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Nov 19, 2024 | 
fayobserver.com | Douglas Byrd
Back in November of 2023, the NCHSAA voted to increase its number of classifications from four to eight, beginning with the 2025-26 school year. In April, the association voted to use the "Big 32" model — grouping the 32 schools in the NCHSAA with the largest Average Daily Membership numbers into the 8A classification and splitting the other schools into the seven remaining classifications with 59 teams each.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
robesonian.com | Douglas Byrd
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As the regular season of high school football winds down, many fortunate programs are looking ahead to the state playoffs.
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Oct 4, 2024 | 
robesonian.com | Douglas Byrd
LUMBERTON — The Lumberton boys soccer team earned three victories this week, beating Jack Britt on Monday, South View on Wednesday and Douglas Byrd on Thursday. In Thursday’s match, the Pirates (13-4-1, 9-1 United-8 Conference) beat Douglas Byrd (0-11, 0-10 United-8) in a 10-1 decision. Lumberton led 9-1 at halftime. Emilio Carrera and Raul Carrera each scored twice for Lumberton and Justin Lopez, Dakoda Hunt, Robinhio Tanis, Porfirio Benitez, Josh Badillo and Alexis Adler each had one.
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
fayobserver.com | Douglas Byrd |Fayetteville Observer
Show Caption Hide Caption WATCH: Defending 3A East champs handle Gray’s Creek with ease 53-0Seventy-First handled the Bears with ease on Thursday night to advance to 5-0 on the season. Here are the best moments from the win. Week 7 of NCHSAA football is here, and this week's game slate couldn't be more exciting.
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
fayobserver.com | Douglas Byrd |Justin Richardson |Domarion Cook
This story will be updated with new information. SEVENTY-FIRST STOMPS GRAY'S CREEK:Seventy-First's running back trio combines for 7 touchdowns in 53-0 rout over Gray's CreekFALCON'S NEXT BIG RECRUIT:Seventy-First football's John Archer reflects on flurry of Division I offers as sophomoreJohn Archer, Seventy-First - The sophomore dominated the line of scrimmage and came up with a fumble recovery in the third quarter.
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
fayobserver.com | Douglas Byrd
Week 6 for the NCHSAA football season is just days away from kickoff and already, games have been moved to Thursday to avoid threat of heavy rain on Friday. Nine high school football games will grace this week's schedule, including the sole private school in the county, Trinity Christian hosting South Lake Christian. Of the nine-game slate, The Fayetteville Observer assessed the games and made predictions.
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Sep 19, 2024 | 
fayobserver.com | Douglas Byrd
The nonconference portion of NCHSAA football has ended as teams head into Week 5 of the 2024 season. As we gear up for league action in the All American and United 8, here's a look at Cumberland County's statistical leaders from this year's nonconference slate. Cumberland County football stat leadersIndividualStats are from MaxPreps.com. RUSHING1. Zeek Reed, Gray's Creek463 yards2. Alphonso Myers, Gray's Creek432 yards3. Rashad Dockery, South View400 yards4. Nasir Wells, Westover371 yards5.
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Aug 27, 2024 | 
fayobserver.com | Douglas Byrd
Week 1 of high school football is in the books, and it's time for more bulletin board material. As Fayetteville-area football teams get Week 2 underway, The Fayetteville Observer took a look at all 11 of the football squads, and ranked them from best to worst based on their opening-week performances.
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Aug 23, 2024 | 
fayobserver.com | Douglas Byrd
Week 1 of the NCHSAA football season has arrived, and so has the bulletin board material for the locker rooms. The first four weeks of the season will feature nonconference games before play begins in the All American and United 8 conferences. Pine Forest and Seventy-First are looking to four-peat as league champions.
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Aug 22, 2024 | 
robesonian.com | Douglas Byrd
Friday will mark 294 days since Purnell Swett, St. Pauls and Red Springs walked off the field after first-round state playoff losses, ending last fall’s football season in Robeson County. It will be 301 days since Lumberton and Fairmont’s played their final games of 2023. But the lights will illuminate the skies over Robeson County on Friday again, for the first of 11 weeks of regular-season play — then hopefully more after that — for local football programs.
