Sports

Leesville Road’s girls soccer team took another step toward defending their state title on Friday night with a comeback 2-1 win over Apex in the second round of the NCHSAA 4A playoffs.

Holman set up and scored the only goal for the Wildcats in the second half. That proved to be just enough for East Chapel Hill in its 10-9 dramatic win in the third round of the N.C. High School At...

Cardinal Gibbons held on in the final minutes to beat Holly Springs 9-8 to advance to the boys’ lacrosse NCHSAA semi-finals Friday night. Senior goalie Pete Shammas made a save on a low shot...

Wakefield’s girls and Cary’s boys took home the team championship trophies from the N.C. High School Athletic Association 4A Mideast Regional track meet Saturday afternoon held at Gre...

Greater Neuse River Conference schools Knightdale and Southeast Raleigh ruled the day in the NCHSAA Class 4A East Regional track and field championships at West Johnston High School on Saturday.

Matt Daly battled with Charlotte Catholic’s Kyle Johnson in Saturday’s Class 3-A state final before falling 6-3, 6-4 at Burlington Tennis Center as Johnson became the first four-time ...

It took them longer than expected, but after regulation and two periods of extra time, with the match tied at 3, East Chapel Hill finally topped Sanderson 4-3 in penalty kicks to advance to the nex...

Broughton continued its impressive season by winning the team-portion of the NCHSAA 4A Mideast Regional with a score of 286. The Caps, who won the Cap Eight 4A Conference regular-season title, beat...

Leesville Road, the 2011 girls’ soccer champion, took the first step in this year’s N.C. High School Athletic Association 4A tournament with a 5-1 win over Panther Creek on Tuesday.

Undefeated and ranked number one in the country among girls high school soccer teams, Green Hope busted loose with a three-goal rally in less than three minutes in the first half.

Broughton (17-3) dropped the first two singles matches but won the rest to take a 6-2 win against Apex. The Caps won the Nos. 3, 4, 5 and 6 singles in straight sets. Broughton will play Wilmington ...

Josh Hamilton was the first player taken in the 1999 baseball draft after a sensational high school career at Raleigh’s Athens Drive, but his drug and alcohol addictions seemed to have ended...

High school baseball players throughout the country are using new baseball bats that don’t have as much pop as the old ones. Batting averages are down as well as home runs. Coaches say they...

Webb Simpson, who graduated from Broughton and is a club member of Quail Hollow, couldn’t hold his lead Sunday and was undone by a disobedient driver that left him one shot short of the thre...

Webb Simpson, a two-time PGA Tour winner, recently gave $5,000 to the Carolinas Golf Association for its Setting the Course campaign. Simpson’s contribution was a portion of the charitable p...

Along with goalkeeper Dane Peddicord, Daniel Hughey led the Jaguars to a thrilling 6-5 victory in the first round of the NCHSAA 4A playoffs.

Tevin Hester of Granville Central High and Lindsay Simpson of Franklin High were named the N.C. High School Athletic Association’s male and female athletes of the year Thursday during the as...

The Raleigh Sports Club recently awarded four Wake high school athletes with scholarships.

Bowers and Rigsbee did it again Thursday night in the Cap Eight 4A Tournament championship match. The pair connected on the winning goal in Leesville Road’s 2-1 victory over Millbrook.

A vote that would have removed parochial schools from N.C. High School Athletic Association competition and another that would have created a separate playoff format for charter schools each failed...