BURLINGTON — A dominant state championship performance capped off a undefeated season for Mount Airy’s girls tennis team.
Mount Airy defeated Voyager Academy 5-0 on Sept. 4 to capture the program’s third-consecutive 1A Dual Team State Championship and the school’s sixth overall – all of which were won in the past 13 years.

“It really hasn’t sunk in yet, and I have no idea when it will,” Mount Airy coach Luke Graham said of the team’s three-peat. “I would have never dreamed of this when getting into it. You go into coaching and work toward creating an opportunity for a championship run at some point, but you have to get a group of players that come together and push each other to get better.


“I’ve been extremely fortunate with the last couple of classes to have players who came in with some skill, worked out every chance we got and would push each other to be better. Even then nothing is guaranteed but an opportunity, so credit to the players for stepping up in moments when they had to.”

Carrie Marion was named Most Valuable Player of the Championship Match, and Audrey Brown was the recipient of the NCHSAA Sportsmanship Award.

Mount Airy is the third team in NCHSAA history to have multiple runs winning three or more consecutive state titles, joining Charlotte Catholic and Salisbury.

Saturday’s title victory puts Mount Airy in a tie for the fifth-most NCHSAA Dual Team State Championships in state history.
“I told them after that they were one of four teams in the state of North Carolina that get to finish the season with a win,” Graham said. “This is incredibly special. I hope the experience and the outcome means as much to them as it does for me personally. This is something they can share with each other the rest of their lives.”

thomasville will play Andrews at home Friday. Don’t know much about Andrews but from there record I don’t think this will be much of a game.

The 2nd round of the NC high school football playoffs has multiple intriguing, competitive, big time matchups in the 3A and 4A classifications. Great matchups in the East and West. The list of great games in the 2nd round that can go either way in 3A and 4A is long. The playoff picture should start to take shape a lot more in the upper two classifications after the second round.

Hickory Ridge will travel up to Watauga for 1st Rd playoff matchup. Hickory Ridge is down compare to recent years. Can they compete with Watauga. What can we expect.

Big shout out to Polk County and Brevard for winning 1a and 2a volleyball state championships both in straight sets not everyday you get 2 state champs from 2 different division (not big and little) from same confrence

Unless the sky falls and the world stops spinning, this game will be over at the coin flip. I'm glad we're finally healthy and hope it will stay that way. Thought we're really looking more like we should last Thursday. What are your thoughts?

• Best chance at an upset — (20) Corvian Community @ (13) Draughn. Frankly, I don't see any upsets actually happening in 1A. But if I had to pick one, its this. This Corvian team has some talent on it, but its mostly because I have no idea what to make of Draughn anymore after it was absolutely crushed in the season finale by Mountain Heritage.

Now couple of people said they did like/believe, etc anything from HighschoolOT. But they sure picked this one correctly.

And no one is talking about it in either direction. Why?

Do yall know of any games streaming Friday up that way?

Look forward to hosting the South Granville team and fans at historic Legion Stadium in the first round of the 2A playoffs. Whiteville a traditional running team is throwing the ball much more with a good deal of success especially late in the season. This balance does make them a hard team to defend. Two losses were to #1 seed Clinton and our conference champion West Columbus.

Both teams are 9-2
This is a matchup of a regular season meeting won by SWE 54-48… this has the potential to be a great second round game.

Can someone fill us in on Madison? Just curious as during the playoffs, I like to get to know the other team. Their strengths, weaknesses. What is the community like?, etc….

Hickory 8-0 ( 6-0)
Statesville 6-2 ( 5-0)
East Lincoln 6-2 ( 3-2)
North Lincoln 5-3 ( 3-2)
West Iredell 5-3 ( 2-3)
North Iredell 3-5 ( 2-3)
St Stephens 0-8 ( 0-5)
Foard 0-8 ( 0-5)

Hickory vs Foard ( Thursday at 7:30)
St Stephens vs Statesville ( Game has been moved up to this Thursday at 7:30)
East Lincoln vs North Iredell
North Lincoln vs West Iredell

Probably the best game for the conference is North Lincoln vs West Iredell

My picks
Hickory
Statesville
East Lincoln
North Lincoln

Definition of eating crow:
Eating crow means humiliation by admitting having been proven wrong after taking a strong position.

Who's eating crow today?
Someone pick a winner that lost?

any takers!

Not many will give Roberson a chance here. Can the rams keep it close? I think they can score but will have a lot of trouble stopping Catholic.

Definition of eating crow:
Eating crow means humiliation by admitting having been proven wrong after taking a strong position.

Who's eating crow today?
Someone pick a winner that lost?

any takers!

Any thoughts?

Adams is now at 4,691

530 from 3rd all time SMC

910 from 2nd all time SMC

1,469 from 1st all time SMC

Adams also had a shot at the rushing TD record of Kurt Odom. Not sure if that's a SMC record or a school record.

Freshman 296 yds 6.0 ypc - 0 fumbles
Sophomore yds 2,193. 6.9 ypc -2 fumbles
Junior yds 2,202. 8.0 ypc - 0 fumbles

Please post scoring updates here! Good luck to all teams!

Bandys (6-4, 3-4) at Monroe (9-1, 5-0)
Bunker Hill (10, 7-0) vs East Rutherford (5-5, 4-2)
Lincolnton (5-5, 5-2) at North Surry (7-3, 6-0)
Maiden (7-3, 5-2) vs East Gaston (8-2, 4-2)
West Lincoln (8-2, 5-2) vs Chase (7-3, 4-2)
East Burke - round ball/winter track and field?
West Caldwell - round ball


Final Standings
Bunker Hill 7-0
Maiden 5-2
Lincolnton 5-2
West Lincoln 5-2
Bandys 3-4
Newton Conover 2-5
East Burke 1-6
West Caldwell 0-7

Definition of eating crow:
Eating crow means humiliation by admitting having been proven wrong after taking a strong position.

Who's eating crow today?
Someone pick a winner that lost?

any takers!

Played SM last year in the second round, have safe to JOHN GAMBLE STADIUM this Friday night.

Rockingham makes the long trip up to Lincoln County. Should be an interesting game. Thoughts?

Definition of eating crow:
Eating crow means humiliation by admitting having been proven wrong after taking a strong position.

Who's eating crow today?
Someone pick a winner that lost?

any takers!

Who y'all got? Know very little about Lincolnton. Can the Hounds keep the momentum after clipping the Card's wings?