April 14, 2006
Pioneers dump Patriots, keep lock on first
MORGANTON — It wasn’t the start Watauga girls’ soccer coach Doug Kidd was looking for, but the Pioneers turned an early deficit into an eventual 4-1 win Tuesday at Freedom.
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Pioneers sweep home track and field meet
April 26 can’t come soon enough for Watauga’s track and field teams.
Both Watauga’s girls and boys teams won at their home meet Tuesday, the girls by 23 points over A.C. Reynolds and the boys by just 0.5 over South Caldwell.
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WHS softball team extends win streak to five
MORGANTON — Rollin’, rollin’, rollin’… The Watauga girls’ softball team’s win streak — yes, win streak — was extended Tuesday with a 6-0 win over Freedom as the Pioneers keep finding ways to roll through the second half of the season. The girls have now won six of their last seven and five in a row.
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Fowlkes inks with Ti-Cats
HAMILTON, Ont. — Former Appalachian State standout receiver and 2004 Walter Payton Award finalist DaVon Fowlkes signed with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats of the Canadian Football League.
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Rockets edge Watauga 5-4
Even though the Northwestern 4-A Conference is not the toughest in the land, it is still hard to beat some of the top teams without every one of the top six in the lineup.
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ASU falls in heartbreaker
BLACKSBURG, Va. — Virginia Tech’s Sean O’Brien hit walk-off home run on a 3-2 pitch with two outs in the ninth to spoil Appalachian State’s ninth-inning rally and send the Mountaineers to a heartbreaking 5-4 loss on Wednesday night at English Field.
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Two-inning rally lifts WHS to win
MORGANTON — Watauga’s offense has been up and down for much of this season. In the Pioneers’ 13-3 victory Wednesday over Freedom, Watauga brought plenty of lumber to go around.
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April 12, 2006
Riddle, Howard wait for chance to play
It’s hard enough for a college football player, who has been a starter all through high school, to suddenly be a backup. It’s even harder when that player sitting on the bench is backing up an All-American.
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Pioneers take on Patriots
It would be unfair to call Freedom a break in the Northwestern 4-A Conference schedule for the Watauga Pioneers.
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WHS gains ground
LENOIR – Watauga’s boys’ golf team started chipping away Monday at South Caldwell’s lead in the Northwestern 4-A Conference standings by beating the Spartans on their own course.
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Ninth inning rally lifts Pioneers to victory
In Watauga’s softball game Monday, the Pioneers were force-fed a spoonful of heartache by Ashe County, but they turned around and served the Huskies a heaping helping of heartbreak.
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Moose earns SoCon honor
SPARTANBURG, S.C. — Freshman Yancy Moose has been named the Southern Conference Pitcher of the Week, announced by the SoCon office Monday afternoon. A left-handed pitcher from Hamptonville, N.C., Moose led the Appalachian State softball team to a 5-2 record last week.
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April 10, 2006
 Ice, Ice, Baby
Leslie Sheppard (middle) is congratulated by Hannah Cameron (left) and Jamie Sheppard for scoring one of her three goals against Lake Norman during Saturday's game. For more lacrosse, link to story below. Photo by Marie Freeman |
Defense Dominates
Appalachian State’s defense almost looked ready to step on to the Carter-Finley Stadium turf and take on N.C. State, the Mountaineers’ first opponent of the 2006 season.
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Pioneers shut out three opponents last week
Completing a sweep of South Caldwell, 5-0 Friday, Watauga’s girls’ soccer team also completed its third win in as many days after beating Wilkes Central 2-0 Thursday and A.C. Reynolds 1-0 Wednesday.
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Spartans’ ace shuts down WHS offense
Of all the teams that South Caldwell ace Madison Bumgarner has faced, just one, Watauga, had scored a run on him. However, Bumgarner made sure history would not repeat itself Friday in No. 1-ranked South Caldwell’s 5-0 victory over the Pioneers at Watauga’s field.
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Ice nearly earns sweep
On paper, it’s another split. But those who were at Brendles Field Saturday saw Watauga’s girls’ club lacrosse team almost pull off an upset of Lake Norman and then pull away from Freedom.
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UNCG wins in ninth
For much of the season, even in down times, Appalachian State’s strength has been its defense. Sunday afternoon, the Mountaineers’ defense proved to be fatal in a 7-4 loss to UNC Greensboro at Red Lackey Field.
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