Schools
Bissette hired as coach at WF-R
Mickey Bissette wanted to be back on the bench, back in the locker room, back teaching basketball to teenagers. A one-year absence was enough.
Schools
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SCHOOLS
Dean tosses perfect game
Fuquay-Varina's Alissa Dean threw a perfect game Friday night in leading the Bengals to a 4-0 victory over Durham Riverside in the second round of the N.C. High School Athletic Association softball playoffs.
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SCHOOLS
Nunn does it all for Hawks
After postgame handshakes were exchanged and each coach had talked to their teams for one final time for the night, Northern Durham softball coach Boo Rigsbee went back to congratulate Holly Springs junior Erica Nunn one more time.
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SCHOOLS
Golden Hawks top Wolverines in 4-A
Justin Manning pitched seven innings of shutout ball, Trey Cobb hit a two-run home run, and the Holly Springs Golden Hawks defeated the Wakefield Wolverines, 7-0.
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SCHOOLS
Early lead a winner for Pride in baseball
Leesville Road's baseball team took an early lead against East Chapel Hill on Friday night.
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SCHOOLS
Vikings oust Comets in a pitching duel
Clayton junior Evan Phillips pitched well, but the Comets' successful baseball season came to a halt Friday night when Wilmington Hoggard eked out a 2-1 third-round 4-A playoff win.
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LOCAL/STATE
Strength found, she inspires others
An introduction never happened, just a question blurted out at Emily Newton as she shopped for cookie ingredients in a Raleigh Harris Teeter before Christmas.
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SCHOOLS
Garner edges rival S.E. Raleigh
Garner passed one of its toughest tests of the basketball season Friday night, but rival Southeast Raleigh certainly didn't make it easy on the Trojans.
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SCHOOLS
Jordan boys hold on
Durham Jordan held off a late rally by Person to remain undefeated in the Piedmont Athletic 4-A with a 71-70 boys basketball win on Friday night.
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SCHOOLS
Panther Creek outlasts Cary
The similar records that Cary and Panther Creek's boys basketball teams held entering Friday's showdown at Charlie Adams Gymnasium didn't reflect how different each team has approached the beginning of the new year.
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SCHOOLS
Wakefield shows prowess in win
Wakefield's message to Enloe was an easy one: We're stronger than you, and we know it.


