Any passerby may assume Josiah has been playing football since he was in diapers based on his skills alone, but he’s still pretty new to the game, having started play in the fall of 2020.
The Wallace-Rose Hill Bulldogs football team will play for the NCHSAA 2A State Championship after defeating Princeton 34-25 on Friday night. Senior Kanye Roberts scored five touchdowns in the victory.
The Pender High School football team was greeted by its fellow classmates Friday afternoon as they pulled away from the school and headed to Tarboro High School for the NCHSAA 1A football state semifinals.
The Pender Patriots and Wallace-Rose Hill Bulldogs both posted road wins Friday night to advance into the Eastern Finals of the high school football playoffs.
The Leesville Road High School football team has reversed course and won’t seek a forfeit against New Hanover over the cancellation of last week’s game between the two schools.
The official start of the 2021 high school football season is just one week away, but players and coaches are battling the ongoing pandemic and a short offseason turnaround.
Republicans say the major overhaul is needed because the NCHSAA isn’t accountable to the public, while Democrats say effectively eliminating the association goes too far.
The bill would essentially remove the North Carolina High School Athletic Association as the organization that carries out rules set by the State Board of Education.
Stanley Williams will be taking over as the head football coach at West Bladen High School. He will replace Jon Sherman, who is stepping down to take the head coaching job at Gray’s Creek High School.
The unbeaten Hoggard High School Vikings will advance in the state 4-AA football playoffs without having to play a game. The third-seeded Vikings’ first-round opponent, sixth-seeded Leesville Road High School, must forfeit because of COVID-19 protocols in the program.
August 14 would have been the unofficial start of the high school football season in North Carolina, before the North Carolina High School Athletic Association pushed back to the start of fall sports.
