February 10, 2006

Pioneers close out regular season with win

TAYLORSVILLE — With a depleted team, more depleted than usual, Watauga’s girls’ basketball team held on to a 68-58 win over Alexander Central Tuesday to end the regular season on a high note.

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Vaulter eyes indoor title

After a long season that was filled only sparsely with meets, Watauga’s indoor track team is finally headed to the state championship in Chapel Hill Saturday.

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Titans up first for girls

The regular season finished, only the Northwestern 4-A Conference tournament remains for Watauga’s girls’ basketball team.

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Cougars outlast Watauga in OT

TAYLORSVILLE — A game that spent the first four quarters with two teams within two or three possessions of each other could not have ended any other way.

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ASU’s Stokes earns medal

December was a pretty good month for Appalachian State football player Brian Stokes. Unbeknownst to the 27-year-old from Burlington, while he was a member of Appalachian State’s Division I-AA national championship team, he was being awarded the Purple Heart for injuries suffered as a member of the U.S. Marine Corps in Iraq in 2004.

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Furman pulls away from ASU, Phoenix up next

GREENVILLE, S.C. — The good news for Appalachian State is that shooting guard Nate Cranford has not lost his shot.

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WHS wrestlers ranked fourth

Finally — recognition beyond the borders of Watauga County.  In a wrestling publication based in Kannapolis named Mat News, Watauga’s wrestling team is ranked fourth in the state in 4-A wrestling. The top three are Cary, Davie county and West Forsyth.

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February 8, 2006

Mountaineers start stretch at Furman

Furman has plenty to lose Tuesday night in its game with Appalachian State at Timmons Arena.

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Western dumps App State

CULLOWHEE — An 11-0 Mountaineer run to start the second half wasn’t enough as the Appalachian State women’s basketball team fell to Western Carolina 82-65 Monday at the Ramsey Center.

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Steelers won big game in Monroe, N.C.

Over the course of the next year, folks will make the case as to why the Pittsburgh Steelers beat the Seattle Seahawks in Super Bowl XL.

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February 6, 2006

Ratliff to help build program
One of Watauga football’s jack-of-all trades is headed for the next level. Cody Ratliff signed to play football for North Carolina Tech, a group of community colleges that are working together to form a junior college and field a team for the first time.

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Defense not enough
Watauga’s girls’ basketball team played defense well enough Friday to beat East Burke on Senior Night, but the Pioneers’ offense struggled too much to push past the Cavaliers. In East Burke’s 61-41 win over Watauga, the Pioneers were outscored by just one point in both the second and third quarters, but the Cavs ran away in the first and fourth.

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Cavs pull away from Pioneers
Despite a huge effort from some of its seniors on Senior Night Friday, Watauga’s boys’ basketball team dropped a 74-55 decision to visiting East Burke.

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Wofford edges ASU, Paladins up next
This time, there would be no last-second drive that would end in an Appalachian State victory. Just five days earlier, D.J. Thompson went coast-to-coast to drop in a layup and beat The Citadel. Last Thursday, Thompson was cut off in the lane and Demetrius Scott’s shot before time expired did not go in, giving Wofford a 60-59 victor in front of 1,555 at the Holmes Center.

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Watauga swimmers come up short in regional
HUNTERSVILLE — It was a shocking end to the season for Watauga’s swim teams at the Western Regional Friday night as no Watauga swimmer or relay team advanced to the state championship.

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