Talking to tonight to Coach Chuck Doak, the new head football coach at High Point Central High School… Here is how it went, here are our questions for Coach Doak, and his answers for us…. 1)How did this coaching change come about? Coach Doak:Coach Doak told us he left Southwest Guilford High School for HP Central HS, when Coach Sheffield at HP Central told him he needed a Defensive Coordinator…Coach Doak came over to Central about a month ago, and was there working with the HP Central players with their off-season workouts…Coach Doak was still at SWG teaching during the…
Southwest – 76 HP Central – 6 Southwest 1-0 Laila Bush – 15 Taylor Watford – 13 Sa’Mya McCullough – 20 Ally Guglielmo- 21 Tykiyah Freeman – 7 HP Central E. Ilderton – 2 B. Berry- 2 G. Soto – 2 Courtesy of SWG Girls Basketball Coach, Nick Scarborough
**********NCHSAA announces winners of 2022 Mark Dreibelbis Scholarships********** CHAPEL HILL – The North Carolina High School Athletic Association is pleased to announce the inaugural recipients of the 2021-2022 Mark Dreibelbis Scholarship, providing scholarship support to outstanding student-athletes who have displayed exceptional leadership. This year’s winners are Mary Shoop from A.C. Reynolds, Sydney Spear from John A. Holmes, Kylie Aldridge from Gray’s Creek, Madissen Cannady from Midway, and Michael Cook from High Point Central. Each recipient receives a $2,500 scholarship award and a commemorative plaque. Mary Shoop | A.C. Reynolds High School Mary Shoop is a senior at A. C. Reynolds…
Final score:Southwest Guilford 50, High Point Central 45 The Cowboys hit the road to open up the 2021-2022 regular season. These two teams squared off last year in what was a challenging season for most teams in the area. How would the new look Cowboys fare against the familiar city foe? The Bison came into tonight’s contest having lost a tough battle to High Point Andrews while this was the Cowboys’ first game action on the season. Could the Cowboys shake off the rust or would the Bison be able to lasso in Southwest? The opening frame was back and…
Harper, Andrew “Andy” Thomas October 1, 1972 – August 27, 2021 from www.greensboro.com: WINSTON-SALEM – Andrew Thomas Harper, 48, entered into the presence of Jesus on Friday, August 27, 2021 at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center. Andy was born on October 1, 1972 in Forsyth County to Bud and Gaye Thomas Harper. He was a native of Kernersville and graduated from Kerwin Christian School and attended Wake Forest University as a business major. After his playing days ended, he returned to Winston-Salem State University to gain a teaching degree. He taught high school social studies at Parkland High School, in…
Long-time High Point Central baseball coach Andy Harper is gone…He has died after losing his battle with COVID-19…It all happened fast, as we were hoping to get some prayer request mentions up here for Coach Harper, we read today that he is gone, he has died… Our thoughts and prayers do go out to his family and friends…Much-respected high school baseball coach in our area, and he worked not only with HP Central, but also with the independent Triad Baseball Academy… Coach Harper played high school baseball and basketball at Kerwin Christian School, in Kernersville…He graduated from Kerwin, and played…
Coach Jerry Steele, who coached the men’s basketball teams, at Guilford College and and High Point College, passed away yesterday at age 82… Jerry Steele stood around 6’8, and he was a tough, hard-working coach, with a deep southern drawl, but up under that tough exterior, there was a man who lived with emotion, and he had an extra-large heart… Spoke with one of his former players this morning, Patrick Medley, and Patrick and Coach Steele go way back…They had a bond that lasted for nearly 35 years….Patrick Medley told me that, “Outside of my mom, Coach Jerry Steele was…
Caldwell Academy girls basketball tops Hickory Christian, 51-33….JV Boys basketball from Caldwell Academy, also wins…. Varsity girls basketball moves to 3-0 with a 51-33 win over Hickory Christian. JV boys also picked up a road win today. #riseup pic.twitter.com/qlweGOdUTL — Caldwell Athletics (@CaldwellEagles) November 23, 2020 High Point Central Bison volleyball over Ben L. Smith, 3-0…. @HPCBisonSports @HPEmichael HPC Volleyball celebrated 7 seniors in style with a 3-0 W over Smith. Great grip of girls. #bisonnation #bisonpride #yaherd pic.twitter.com/ZpD882o51o — Scott Behe (@CoachBehe) November 24, 2020 **********Grimsley High School Girls Varsity Volleyball********** Northwest Guilford HS: 3 Grimsley High School: 0…
High Point Central High School with two players heading to the Next Level and getting set to play College Softball, after their HP Central softball careers are complete…Both are in the HP Central Class of 2021, and today we recognize Abbie Behe, heading to Lander University and Kayla Richard, on her way to the Wentworth Institute of Technology…. SO happy and excited to announce the we have TWO Bison softball athletes that have signed NLI’s to play at the next level! Abbie Behe (Lander U) and Kayla Richard (Wentworth Institute of Tech). Good luck ladies!! We are SO proud of…
We first heard this news on Thursday night: Sad to hear of the passing of former High Point Central Head Football Coach, Principal, and High Point Central Hall of Famer Ron Krall. (The High Point Central Black Bison State Championship, under Coach Krall’s leadership, came in 1979, and I do believe it was a State 4-A Championship.) RIP Ron Krall Sad to hear of the passing of former HPC Head Football Coach, Principal, and HPC Hall of Famer Ron Krall. Mr. Krall was a true Bison legend and will NEVER be forgotten. pic.twitter.com/WgGi9InmYa — HPC Athletics (@HPCBisonSports) November 5, 2020…
Recognizing/Celebrating the Senior Athletes from around Guilford County:Today we begin our Senior Takeover/Senior Stampedes with High Point Central High School, Home of the Bison. Time for our “Senior Celebration” for the High Point Central Bison, led by their Athletic Director Mike Cook…Coach Cook, as we call him, has sent his list of Bison that are moving out from High Point Central High School, here in Guilford County, and on to college, in a number of different new cities…Mason Bowers, the Big Bison lineman, from Coach Wayne Jones’ football teams, is taking his game on to college down at Coastal Carolina…
CHAPEL HILL—A total of 35 student-athletes from North Carolina High School Athletic Association member schools will be honored for their outstanding sportsmanship as winners of the “Heart of a Champion” Award recognition. The sportsmanship recognition is part of the program offered by the NCHSAA Student Services Division. Due to the COVID-19 outbreak, there will not be a luncheon this year. However, the award winners will be honored through the NCHSAA’s social media and online platforms in addition to receiving the awards. These awards are sponsored by NC Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Company. Mark Dreibelbis, NCHSAA Associate Commissioner, and Director of…
BTW/By the Way CLICK HERE for the fight in the Kansas-Kansas State men’s basketball game….This is crazy and dangerous….Make sure you have volume up and mute off…You need that volume to make sure the full story is told. Finals from tonight at Page High School, inside the Mac Morris Gym and other scores are on the way…. Page girls 39, High Point Central 19 Here are the numbers from the girls game courtesy of the Page Pirates head coach Ed Johnson…. Page 9 3 6 21- 39 HP Central- 5 5 3 6- 19 Page (3-14, 1-1)- Reagan Maynard 23,…
Dhieu Deing, from High Point Central High School and he spent part of his early years at Southern Guilford High School, and young Mr. Deing put on a show Saturday, for USC Aiken, in a big win over Clayton State!! The Freshman is the real deal! Deing is the “Real Thing” and you tell by his game line that nothing is finer right now in South Caroliner, at least at USC Aiken, than Dhieu Deing, the Guilford County kid tearing up, just across the state line…. Here is that game line for Dhieu Deing, from back on Saturday, in his…
from Joe Sirera, at the News and Record, with extended coverage from the News-Advance, out of Lynchburg, Virginia….. Former High Point Central football and basketball standout Trent Westray was killed in a car crash Thursday night in Lynchburg, Va. Westray was 18. After graduating from High Point Central in June, Westray enrolled at Virginia University of Lynchburg, where was a member of the football team. “He was just a good person, a team leader,” Wayne Jones, High Point Central’s football coach, said today. “He was someone the kids enjoyed being around, someone the coaches enjoyed being around.” CLICK HERE to…
We were able to connect with the High Point Central Bison head football coach Wayne Jones today, and caught up with Coach Jones right before HP Central was leaving the school, for a scrimmage over at North Forsyth….Coach Jones is a football and a track man and we talked about both today and Coach Jones said he has some promising players that will line up and take the field for him, this Fall…. **********Our Seven-on-Seven Series of questions for Coach Jones:********** 1)For your program to reach the playoffs, what will your record need to be this season? Coach Jones:We need…
**********Germaine Pratt(High Point Central HS/N.C. State) named ACC Linebacker of the Week********** LINEBACKER – Germaine Pratt(High Point Central High School), NC State, Gr., LB; High Point, N.C. Second ACC Linebacker of the Week accolade of 2018 for Pratt, who tallied a career-high 16 tackles in the Wolfpack’s loss at Syracuse • Pratt also had a career-best 2.5 sacks for a loss of 21 yards • Fourteen of his 16 tackles were solo stops • **********Pratt leads the ACC and ranks sixth in the FBS in solo tackles per game.********** +++++Solid game this week for Tre Turner, the freshman wide receiver…
Bryan Maynard, a junior football player for the High Point Central Bison, was shot Monday night during a home invasion in High Point….Maynard was an All-Conference player as a sophomore for Central and Coach Wayne Jones called Maynard a very quiet and reserved young football player when asked about Maynard and Jones also said Maynard meant a lot to the High Point Central football team with his experience and football background…. Maynard was shot while visiting a friend/neighbor on Monday night and within all of the details of this shooting we did not see the current condition of Maynard, as…
Josh Wilson, a two-time All Piedmont Triad 4-A Conference linebacker, has signed to play college football at Bluefield College…Josh was a three-sport athlete for the Bison, with excellent seasons in football, wrestling and baseball. Wilson will focus on just football at Bluefield and he will check in this Fall at 6 feet tall and 200 pounds…That should give him a good base, as he calls Bluefield his place and he will be in the race for playing time the minute he sets foot on the turf, at Bluefield…. Read more from Michael Lindsay, at the High Point Enterprise, pn the…
There is a big meeting coming up in High Point, at the High Point Central High School, where the public can air their grievences about the delays in the current renovations/construction, going on with the Bison’ Gymnasium…The meeting will be two weeks from today, on October 29 and it will take place in the school cafeteria at Central….. from www.news-record.com: HIGH POINT — Parents, students and others who want to know more about the construction delays at High Point Central High School can attend an information meeting at the school on October 29. CLICK HERE to read more on this…