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Union's Bryson Worley attempts to tag out Raider Heath Smith, who slides safely into second. (David Johnson/The Sampson Independent)
Raiders keep top conference spot with win over Spartans
The Midway Raiders gave their home fans a treat with a win on Senior Night against cross county rival Union, 7-0. The Raiders put two runners across home plate in the 1st inning; 1 run in the 4th inning; and 4 runs in the 6th inning. Bryant Register, a Spartan assistant coach said that despite not scoring a run, the Union team played hard. Tyler Matthis pitched 5 1/3 innings for the Spartans and struck out 3 batters, allowed 6 hits, 7 r...
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Midway's Kaitlyn Jackson waits for the ball at second as Union's Claire Riley makes it safe to the bag. (David Johnson/The Sampson Independent)
Lady Spartans shut out the Raiders in softball
The Lady Spartans went into Raider country and came away with a 0-6 win on an unusually cool evening on May first. “Our defense was really good, we only had 2 errors, and we hit pretty good, with 8 base hits,” Spartan head coach Doug Burley stated. Union senior Megon Smith pitched all the innings and allowed 3 hits, striking out 12 Raiders. Leading hitters for the Spartans include Lauren Preddy, who was 2-3, scoring 2 runs, and 1 walk; ...
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Raider Allie Apperson tries to keep the ball away from this Spartan in a Midway home game on Wednesday. (David Johnson/The Sampson Independent)
Lady Raiders fight for win over Union
Despite tough play by the Lady Spartans, Midway’s soccer team got the 4-0 win at home on a windy, cool, rainy Wednesday night. Four different Lady Raiders found the back of the net against Union, who wasn’t able to get the ball past the Raider goalie. For Midway, Manasia Cobb scored at the 16 minute mark; Olivia Davis put it in the goal just five minutes later; then at the 38 minute mark, Jakeish Williams, with an assist by Avery Apperson s...
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Crusaders slip past VCA in 7th inning
Harrells Christian Academy varsity baseball won at Village Christian Academy on Tuesday with a final score of 3-2. The Crusaders jumped on the scoreboard first with a run in the 1st and 2nd innings, but kept VCA off the plate until the 3rd inning. Village tied the game at 2-all until the top of the 7th inning when HCA scored the run that would eventually win the game. Winning Pitcher for the Crusaders was Larry White. He pitched 7 innin...
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1st Flight, 1st Place was HanDee Hugo’s Convenience Stores. Pictured from left, are: Mike Odum, Michael Mason, Paul Uzzle and Dickie Walters. (Courtesy photo)
SRMC Partners for Life Golf Tournament a success
The Sampson Regional Medical Center Foundation held its 10th Annual Partners for Life Golf Tournament last Thursday, April 25. With the forecasted rain holding off, it turned out to be a beautiful day for 120 golfers, organizers said. The 30 teams were golfing for a cause, as proceeds from this year’s tournament will support upgrades to patient rooms on the hospital’s newly separated Surgical Unit. Improvements to the unit will include fres...
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Patriots handle Lady Leopards in softball
The Lady Leopards varsity softball just couldn’t get it done on Senior Night as they faced Pender on Tuesday. The Patriots took home the win, 3-10. “We were a little bit better tonight. We had one inning where we kind of blew up there for a little bit. The girls where able to settle down and play much better,” said a disappointed Lakewood head coach Dave Yarasheski. From the plate for the Leopards, Miranda Lane went 2-4; Ashton Hairr, 1-4...
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Lakewood's Kat Autry, at left, and Monica Pittman, center, keep the ball away from a Pender Patriot. (Savanna Pope/The Sampson Independent)
Lady Leopards escape close one with OT win
The Lady Leopards soccer team battled it out in two over-times for a Senior Night win against Pender on Tuesday. The game was tied 1-1 at the end of regulation play. After two 10 minute halves for overtime Lakewood was up by 2 goals, making the final score 3-1. “We came out a little light, we didn’t really play the way that I know we can until the first overtime. When we actually came out we communicated, we passed, we had a hundred and t...
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From right to left, Griffin Faircloth of Lakewood studies his putt, as Raider Tyler Braun, center, and Union's Evan Johnson, and Trask's Hunter Phillips all wait their turn. (Savanna Pope/The Sampson Independent)
Union conquers all at Lakewood Tri-County match
Lakewood hosted the golf match for all conference teams Tuesday, as Midway, Trask, Pender, Lakewood, Wallace Rose Hill, James Kenan, Hobbton, Pender, and Union played at Lakewood Country Club. Union won the match with a 344 total. Griffin Faricloth of Lakewood and Spartan Evan Johnson tied for medalist honors, both shooting 5 over par 77s. Union’s Tyler Ross shot 79, Brady Roberts shot 93, Alex Maxwell shot 95, Spence Usher shot 103, and Hu...
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Lakewood varsity edges out Patriots for the win
In a fight to the finish, the Leopard varsity edged out the Pender Patriots for a Senior Night win on Tuesday. The game came down to the last inning, and Lakewood was at bat with the bases loaded. Waylon Hewy was at the plate with Austin Tanner edging off of third toward home. The fans were on their feet as Hewy faked the bunt. Hewy racked up the ball count as the Leopard fans got louder and soon it was “ball four take your base,” sending A...
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Surrounded by her family, back from left, father Dan Heinz, sister Anna and mother Kaye, and, front, her golf coach, James Lewis, Allyson Heinz inks the contract that welcomes her to Pffiefer College and the women's golf team. (Sherry Matthews/Sampson Independent)
Heinz signs with Pfeiffer
It was a family affair at Lakewood High School Monday when senior Allyson Heinz signed her name on the dotted line, accepting a one-year scholarship to play with the Pfeiffer University women’s golf team, a dream come true for the Leopard golfer. Surrounded by her parents, Dan and Kaye Heinz, younger sister Anna, her grandmother, aunt, cousins, fellow golf members, and coach James Lewis, the teen grinned broadly as she ceremoniously inked t...
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Leps take first in Tri-County golf match
Every team in the Tri-County conference met at Coharie Country Club Wednesday for the second 18 hole match of the season. This included Midway, Lakewood, Union, and Hobbton from the county. Lakewood won the match with a team total of 380. Lakewood was led by Griffin Faricloth who fired a 78 in the tough, windy conditions on Wednesday. Faricloth remains atop the conference individual standings. Timmy White shot 91 for the Leopards. White str...
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Surrounded by family, friends, and coaches, Union senior Megon Smith, center, signed on to play softball at Louisburg College. Standing from left, are her father, Bryon Smith, brother, Cory, sister, Hanna, grandparents, Judy and Jimmy Smith, and Louisburg Coach Don Stopa. Sitting, from left, are her mother, JoJo Smith, Megon, and Union coach Doug Burley.
Union’s Smith to play softball at Louisburg
Union senior Megon Smith signed an athletic and academic scholarship with Louisburg College this past week, a dream come true for the top-notch pitcher and home-run hitter on both her travel and school softball teams. “I’m so excited,” she said at the signing ceremony in the Spartan media center, surrounded by family, friends, and coaches. “I’ve been dreaming about this since I was 4 years old, because I’ve always wanted to play in college....
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The Lady Leopards track and field team dominated at the Tri-County Championship games for the second year in a row. Their final score was 185, which was 88 points higher than the 2nd place team.
Lady Leps win conference finals
Lakewood girls blew the competition away from the other 7 conference schools claiming back to back Tri County Track and Field Championships. Trask boys also dominated the boys competition winning the boys Tri County Championships. Lakewood and Midway tied for co-runner-up Conference Champions with Union narrowly 1 point behind. In the girls shot put, first place went to Wildcat Jolesa Terry with a mark of 30-08.50. Lakewood took the 2nd...
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Courtney Phipps tangles with a Lakewood player for the ball. (David Johnson/The Sampson Independent)
Lady Leopards push past Wildcats
The Lakewood Leopards came to Hobbton Thursday night and went home with another win, 5-2. Hobbton coach Wes Cone said, “We played an incredible game. We had a fourth of our starters on the bench with injuries. It was a fun, tough game. We enjoy playing Lakewood.” There were no stats available from Lakewood. Hobbton will travel to Wallace on Tuesday and Lakewood will celebrate senior night Tuesday as they host Pender.
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Trask overpowers Lady Spartans
Union’s girls fell short Friday night when they tangled with visiting Trask on the softball diamond Friday night and lost 5-2. Union was plagued nearly from the start, allowing 2 unearned runs on 6 errors. Megon Smith was on the mound for Union for the entire 7 innings, allowing 3 earned runs on 5 hits, and struck out 2 batters. Trask was doing a good job of getting the bat on the ball and just simply making things happen. Union, on the oth...
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Casey Hobbs goes after a Lady Leopard in a run down at first base. (David Johnson/The Sampson Independent)
Lady ‘Cats devour Leopards in softball
The Hobbton Wildcat softball team got a shutout over the visiting Lakewood Leopards in Thursday night’s softball action. The final was 11-0, Hobbton. With Thursday’s win, the Wildcats are 9-8 with a 6-6 conference record. Hobbton coach Morgan Farroll said, “The girls played well tonight. We had a season high 12 hits. The defense was good as well. We just need to take how we are playing into next week.” Hobbton had a big fourth inning batt...
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Hobbton Garrett Aman slides into second as Carlon Cannady reaches for the tag. (David Johnson/The Sampson Independent)
Wildcats win fierce fight with Leopards
Hobbton varsity boys grabbed the win in Thursday night’s game against rival Lakewood. It was a hard fought battle to the finish, but the Leopards fell short with a final score of 5-3. It was all tied at 0 until the top of the 5th inning when Leopard Carlon Cannady made contact and sent the ball to right field, bringing home Jayden Herring for the first run. In the 6th inning the game got interesting when Sam Koser got a walk to first base...
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Ben Prestage legs out a double during Tuesday's win against Wallace Rose Hill. (Courtesy Photo)
Big hits move HCA JV past Bulldogs
The JV Crusaders put down the visiting Bulldogs, 8-2, on Tuesday. Harrells Christian Academy jumped on the scoreboard first and managed to cross the plate almost every inning. Score by inning was Harrells 1 run in the first; 2 runs in the 2nd; 1 run in the 4th; 4 runs in the 6th; and Wallace scored 2 runs in the 7th inning. Ben Prestage was the winning pitcher. He pitched all 7 innings and struck out 7 batters. Leading batters were Pres...
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Union girls shut out Trask
If you can remember, just over two weeks ago the Union Lady Spartans’s soccer team was just 1-7 on the season. Many teams would have given in with such a record, but not Union’s girls. Four games later, has resulted in four consecutive wins to move their overall record to 5-7. The fourth of these consecutive wins came Friday evening as they played Trask at home. The Lady Spartans scored a goal in each half, and held the Lady Titans scoreless ...
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Spartan boys fall to Trask
Union hosted Trask on the baseball diamond Friday and came up short, 4-3 in 8 innings. The Spartans had many opportunities to win the game, but for the second time in as many games, they couldn’t capitalize on the opportunities. Union trailed 2-0 going into the 4th and quickly tied the game back at 2. After a run in the bottom of the 5th, the Spartans took a 3-2 lead. However, Trask would tie the game again in the top of the 6th inning. I...
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Clinton girls in first place
Clinton’s Lady Horses soccer team took the first place spot in the 2A conference Friday night, following a solid 4-1 win over rival Northside, who they had lost to earlier in the season. The win moved Clinton out of a tie for first place to sole owner of the spot, with two games left in the regular season. Senior Lindsey Bass scored 3 of the team’s 4 goals. She also had 1 assist. Grace Reagan had 1 goal and 1 assist; Cara Marshburn had 1 ...
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This week in high school sports
MONDAY: Golf ; Harrells @ O’Neal School; Tri-County tournament @ Lakewood CC. TUESDAY: Golf : Clinton conference tournament @ Bear Trail CC; Track ; Clinton conference tournament meet (boys) @ Swansboro; Baseball/Softball/Soccer ; Pender @ Lakewood (Sr. Night); Hobbton @ Wallace-Rose Hill; Union @ Midway (Sr. Night); Clinton @ S. Lenoir. WEDNESDAY: Golf ; All Tri-County teams @ River Landing CC. THURSDAY: Track ; Clinton conferenc...
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Mount Olive College softball team is the East Div. Regional Season Champs and tournament champs of the Conference Carolinas league. Two of their best players are from Midway. Pictured from left is Tiffany Hawley, 2011 MHS graduate, who was selected as First Team All Conference DP in the Conference Carolinas; Regan Taylor, a 2011 graduate of Cape Fear Christian Academy who was on the CFCA state championship team; and Lauren Smith, 2011 MHS graduate, who was named tournament MVP.
Two Midway grads playing in national tournament
It’s been a fantastic season for the Lady Trojan softball team of Mount Olive College, which includes two of Midway High School’s standout athletes from the school’s 2011 graduating class, Lauren Smith and Tiffany Hawley. It was an unbelievable weekend, April 19-21, for MOC fans at the Conference Carolinas Softball Tournament in Burlington at Kings University. The Trojans won 4 straight games to bring home the title. They had to win 3 games...
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Clinton senior Britnie Adams hits a straight ball to Northside's pitcher, bringing home 2 runs. (Stephanie Gore/Sampson Independent)
Horses — girls and boys — defeat N’side
The Clinton varsity baseball team left the field Friday night with a win against Northside, defeating the visitors 5-1. “We had a very good game tonight with no errors from either team, which is great,” said Dark Horse coach Tracey Thornton. “It was fun to watch.” On the hill for Clinton was Jonathon Wright, who tossed all 7 innings, striking out 8 and giving up only 1 run. At bat, Wade Sumner was 3-3, with 1 RBI and Kenan Lanier was 2-...
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