CHAPEL HILL -- Listed are the pairings for the Class 3-A State Softball Playoffs, which began Tuesday:
ROCKY MOUNT -- The USA South Athletic Conference has announced a partnership with the city of Rocky Mount, North Carolina to host the 2013 and 2014 USA South Spring Sports Festivals.
The festival features the tournaments of all six Conference spring sports.
The upcoming 2012 spring tournaments will be hosted by the city of Burlington, North Carolina.
MOBILE, ALA. -- A four-run seventh inning sprung the Carolina Mudcats to a 7-3 victory over the Mobile BayBears on Sunday afternoon at Hank Aaron Stadium, giving Daryl Thompson his first win as a Mudcat in the Class AA Southern League baseball event.
The win snapped a five-game losing skid for the Mudcats, who improved to 2-5 on their current 10-game road trip.
ELM CITY -- After a beautiful start to the day, rain rolled in about 4 p.m. and forced County Line Raceway promoter, James Upchurch to make the call to cancel the events schedule last Saturday evening.
The first rainout of 2011 came on a week that many fans were looking forward to.
The twin 20 lap Late Model events have been cancelled.
NASH COUNTY -- Listed are the scores for recent games from the Nash County Parks and Rec Department:
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CHARLES ALSTON, Graphic Correspondent
ROCKY MOUNT -- Coleman-Pitt American Legion Post 58 athletic officer Joe Bell has released its 23-game 2011 baseball schedule.
Play will open on Monday, May 23 against Cary Post 67 at home at 7 p.m. It will be the first of 11 games Post 58 will play at their new home, Nash Central High School’s Dawg Pound. It’s its third different home in three seasons.
GREENVILLE -- Chase McDonald blasted his third home run of the season and drove in a career-best five RBI as East Carolina University (34-17) completed a three-game non-conference baseball sweep of Delaware State (24-27) 6-1 Sunday afternoon at Lewis Field inside Clark-LeClair Stadium.
GREENSBORO -- Here are last Friday’s winners and team standings from the North Carolina High School Athletic Association’s Class 3-A State Track and Field Meet at North Carolina A&T University:
Nash Central High School senior Xaviera Bass displays her gold medal from the Girls 100 Hurdles as part of last Friday’s Class 3-A State Track and Field Championships at North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro.
Nash Central’s Andrew Nguyen (left) challenges a JM Robinson runner during the Boys 3200 Relay at last Friday’s Class 3-A State Track and Field Championships.
Nash Central’s Russell Langley clears this height during pole vault competition last Friday at the annual Class 3-A State Track and Field Championships at NC A&T State University.
Several teenagers are among those arrested last week as part of a eight-month investigation.
Operation “Aftermath” targeted several street-level and mid-level drug dealers in Nash County. As part of the operation, undercover officers made drug purchases from the suspects. Investigators seized marijuana, ecstasy, cocaine and numerous opium derivative pills during the investigation.
A Nashville man was arrested on Friday night after robbing a Hispanic store in Rocky Mount.
According to the Nash County Sheriff’s Office, 33-year-old Scott Nathaniel Carpenter, of Longbranch Drive, Nashville, walked into the “El-Rincito” on Benvenue Road in Rocky Mount and gave a note demanding money. The note also said that Carpenter had a gun.
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Amelia Harper, Graphic Correspondent
The Nash County Board of Elections met Tuesday, May 10 in order to hold a preliminary hearing regarding challenges to the residency of two current Castalia commissioners. Castalia Mayor Ellene Leonard had filed challenges to the residency of both Commissioner Clarence Bender and Commissioner Gus Sjoberg, both of whom had moved during recent months.
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Amanda Clark, Graphic Staff Writer
Festival organizers are pleased with how the 15th annual Nashville Blooming Festival shaped up this year, especially the new parade route.
This year’s route was changed due to the town’s Downtown Redevelopment Project. Instead of going completely through Downtown Nashville, this year’s parade turned down Alston Street, at CVS and then onto Church Street to Boddie Street, where it crossed over Washington and made its way back to Elm Street.
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Amanda Clark, Graphic Staff Writer
Friends of the Harold D. Cooley Library will once again host its annual Ladies Luncheon, this time at the home of Tim and Terry Hoyle.
The Fourth Annual Ladies Luncheon will be held on Saturday, May 21 from 11:30 a.m. until 1:30 p.m. at the Hoyle home on Oak Level Road.
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Amanda Clark, Graphic Staff Writer
Chances are, if you’ve been to a parade, you’ve seen some of the Shriners parade units. Next Saturday, as many as 40 Shriners units will make their way through Downtown Nashville in a rare, once in a decade event.
A Sudan Shriner’s Parade will be held at 12 noon on Saturday, May 21 in Nashville. The parade will consist only of Shriners units and there will be at least 40 of them, said Shriner Potentate Bruce Bulluck.
The Nash County 4-H Exchange Club will hold a Bass Tournament on Saturday, May 14 at the Tar River Reservoir at the Sapony Creek Boat Ramp on Old Carriage Road. The event is a fundraiser for the Exchange Club.
The entry fee is $100 per boat if received by May 10 or $110 on the day of the tournament. There is a $10 entry fee for Big Fish.
NASHVILLE - Wilbert Joseph Vick, 85, passed away, Sunday, May 8, 2011. He was the son of the late, Joseph and Isadore Coggin Vick. Wilbert was born September 29, 1925 in Nash County.
ROCKY MOUNT - Annette Rena Lane, 42, of Rocky Mount, died on Friday, April 29, 2011 at Heritage Retirement Center in Rocky Mount.
ROCKY MOUNT - Bessie M. Mann, 96, of Rocky Mount, died on Saturday, April 30, 2011 at Heritage Hospital in Tarboro.
ROCKY MOUNT - Avonne Marie Moore Peterson, 66, of Rocky Mount, died on Wednesday, May 4, 2011, at Nash General Hospital in Rocky Mount.
ROCKY MOUNT- Martha L. Winstead, 89, died April 29, 2011. Funeral services were Friday, May 6, 2011 at Stokes Mortuary Chapel, 1:00 pm. Burial was at Gardens of Gethsemane. Viewing/visitation was Wednesday, May 4, 201 from 3-7pm. Arrangements by Stokes Mortuary, Inc.
Ramona Ann Crickmore, 67, passed away, Tuesday, May 3, 2011. She was born August 19, 1943 in Nash County. She was the daughter of the late James S. and Ethel Blackburn Crickmore.
Hubert Davis Barnes, 83, passed away Friday, May 06, 2011. He was born June 8, 1927 in Nash County. He was the son of the late Julius Edgar and Laura Davis Barnes. In addition to his parents his was preceded in death by his brothers, John D. Barnes, Lynwood Barnes, and William Barnes.
