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2 weeks ago | 
restorationnewsmedia.com | Paul Durham |Tom Ham
A Senior Night not to soon be forgotten by Hunt High seniors Barnes Willoughby, Joe Glover, Ryan Bass, Seth Evans, Tyson Foster and Josh Winborne left the Warriors still in contention for the 3-A Quad County Conference varsity baseball title.
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2 weeks ago | 
restorationnewsmedia.com | Paul Durham |Tom Ham
A winding, bumpy road into the North Carolina Christian School Association 2-A baseball playoffs grew more hazardous for Wilson Christian Academy on Thursday night with a 7-1 loss to East Region rival Southside Christian of Clayton on the Wilson Christian diamond. The Chargers, a perennial East Region powerhouse team, stumbled to 3-3 in the region and to 3-11 in all […]
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3 weeks ago | 
restorationnewsmedia.com | Paul Durham |Tom Ham
They could score the basketball. The ability to score perhaps stands as the signature of the 2024-25 Wilson Times All-Area girls and boys basketball elite from high school teams representing the area. Each all-star unit consists of 12 players, and the top five boys scorers averaged 103.2 points per game. The girls top five, not blessed with size, were not […]
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4 weeks ago | 
restorationnewsmedia.com | Paul Durham |Tom Ham
The sixth 3-A Quad County match, contested Tuesday, April 8, turned out not to be the last high school boys golf match that will be played at Willow Springs Country Club, which is in the process of being sold and will cease operation later this summer. That distinction occurred when Hunt and Fike tangled for the Wilson County Championship on […]
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1 month ago | 
restorationnewsmedia.com | Paul Durham |Tom Ham
With winning pitcher Christopher Tankersley and freshman catcher Clark Johnson delivering clutch hits, the Greenfield School varsity baseball team struck for five runs in the bottom of the first inning and hung on for an 8-5 triumph against Wayne Christian at Ralph Hodge Family Field on a chilly Tuesday evening.
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1 month ago | 
restorationnewsmedia.com | Paul Durham |Tom Ham
With sole possession of the 3-A Quad County Conference baseball lead at stake on the Sid Boyette Field diamond Friday night, Hunt High clung to a 2-0 lead against front-running West Johnston after five innings, and head coach Jon Smith desperately wanted that third run for his Warriors. However, Hunt was denied and, instead, West Johnston, the 2024 conference champion, […]
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1 month ago | 
restorationnewsmedia.com | Paul Durham |Tom Ham
Veteran Wilson Christian Academy head varsity baseball coach Ty Bissett experienced flashbacks as he watched senior left-hander Simon Quinn, who formerly pitched for Wilson Christian, blank his Chargers on four singles as his Greenfield School team pecked its way to a 4-0 win on the WCA diamond Tuesday night.
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1 month ago | 
restorationnewsmedia.com | Paul Durham |Tom Ham
Five unearned runs in the final inning turned a 3-A Quad County Conference varsity baseball game sour at Gilbert Ferrell Field at the Jimmy Tillman Athletic Complex on a chilly Friday night. Visiting Charles B. Aycock High, nursing a two-run lead, emerged the beneficiary of the five unearned runs in the top of the seventh inning and breezed to a 11-4 victory against Fike. “It was not a 11-4 game,” contended Fike head coach Jay Wheeler.
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1 month ago | 
restorationnewsmedia.com | Paul Durham |Tom Ham
A new, welcomed look, certainly from the viewpoint of veteran Wilson Country Club head golf professional/director of Golf Reid Hill, accompanied the annual member-guest golf tournament at WCC last October. Hill, who would again be at the forefront in accommodating another packed field, noticed a distinct difference in the participants as a whole — the 2024 turnout was much younger. Per golfer, Hill estimated a difference of from 10-12 years in age from the previous year.
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2 months ago | 
restorationnewsmedia.com | Paul Durham |Tom Ham
If the Hunt High varsity baseball team’s 13-1 pounding of neighboring rival Charles B. Aycock on Tuesday night is any indication, Hunt’s hitting, in terms of efficiency, is catching its pitching. “Maybe so,” responded veteran Warriors head coach Jon Smith. “We got guys on base and got hits with guys on base. We hadn’t done that much. That was good to see.
