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The Crusader Cheerleaders pose with their award. Contributed Photo. HCA Cheerleaders:  Double Champions
Pom-poms and cute smiles are out and athletic ability is in. If you haven’t been to an athletic event in the past few years you will find that the girls gracing the sideline are not the same as the...
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Sports Roundup: Bats lead East Bladen to two diamond wins
Senior Phil Wilson played a huge part in a pair of East Bladen High wins on the baseball field this week, and the Eagles improved to 3-0 this season.
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Bladen Sports Agate for March 12
BOYS TENNIS West Bladen 8 South Columbus 1 Singles: Canyon Gore (SC) def. Markus Dowless (WB) 6-1, 6-1; Trent Lewis (WB) def. Thomas Godwin (SC) 7-5, 7-5; Dakota Fields (WB) def. Roy McPherson...
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Cathy Elliott Harvick at home in Atlanta
Leading into any given NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race weekend, you always hear a lot of talk about hometown heroes.
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East Bladen coach thanks staff and fans
East Bladen High girls varsity basketball coach Patty Evers sent a note of thanks to East Bladen staff and fans this week.
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Lady Eagles celebrate after their recent win at East sectionals. Lady Eagles prepared for state title game
East Bladen High girls basketball coach Patty Evers didn’t wait until practice opened for the 2009-10 season to begin preparing for the Class 2-A state championship game. Although the season — whi...
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Jazmine Kemp sets up for the basket. East Bladen breezes into Eastern Regional finals
A tough sectional final and a weather delay getting to the Eastern Regional semifinals hardly had an effect on East Bladen High’s march to its second straight state championship game.
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Contributed Photo Belt Testing II
Champion Karate in Elizabethtown and instructor Dennis Clifton recently held a second belt testing. Earning their purple and yellow belts were: Irvin Hernandez Ortiz, Nick Gibson, Kevin Ortiz Cruz...
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Bladen Sports Agate for March 9
GIRLS BASKETBALL Eastern Regionals semifinals Greensboro East Bladen 61 Bunn 30 Bunn 10-5-2-13 — 30 East Bladen 18-14-17-12 — 61 Highlights: For East Bladen, Courtney Melvin scored 31 points a...
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Area Youth Hunter Education Skills Tournament Rescheduled
After postponement for inclement weather, the Youth Hunter Education Skills Tournament for District 4 has been rescheduled to Wednesday, March 17.
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C. J. Melvin goes for a lay up underneath the basket Thursday night. Kenny Armstrong/BLADEN JOURNAL East Bladen breezes into Eastern Regional finals
A tough sectional final and a weather delay getting to the Eastern Regional semifinals hardly had an effect on East Bladen High’s march to its second straight state championship game.
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Lady Eagles march to state title derailed by weather
by W. Curt Vincent, editor@bladenjournal.com
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The Lady Eagles of East Bladen High were ready and as prepared as they could be for Tuesday night’s clash with Bunn High in the Eastern Regional semifinals at J.H. Rose High in Greenville. Then Mot...
Commission Kicks Off Hunting Mentor Initiative Hunters Can Pledge to Share the Tradition in North Carolina
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The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission is encouraging experienced hunters to seek out, introduce and mentor someone – young or old – interested in this outdoor activity for the first time.
Champions
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The Elizabethtown Middle School boys basketball team won the Bladen Five regular-season championship and the tournament championship.
Bladen County Sports wrap-up for the week of March 5
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Coach Russell Priest’s varsity Eagles baseball team kicked off the season in solid fashion on Monday with a 16-4 thumping of Clinton High.
Bladen Sports Agate for March 5
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BOYS TENNIS West Bladen 9 Red Springs 0 Singles: Markus Dowless (WB) def. Mattia Tomat (RS) 8-4; Trent Lewis (WB) def. Johnathan Penfield (RS) 8-5; Dakota Fields (WB) def. Tony Pittman (RS) 8-0;...
E’town Dixie Youth Baseball to hold tryouts
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Tryouts for Elizabethtown Dixie Youth Baseball will be held at Leinwand Park on Saturday, May 6.
Sectional Champs: Lady Eagles scrape past Northside, 56-53
by W. Curt Vincent, editor@bladenjournal.com
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As with all playoff games, someone had to lose and be sent home for the season. But Friday's sectional final matchup in Class 2-A East was all the more intense since the Lady Eagles of East Bladen...
East Bladen girls going to sectional finals
by W. Curt Vincent, editor@bladenjournal.com
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The Lady Eagles of East Bladen High used a huge first half to bury Elizabeth City Northeastern High on Wednesday, 81-49.
Second-half ambush knocks out Knights
by W. Curt Vincent, editor@bladenjournal.com
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It was an ending not worthy of its beginning. It was a tale of two halves. Blah, blah, blah. It was ... the end. The Bertie High Falcons used a 15-2 run in the third quarter to all but erase a ...
The Great American Dream
by Cathy Elliott, Special to the Journal
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Some dreams are so big, and seem so unattainable, that even the dreamer doesn’t believe they can ever come true. Just ask 2010 Daytona 500 winner Jamie McMurray. After the race, McMurray talked ab...
The Twin County Breakers basketball team will hold all-star tryouts
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ELIZABETHTOWN — The Twin County Breakers basketball team will offer all-star tryouts on March 6 and March 13 from 9 to 11:30 a.m. at the King Street Rec Center. The tryouts will be available for b...
Bladen Sports Agate for Feb. 26
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BOYS BASKETBALL State playoffs Class 2-A East Sectionals First round West Bladen 66 East Duplin 46 East Duplin 7-13-5-21 — 46 West Bladen 19-11-9-27 — 66 Highlights: For West Bladen, C...
Knights dump East Duplin to open playoffs
by W. Curt Vincent, editor@bladenjournal.com
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The Knights of West Bladen High got out to a quick start on Monday in the first round of the Class 2-A state playoffs, knocking off last season’s nemesis East Duplin High 66-46 in the East Sectionals.
Lady Eagles thump Clinton
by W. Curt Vincent, editor@bladenjournal.com
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If anyone said the East Bladen High girls basketball team would open the state playoffs by scoring just 49 points, watching one of its star players miss several lay-ups and — until late in the gam...
The annual Dixie Youth Baseball Umpire Registration and Clinic for District II
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WHITEVILLE — The annual Dixie Youth Baseball Umpire Registration and Clinic for District II will be held at Edgewood School in Whiteville on Thursday, March 4, at 6:30 p.m. A registration fee of $...
Knights, Lady Eagles open state playoffs
by W. Curt Vincent, editor@bladenjournal.com
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The state high school basketball playoffs opened on Monday, and Bladen County has two teams working toward a championship.
Lady Eagles take tourney title
by W. Curt Vincent, editor@bladenjournal.com
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East Bladen High's girls tightened the defensive screws in the second and fourth quarters and rode another dominating performance by Courtney Melvin to win the Waccamaw Conference Tournament on Fri...
West ends East season with 72-45 win
by W. Curt Vincent, editor@bladenjournal.com
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Despite a first quarter that showcased more turnovers than baskets, the Knights of West Bladen High picked up steam in the second quarter and rolled past East Bladen High on Thursday in the semifin...
Knights win conference tournament
by W. Curt Vincent, editor@bladenjournal.com
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Although there was offensive firepower on each side, it was the defenses that turned the boys championship game into a thriller.
Bladen Sports Agate
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BOYS BASKETBALL Waccamaw Conference Tournament Semifinal round West Bladen 72 East Bladen 45 East Bladen 5-13-12-15 -- 45 West Bladen 11-20-18-23 -- 72 Highlights: For West Bladen, Jus...
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