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- Written by: TIM H MEDLIN
The Greene Central men's varsity team began a rebuild last year, adding athletic freshmen to a thin lineup. But the young group found their way, steadily improving under Coach Tim Medlin and Assistant Coach Kenny Kornegay. By season's end, junior William Drake had won the East Regional Singles championship and advanced to the State semi-final; freshmen Sam Avent and Nick Avent had won the East Regional Doubles championship and won a match at States; and the team had risen to #9 in the final 2A poll.
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- Written by: Wayne NMN Giese
The NCSSM-Morganton boy’s tennis team is more excited than ever since last year's non-conference season. The Dragons are setting their goals high this season in the Western Highlands 1A conference. They are looking to play some high competition non-conference matches with surrounding school conferences as they tune up for conference play beginning March 11th.
The Dragons are returning 5 top 6 line seniors and adding 8 juniors. Practice is underway and our theme is “Iron sharpening iron”. Sparks are flying as the juniors vie for their rightful place on the team. So the goal is first to win the conference, have good representation in the regionals, represent themselves well in Dual Team and move on to as many slots as they can in the state competition.
As a seasoned tennis instructor and coach I am in awe of some of these guys with their skill sets. I thought we were good last year but we have definitely set the bar higher. What a joy for Jody Deacon and I to have the opportunity to work with these young leaders of the future.
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- Written by: Coach Jay James
Good Morning Coaches,
Since only a few have posted updates lately I would like to post another update for Week 6! The West Johnston Lady Wildcats have won 6 matches in a row heading into Week 7 and sit at (10-5) overall and (8-4) in the very tough Quad County Conference. We are currently tied with South Johnston for 3rd place in the conference behind the #1 3A team in the state Wilson Fike (16-1) and the #6 team in the east Wilson Hunt (13-1)! I am very proud of the improvement the team has made and after losing 3 of the top 6 from an (8-7) team last season we are right where I hoped we would be.
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- Written by: Chris Goodman
Happy Friday everyone. I hope everyone has been able to get their makeup matches completed and are having a good year.
The Lady Bulldogs currently sit at 8-0 on the season and have only lost one court. This week the team went on 3 road trips and came away victorious in all 3 matches. On yesterday, the team was at full strength for the first time all season and played phenomenal tennis only dropping one game in singles and 3 games in doubles.
The team looks to be strong contenders this year and will have a nice matchup with Williams on Sep 28th to end the regular season.
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Good Morning Everyone!
We started the week with a 7-2 home win over the CB Aycock Lady Golden Falcons, who are definitely improving each week and have a solid foreign exchange student who has just enrolled at the school.
We then hosted undefeated Wilson Hunt, who I have to say has a really solid team top to bottom! We won #3 doubles and had two or three close matches that I felt we could have pulled out. But the score ended 8-1 in favor of the Lady Warriors in a match much closer than score shows. In another 100+ degree day it was the Hunt ladies that took control early and played solid error free tennis to pull away on what could have been a 6-3 or 5-4 match!