Sports

FAYETTEVILLE — As expected, Friday night’s boys basketball game between Richmond and Seventy-First in the Sandhills Athletic Conference Tournament championship game was a thrilling watch for all in attendance. The No. 1 Falcons looked to […]

ROCKINGHAM — There was a brief stretch during the 2018-19 season where Richmond head wrestling coach Earl Nicholson felt like nothing was going in his team’s favor. The Raiders lost two of their top wrestlers […]

ROCKINGHAM — The first two matchups between Richmond and Seventy-First were special in their own way, but neither one of those meetings compare to what’ll be at stake when the two teams clash in Fayetteville […]

Rachel Smith has been named the Daily Journal’s Athlete of the Week for the week of Monday, Feb. 11. Smith is a senior for the Temple Christian School girls basketball team who posted back-to-back quadruple-doubles, […]

SOUTHERN PINES — The Richmond boys basketball team secured its spot in the Sandhills Athletic Conference Tournament championship game with a 54-48 victory at Pinecrest on Wednesday. It was another close, hard-fought battle for the […]

ROCKINGHAM — Erran Greene, a native of Rockingham who’s now a senior at Methodist University, wasn’t looking to break any records after he exploded out of the blocks at the University of South Carolina Open […]

FAYETTEVILLE — The Richmond girls basketball team hit a rough stretch midway through the third quarter that allowed Jack Britt to take control of a game that had looked to be turning in favor of […]

GREENSBORO — Richmond’s Skylar Standridge, the No. 4 seed in the Midwest Region, was unable to come away with a victory at the 4A NCHSAA Individual Wrestling Championships at the Greensboro Coliseum over the weekend. […]

ROCKINGHAM — Thanks to a flawless effort from the foul line down the stretch, the Richmond boys basketball team avoided being upset by Jack Britt in the first round of the Sandhills Athletic Conference Tournament […]

FAYETTEVILLE — Rachel Smith recorded a rare quadruple-double to help the Temple Christian varsity girls basketball team capture its third consecutive Carolina Christian Athletic Association Tournament championship. With her sister, Anna, the team’s leading scorer, […]

LAURINBURG — After falling behind by double digits in the second quarter, the Lady Raiders used a couple of late spurts in the third and fourth stanzas to give themselves a chance to secure a […]

LAURINBURG — The Richmond boys basketball team bounced back from a rough loss to Seventy-First earlier in the week by grabbing a 59-52 win at rival Scotland in the final game of the regular season […]