Sports

Ricky Fergerson has a new No. 1 fan - longtime Clayton head coach Gary Fowler.

Aside from being able to stick with a routine, it's hard to credit high school football stadiums with any sort of home field advantage.

On a night when points and yards were hard to come by, it was more than appropriate that a defensive play clinched victory.

When the Middle Creek and Athens Drive volleyball teams squared off on Thursday night, one thing was for sure - somebody was going to pick up their first conference win of the year.

In Fuquay-Varina, the Bengals believe they are going to be right there in the mix for the conference crown - which has seen three different teams win it in the previous three seasons - after taking...

The Apex girls tennis team (2-0, 2-0) defeated a young Cary squad Thursday by a final score of 6-3 for the Cougars' second win in as many days.

Panther Creek takes down Jordan 30-14 on the road.

Wakefield scored four touchdowns in the second half to defeat Holly Springs 42-28 in a nonconference high school football game Friday night.

The Fuquay-Varina football team knew it was off to a good start to the season when senior running back Cory Hunter scored on a 44-yard rush three plays into Friday's season opener against Knightdale.

Neither Apex nor Cary Academy's volleyball programs are used to losing, unless it happens against a state champion-caliber team.

It was a wild debut for David Riggs' first game for Holly Springs. But it was also a winning one.

A bright sun early Saturday morning beamed on Emma Thorpe as she crossed the finish line.

There are more spread offenses running around in football these days than there are Silly Bandz in a middle school hallway.

By the end of Panther Creek's season, the Catamounts might look back upon Friday's 19-13 upset of sixth-ranked Leesville Road as the night the fourth-year school established itself as a football pr...

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