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Thornton received a $1,000 scholarship. She was sponsored by the Exchange Club of Mount Olive.
Thornton has been involved in many fundraisers and service projects in her local and surrounding communities, said Lynne Smith, school counselor at North Duplin High.
Thornton has helped coordinate the Books for Buddies program at North Duplin Elementary, has helped with the John Roland Sullivan Scholarship Benefit for several years and actively volunteered at Sampson Regional Center in Clinton.
She also founded âThe Rose Project: Notes of Love,â in which she made paper roses from tissue paper and wrote notes to go along with them to nursing home residents during the pandemic. Within eight months, she had made and delivered more than 1,000 roses and notes to 14 different nursing homes, logging more than 600 miles across eastern North Carolina.
By RUDY COGGINS
Assistant Editor
CALYPSO - Kasey Jones has heard the story about North Duplin’s 2015 championship season and how this team could be on that same path.
Jones doesn’t like turning back the clock.
She respects the history, but understands the present.
“There’s a lot of pressure. We have to keep it cool, keep a level head and know if we come out here to compete, I think we can beat anybody.”
The Rebels proved that Monday evening.
Jones and freshman Reece Outlaw each slugged a home as North Duplin thumped Falls Lake Academy, 10-0, in their opening-round N.C. High School Athletic Association Class 1A softball playoff game.
2021 NCHSAA 1A Softball Playoff Projections
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By Nick Stevens, HighSchoolOT managing editor
Below are the projections for the 1A softball state playoffs for the 2020-2021 season.
These projections are not official and can change when the official brackets are released by the N.C. High School Athletic Association on Saturday, May 1. However, these projections are made using the protocols adopted by the NCHSAA Board of Directors and the results entered into MaxPreps by the schools. You can read the in-depth breakdown on how the playoff qualifiers will be determined and brackets created by clicking here.
Important note: We will not be able to project an actual bracket for the playoffs this year, only the qualifiers, the wildcard spots, the seeding tiers, and the bubble. Since the bracket will be built based on a random draw, it is impossible for us to project the eventual bracket with any level of certainty.
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Matt Coltren earned medalist honors with an 81 and North Duplin logged the lowest team score during their season-opening, Carolina 1A Conference boys’ golf match at Southern Wayne County Club on Monday afternoon.
Matt Evans (108), Summer Rose (118) and Michael Marcin (119) contributed to the Rebels’ four-player total of 426.
Hobbton’s Hayden Whaley finished second among individuals with a 96, followed by Lakewood’s Nate Taylor (97).
Lakewood posted a team score of 435.
The next Carolina 1A meet is March 22 at Timberlake Country Club in Clinton.
Softball
GOLDSBORO - Emily Williams posted four strikeouts and allowed four earned runs during Spring Creek’s season-opening, 13-3 loss to East Central 2A rival Goldsboro on Monday afternoon.