Quick Hits

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,...

Saturday, February 28

— The Wilmington Marathon got underway at 7 a.m. today at Johnny Mercer's Pier in Wrightsville Beach with the finish of the 26.2-mile race at River Front Park in downtown Wilmington. The event is a qualifier for the Boston Marathon. — Joshua Beadle scored 29 points...

Friday, February 27

— Kyle McCoy, the No. 1 singles player for West Brunswick, has won the $50,000 North Carolina DECA scholarship. The Trojans have their first tennis match at Hoggard on Tuesday. — UNC Wilmington's league-leading men's basketball team improved to 25-4 overall and 14-2...

Thursday, February 26

— Demitri Gardner made three free throws with three seconds left to lift East Carolina to an 82-81 American Conference men's basketball win at Texas San Antonio on Wednesday night. — The UNC Wilmington men's basketball team, which leads the Coastal Athletic...

Wednesday, February 25

— The Coastal Carolina men's basketball team defeated host Georgia State, 76-72, as A.J. Dancler had 32 points on Tuesday night. — Jordan Taylor hit a 3-run homer for Np 9 Coastal in a 13-7 baseball win over visiting Campbell. — Np. 1 Duke was a 100-56 men's hoops...

Tuesday, February 24

— The West Brunswick varsity boys basketball team (16-10) is seeded No. 10 in the NCHSAA 6-A East bracket and will host No. 23 Scotland County (11-13) in the first round of the playoffs tonight at 6 p.m. — The Lady Trojans (6-19) visit Greenville Rose (14-9) in the...

Monday, February 23

— The United States topped Canada, 2-1, on a goal by Jack Hughes in overtime on Sunday to win the gold medal in men's hockey on the final day of the Winter Olympics in Italy. — Duke has moved up to No. 1 in the Associated Press men's basketball rankings. — East...

Sunday, February 22

— West Brunswick won the opening game of its baseball jamboree on Saturday, 4-2, over Purnell Swett. — UNC Wilmington moved to 13-2 in the Coastal Athletic Association with a 73-68 men's basketball win at Campbell on Saturday. — Duke could move into the No. 1 spot in...

Saturday, February 21

— The baseball jamboree at West Brunswick will be played today as weather permits. — The Major League Baseball exhibition season got underway Friday. Baltimore topped the New York Yankees, 2-0, in Sarasota on Pete Alonso's 2-run homer in the sixth. — Ty Barrango hit a...

Friday, February 20

— The West Brunswick varsity boys basketball team was defeated, 49-29, by 8-A Hoggard in the semifinals of the Carolina Coast Conference tournament at Brunswick Community College on Thursday night to put the Trojans at 16-10 going into the 6-A playoffs. The NCHSAA is...