The South Iredell girls have a trip to the state playoffs on the line this week at the Catawba Valley 2A basketball tournament. The Vikings and Draughn Wildcats ended the season tied for fifth place in the CVAC.
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The college football season ended Jan. 10 in Glendale, Ariz. That night was also the dawn of the recruiting season, and South Iredell receiver Quataye Smyre is involved in that season.
Bandys’ girls basketball team got two or three looks at the basket seemingly every possession Friday night.
Two major contributors to the South Iredell football team’s undefeated regular season are sticking together beyond high school.
Elexus Burby, South Iredell’s starting point guard, has had to ride the bench for the past month. The Vikings’ junior point guard injured her hand Dec. 28 against Statesville on the opening day of the 14th annual R&L Holiday Classic.
Baskets in the West Caldwell-South Iredell game came few and far between in the beginning.
The South Iredell girls swim team made waves last weekend at the Iredell County Championship meet finishing second to Lake Norman. The Vikings have the opportunity to win this weekend at the Catawba Valley 2A championship in Valdese.
Aliya Jackson is a machine. In the Vikings’ devastating 48-point loss Saturday at home, Jackson scored 13 points and grabbed 13 rebounds for her 13th double-double of the season.
The outcome of Saturday's Iredell County Championship was decided before a swimmer hit the pool for a race. Lake Norman was the favorite to win and keep its dominating, almost-decade run alive.
Maybe against any other opponent, it wouldn’t have happened this way.
By his own admission, South Iredell girls basketball coach Michael Fisher is stubborn when it comes to defenses.
South Iredell girls basketball coach Michael Fisher shook his head in disbelief in the hallway outside the Lake Norman gymnasium following Thursday’s R&L Holiday Classic third-place consolation game against Forbush.
Lake Norman has a chance to defend its R&L Holiday Classic championship.
South Iredell got the win it was expected to get Tuesday in the opening game of the 14thannual R&L Holiday Classic.
The quest to capture its fourth straight R&L Holiday Classic championship got off to a good start Tuesday, as Lake Norman’s boys basketball team pulled away from upset-minded South Iredell for a 77-49 opening-round win.
The R&L Holiday Classic boys’ bracket has a new look this year.
He led South Iredell to a conference championship and the program’s first undefeated regular season in nearly two decades, all in his first year as Vikings head coach.
This season, Quataye Smyre returned a punt for a touchdown against Bunker Hill and a kickoff for a score against Draughn.
There wasn’t a shortage of sports headlines in Iredell County this year.
Lake Norman's Jenny Gallagher is the R&L County Girls Cross Country Runner of the Year.
Ali Burgiss of Statesville Christian is the R&L County Girls Tennis Player of the Year.
Kathryn Palmes led the Statesville Greyhounds this season.
The 14th-annual Raider-Viking Duals is scheduled for today and Saturday. North Iredell will host the 12-team wrestling tournament.
Troutman’s top elected official will pay a visit to South Iredell High School this evening to be part of an athletic awards banquet.
Lake Norman’s lead swelled to nearly 30, coach Brandon Jolly emptied the bench early in the fourth quarter and it seemed like nothing had changed.
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