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App escapes Cullowhee with close victory

It’s always good to win a basketball game, especially in on the road in a hostile arena.
So, Appalachian State will gladly take its 69-64 victory over rival Western Carolina in front of 2,487 at the Ramsey Center Saturday night. Read more

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Mountaineers face rival in showdown Appalachian State found out just what it was like not to have its leading scorer and second-leading rebounder for one game. It’s something they would not like to go through again. To read more, please click here. Photo by Marie Freeman

Patriots edge Pioneers
MORGANTON — When Freedom needed to make foul shots, it did. It didn’t look like such a bad idea for Watauga to put the Patriots on the foul line in the third quarter, when they hit 2-of-7 from the line. But Freedom turned it around in the fourth quarter by making its final 9-of-10, providing just enough offense to take a 99-95 victory over the visiting Pioneers. Read more.

Slow start upends Watauga girls
MORGANTON — The one thing Watauga’s girls’ basketball team wanted to avoid Tuesday night was a slow start to Freedom. The Patriots had other ideas. Freedom scored the first 14 points of its 58-44 victory over visiting Watauga. The Patriots eventually worked their way to a 20-5 lead at the end of the first quarter and a 33-14 halftime lead. Read more.

Freedom handles Watauga
It wasn’t pretty for the Pioneer wrestlers who took only five wins out of the 14 weight classes Tuesday night at Lance-Eggers Gym against Freedom High. Both teams came in with 2-3 records in the conference, but Freedom left ahead winning 43-23. Read more.

Three to sign letters of intent
Three Watauga girls soccer players will continue their careers into college when they sign letters of intent next week. Read more.

Relay teams anchor WHS’s trip to regional
Watauga’s boys and girls swim teams will compete in the Western 4-A Regional at the Mecklenburg Aquatic Center in uptown Charlotte Saturday. Read more.

Hutchinson earns honor
SPARTANBURG, S.C. — For the third time this season an Appalachian State wrestler has been named SoCon wrestler of the week. Tommy Hutchinson earned the award, announced on Wednesday afternoon, after an undefeated week on the mat. Read more.

Thomas named top player
SPARTANBURG, S.C. — GiGi Thomas averaged 20 points per game on .679 shooting last week to earn Southern Conference women’s basketball Player of the Week honors, the league office announced on Tuesday. Read more.

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January 30, 2008

Mixon leads ASU to win Appalachian State’s women’s basketball team needed something positive to happen after suffering such a bad loss to Furman last Saturday. To read more, please click here. Photo by Marie Freeman

Mountaineers hold off pesky Elon
Beating Elon has rarely been easy for Appalachian State. The Mountaineers have never swept the Phoenix during Elon’s five-year tenure in the Southern Conference, and Appalachian State lost to Elon at the Holmes Center last year. Read more.

Around the area
Bobcats sweep Erskine: Lees-McRae topped Erskine 74-69 in Conference Carolinas action Monday night at Williams Gymnasium. Read more.

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January 28, 2008

A runaway hit Pioneer men lay siege to Spartans When Watauga boys’ basketball coach Rob Sanders decided to switch to a fast-paced, running offense, what he saw Friday night was exactly what he had in mind. The Pioneers ran past, over and all around South Caldwell in their 96-63 pasting of the Spartans at Lentz-Eggers Gym. Sanders implemented the fast-paced offense in an effort to get his team to be more aggressive on that side of the court. Read more.

Mountaineers fall to Mocs on the Road
The Chattanooga Moccasins, who were beaten twice on the road last week, were missing three players either because of suspension or injury, and had two others who were nursing nagging injuries, finished their 89-77 victory over Appalachian State Saturday at McKenzie Arena. Read more.

Furman rolls by App State
GiGi Thomas set a season high with 23 points, but the Appalachian State women’s basketball team went to the free throw line just three times in a 73-63 loss to visiting Furman at the Holmes Center Saturday afternoon. Read more.

Spartans pin WHS in NWC wrestling
SAWMILLS — South Caldwell handled Watauga 54-12 in Northwestern 4-A Conference wrestling Friday night. Read more.

Mountaineers power past smaller Paladins
GREENVILLE, S.C. — There would be no comebacks at Timmons Arena Thursday night. Appalachian State, which allowed a Furman comeback to beat them here last season, allowed no such thing Thursday. Instead, it was a steady barrage of Jeremy Clayton and Donte Minter, Appalachian State’s two main weapons, that lifted the Mountaineers in their 84-66 drubbing of Furman in front of 1,086. Read more.

South Caldwell downs Pioneer ladies

It took just eight minutes for the Watauga girls team to fall behind South Caldwell. It took the rest of the game for the Pioneers to try and catch up. Watauga outscored South Caldwell in two quarters, but could not overcome the Spartans and fell 61-55 Friday at Lentz-Eggers Gym. Read more.

ASU pounds Furman
GREENVILLE, S.C. — There would be no comebacks at Timmons Arena Thursday night. Appalachian State, which allowed a Furman comeback to beat them here last season, allowed no such thing Thursday. Instead, it was a steady barrage of Jeremy Clayton and Donte Minter, Appalachian State’s two main weapons, that lifted the Mountaineers in their 84-66 drubbing of Furman in front of 1,086. Read more.