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JOE HABINA
Special to the Independent Tribune
CONCORD â The Central Cabarrus softball team has some unfinished business in clinching the South Piedmont 3A Conference regular-season championship, but the Vikings took a big step toward wrapping it up at Cox Mill on Thursday.
First-place Central Cabarrus scored five runs over the final two innings to break open a tie game and push ahead for an 11-7 road victory over the second-place Chargers.
Cassidy Wall (3) beats the tag at second during Thursday evening softball against Central Cabarrus. Todd Maulden/Special to the Independent Tribune
The Vikings are 7-0 in conference play (7-1 overall) with three games left, while Cox Mill is 7-2 in the SPC (7-3) with just one game to play.
C. JEMAL HORTON
MOUNT PLEASANT â For a small-town football team like the Mount Pleasant Tigers, the name on the front of the jersey means everything.
C. JEMAL HORTON
Thereâs a reason they call this place Tiger Town.
Not that you see anything other than a number on the backs of most high school uniforms, but in the Mount Pleasants of the world, the surname of the person wearing the jersey also has considerable meaning.
You can go through generations of football in this town of fewer than 1,800 (as of Thursday evening anyway), and many of the last names of the players sound familiar. When senior defensive back Layton âPeanutâ Honeycutt, for example, makes a big play, heâs doing it on the shoulders of his father and big brothers, who also wore the Tiger uniform, and his late grandfather, for whom Larry Honeycutt Field is named.
CONCORD – On what was an extremely windy evening, the West Cabarrus Wolverines didn’t let that deter them from their main goal: walking off Jay M. Robinson’s softball field with
Fox & Friends First law enforcement panel with reaction to unrest happening in Twin Cities area and other parts of the U.S.
Police in Raleigh, North Carolina, arrested 12 people Sunday after a third night of demonstrations in response to the death of Daunte Wright turned violent, as crowds sweeping across downtown vandalized stores, set fires and threw eggs and other projectiles at officers.
At approximately 8 p.m. on Sunday, a large crowd of protesters began marching throughout downtown Raleigh, the Raleigh Police Department said in a statement. Soon thereafter, members of the crowd began impeding traffic, throwing items, damaging property and setting several small fires.