January 27, 2006

Tokushige a welcome addition to team

Just five months ago, Watauga’s girls’ swimming team got a bit of a boost in the form of freshman Ayumi Tokushige.

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NWC titles on the line

There’s just one chance left for Watauga swimmers to qualify for the regional championship meet. They take to the water for the last time Saturday at the Northwestern 4-A Conference championships.

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Weekend could be tough on App State

Appalachian State collected one of its biggest wins of the season Monday against Georgia Southern. Making it two or possibly three in a row won’t be easy.

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NWC tourney up next

Five of Watauga’s wrestling Pioneers are low seeds in the Northwestern 4-A Conference championship tournament, to be held Saturday at A.C. Reynolds.

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Mountaineers surprise, bully Wildcats 84-69

The Appalachian State women’s basketball team won its third-straight game Tuesday night, clobbering the visiting Davidson Wildcats 84-69 at the Holmes Center.

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Patriots hold off Watauga

MORGANTON — It may not be immediately apparent, but Watauga’s 71-59 loss at Freedom could easily have ended drastically different. They could have actually beaten the Patriots on their home floor if they had played as well as they can.

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‘Different’ Pioneers team falls to Freedom

MORGANTON — Somewhere between Boone on Friday night and Morganton Tuesday night, Watauga’s boys’ basketball team was replaced with a less effective group.

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January 25, 2006

Mountaineers outlast Eagles in overtime

Appalachian State point guard D.J. Thompson didn’t intentionally put the Mountaineers on his back in ASU’s 90-84 overtime victory over Georgia Southern at the Holmes Center Monday night.

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SoCon year takes many different turns

Somebody wake me when the real Southern Conference basketball season begins. You know the one. It’s the season that has Davidson undefeated and riding high in the South Division and Chattanooga doing much of the same in the North. It has Elon trying to survive, at least for now, but coming on strong in the end.

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January 23, 2006

Pioneers top Spartans in overtime

It was the best basketball to have been played so far in Lentz-Eggers Gym this season and, arguably, the best of coach Rob Sanders’ tenure Friday night, as Watauga beat South Caldwell 87-86 in overtime Friday.

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Spartans collect revenge

It wasn’t “Remember the Alamo,” but “Remember Lentz-Eggers” that South Caldwell girls’ basketball coach Jeff Parham must have ingrained into the minds of the Spartans before their 70-40 rout of Watauga Friday night.

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Spartans slip past App State

GREENSBORO — UNC Greensboro’s Kyle Hines had already scored 16 points and pulled down nine rebounds when Appalachian State lined up for its final play of Saturday’s game.

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Appalachian topples GSU

Appalachian State snapped a 14-game losing streak to Georgia Southern by topping the Eagles 78-75 Saturday at the Holmes Center.

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Scoring system helps Pioneers at swim meet

MARION — In their last regular season meet of the season, Watauga’s boys’ and girls’ swim teams benefited in different ways at the Marion YMCA Thursday night.

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Pioneers shake off rust at Eastern Challenge

CHAPEL HILL — After five weeks without competition, Watauga’s indoor track team tried to shake the rust off at the Eastern High School Challenge Saturday in Chapel Hill.

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Forfeits doom Pioneers

SAWMILLS — Never this season has the disadvantage of forfeiting two weights been more apparent than in Watauga’s 36-27 loss to South Caldwell Thursday night.

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Five WHS wrestlers win in Robbinsville tournament

ROBBINSVILLE — It was more of the same, with a slight twist for Watauga’s wrestlers at the Robbinsville Tournament Saturday, as the usual suspects won their brackets but two other Pioneers also stepped up to place.

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