BOONE — Bailey Whitehead-Price is an artist, be it with watercolors or on the soccer field.

TAYLORSVILLE — The boys and girls of summer, or at least springtime, have been put on hold.

RALEIGH — North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper announced March 14 that all public schools will be closed for the next two weeks.

TAYLORSVILLE — The Alexander Central softball team scored seven runs in the first inning and claimed a 13-3 win over visiting Watauga in a Northwestern Conference game on March 13.

TAYLORSVILLE — Watauga pitcher Ryan Fox had his hands full, in his first varsity start, facing the Alexander Cougars March 13 at Stryder Field.

HICKORY — Even getting off to a slow start by missing several games at the start of the 2019-20 season couldn’t keep Watauga forward Anderson Castle off the All-Northwestern Conference team.

BOONE — It might be the only basketball played by ACC players, at least in the next two months.

CHAPEL HILL — CHAPEL HILL — Count the spring prep athletics season as a victim of the Coronavirus.

BOONE — It took the West Forsyth girls’ soccer team most of its game with Watauga to get on the scoreboard.

BOONE —The Boone Roundball Classic is the latest victim of the novel coronavirus, or COVID-19.

HICKORY — Watauga’s Rebekah Farthing and Brooke Byrd were named to the All-Northwestern Conference teams by the league’s coaches.

BOONE — The Watauga girls’ lacrosse team picked up its first victory by winning 9-4 over visiting Patton at Leigh Cooper Wallace field.

MOUNT AIRY — The Team Peak seventh-grade girls travel basketball team secured a Silver Bracket championship this past weekend at the 18th Annual Mayberry March Madness.

BOONE — The Watauga softball team had a tough test to start its Northwestern Conference season.

BOONE — When the South Caldwell baseball team loaded the bases, the Spartans scored four runs. When Watauga loaded the bases, the Pioneers scored two runs.

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BOONE — The Watauga baseball and softball teams moved their games against their South Caldwell counterparts to March 9 from March 10.

GAMEWELL — The Watauga softball team looked ready to knock off West Caldwell on March 4.

WEST JEFFERSON — Once the Watauga girls’ soccer team found its rhythm on offense, there wasn’t much Ashe County could do to stop the Pioneers.

BOONE — New Watauga girls’ lacrosse coach Julia Harrison saw her new and former teams clash at Watauga’s home field March 2.

WAXHAW — Cuthbertson has turned into a nemesis for the Watauga girls’ basketball program.

BOONE — Each season, the Watauga softball team faces a difficult schedule within its own conference.

Usually when a prep athletics coach builds a team, a freshman is not put at quarterback, or at point guard of a basketball team, at setter for a volleyball team or at shortstop for a baseball or softball team.

The state 3-A second-round girls’ basketball game between Watauga at host Cuthbertson has been postponed until Friday, Feb. 28 because of inclement weather.

MOUNT ULLA — The Watauga girls’ basketball team faced plenty of adversity when the Pioneers went to play West Rowan in the first round of the state 3-A playoffs on Feb. 25.

The 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo are fast approaching, and the running team from ZAP Endurance wants to be a part of them.

CHAPEL HILL — The Watauga girls’ basketball team plays its first state 3-A playoff game at West Rowan on Feb. 25.

MARION — The Watauga girls’ basketball team tried to do what no team has done this season — beat the Freedom Patriots.

MARION — The Watauga girls’ basketball team reached the finals of the Northwestern Conference Tournament by taking a 50-42 victory over Hickory played at McDowell High School on Feb. 19.

BOONE — Some basketball teams take large early leads and then lose them later in the game.

Watauga distance runner Avery Cannon is having a senior year that most distance runners crave.

HICKORY — The Watauga girls’ basketball team hosts South Caldwell in the first round of the Northwestern Conference Girls’ Basketball Tournament at 7 p.m. on Feb. 18 at Lentz-Eggers Gym.

WINSTON-SALEM — Watauga standout distance runner Avery Cannon nearly captured his second state championship victory at the state 3-A indoor track and field championships on Feb. 15

The Farthing sisters — Meredith, Sydney, Rebekah and Caroline — had a way to pass the time when they were all home.

MORGANTON — It was not the way the Watauga girls’ basketball team wanted to finish the regular season.

MORGANTON — The Watauga boys’ basketball team looked ready to knock off Northwestern Conference champion Freedom despite the game being played at Freedom’s gym on Feb. 11.

BOONE — The Watauga junior varsity girls’ basketball team took the lead in the third quarter and held on to beat visiting Hickory 33-28 at Lentz-Eggers Gym on Feb. 10.

BOONE — The Watauga girls’ basketball team struggled with Hickory during the first two quarters of their Northwestern Conference showdown at Lentz-Eggers Gym on Feb. 10.

BOONE — The Hickory boys’ basketball team did a little more than break open a close Northwestern Conference game at Watauga. The Red Tornadoes shattered it.

BOONE — Tanner Craft played varsity baseball at Watauga for three years. He has been a two-year starter at shortstop with the Pioneers and generally bats in one of the top three spots in the Watauga order.

BOONE — New Watauga girls’ lacrosse coach Julia Harrison wanted to stay close to the sport after graduating from Reagan High School in Pfafftown.

BOONE — App State’s Jonathan Millner has been named the Southern Conference Wrestler of the Week following his victory in a matchup of top-25 wrestlers at Chattanooga.