
January 20, 2006
Mountaineers face key SoCon road game
There seems to be just one thing that is clear in the Southern Conference’s North Division: Elon hasn’t lost yet.
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Beasley hired as associate ASU AD
Former All-America football player Rick Beasley will return to Appalachian State as a senior associate athletics director, athletics director Charlie Cobb announced Tuesday.
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Watauga eager to return to track
After its Dec. 10 meet, Watauga’s indoor track team took a bit of a break from competition. Five weeks later, they’re ready to get back into action at the Eastern Challenge in Chapel Hill.
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ASU looks to ground Eagles
Appalachian State broke a four-game losing streak when it beat Wofford 80-65 Tuesday in Spartanburg, S.C. On Saturday, the Mountaineers will try to break another streak.
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January 18, 2006

All champs
The Appalachian State football team, winners of the Division I-AA national championship in December, met with fans to sign autographs at the Holmes Center Saturday. They were also honored at halftime of the men’s basketball game against Montreat. Clint Manuel (20) holds the sign that will greet people who drive into Boone. Photo by Marie Freeman
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Mocs silence App State
Jerice Crouch did not have fond memories of the Holmes Center before Monday night. Crouch, the Chattanooga backup point guard, committed eight turnovers, including one stretch when he made four straight, that helped Appalachian State pull away for a huge victory back in the 2004-05 season.
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Column: Parents should let coaches do their jobs
There is something rotten in Watauga County. The source of this unpleasantness is a small group of parents who give the rest of them a bad name. A group that thinks they know better than a coach, who has lived most of his life around the game and nearly all of his recent life for this team, what is best for Watauga’s basketball program.
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WHS starts second NWC cycle
Watauga basketball gets back under way Friday in Lentz-Eggers Gym when the Pioneers host South Caldwell. The game is the first in the second cycle through the conference for Watauga after having a bye at the end of the first cycle Tuesday.
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January 16, 2006

Fanfare
Ritchie Williams autographs an ASU helmet for alumni Jeff Mendenhall when the Mountaineer football team met with fans at the Holmes Center. For more on the event, please link with the article below. Photo by Marie Freeman |
Mountaineers meet with fans at Holmes
While Appalachian State football fans have been able to meet individually with Appalachian players, there had been no formal way to put the two together in one place.
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ASU tunes up for UTC by blasting Montreat
It didn’t take long for Appalachian State to turn its attention to Chattanooga.
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Cougars rally by Pioneers
TAYLORSVILLE — All the fight in a handful of Watauga wrestlers sometimes isn’t enough to carry a team of them past an opponent.
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Foard, South Caldwell swim to team victories
HICKORY — Watauga’s swim teams took to the pool against strong competition Thursday without being at full strength, finishing third in the girls’ competition and second in the boys’ competition.
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Pioneers surprise Alexander Central
Watauga’s boys’ basketball team discovered Friday that the best way to move past a four-game losing streak was to win back-to-back games on back-to-back days and start a winning streak.
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Watauga girls smoke A.C.
Finally, they got one. Watauga’s girls’ basketball team had played a couple Northwestern 4-A Conference teams tough, but they had to wait until Friday’s rout of Alexander Central to pull off their first NWC win of the season, 50-33.
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