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10 Jun

Kiser takes spot as AD for Southwestern Randolph

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ASHEBORO — Matt Kiser is the new athletics director at Southwestern Randolph. Kiser, also the boys’ basketball coach at the school, has been handling many of the AD duties alongside Chris Chapman. In late May after all of Southwestern Randolph's teams completed competition for the school year, Chapman announced the change. Chapman spent 10 years as athletics director. He said this is an ideal time for a transition. “Being the AD here was an absolute honor, and I appreciate everything that everyone has done to help make that job better than it is in most places,” Chapman wrote in making his announcement. Chapman…

23 Nov

ATHLETE OF THE WEEK: Christian Long

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Randleman, football/boys’ basketball The seasons changed for Randleman, but Christian Long keeps on producing. After helping guide the Tigers to a second-place finish in the Piedmont Athletic Conference football standings as the starting quarterback, Long turned his attention to basketball. In last week’s season-opening 71-54 victory at Lexington, Long racked up 17 points. He made three of four 3-point shots and went 4-for-4 on free throws. He also was charted with a team-high five steals. Sophomore Tyshaun Goldston, who was on the receiving end of some of Long’s passes during football season, paced the Tigers with 19 points in the…

27 Jul

ATHLETE OF THE WEEK: Maggie Lowe

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Southwestern Randolph | girls’ soccer Lowe scored 27 goals across 22 games to pace the Cougars in that category. Lowe also finished her senior season with seven assists for the third-most total on the team. The Cougars posted a 14-7-1 record. That was the team’s most victories since 2017. Lowe landed a spot on the All-Piedmont Conference team following the previous season’s selection for the 2021 All-Mid-Piedmont Conference team when Southwestern Randolph competed in a Class 3-A league. Lowe had a team-best six goals in the shortened 2021 season, with the Cougars playing ten games.

03 Jun

History runs deep for Class 2-A title contenders Randleman, Whiteville

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Powerhouse teams Randleman and Whiteville will meet in the best-of-3 state finals for Class 2-A at Burlington Athletic Stadium. (Bob Sutton/Randolph Record) This Randleman-Whiteville championship matchup, beginning at 8 p.m. Friday at Burlington Athletic Stadium, is ripe with historical overtones. Randleman is in the finals for the sixth time in a 11-season span in which the postseason was conducted. The COVID-19 pandemic wiped out most of the 2020 season, including the playoffs. The Tigers won the 2011 title and then lost in the 2012 finals to Whiteville, were beaten by South Granville in 2015 and fell to North Lincoln in…

02 Jun

With lofty standard, Tigers just roll with it into state finals

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Coach Jake Smith has directed Randleman back to another spot in the state finals. A familiar foe awaits. (PJ Ward-Brown/Randolph Record) RANDLEMAN — All those lopsided results for Randleman’s baseball team on the way to the Class 2-A state finals don’t mean it has been easy this year for the Tigers. “We can’t take any team lightly,” first baseman Gus Shelton said. “We are expected to win and that is pressure on us, if you want to call it pressure. I don’t think anybody has changed anything. We’re just taking it game-by-game.” It will take two more victories to repeat…

01 Jun

Wheatmore girls hold state record, will play for state title

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Wheatmore’s Kara Comer, right, heads the ball over East Davidson’s Carson Suggs during a game in the Class 2-A state playoffs earlier this spring in Trinity. Wheatmore won the second-round game 5-1. (PJ Ward-Brown/North State Journal) TRINITY – Wheatmore owns a state record in girls’ soccer. Now it’s a matter of seeing if the Warriors can add a state championship to that. It took overtime in Tuesday night’s regional final, with a 4-3 victory at Wilkes Central to keep the season alive. In the fourth round of the Class 2-A state playoffs, Wheatmore scored three goals to set the record…

01 Jun

ATHLETE OF THE WEEK: Ryan White

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Randleman | baseball The senior pitcher was stellar in the Class 2-A regional finals, setting the tone by going into the fifth inning of the team’s shutout victory in Game 1 of the series against Community School of Davidson. White struck out six while allowing one hit before he was taken out to preserve his pitch count. White, a left-hander who’s signed to play collegiately for Western Carolina, has had an increased role for the Tigers’ offense as well. He holds the No. 8 spot in the batting order, serving as the designated hitter for games when he’s not pitching.

05 Jan

ATHLETE OF THE WEEK: Jazmin Palma

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Uwharrie Charter Academy | Wrestling Palma secured first place in the girls’ division of the Holy Angels Invitational last week in Charlotte. It was a rare event set up with several brackets for girls. Palma captured first place at 113 pounds. In the title match, she defeated Martha Dominguez of Purnell Swett with a 50-second pin.

29 Dec

ATHLETE OF THE WEEK: Sean Adkins

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Southwestern Randolph | Boys’ Basketball | Junior Adkins poured in 20 points as the Cougars secured a 61-48 non-conference victory last week at Chatham Central. It’s a huge point total for the junior considering Southwestern Randolph has struggled at times on the offensive end. Coupled with the previous Friday’s road victory at Randleman (when Adkins had 12 points), that’s back-to-back wins for the Cougars, who improved to 5-4 overall. The result against Chatham Central marked only the third time this season that the Cougars reached the 60-point mark.