After minicamp with Colts, Tarboro's Lewis stops by annual local event

June 16, 2018

In a box logo white t-shirt, jeans and mostly white Gucci sneakers, Tarboro’s newest member of the NFL family, Tyquan Lewis, stopped by the Moe Deloach Annual Summer Basketball Camp on Saturday afternoon at the South Rocky Mount Community Center.

Deloach, a Rocky Mount native and a 2005…

Southern Nash's Edwards finds a home

June 14, 2018

Leroy Edwards, Southern Nash’s senior ace, spent his final season with the Firebirds looking for a place to play baseball next season.

This past Wednesday, he found the chance he was looking for, when Fayetteville Tech Community College baseball coach Lee Troutman contacted and told him they…

Former Gryphon Hudgins to be honored as Elon Hall of Famer

June 13, 2018

The irony for Terrell Hudgins, recently announced as a 2018 Elon athletics Hall of Fame inductee, is that the Phoenix were his first scholarship offer when he was a student at Rocky Mount Senior High in the mid-2000s.

He didn't want to go, because the university of roughly 7,000 undergraduate…

Nash Central's Nobles inks with UNC; Carter, Bass sign baseball commitments

June 12, 2018

If Alex Nobles’ college career ends up anything like his high school career, Nash Central football coach Chris Lee thinks Chapel Hill will work out just fine for the senior.

“I feel that, with his work ethic, he should be able to earn scholarship money in no time,” Lee said.…

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The People's Champ: Faith Christian baseball voted season's top story

June 06, 2018

The actual title game took forever to play, but apparently, it was worth the wait.

In a poll on the Telegram’s website on Wednesday, Faith Christian baseball’s run to a second straight NCISAA 2-A state title, which concluded with a 7-5 win over Greensboro Caldwell Academy that finally…

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Clifton excited for challenge of college baseball

June 06, 2018

N.C. Wesleyan was in the process of searching for its vacant head baseball coaching position when Greg Clifton was suggested.

Clifton, who has coached Faith Christian’s baseball team for the past seven seasons, was interested and decided to follow up with the college.

“Somebody sent…

N.C. Wesleyan baseball hires Clifton from FCS

June 05, 2018

N.C. Wesleyan filled its head baseball coaching vacancy, and it didn’t have to look far to do so.

The Bishops dipped into the local high school ranks and hired Greg Clifton.

Clifton has been the head coach at Faith Christian for the past seven seasons, and just capped off the second of a back-…

Two Nash Central soccer players named to All-State team

June 04, 2018

The Nash Central girls soccer team had two players make the NCHSAA 2-A All-State team after the most successful season in program history.

Goalkeeper Anna Shaye Thompson and midfielder Mallory Roughton were the two Bulldogs selected to the 28-member team.

Thompson, a senior committed to play…