Lake Norman’s Joe Marshall was among nine announced student-athletes signing national letters of intent to join the Wofford College men’s soccer team in 2012.
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Four teams from Iredell County start their quest for a dual-team wrestling championship Tuesday. The top-two teams from the North Piedmont and the I-Meck conferences compete tonight in the first round of the 3A and 4A state dual-team wrestling playoffs, respectively.
Mooresville High’s wrestling team refused to stay down for the count.
Lake Norman’s dwindling playoff hopes took another hit Friday in a 63-55 loss to West Charlotte on Senior Night.
After shaking hands with spectators and congratulating his team, Lake Norman wrestling coach Morgan Fore finally exhaled following Wednesday’s wrestling showdown.
Within the first year of his move to North Carolina from Princeton Junction, N.J., at age 10, Patrick Devlin found himself attending a wrestling camp at Davidson College.
Lake Norman and Mooresville will duke it out again Wednesday to determine the I-Meck Conference wrestling champion.
When North Carolina’s high school athletic conferences are realigned for the 2013-14 school year, will Iredell County’s six high schools be grouped together?
The race Lake Norman swim coach David Tucker said he most looked forward to seeing prior to Saturday’s I-Meck Conference championships at the Mecklenburg County Aquatic Center was the boys’ 50-yard freestyle.
On the issue of split conferences, the six high schools in Iredell County are split. The lines are drawn between the two classifications that will be in Iredell County when the new alignment takes effect in fall 2013.
The I-Meck Conference swimming championships are Saturday at the Mecklenburg County Aquatic Center. Lake Norman’s girls look to defend their title, while the boys attempt to improve on their runner-up finish last season, when Hough edged them by a slim 26-point margin.
Coaches Brandon Jolly and Mike Micklow knew Friday’s rivalry was going to be won in the first four minutes of the second half. Mooresville entered the locker rooms at Lake Norman with a 31-28 lead at the break.
Lake Norman's boys basketball team is trying to climb the I-Meck Conference ladder after a dreadful start in league play.
Lake Norman hosts Mooresville on Friday in the first of two meetings this season between the schools’ basketball teams.
West Iredell head coach David Koontz and Corey Deal exchanged an emphatic high five Saturday after the 2012 Iredell County Swimming Championship. They celebrated the Warriors accomplishing one of their goals for the season. The Warrior boys captured second place.
Lake Norman’s swimming teams don’t plan to change a thing. Why should they? What’s worked in the past has turned out just fine.
After one year, Hunter Dowless is back in the weight class where he belongs. Dowless, a 6-foot, 215-pound junior, spent his sophomore season at Lake Norman hitting the mat as a heavyweight while weighing between 220-225 pounds.
It was another fantastic year for several county sports teams and its members.
Mariah Johnson couldn’t hold back the tears. She took a detour to center court to accept the R&L/WSIC Holiday Classic Most Valuable Player trophy Thursday after leading North Iredell’s girls basketball team to a 46-25 championship victory over Lake Norman.
Two big shots by Statesville’s two main scoring threats sparked the Greyhounds to their first R&L/WSIC Holiday Classic championship in seven years. Josh Gaither and Nick Schofield hit a pair of back-to-back 3-pointers in the middle of the fourth quarter to start a 14-2 Statesville run.
South Iredell’s boys basketball team flirted with one of the biggest stunners in tournament history Wednesday, but Ryan Scott got hot from the perimeter and carried Lake Norman to a closer-than-expected 49-35 win in the R&L/WISC Holiday Classic semifinals.
Lake Norman went on a scoring drought in the third quarter that shocked head coach Rich Tinucci. Sarah Woods hit a pair of free throws 1 minute, 21 seconds into the second half. Then the Wildcats went the next 7 minutes, 19 seconds against Forbush without putting points on the scoreboard.
If you're heading over to Statesville High for the 15th annual R&L/WSIC Holiday Classic, click here for a schedule of the action for the next three days.
The R&L/WSIC Holiday Classic tips off today at 2 p.m. with a girls division game between Statesville and South Iredell. It’s the first of 14 games over the next three days at Statesville High School, site of this year’s basketball tournament.
The top-two seeds in this year’s R&L/WSIC Holiday Classic are the same two teams that met for the title last year. Statesville (7-3) and Lake Norman (5-3) are the No. 1 and No. 2 teams in the three-day tournament and both have first-round byes.
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