The East Burke boys basketball team capped a stretch of four straight road games with a 83-49 victory over Bandys in Catawba Valley 2A Conference play Tuesday.
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Jon Hancock has his East Burke boys basketball team in the very heart of the Catawba Valley 2A Conference championship race as the regular season draws to a close.
A pair of sprinters highlighted a banner day for East Burke and Draughn at the 2A West swimming regional Saturday. The Wildcats' Alex McGee qualified for state in the 50-yard freestyle for the fourth straight year, finishing third with a time of 22.71 seconds.
Going into Saturday’s CVAC wrestling championship semifinals at East Burke High, six county wrestlers were in position to punch their ticket to the next round.
A rollercoaster of a two-week span continued Thursday for the East Burke boys basketball team, as the Cavaliers were upset on the road at Maiden in Catawba Valley 2A Conference play, 65-62.
Win or lose, the East Burke boys basketball team couldn’t tie West Caldwell atop the conference race on Tuesday.
Aubrey Smart scored a team-high nine points as the East Burke JV girls basketball team won at West Caldwell 40-22 on Tuesday.
Earlier this season at home, the East Burke boys basketball team came back from a eight-point halftime deficit to win by 13 over Newton-Conover.
After scoring 35 points in a win over rival Draughn last month in Valdese, East Burke junior guard Clay Byrd saved his heroics for the final seconds of Tuesday’s home game against the Wildcats.
A trio of underclassmen scored at least 15 points apiece in the East Burke girls basketball team’s lopsided Catawba Valley 2A Conference road win Friday over Bunker Hill, 76-37.
The East Burke High wrestling team lost 58-16 at South Iredell on Tuesday in a Catawba Valley 2A Conference match.
The Draughn and East Burke boys swimming squads will once again be the main threats to come out on top at Saturday’s Catawba Valley 2A Athletic Conference championships, which start at 9:15 a.m. at the Jimmy C. Draughn Aquatic Center.
The East Burke High buses are warming up, and they’ll get quite the test over the next three weeks.
Friday night’s Catawba Valley 2A Conference varsity boys contest between East Burke and Bandys got off to a rocky start for the Cavaliers.
East Burke boys basketball coach Jon Hancock seems to have a way to deflect the spotlight from himself.
The saying “practice makes perfect” held true for the East Burke boys basketball squad in Tuesday’s 71-49 home victory over visiting Maiden in Catawba Valley 2A Conference play.
Despite a new coach and a new set of players, the West Caldwell boys basketball team continued to show it can be a dominate force in Catawba Valley Athletic 2A Conference play after giving East Burke its first conference loss Friday night, 80-60.
The East Burke boys basketball team bounced back from consecutive losses with an emphatic 67-54 Catawba Valley 2A Conference home triumph against Newton-Conover on Tuesday.
Before 2011 came to an close, the East Burke wrestling squad gained six wins in their two-day eighth annual Benson Duals tournament that featured 17 different wrestling squads in two gyms.
East Burke junior guard Clay Byrd scored a career-high 50 points Thursday versus Butler in the boys’ third-place game of the 2011 Burke County Christmas Invitational.
The East Burke boys basketball team scored just eight first-half points and was limited to 24 fewer points than in any of its previous 10 games this season in a 53-30 loss to Berry in Wednesday’s Burke County Christmas Invitational semifinal contest.
Despite being outscored 25-22 in the final period of Tuesday’s Burke County Christmas Invitational opener versus McDowell, the East Burke boys basketball team never lost the lead in a 75-71 victory.
In preparation for Wednesday’s Burke Brawl tournament, the East Burke wrestling team dropped both ends of a road tri match Tuesday, falling 61-15 to 3A Ashbrook and 42-37 to 1A Cherryville.
With 151 total points and a pair of first-place finishers, the Freedom High wrestling squad won the inaugural Warrior Invitational at West Caldwell High on Saturday, beating out second-place Wilkes Central by 22.5 points.
Elijah Reese scored 19 points to lead all scorers and the East Burke JV boys basketball team never looked back from a 17-6 opening period in a 50-30 road win at Draughn on Friday.
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