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Two Cents from the Franklin Mint: A Changing of the Guard

By Jon Franklin  Photo from Andy Simmons  On April 10, 2018, I PA announced the Davidson vs Duke baseball game at Durham Bulls Athletic Park. It was a memorable evening as before the game, Duke honored Dick Cooke, Davidson’s long tenured and winningest head coach who would retire at the end of the season. Then…

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Orange Panther of the Week: Adelyn Alvis

This week’s Orange Panther of the Week is junior track & field athlete Adelyn Alvis. Last winter, Alvis qualified for the 3A State Indoor Track & Field championships at the JDL Fast Track in Winston-Salem. She finished 4th in the 3A State Championships in the 500 meter dash at 1:18.18. She was also a member…

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Collins scores 25 as Cedar Ridge defeats DSA. By Tim Hackett

There aren’t many secrets about the success Cedar Ridge Men’s Basketball has sustained in the early stages of the 2019-20 season: as Mekai Collins goes, so go the Red Wolves.  Locked in a tight contest between two desperate one-win teams that flashed tenacity and desire throughout and staring down a seventh-straight loss, the Red Wolves…

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Joey McBuckets! McMillen scores 38 as Orange basketball wins opener 80-62

By Tim Hackett Orange lost the opening tip of the 2019-20 season, allowing Research Triangle a chance at the game’s first points. But the Panthers’ defense forced a quick turnover, and Machai Holt sprung a streaking Joey McMullin with a skip pass for a layup and the opening salvo seconds in.  And that was just…

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Cedar Ridge football season ends at Vance County. By Tim Hackett

by Tim Hackett Everything had led to this. All the hard work, the long hours, the grueling drills, the tough losses, they all built up to one more moment: Friday’s regular season finale, which meant one more chance for the Cedar Ridge players to go out and compete after a year without football. One more…

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Campbell’s Ramble: The Coastal Takes Shape

by Curran Campbell In this week’s edition of the ramble, I think I finally have an idea of what the true pecking order in the coastal is. Let’s find out together next week when it turns out I actually have it all wrong again! Also, we will have basketball power rankings and predictions but only…

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Campbell’s Ramble: It’s Coast Chaos! Again!

By Curran Campbell We had another week of coastal chaos, and another week of football teams performing at levels of derp never seen before by mankind. We also have our third team so far this season to hit the bottom of the power rankings, keep reading and find out who has become the worst of…

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Orange volleyball battles but falls to Clayton in state playoffs By Tim Hackett

A season ago, the Clayton High School volleyball team finished the year with 15 wins, got to the final of the Greater Neuse Conference tournament where they lost to conference rival Cleveland, made the 3A state playoffs as a #14 seed, hosted the #19 seed in the first round – and lost in straight sets….

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Campbell’s Ramble: A weekend in derpfest!

By Curran Campbell Well, this week in ACC football was a complete derpfest as nobody played well and that led to a lot of upsets, as well as for everybody in the ACC Coastal to have a transitive property win over everybody else in the division. Essentially, everybody is bad. Pitt Congratulations Pitt, you are…

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Two Cents from the Franklin Mint: A Howlin’ Good Time

by John Franklin My middle school baseball coach always told me, “Everyone loves a winner” or “Everyone at the game has a good time when you’re winning”. Coach, you got that right. If you came to last Friday night’s varsity football game at Cedar Ridge Stadium, a good time was had by all during the…

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