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First grader Melissa Adkins gets ready to lead her class dressed as Vicky Violet for the Letterland Parade on Monday at Cedar Grove Elementary School.

Teachers and other staff also got in the Letterland spirit Monday. Pictured (L-R) are front office staff Angelia Jones, as Dippy Duck, and Debbie Rightmyer, as the Quarrelsome Queen.

Second grader Lily Adkins was Lucy Lamplight during the Letterland Parade.

ROCKY MOUNT -- The 2019 girls soccer campaign proved to be a learning experience for the Northern Nash Lady Knights -- both for the players and the head coach.
The Lady Knights were extremely young last year and also featured a new coach in Cameron Avery, who was known more for his football prowess during his prep days at Wilson Fike High School.

(L to R) Northern Nash's Janiah Godley and Nash Central's Diamond Williams engage in a physical joust for possession during Monday afternoon's soccer rivalry showdown.

Nash Central's Hailey Boone attempts to advance the ball during Monday afternoon's girls soccer meeting with Northern Nash in the regular season opener for both squads.

RED OAK -- Last year, Sidney Sullivan finished in third place, during the North Carolina Girls Wrestling Invitational sponsored by High School OT.
This season under a bigger spotlight with the NCHSAA backing the event, she knew things would be different.
For the first time in school history, Northern Nash had a female wrestler crowned Individual State Champion, with Sullivan, a sophomore at Northern, taking the crown in the 132-pound division at the Carolina Courts in Concord.

STANHOPE -- It would be an understatement to say that Jordan Bass inherited a rebuilding situation when he took over the girls basketball head coaching job at Southern Nash High School several years ago.
Southern had been a long-standing resident in the cellar of the always-tough Big East Conference -- and with seemingly no hope for advancement at the time.

CLAYTON -- Some of the most intense matchups of the high school basketball season in North Carolina take place during the Playoffs, which begin in late February.
When two teams meeting in a playoff game have already competed against one another during a tight-knit contest in the regular season, the stakes are even higher.

ROCKY MOUNT -- The North Carolina Wesleyan College baseball team pulled out a series win over conference foe Brevard College on Sunday, using stellar pitching and clutch hitting to grab a 2-1 win at Bauer Field on the NCWC campus.
Junior pitcher Drew Tubb threw a complete-game 4-hitter allowing just a solo home run in the 9th while walking two and striking out 7 to pick up his first win of the season. He also lowered his ERA to 2.82 on the season with 21 strikeouts.

NASH COUNTY -- Listed are Tuesday's results for the fourth round of the North Carolina High School Athletic Association's State Basketball Playoffs:

GREENVILLE -- Bryson Worrell hit a pair of home runs, while Lane Hoover and Connor Norby both tallied three hits leading No. 17 East Carolina University to a 13-1 home baseball win over High Point Sunday afternoon at Lewis Field inside Clark-LeClair Stadium.
With the win, the Pirates improved to 8-3 on the season and the Panthers fell to 5-7.

ROCKY MOUNT -- The #20-ranked North Carolina Wesleyan College men's tennis team went on the road to defeat #35 New York University on Sunday afternoon 7-2 to pick up their 4th win of the season after falling 6-3 to Johns Hopkins University in Maryland on Saturday.
The men sit at 4-3 after the weekend.

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A trial date has been set for Lynn Keel, who is accused of murdering his wife, Diana, last March.
The trial will be held in Pitt County this summer.
Rexford Lynn Keel appeared briefly in Nash County Superior Court last Thursday, where Senior Superior Court Judge Quentin Sumner announced the trial would be moved to Pitt County and tentatively was scheduled for July 27.