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Pioneers cage Cougars Watauga captures third straight victory TAYLORSVILLE — Watauga girls’ basketball coach Klay Anderson has preached that 11 players can band together to beat one or two. To read more, please click here. Photo by Mark Mitchell

Mayberry not friendly, scores 23 in AC victory
TAYLORSVILLE — Watauga has two big players to worry about when they play Alexander Central in the first round of the Northwestern 4-A Conference Tournament next week. Read more.

Watauga’s girls' jayvees capture championship
TAYLORSVILLE — Watauga’s girls’ jayvee team won 12 of its final 13 games and won the Northwestern 4-A Conference championship. Read more.

ASU dumps Paladins
GREENVILLE, S.C. — Appalachian State shot 53 percent from the field and scored 42 points in the second half to beat Furman 60-55 at Timmons Arena Wednesday night. Read more.

Appalachian State douses Flames 30-9
Appalachian State’s Hutchinson brothers made sure the Mountaineers got off to a fast start in their 30-9 victory over Liberty in a non-conference wrestling match Wednesday night at Varsity Gym. Read more.

ASU plays at Elon, Greensboro
Applachian State is officially in its homestretch run. The Mountaineers play two key North Division games this week. They start with a showdown at Elon Thursday and then play at UNC Greensboro Saturday.

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February 13, 2008

Mountaineers roll Minter fuels Appalachian blowout win Wofford found out the hard way just how good Appalachian State can play when the Mountaineers’ firepower from the perimeter matches their scoring down in the paint. To read more, please click here. Photo by Mark Mitchell

Commentary: Beware of ASU when offense is on the same page
When the Appalachian State offense is working right, they win games the way they did Monday night. The Mountaineers, shooting 51 percent from the floor, mauled a Wofford team that seemed helpless in stopping center Donte Minter and struggled to stop Appalachian State’s outside shooting. Read more.

Butts hopes to return Thursday
Appalachian State may add to its depth at the post should Isaac Butts return for the Mountaineers’ game at Elon Thursday. Read more.

Around the area: ASU’s Jackson earns state award
SALISBURY — Appalachian State University associate athletics director for public affairs David Jackson has been named the 2007 North Carolina Sportscaster of the Year, the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association announced Friday. Read more.

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February 11, 2008

Four more years Soccer quartet signs letters to college team Watauga girls soccer coach Doug Kidd doesn’t feel any extra pressure to win games this spring, even though four of his players signed letters of intent to play in college this week. To read more, please click here. Photo by Steve Behr

Relay team reaches finals
CHAPEL HILL — Watauga’s boys’ 200-yard relay team managed to reach the finals in the NCHSAA class 4-A swim championships Saturday. The team of Jonathan Edwards, Konrad Kosmala, Minori Ohashi and William Rayner finished 16th overall in the event. They reached the finals with a time of 1:33.28 and swam a 1:33.90 in the final. Read more.

ASU to host Wofford
A key element in winning the Southern Conference’s North Division is winning home games. In its last two games at the Holmes Center, Appalachian State is batting .500. Read more.

Mountaineers storm The Citadel in OT
A slow first half could not keep Appalachian State center Donte Minter from putting the Mountaineers on his shoulders Saturday. Minter, the Mountaineers’ 6-foot-9 center and leading scorer, collected 22 of his game-high 25 points in the second half and an overtime period in Appalachian State’s 75-71 victory over The Citadel in front of 2,689 at the Holmes Center.    Read more.

Davidson overcomes ASU in final seconds

Davidson trailed Appalachian State for 59:57.2 Saturday at the Holmes Center. Yet the Mountaineers did not lead Davidson for the final 2.8 seconds, and it ended up costing them. Davidson’s Mercedes Robinson took an inbounds pass just inside the foul line and drained a shot that gave the Wildcats a 67-66 victory over the Mountaineers. Read more.

Champs vs. Champs: ASU to play LSU

The battle of the two Division I national champions has been set.

Appalachian State, the three-time defending FCS/I-AA national champion, will play at the Bowl Coalition Series national champ LSU on Aug. 30 in Baton Rouge. Read more.

Pioneer women take Senior Night victory
Suddenly, Watauga’s girls’ basketball team is the group nobody in the Northwestern 4-A Conference wants to play. The Pioneers, who struggled through the first part of their NWC season with just one win, made it two straight in the second half of league play with a 63-52 victory over East Burke at Lentz-Eggers Gym Friday night, which was also Senior Night.   Read more.

Cavaliers raid Watauga at home, 97-83
The team that ran Watauga’s offense the best Friday night turned out to be East Burke.
The Cavaliers were very comfortable running with Watauga and claimed a 97-83 victory at Lentz-Eggers Gym.   Read more.

 

College of Charleston slips past App State
There was no time that was more obvious that Appalachian State proved it was struggling offensively than the final 2:45 of its 68-63 loss to College of Charleston at the Holmes Center in front of 2,692 Thursday
night. Read more.