Several teen basketball players from the NC Bulldogz basketball organization gathered for a special meeting at Mission Church of the Lord Jesus Christ in west Charlotte Monday night.
The program is designed to provide high school girls with increased access and opportunities to participate in the fast-growing sport of girls’ high school flag football.
Cardinal Gibbons struck first on a 34-yard pass when Connor Clark hit Maverick Shotwell on a beautiful back shoulder throw with 4:57 to go in the opening quarter. The touchdown broke the ice of a defensive slugfest and within minutes of the score going on the board, the heavens opened wide with buckets of sideways rain as a torrential downpour turned the field into a sloshy track and both teams had to battle 30-40 mile per hour winds.
After a back-and-forth first half, the Shelby passing attack on the arm of Daylin Lee who tossed five touchdown passes in the game, lifting the Golden Lions to a 55-34 victory over Wallace-Rose Hill in the 2A State Championship Game.
For the 4th straight year, Chambers will play for the 4A state football championship tomorrow when they take on Cardinal Gibbons at 7 p.m. at Carter-Finley Stadium in Raleigh. It’s a game where the Crusaders will have a slight advantage.
The bill would allow the North Carolina State Board of Education to designate a nonprofit organization that would administer and enforce state law and rules for high school athletics.
The defending 4AA state champs, Chambers, keeps rolling toward another possible title as they beat Hickory Ridge on Friday night to advance to the 3rd round of the 4A playoffs.
For the first time since 2015, the Concord Spiders picked up a postseason win with a 34-14 victory over Tuscola to advance to the 2nd round of the 3A playoffs.