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Lady Knights to host East Duplin in playoff opener
DUBLIN — It’s not Swansboro High after all. The 21-2 Lady Knights of West Bladen will open the Class 2-A state playoffs on Friday by hosting the Lady Panthers of East Duplin High out of the East Central Conference. East Duplin, 15-8 overall, finished 7-7 in the conference and took the No. 5 seed. The Lady Panthers’ primary pitcher is junior Makayla Byrd, who is 10-5 with a 3.25 ERA. She has given up 87 hits, walked 33 and fanned 93 in 9...
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Lady Eagles drop playoff opener, 5-1
ELIZABETHTOWN — Crisp passing, constant movement and a fierce desire to win every loose ball led Croatan’s Lady Cougars past East Bladen on Tuesday, 5-1, in the opening round of the Class 2-A state playoffs. The loss ends the Lady Eagles’ season at 12-8. Croatan kept the pressure on throughout the first half and kept the ball on the East Bladen side of the field a majority of the time. But the lady Eagles had the first good opportunity to...
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Knights qualify for state golf finals
WALLACE — The West Bladen High golf team got down to business on Monday with a season-best focus, and it resulted in a top three finish at the Class 2-A Eastern Regional in Wallace. The Knights turned in a team score of 326 on the 6,026-yard, par 72 River Landing Golf Course — just one stroke out of second place, held by Richlands High, and five strokes off the pace set by Southwest Edgecombe High. The third-place finish qualifies West Bl...
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Playoffs loom for East, West
The two Bladen County high schools will send at least one representative to the state playoffs this week. The Lady Eagles will see its varsity soccer team open the Class 2-A playoffs on Tuesday, while the Lady Knights have qualified its varsity softball team and will open play on Friday. Both schools will be hosting the first-round contests. West Bladen may also get its varsity baseball team in if the Knights are selected as a wild-card t...
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Scoreboard
SOCCER *** East Bladen 2 North Brunswick 1 *** North Brunswick 0-1 — 1 East Bladen0-2 — 2 *** Highlights: For East Bladen, Lacey Suggs scored two goals; the Lady Eagles set a school record with their 12th win of the season.. Records: East Bladen 12-7, 6-6. ***** ***** SOFTBALL *** West Bladen 11 East Bladen 5 *** East Bladen010 020 2 — 5-5-4 West Bladen 000 704 x — 11-14-1 *** WP: Abbey Walters,...
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State records set for white crappie, freshwater drum
RALEIGH — After more than a year without a new freshwater fish state record, the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission recently certified two new record breakers — a freshwater drum from Kerr Reservoir and a white crappie from a private lake in Wake County. On March 20, Jonathan Wilkerson of Oxford landed a 23-pound, 8-ounce freshwater drum while fishing on Kerr Reservoir, in an area known as Beaver Pond Creek. He caught the new state record u...
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Lady Knights knock off East Bladen
DUBLIN — The Lady Knights took a few innings to get their offense rolling on Friday, but once it did, there was almost no stopping it. West Bladen scored seven runs in the fourth inning and four more in the sixth to take an 11-5 win over East Bladen, clinching the Waccamaw Conference title outright along with the conference’s No. 1 seed for the state’s Class 2-A playoffs. After a scoreless first inning, the Lady Eagles broke out on top wi...
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Suggs lifts Lady Eagles to school-record win
ELIZABETHTOWN — The Lady Eagles’ soccer sensation Lacey Suggs wasn’t going to let the regular season end with a loss. On Thursday, Suggs found the back of the net twice in the second half to help propel East Bladen to a 2-1 Waccamaw Conference win over North Brunswick, completing a 6-6 conference season and setting a new school record for girls soccer with the 12th win of the season. The first half was a back-and-forth affair that ended i...
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Knights second in conference golf tournament
OAK ISLAND — The Knights of West Bladen High golf team set its sights on a Waccamaw Conference Tournament title on Wednesday but, despite some stellar golfing, came up just eight strokes off the pace and settled for second place. The tournament crown went to the Trojans of West Brunswick, who carded a team score of 333. West Bladen finished with a 341 and were led by Gage Bailey, who fired a season-best 78. Right behind him was Brett Jack...
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Eyebrow: WEST BLADEN Nance leaves a positive legacy as teacher, coach
DUBLIN — For the past three years, coach Junior Nance has walked the halls of West Bladen High School as part of his job as safe schools coordinator. “It’s my job to make sure the students are doing what they should be in the hallways, check certain areas and just make sure things are safe,” he said. On Tuesday, that walk took on a vastly different feeling. After 30 years, it was his last day as a teacher at the school. “Driving to scho...
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Karate kids
Nicholas Hester and Logan Lewis from Bladenboro’s Carolina Karate each competed in The ‘Beach Battle’ at Myrtle Beach (S.C.) Middle School. Hester placed fourth in the green belt division sparring; Lewis placed fourth in the yellow belt division sparring.
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Scoreboard…
BASEBALL *** West Bladen 6 North Brunswick 5 *** West Bladen204 000 0 — 6-6 N. Brunswick 020 010 2 — 5-9 *** WP: Travis Bowen Highlights: For West Bladen, Parker Allen was 2-for-3 with a double and two RBI; Liston Britt had an RBI; C.J. Singletary had an RBI. Records: West Bladen 7-13, 3-8. Jayvee: West Bladen wins, 8-6. ***** Whiteville 10 East Bladen 0 *** East Bladen 000 00 — 0-0 Whiteville104 05 —...
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West Bladen rips South Rob
LELAND — West Bladen used a big third inning and hung on for a 6-5 Waccamaw Conference baseball win against North Brunswick on Thursday. The win improved the Knights to 3-8 in the conference. West Bladen opened the scoring in the top of the first inning when Trevor Lesane and Clay Allen were each hit by a pitch and Liston Britt stroked a single to plate the first run. After the second out of the inning, Parker Allen singled and moved to t...
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Memorial Day Weekend could give boaters fits
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — For many of the nation’s 80 million recreational boaters, the upcoming Memorial Day Weekend marks the start of the summer boating season. Like a football game “kick-off,” boaters will work to a frenzy to get their boats in the water by the May 27 goal line. But what is different this time of year, report officials with the Boat Owners Association of The United States, is that both the boat owner and their boat may need ...
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Big cat
Mackenzie Woodell, 9, of Tar Heel stands next to the 18-pound flathead catfish caught by her father Mark Woodell in the Cape Fear River near Locak & Dam No. 3 on Friday.
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