Eastern Randolph team members flash five fingers after last Thursday night’s game to signal the football program’s five consecutive conference championships. (Bob Sutton / Randolph Record) SILER CITY — Eastern Randolph’s football team ended up in a familiar position when the regular season ended last Thursday night. Undefeated in conference play and league champion […]
SOUTHERN PINES — Megan Oakley of Providence Grove placed fourth in the Class 3A state tournament for girls’ golf last week. Oakley shot 12-over-par 84 in the weather-shortened tournament at Longleaf Golf & Family Club. The scheduled two-day event was off track because of persistent rain and reduced to 18 holes. Wheatmore’s Kyndal Kindley tied […]
Uwharrie Charter Academy’s Sadie Upchurch makes a play on the ball as teammates, including Caroline Way (No. 7), look on last Friday in a state championship match at Joel Coliseum. (PJ Ward-Brown / Randolph Record) WINSTON-SALEM — Uwharrie Charter Academy’s special volleyball season ended one victory shy of the ultimate prize. The Eagles made […]
There will be no high school football this week in Randolph County. All except one of the postseason-qualifying football teams received first-round byes and will begin their quests in the state playoffs with home games Nov. 14. The other team, Wheatmore, will be on the road this week. The new format that includes eight classifications […]
CLIMAX – Providence Grove’s first conference championship in football came with Nick Straughn rushing for two touchdowns and 196 yards in Friday night’s 31-9 victory against visiting Thomasville. That made the Patriots outright champions of the Central Carolina 3-A Conference under first-year coach Cody Moran. A Thomasville triumph would have created a three-way tie at […]
Senior William Sherrod has been a key contributor for Asheboro’s football team. (PJ Ward-Brown / Randolph Record) Even with conference memberships spread across four leagues, there’s a simple way to put the teams in order Five of the seven football-playing schools in Randolph County will finish with winning records in the regular season. […]
Randleman, volleyball Roach has been a key member of the Randleman team that advanced to this week’s Class 4A East Region final. Roach, a senior setter and defensive specialist, notched 43 digs and 17 assists in Saturday’s fourth-round match against Southwestern Randolph. Randleman has reached the 20-win mark for the third time in five seasons. […]
UCA students rush the court to celebrate with the team after the Eagles defeated Randleman in Tuesday night’s Class 4A East Region final. (PJ Ward-Brown / Randolph Record) ASHEBORO — Uwharrie Charter Academy’s volleyball team is heading to the Class 4A state championship match after rolling through the East Region. The latest conquest came […]
BURLINGTON — Ashleigh Page of Uwharrie Charter Academy reached the second round of the Class 4A state tournament in girls’ tennis before bowing out Friday at Burlington Tennis Center. Page defeated Addison Dollar of Ashe County 6-0, 6-1 in the first round before falling 6-1, 6-2 to Carrboro’s Morgan Stowe, who was the eventual runner-up. […]
GREENSBORO — A few wrestling state champions from Randolph County had varying results in this month’s Super 32 Challenge Lorenzo Alston, a three-time champion from Uwharrie Charter Academy, had the most success, though he wasn’t able to live up to his fourth-seeded status entering the tournament at the coliseum complex in Greensboro. Alston went 4-2 […]
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