West Lincoln’s head coach Butch Parker is happy to be 3-0 but there is one area he feels his team needs improvement. While he’s pleased with the offensive line’s blocking on running plays, he’s not pleased with his team’s blocking on passing plays. Offense “We need to get better at…
The East Lincoln Mustangs are a better football team than their record indicates, but unfortunately for them turnovers have not allowed them to show that. Mustangs’ head coach Matt Rikard is hoping that disturbing trend will cease against the North Lincoln Knights this Friday. Offense Rikard is more than aware…
North Lincoln Knights’ head coach Lonnie Custer is playing down the ‘revenge’ talk entering Friday’s game versus the East Lincoln Mustangs maintaining his kids just want to win. “You’re playing your county rival. We played with them for about 16 minutes. Our kids just want to win. I know it’s…
The heroes of yesterday returned to the scene of their exploits Friday night at Lincolnton Memorial Stadium. At halftime of the East Lincoln-Lincolnton game, PA announcer Max Garner recognized 14 members of the 1967 Wolves, who went 9-1 in the regular season, won the Western 3A Conference title and beat…
North Lincoln suffered their first loss at the Dungeon on Friday night, losing to the Charlotte Catholic Cougars 35-6. Charlotte Catholic, who lost to Bandys deep in the 2A State Playoffs in 2003, were just too much for second-year Knights. The Cougars scored on a 37-yard pass play to open…
In front of a large home crowd at West Lincoln, the Rebels won a non-conference game against the Bessemer City Yellow Jackets by a score of 25-7. West Lincoln remains undefeated, with a 3-0 record. The much-improved Rebels have a good chance to improve their record to 4-0 this Friday…
Above, Wolves’ running back Dusty Friday lets his little brother Lance Friday lead the way for him during Friday’s contest. Friday finished with 74 yards on 13 carries and one touchdown. Right, Mustangs’ quarterback Grayson Schram fires one of his 19 passing attempts. Schram did a little of everything for…
INDIANAPOLIS — Doug Herbert and the Snap-on Racing Top Fuel team shrugged off a mechanical problem that deprived them of their first U.S. Nationals qualifying run Saturday and came back with a solid 4.596-second effort in the evening attempt. “That was a good run last night,” Herbert said. “Ed McCulloch,…
The Lincolnton Lady Wolves have won back-to-back matches as they won a 7-2 away match versus Lake Norman on Thursday. No. 1 seed Shawn Kindley for Lincolnton beat Nicole Ascanio 10-4. Liz Rhine won a two-hour singles’ match 10-8 and according to her coach Chris Hoffman, ‘showed a refuse to…
Sports fans fill the stadium seats during high school football season, but some members of the crowd could care less about the game. “There’s a whole section usually in the stands that are band parents and band fans,†said Neil Underwood, director of North Lincoln High School’s Band. The same…
