Sports News in and Around Columbus County, NC
SALEMBURG–Number two seed East Columbus defeated three seed North Duplin 3-1 to advance to the championship game against top seed East Bladen. The Gators (13-5) will face the Eagles today (Wedne...
At Land O’Lakes, the Southeastern Fellowship Golf Association played its weekly tournament on Oct. 13. A total of 32 members participated in the net score event. First place went to the team of Alick ...
In Rocky Point, West Bladen defeated the Titans of Heide Trask 5-3 in the first round of the 3A playoffs. The win puts the Knights (1-10) against N.C. School of Math and Science (11-2) on Wednesday. H...
CERRO GORDO–North Duplin chewed up 280 yards on the ground as the Rebels defeated West Columbus 36-16 in football on Friday night. Jaden Pope and DJ Carlton scored two touchdowns each in the vic...
ELIZABETHTOWN—East Columbus shut out the East Bladen Eagles in the second half but fell short 22-20 on the Eagles’ Homecoming Night at Lenon Fisher Stadium on Friday. Zamarion Pone rushed for two touc...
BOILING SPRINGS—Luke McLean threw four touchdowns to push the Wolfpack to 6-0 on the year and 1-0 in the Southeastern Conference as Whiteville defeated South Brunswick 41-20 on Friday night. Whitevill...
VINEGAR HILL—Cam Bellamy rambled for three touchdown rushes as the Stallions shut out Red Springs 49-0 on Friday night. The win puts South Columbus at 2-0 in the Southeastern Conference and 5-2 on the...
East Bladen swept East Columbus 3-0 to clinch the Carolina Conference Volleyball Title on Thursday in Elizabethtown. The Eagles defeated the Gators by scores of 25-14, 25-20, and 25-15. East Bladen fi...
The Southeastern Fellowship Golf Association held their tournament at Cypress Lakes in Hope Mills this week. The event was a Texas Scramble format. The team of Ray Crabtree, George Cochrane, L....
East Bladen clinched at least a tie for the Carolina Conference title in ladies’ volleyball as they downed Lakewood 3-0 on Tuesday In Salemburg. East Bladen now sits at 10-1 in the Carolina Conferenc...
We are more than halfway through the football season; some things have fallen into place, there are some things undecided but as I stated before the year kicked off, I thought our local teams were goi...
ELIZABETHTOWN—East Bladen jumped to a 20-0 lead only to fight to hold off North Duplin 40-35 in a key Carolina Conference win on Friday night. East Duplin was an early favorite to challenge Tarboro in...
LAKE WACCAMAW— Ouziyiah Reaves scored two touchdowns to lead the West Columbus Vikings to victory over East Columbus 35-8 on Friday night. The Vikings moved to 1-2 in the Carolina Conference an...
TABOR CITY–South Columbus jumped out to a 16-0 advantage but had to fight to hold on to the win as they defeated Fairmont 16-14 in football on Friday night. The Stallions are now 1-0 in th...
In Elizabethtown, East Bladen inched closer to the Carolina Conference Volleyball title with a 3-0 defeat of Union this week. The Eagles need one more conference victory to clinch at least a tie for t...
West Bladen remained unbeaten this week in the Southeastern Conference with a 9-1 win over South Columbus. The Knights (2-0-1, 11-2-3) got five goals from Diego Santos plus teammate Alejandro Lopez Sa...