Quick Hits

Thursday, March 12

— Cooper Wilson and Kaleb Faulders pitched for West Brunswick in a 7-5 nonconference baseball win over visiting East Forsyth on Wednesday night. — East Carolina had 20 hits in a 24-3 baseball win at William & Mary on Wednesday as Braden Burress went 4-for-5 with three...

Wednesday, March 11

— The West Brunswick girls soccer team improved to 3-0 on Tuesday with a 9-0 win at West Bladen. — No. 16 Coastal Carolina ended a 15-game winning streak for No. 12 Wake Forest with a 10-4 baseball win in Conway on Tuesday night. — East Carolina scored in every inning...

Tuesday, March 10

— West Brunswick (5-0) is ranked No. 11 in softball in the 910 area code by HighSchoolOT. — The ACC men's basketball tournament gets underway in Charlotte today with three games on the ACC Network. Pitt takes on Stanford at 2 p.m., Syracuse meets Southern Methodist at...

Monday, March 9

— Jack Herring hit a 2-run homer and East Carolina had eight RBIs with two out in a 10-4 weather-shortened baseball win at No. 16 Coastal Carolina on Sunday. — Campbell knocked top-seeded UNC Wilmington out of the Coastal Athletic Association men's basketball...

Sunday, March 8

— Three players from Southeastern Christian have made the NCISAA 1-A girls all-state basketball team including eighth-grader Shaniyah Brown, sophomore Ella Gregory and freshman Angelina Lauver. The Lady Warriors went 17-6 and were runners-up in the state tournament. —...

Saturday, March 7

— Kyle McCoy has earned selection for a Morehead-Cain scholarship to UNC. He plays No. 1 in boys tennis for West Brunswick. — Wesley Wilson, Kaleb Faulders and Josiah Borton pitched for West Brunswick on Friday night in a 4-3 win over visiting East Bladen. — Freshman...

Friday, March 6

— No. 16 Coastal Carolina (7-5) hosts East Carolina (7-5-1) tonight in baseball in a rematch of the Conway regional championship in 2025 (ESPN+, 6 p.m.). — ECU took a 93-66 loss to Tulsa in its last men's basketball home game on Thursday night. The Pirates will need a...

Thursday, March 5

— East Carolina took a 5-3 baseball win at UNC Wilmington on Wednesday night to improve to 7-5-1 going into a 3-game series at Coastal Carolina (7-5) this weekend. — The season came to an end for the Coastal women's basketball team (14-18) with an 80-70 fight-marred...

Wednesday, March 4

— The West Brunswick softball team improved to 3-0 with a 10-0 win at East Bladen on Tuesday night as Pressley Wilson and Olivia Brown combined for 20 strikeouts. Kady Long had a home run for the Trojans and Mylee Snead had four stolen bases. — The UNC Wilmington...

Tuesday, March 3

— West Brunswick's varsity boys basketball team was topped, 60-41, at E.E. Smith in the NCHSAA 6-A quarterfinals on Monday night. The Trojans (19-11) were making their third lengthy road trip in six nights as the current state seeding process doesn't take strength of...

Monday, March 2

— The Brunswick Community College baseball team improved to 12-3 with a 6-5 win at Bryant & Stratton College in Virginia on Sunday as Drew Downs and Davis Albert each had two RBIs. — Charleston took a 79-76 men's basketball win at UNC Wilmington on Sunday night. The...

Sunday, March 1

— Pressley Wilson pitched a perfect game with 14 strikeouts as host West Brunswick completed a doubleheader sweep of West Bladen with a 6-0 win Saturday. —  Pablo Martinez-Oliva of Troutman won the 16th annual Wilmington Marathon on Saturday in two hours, 27 minutes,...