By:
GEOFF NEVILLE, Times Sportswriter
FRANKLINTON -- Percentages aren’t exactly known, but scoring the first goal is usually paramount to victory in a soccer match.
And potting both the first and second tallies? That’s an uphill battle to climb for any opponent to overcome.
Franklinton High School pitch coach Deran Coe understood that fact last month, when his Lady Rams took a two-goal advantage and went on to defeat Roanoke Rapids in a crucial Northern Carolina Conference girls matchup.
By:
GEOFF NEVILLE, Times Sportswriter
LOUISBURG -- Winning wasn’t the major goal for the Louisburg College Hurricanes during last Saturday’s home diamond doubleheader against the East Carolina University Club Team.
Instead, LC head coach John Thomas was simply looking to keep the Hurricanes sharp heading into this week’s Region X Baseball Tournament, which begins today at the Burlington Athletic Park.
By the time you read this, Louisburg College may have already competed in its first-round game at the annual Region X Baseball Tournament.
That’s because LC is playing its first-round game at 10 a.m. against Florence-Darlington Tech at the historic Burlington Athletic Park in Alamance County.
By:
GEOFF NEVILLE, Times Sportswriter
LOUISBURG -- Louisburg wasn’t able to be bitten by the upset bug for the second time this season against the Bunn Wildcats.
Instead, the Warriors took an efficient, businesslike approach to Friday’s rematch between the Northern Carolina Conference baseball rivals.
BUNN -- Whitney Bunn scored with 16 minutes remaining as Bunn High School edged backyard rival Louisburg by a 1-0 score in Northern Carolina Conference girls soccer action Monday evening at the BHS Football Field.
The goal was the 21st of the season for Bunn, who is only a freshman.
With the victory, the Ladycats wrapped up third place in the NCC. BHS is 8-5-1 overall to go with a 3-4 ledger in the league.
GREENVILLE -- Arik Sikula struck out a career-best eight and allowed one run over six innings as Marshall took game three of the Conference USA series against East Carolina 10-3 Sunday afternoon at Clark-LeClair Stadium.
With the win, The Herd improved to 21-24 overall and 10-8 in league play, while the Pirates dropped to 27-18 and 8-7.
ROANOKE RAPIDS -- League newcomer North Johnston had little difficulty adjusting to the rigors of the Northern Carolina Conference’s golf competition this spring.
The Panthers, who moved up from the Class 1-A to 2-A level this year, closed out their links championship last Monday at historic Chockoyotte Country Club in Halifax County.
MOBILE, ALA. -- The Mobile BayBears scored twice in the seventh inning to snap a 2-2 score and defeated the Carolina Mudcats for the third time in four games 4-2 at Hank Aaron Stadium on Sunday night in a Class AA Southern League baseball event.
Kris Negorn drilled a homer to left-center in the top of the seventh to even the score before Mobile (11-13) pushed across two runs against reliever Daryl Harang in the bottom half.
(L to R) Roanoke Rapids’ Katie Smith and Franklinton’s Nikki Bell try to gain possession in the midfield area during Monday’s crucial Northern Carolina Conference soccer match.
Bunn second baseman Morgan Pearce (right) tries to show the umpire the ball, but Louisburg’s Jasmine Manley was ruled safe during last Friday’s league softball game on the LHS campus.
Louisburg College assistant baseball coach Blake Herring (left) offers some advice to pitching ace Hunter Ackerman during last Saturday’s home twinbill against the East Carolina University Club Baseball Team at LC’s picturesque Frazier Field.
Election results came in Tuesday night, but the winner of School Board District 3 won’t be known until Wednesday.
And it might take longer.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
Prosecutors plan to dismiss charges against a woman who was arrested for fatally beating a man.
Franklin County sheriff’s deputies arrested Ruby Virginia Smith, charging her with assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury following an April 1 assault on Alfredo Ortega, 53.
Ortega died from his injuries on April 5.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON Times Staff Writer
Bunn town staff is expected to update commissioners about a grant application that could help an area business expand.
Bunn Animal Hospital representatives petitioned the board last month for annexation, which includes extension of water service to their new proposed location near the Bunn Crossing shopping center.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
Franklin County Commissioners are scheduled to continue their discussion regarding the Early College High School program.
It’s not clear, though, when any decision will be made.
The county’s Board of Education and Vance-Granville Community College Board of Trustees have both endorsed a $7 million expansion plan which would address the community college’s expected growth, as well as accommodate students fed into college courses through the Early College program.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
Franklin County advocates established an endowment in the name of a former legislator who was a champion for agriculture and education.
The James D. Speed Memorial Scholarship Endowment will be awarded annually to college students based on participation in the State Fair, as well as scholarly merit.
Louisburg resident Jackson Ellis
What a wonderful program for our local children and youth. This is an opportunity that families should take advantage of and support wholeheartedly. There are many activity leaders, including Angelia Higgs, Thomas Madison, Faye Weiner, and Unit Director Shamequa Wilkerson, who are working very hard to keep this program going.
Here is the honor roll for the third nine-week grading period at Terrell Lane Middle School:
The Joseph J. Davis Chapter 537, United Daughters of the Confederacy, held a Bestowal of Military Awards Ceremony on April 10 at Maple Springs Baptist Church, Louisburg.
Russell Pergerson was presented the following medals posthumous:
Union Bank and Trust, a community bank based in Oxford, showed earnings of $641,466 for the first quarter ending March 31.
Union Bank posted a return on equity of 13.75 percent and a return on assets of 1.47 percent along with an efficiency ratio of 60.84 percent. The financial results of the first quarter occurred due to a combination of factors that included outstanding asset quality, reduction of interest expenses, increased non-interest income and the maintaining control of non-interest expenses incurred by the bank.
The late week bombshell notice that Novant Health, which now owns Franklin Regional Medical Center, is dropping its plans to build a new hospital in Youngsville caught a lot of folks off guard.
The announcement came amid speculation — which turns out to be true — that Novant and the town of Louisburg had reached a memorandum of understanding that would clear the way for a two-hospital system in Franklin County.
Brace yourself. Here we go again.
Just when local folks were getting frustrated about what to do next regarding the long-awaited four-laning of U.S. 401 in Franklin County, along comes another Tiger.
This time the big cat from Washington is named Tiger II to distinguish it from the Tiger funds we sought unsuccessfully last summer and fall. Tiger, by the way, stands for Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery.
GOOD MORNING: High temperatures in the mid 80s today and the mercury may hit 90 on Sunday? We’ll see.
ENOUGH ALREADY: Ok Novant, enough doubletalk! As one wag put it, “I find it hard to believe that a bunch of country-fried (town) council members are that much slicker than a multi-billion dollar company with a corporate jet and made over $400 million in profits last year.
