Sports Headlines

IT WAS A LOVELY NIGHT FOR A RIDE SO OFF WE WENT TO ONSLOW COUNTY FOR HAVELOCK AND JACKSONVILLE. CARDINALS ALREDAY UP 7-ZIP... JACKSONVILLE PLAYING GOOD DEFENSE - DESMOND JOSEPH SACKS HAVELOCK'S JUSTIN RUSSEL... HAVELOCK STILL STRUGGLING OFFENSIVELY...CAN'T CATCH A BREAK. RUSSELL DEEP TO CHIP SMITH...GREAT ATHLETIC CATCH BUT RULED OUT OF BOUNDS... MORE JAX DEFENSE....WILL TURNER COMING OUT OF THE CROWD WITH THE SACK... JAX QB JOHN CHILDRESS TO ERIC ERLANDSON FOR THE 1ST DOWN...CLOSE CALL WITH THE CAMERAMAN MIKE PELZER SAME COMBO, SAME RESULT...FIRST DOWN... JACKSONVILLE SQUEAKS OUT THE WIN...10 TO 7.

THE EAGLES OF ASHLEY HIGH HAVE HAD PLENTY TO SCREAM ABOUT...3 LOSSES IN THEIR FIRST 3 GAMES... THE PRIDE OF THE EAGLES....THE ASHLEY MARCHING BAND HOPING ASHLEY WOULD START THINGS OFF RIGHT... DID IT ON THE GROUND...KENNY MORTON 14 YARD RUN THIS TIME PASSING....ZACH FINNIGAN TO CJ CALDWELL...HOLDS ON FOR THE CATCH SETS UP MORTON AGIAN....FOR THE TOUCHDOWN PUTTING THE EAGLES ON THE BOARD FIRST... 2ND QUARTER...WHO ELSE...KENNY MORTON PUNCHES IN HIS 2ND TD OF THE GAME--14 NOTHING EAGLES... WEST BLADEN ANSWERS... AUSTIN HILLIS LOFTS IT DEEP TO JAMES DAVIS--WIDE OPEN FOR THE TOUCHDOWN. BLADEN ONLY DOWN 7... MORE ASHLEY...FINNIGAN SCRAMBLES LEFT...THROWS STRKE TO CALIN JORDAN...PICKS UP 20 PLUS YARDS ON THE PLAY FOR THE FIRST DOWN.. BUT WEST BLADEN NOT GIVING UP....TRYING FOR THE FAKE FIELD GOAL....VINCE ALLEN RUNNING...NO GOOD. ASHLEY HOLDS ON TO WIN, THOUGH, 28 TO 20.

EAST DUPLIN TAKING ON BATTLE HOLLY'S WALLACE ROSE HILL... WALLACE ROSE HILL PUMPED UP EARLY... REESE BOWER PASS TO DERRICK BRADSHAW...ROSE HILL UP 7 ZIP STILL COMING UP ROSES...THE FULLBACK...JARVIOUS CHILLYAW PUTTING HIS TEAM UP BY 2 SCORES... PLENTY TO CHEER ABOUT...UNTIL THIS... EAST DUPLIN'S JULIAN VANN BLOCKS THE KICK....SETH SANDLIN PICKS IT UP AND TAKES IT IN FOR THE SCORE...PUTTING EAST ON THE BOARD. MORE WALLACE ROSE....REESE BOWER AGAIN, THIS TIME TO TYRECK MCFADDED..

JAMES KENAN UNDEFEATED... AND HAVE WON THEIR GAMES IN CONVINCING FASHION...TRAVELLING TO DRIVING MOTORCYCLES THROUGH BANNERS... FANS CHEERING... YOU THINK THEY WERE PRIMED FOR THIS ONE AT PENDER? JAMES KEENAN'S BRANDON SATCHELL SHOOTS UP THE MIDDLE...TAKEN DOWN BY HYNET COLLINS AND ANTHONY BLANKS STILL NO SCORE...PATRIOTS ANTHONY BLANKS TOSSES TO JAMES HENRY...FUMBLES AND FINALLY RECOVERED BY KIM SPENCER LOW SCORING GAME CONTINUES...SHAWN JONES HURLS DOWN FIELD TO CHRISTOPHER MARABLE... MORE JAMES KENAN...SHAWN JONES HANDS OFF TO STEDMAN MATHIS WHO TAKES IT IN FOR THE SCORE.... THEY'D TACK ON THE EXTRA POINT AND THAT'D BE ALL THEY NEEDED... JAMES KENAN WINS AGAIN, 31 TO 6.

HOMEGAME FOR THE LANEY BUCS TONIGHT, AS THEY TAKE ON LUMBERTON. THIS ONE WAS A TIGHT ONE FROM THE START... LUMBERTON HAD A SHAKEY BEGINNING... QUARTERBACK DIONTE ROGERS MISSES THE HANDOFF TO MICHAEL BRELAND, LUMBERTON RECOVERS BUT THEY GET NO POINTS AND HAVE TO PUNT. A SCORELESS 1ST QUARTER, SO LETS JUMP TO THE SECOND STANZA. ON THIRD DOWN LANEY HAS TROUBLE WITH THE SNAP, BUT JOSEPH HIGHSMITH HAD NO PROBLEM WITH HIS LEGS, PICKS THE BALL UP AND TAKES IT UP FIELD FOR A PICK UP OF 15 YARDS AND A FIRST DOWN. LATER THAT SAME DRIVE, JOSEPH HIGHSMITH HAS 4 DEFENDERS HEADING HIS WAY BUT GETS THE BALL TO GREGORY LOCKAMY FOR A FIRST DOWN. STILL SCORELESS, 3RD DOWN, 4 TO GO, MICHAEL BRELAND FOR LUMBERTON TURNS ON THE JETS TO PICK UP A NEW SET OF DOWNS . ON SECOND AND GOAL DIONTE ROGERS FAKES LEFT AND THROWS IT TEN YARDS FOR THE TOUCHDOWN,.. THAT FELT GOOD. LANEY TRYING TO GET SOME OFFENSE GOING, SO HIGHSMITH HANDS OFF TO DARIUS FRANKS FOR A NICE GAIN TO SET UP THIS NEXT PLAY THEY STICK WITH WHATS WORKS, FRANKS UP THE MIDDLE AGAIN FOR THE TOUCHDOWN MAKING IT 14-7 AT THE HALF. BOTH TEAMS WOULD SCORE AGAIN BUT THE BUCS WOULD PREVAIL... FINAL SCORE LANEY 20, LUMBERTON 15

NEW HANOVER WILDCATS NOT OFF TO A GREAT START... LOOKING FOR ONLY THEIR SECOND WIN OF THE SEASON. PLAYING HOST TO THE SPARTANS OF SOUTHERN DURHAM... WILDCATS FANS ALWAYS EXCITED...TRYING TO GET THEIR TEAM PUMPED UP... NEW HANOVER STICKING TO THE GROUND EARLY...COLTON BENFORD TO JAMAR BARNETT...GOES ONE WAY, THEN CHANGES HIS MIND...GOES THE OTHER WAY AND PICKS UP THE FIRST DOWN... MORE RUNNING GAME...THIS TIME BENFORD TO CAMERON CLINTON...BIG PICKUP THAT'D SET UP THIS...3RD AND GOAL TO GO...BENFORD TRIES TO PICK UP SOME POSITIVE YARDAGE ON FOOT BUT COUGHS IT UP... LUCKILY THE DEFENSE WOULD BAIL THEM OUT...GETTING THE BALL RIGHT BACK. ALAN LEA LOSES THE BALL, TONY CREECY PICKS IT UP BUT IS TACKLED IN THE ENZONE FOR THE SAFETY...WILDCATS UP 2-NOTHING. NOT FOR LONG THOUGH...SPARTANS BACK ON OFFENSE, LEA GETS IT TO JAMARIO CLAYTON...WHO RUNS IT JUST SHY OF THE GOAL LINE... NEXT PLAY, LEAN TO LEMONT PETTIFORD WHO POUNDS IT IN...7-2 SOUTH DURHAM THEY'D TACK ON THIS FIELD GOAL PUTTING THEM UP BY 8... SOUTHERN DURHAM ROLLS IN THIS LOW SCORING AFFAIR, 17 TO 8.