By:
GEOFF NEVILLE, Graphic Sportswriter
WINTERVILLE -- Rare are the occasions when Southern Nash is unable to qualify a grappler for the Class 3-A State Wrestling Tournament.
But that’s the scenario for the Firebirds this season as SN won’t have a performer at the states, which will begin Thursday and run through Saturday at the Greensboro Coliseum in Guilford County.
GREENSBORO -- The Greensboro Coliseum will be the site this weekend for one of the largest single high school sporting events in the Southeast.
The North Carolina High School Athletic Association’s annual state wrestling championships are scheduled for three days, starting Thursday night and running all day Friday and Saturday, bringing together over 600 of the state’s best prep grapplers for competition over three days.
By:
CHARLES ALSTON, Graphic Correspondent / Submitted photos by David Hahula
ROCKY MOUNT -- Rocky Mount had waited six years to host a conference basketball tournament and it made it pay off last Friday night.
The Gryphon squads pulled off a championship doubleheader over Northern Nash to claim Big East Conference Tournament titles.
ROCKY MOUNT -- After 24 games played this season, North Carolina Wesleyan College’s men’s basketball team had seemingly all of its goals resting on game number 25.
When the Bishops hosted Ferrum College last Saturday, they knew that the USA South Regular Season Conference Championship, the right to be the No. 1 overall seed in the USAS Conference tournament this week and the opportunity to avenge the squad’s only conference loss this season all hung in the balance.
NASH COUNTY -- Here are updated results from the Nash County Parks and Recreation Department’s Basketball and Indoor Soccer Leagues:
The Vikings won the 10-12 Championship during the Nash County Parks and Recreation Department’s Indoor Soccer League.
The Hornets won the 16-18 Age Group Championship as part of the Nash County Parks and Recreation Department’s Basketball League.
The Tar Heels won the 13-15 Age Group Championship as part of the Nash County Parks and Recreation Department’s Basketball League.
ALEIGH -- The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission has set the schedule for the annual Youth Hunter Education Skills Tournaments for 2011, with expectations for increased participation in the popular shooting sports events.
Nine district-level competitions will be held in March, with hundreds of middle school and high school students taking part. Winning teams will advance to a state championship tournament in April.
By:
CHARLES ALSTON, Graphic Correspondent / Submitted photos by David Hahula
ROCKY MOUNT -- It just wasn’t a good night for the varsity basketball teams from Currituck High School.
Both teams boarded a bus in the town of Barco and traveled to the Rocky Mount area Monday for a couple of opening-round NCHSAA 3-A State Playoff Games.
GREENVILLE -- For the third straight game, the East Carolina University pitching staff held Youngstown State’s bats in check as the Pirates completed the series sweep Sunday afternoon by blanking the Penguins 10-0 at Lewis Field inside Clark-LeClair Stadium.
Northern Nash High School’s Kris Horton (top) earns two points during his match against South Central’s Josh Ward as part of the annual Class 3-A East Regional Wrestling Tournament, which concluded last Saturday afternoon in Pitt County.
Southern Nash’s Yancey Medina (right) attempts to escape a hold during last Saturday’s action at the Class 3-A East Regional Wrestling Tournament in Winterville.
Hostess Martha Gallop introduced the speaker, Mike Moss, a very experienced meteorologist who is a weather forecaster in Raleigh. He is a Rocky Mount native and Northern Nash High School graduate whose fascination with weather started as a young child with “Weather: A Golden Guide,” a book his parents gave him.
By:
GEOFF NEVILLE, Graphic Sportswriter
ROCKY MOUNT -- Given their pedigree -- or lack thereof -- it could almost be considered a miracle that the Nash Central Bulldogs were only two victories away from securing a state wrestling championship.
After all, the Bulldogs don’t have a performer who has been on the mat for more than three years -- and not just on the high school level.
A Middlesex man was killed late Monday night after being run over on U.S. Highway 64 in Nashville.
According to reports from the North Carolina Highway Patrol, 52-year-old John William Perry was walking on the right shoulder of the Highway 58 ramp on the eastbound side of Highway 64 around 10 p.m. when he stepped in front of a vehicle. The vehicle was exiting the ramp from Highway 58 onto Highway 64 when it struck Perry.
By:
Amelia Harper, Graphic Correspondent
“This is not an issue of the environment versus jobs, but of jobs versus jobs,” Environmental Attorney Clark Wright, Jr. said in an interview Monday. Wright is an attorney with the New Bern based firm of Davis Hartman Wright. He previously served with the NC Attorney General’s Office in the Environmental Protection Division and has a degree in economics as well as law.
By:
Amanda Clark, Graphic Staff Writer
W.E. “Bobby” Joyner lived and breathed fire services. Last week, Joyner took one last ride on a Coopers Fire Truck as he was escorted to his final resting place at the Land Family Cemetery.
Joyner, 80, passed away on Sunday, February 6. Members of several Nash County Fire Departments paid their respects to Joyner last Thursday morning, lining the funeral procession with fire trucks as a truck from Coopers Fire Department escorted Joyner past both the old and new fire station before proceeding to the Land Family Cemetery for his burial.
By:
Amanda Clark, Graphic Staff Writer
Six recommendations were presented to Rocky Mount City Council members along with Nash and Edgecombe County Commissioners last week as part of a study on to how to make the Twin Counties more competitive.
The recommendations were the end result of an assessment performed by Dr. James Johnson, a native of the Twin Counties who serves as the William R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor of strategy and entrepreneurship and Director of the Urban Investment Strategies Center at UNC-CH.
By:
Amanda Clark, Graphic Staff Writer
As a motivational speaker, former Olympic Gold Medalist Dominique Dawes speaks at events with the intent to inspire and motivate her audience. But sometimes, she leaves events with a little inspiration herself. That was the case last Thursday evening at the Boys and Girls Club of Nash/Edgecombe Counties Youth of the Year event.
“I am truly touched and blessed to be here this evening,” Dawes said. “I leave so inspired from these dinners, so touched.”
ARRESTS
Thomas Earl Hyman - 2/10/2011- charged with obtaining a controlled substance by fraud
Larry Jermaine Hunt - 1/24/2011 - charged with failure to appear for driving while license revoked
Marcus Antonio Alston - 1/25/2011 - charged with attempt to purchase of liquor
ROCKY MOUNT – Charles A. “Pete” Tripp, 92, died Saturday, February 12, 2011.
Robert C. Bobbitt, Sr., 83, passed away Saturday, February 12, 2011. Robert was born December 10, 1927 in Nash County, son of the late Willie N. and Madelyn Bobbitt.
CASTALIA - Roger Allen Parker, Sr., passed away Monday, February 14, 2011. He was born January 8, 1939 in Nash County. He was preceded in death by his parents, Onslow B. Parker, Jr. and Annie Mae Burgess Parker and his brother Bobby Ray Parker.
Tara Lynn Stewart, 38, passed away Monday, February 7, 2011. She was born December 11, 1972 in Norfolk, Virginia, daughter of Carroll F. and Bruce Ann Griffin Stewart.
