Category: High School

On a night where Thomasville’s 48-game winning streak ends, the season ended for most of our area teams in Guilford County. As the old saying goes, “and then there was one”, and that one is DUDLEY. Dudley got the job done while our other teams were falling and Dudley got it done on the road… Continue reading HS football Saturday morning rewind

Only four games on the docket this evening and we will start at the top with Grimsley(11-1) and a #8 seed at West Charlotte(11-1) and the #1 4-AA West seed. Grimsley’s only loss was that 24-23 defeat at the hands of Page and West Charlotte fell to Independence but they beat Butler. We have been… Continue reading HS football Friday November 16

Jasmine Alston (UNC Wilmington), Krystin Fields (Towson), Nicole Hargraves (Charlotte) and Trumae Lucas (Florida) all seniors this year from Greensboro Grimsley High School. They held a Signing Ceremony today. Phil Weaver, the Grimsley Women’s Basketball Coach handles the introductions. Watch Out Sports World – Andy Durham is now equipped with Video – Your World is… Continue reading Grimsley Women’s Basketball Signings

The Whirlies defeated North Mecklenburg 1-0 on Wednesday night and now they will face Raleigh Broughton for the boys State 4-A soccer championship. The soccer/basketball ace David Dupont scored the lone Whirlie goal and keeper Will Curtis had 2 saves in goal for Grimsley. North Meck was playing a man down for much of the… Continue reading Grimsley will be going for State Soccer Title

The season is about over and we only have five schools remaining in the playoffs so who is going to be the last team left from Guilford County? Here’s this week’s poll and how the remaining teams stack up and like we said earlier, it is a short stack and getting smaller: #1)Grimsley(11-1)-Just got past… Continue reading County-wide HS football poll

The transfer talk has been centered on the football scene most of this week, but with the Pizza Hut Little Four Tournament coming into focus now, more hoops talk is hitting the floor. Before we go deeper into the hoops transfer discussion let’s take another quick look back at some thoughts on the football cases.… Continue reading With HS basketball here, more perspective on transfers

Andy interviews Kevin McCoy, Tournament Chairman for the upcoming Pizza Hut Little 4 Tournament this Christmas break. [audio:2007-11-13-McCoy.mp3] The Interview runs about 9 minutes.

The parings for the 32nd Annual Pizza Hut Little Four Basketball Tournament were announced today. The tournament presented by the Greensboro Sports Council is coming up December 26-28 at the Greensboro Coliseum Special Events Center. Monte Towe of N.C. State fame spoke to the crowd gathered today at the Coliseum and Towe gave a good… Continue reading Pizza Hut Little Four Basketball Tournament

Transfer problems in Guilford mirror Meck? from the Langston Wertz Jr. blog at www.charlotte.com Mecklenburg County has, a bit unfairly, been labeled the transfer capital of the N.C. high school universe. I have always maintained that the issues here only mirror those elsewhere. A very interesting article ran in the Sunday Greensboro News & Record(by… Continue reading Langston Wertz hits where it hurts

We have mentioned many of the transfers that showed up in Robert Bell’s Sunday N&R front page feature. The Zach Maynard and Keenan Allen brotherhood was first talked about here at GREENSBOROSports.com. We also talked in detail earlier in the season about James Scales III and Stefan Shepherd. Maynard/Allen going to Grimsley from Eastern Guilford,… Continue reading More on News and Record transfers

There were some upsets last night and that dropped our record to 6-4 for the week and if you look close we only have four games involving Guilford County teams coming up next week. We have five county teams left in the hunt and the run down for Friday November 16 goes, #8 Grimsley at… Continue reading High School football Saturday morning rewind

The high school football playoffs get started this evening and we have 11 Guilford County teams still in action. Here is the schedule and who we think might move on to week number two: Huntersville Hopewell at Grimsley-both teams are (10-1) but the Whirlies have faced much tougher competition, even though the Metro is not… Continue reading It’s getting a little tougher tonight:HS football Friday Nov. 9

Coach Tom Knotts of Charlotte Independence will not coach on Friday night against the Page Pirates in round one of the State 4-AA playoffs. Knotts will not, I repeat will Knott or not coach against the Page Pirates on Friday. Knotts did not coach in last Friday’s game when Independence lost to Matthews Bulter 21-20.… Continue reading Tom Knotts will not coach against the Page Pirates

We have teams that are now eliminated from further competition and that leaves us with only eleven open spots in this week’s poll. #1)Grimsley(10-1) The Whirlies defeated Smith 49-0 last week and now host Huntersville Hopewell in round one of the playoffs that get under way tomorrow night. Jamaral Rease has not been practicing with… Continue reading County-wide HS football poll

He won’t face charges but will he coach his Charlotte Independence football team against the Page Pirates in Greensboro on Friday night? Here’s the most recent news from Langston Wertz Jr. of the Charlotte Observer and www.charlotte.com: Independence High football coach Tom Knotts won’t face charges, but he doesn’t know if he’ll be allowed to… Continue reading Coach Tom Knotts won’t face charges

from www.charlotte.com we hear: The father of a junior varsity football player was yelling and spewing curse words at Independence coach Tom Knotts before the coach confronted him, according to parents who were there. Knotts, who has been suspended and was not allowed to attend Friday’s conference championship game, was talking to his huddled team… Continue reading Rick Strunk of the NCHSAA speaks out about coach Tom Knotts of Independence

We have some very nice games to look at in the first round, but it could get real interesting by the time round two gets started. It hits the hardest in the 3-AA East locally, with the possibility of Dudley at Northeast Guilford which would be a re-match of last year’s round two at Dudley.… Continue reading Interesting matchups in HS football playoffs