greenville on March 12 to learn strategies to better protect athletes and prepare for on-field emergencies. 

ROCKY MOUNT -- North Carolina Wesleyan College’s golf team hosted its annual Don Scalf Invitational on Sunday and Monday, and for the third straight season, the Battling Bishops were able to take the team championship.
Junior Lucas Norman fought adverse conditions to card rounds of 74 and 75 to finish at 5-over par and repeat as the event’s medalist.

HENDERSON -- High-end talent has rarely been in question with the Northern Nash High School girls soccer program.
But over the past several years, NN head coach Joe McCarthy has seen his team struggle with overall numbers -- and that lack of depth often hampered the lady Knights as a season progressed.
McCarthy has no such worries this spring as he expects to have around 19 performers -- more than enough to sub in and out to keep players fresh.

CULLHOWEE -- Former Nash Central High School standout Trey Sumler, now a senior men’s baskeball player at Western Carolina University, has earned All-Southern Conference accolades by two organizations.
Sumler was an all-conference pick by the SoCon Coaches and took first team honors in voting by the SoCon Sports Media Association.

BUNN -- Scott Collie thought he had pretty much seen it all during his seven-year tenure as the boys golf coach at Southern Nash High School.
Until last Thursday.
Toward the latter part of Southern’s non-conference matchup with Bunn, sleet began to pelt performers at The River Golf Course at Lake Royale in Franklin County.

KENLY -- Southern Nash dropped a 7-6 heartbreaker last week at perennial powerhouse North Johnson in non-conference softball action.
Amanda Wood worked five innings on the hill for SN, striking out one and walking one.
Top hitters for Southern Nash were as follows:

FAYETTEVILLE -- It wasn’t meant to be for the Northern Nash Lady Knights at the Class 3-A East Regional Women’s Basketball Tournament.
Northern Nash, coached by Grover Battle, entered the Elite Eight portion of the state playoffs riding an impressive 26-game winning streak.

CHAPEL HILL -- Pairings have been finalized for the 100th Annual Men’s and the 43rd Annual Women’s North Carolina High School Athletic Association Basketball Championships.
Games will be played Saturday at the Smith Center in Chapel Hill and Reynolds Coliseum in Raleigh.
Tickets for all matchups will be available at the gate.

ROCKY MOUNT -- Freshman hurler Spencer Ramsey tossed a one-hit shutout versus Mitchell College on Thursday afternoon at Bauer Field, going the distance in a 5-0 Bishop win.
Wesleyan went on to fight to a 1-1 tie with the Mariners in game two, which was called in the eighth inning due to rain.

IT’S TOURNEY TIME. Nash County basketball alums Timyra Staton and Jasmine Griffin (above) were in action last weekend at the Region X Tournament at Wake Tech Community College. Staton’s Louisburg College Lady Hurricanes won the event, while Griffin’s Catawba Valley CC Lady Cavaliers reached the semifinals. Louisburg College will now advance to the NJCAA Division II National Tournament in Illinois.

Northern Nash’s Allie McGee (left) tries to gain the ball as Northern Vance’s keeper is on the ground during Monday’s girls soccer contest in Henderson.

Northern Nash veteran Natalie DePalma (left) tries to avoid a Northern Vance player during Monday evening’s girls soccer showdown on the NVHS campus in Henderson.

ROCKY MOUNT -- After delivering their best season in recent memory last spring, the Nash Central Lady Bulldogs will be in bit of a rebuilding phase in 2014 under veteran head coach Ryan Cherlinczuk-Ruiz.
Nash Central tied for an opportunity to reach the Class 3-A State Playoffs, but eventually lost a draw of straws to determine the final postseason entrant from the Big East Conference.

GREENVILLE -- Matt Margaritonda tossed his first career complete game and recorded a career-high 11 strikeouts in Marshall’s Conference USA series-clinching baseball win over East Carolina, 5-2, Sunday afternoon at Lewis Field inside Clark-LeClair Stadium.
Margaritonda (1-2), who was making just his fourth career start, scattered nine hits on the afternoon allowing a pair of runs (one earned) en route to The Herd’s (5-9, 2-1 C-USA) first-ever series win over the Pirates (8-7. 1-2 C-USA).

Griffin Chapman hits a drive for Southern Nash.

Nash County Commissioners are hoping the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) will sign off on naming a portion of US 64 after former Congressman and Nashville resident Tim Valentine.
Commissioners approved a resolution on Monday requesting the section of US 64 between Spring and Nashville be renamed. The request was initially submitted by Commissioner Mary Wells.

Nashville Police arrested a Nashville man last week who was on the Twin Counties Top Ten Most Wanted.
Nashville Police Investigator Joey Corbett said they received a tip that Sylvester Leon Davis, 25, was at his home on Wayne’s Lane.
“We got a tip that he was at the house,” Corbett said. “We went down there to try to arrest him.”

Nashville’s Town Council tabled a rezoning request last Tuesday evening after over 30 Davis Farm residents voiced concerns about the potential project.
The rezoning request was to rezone property off of E. Washington Street, across from Kerr Drugs, from R-10 (Residential District) to M-F (Multi-Family Residential District. The developer would like to build around 80 apartment units on the close to eight acres of property.

Many of the 26 names listed as Distinguished Citizens by Nashville’s Chamber of Commerce have served as mentors to Ross Strickland over the years.
Strickland credited many of them with his being added to the list at the Nashville Chamber of Commerce and Nash Art’s annual Distinguished Citizen event.

At the most recent meeting of the Castalia Town Board, new Castalia Commissioner Brian Hinkle suggested that the town evaluate the possibility of holding a farmers market within the town limits of Castalia. The issue was discussed at the meeting held on March 4.
Commissioner James Alston agreed that the idea had merit and suggested the town consider the park space as a location in the future.

Nash Arts is hosting its annual Denim and Diamonds Gala on March 21 and has moved the event back home.
This year’s event will be held from 6 to 10 p.m. at Nash Arts.
“We’re doing it at home,” said Shelly Gray, Nash Arts Director.
This year’s event will feature entertainment by the Grass Cats as well as a silent auction.

The Nash-Rocky Mount Schools (NRMS) board ruled in agreement with the superintendent’s conclusion that a middle school lunchroom incident “does not constitute bullying.” A NRMS sixth-grader admittedly threatened to “snuff out” a student if he did not quit being friends with another student in early January. The board’s decision concludes the examination of this event, which was reported to administrators, investigated, and reviewed.