Freedom’s Dustin Moss and Mark Evanko and Patton’s Hannah Keller each punched tickets to the 3A state swimming championships by hitting qualifying marks at Friday’s 3A West Regional at the Huntersville Fitness and Aquatic Center.
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Coming off a narrow four-point road loss at the state’s fifth-ranked 3A team — league-leading R-S Central — the momentum kept rolling for the Patton Lady Panthers basketball team, who sent seniors Kaitlin Broadbent and Ashley Phillips off on a winning note in their final regular-season home game, 66-24 over Burns.
The R-S Central girls basketball team was trying to give its top scorer the night of her life, while Patton was trying to knock off the top team in the South Mountain 2A/3A Athletic Conference.
It all comes down to a single match on the Freedom mats tonight at 6:30.
The Freedom High wrestling team downed defending regular-season South Mountain 2A/3A Conference champion R-S Central 45-33 on the road Friday, improving their record to 12-6 overall and 5-0 in the league.
This time around, the Patton girls basketball team wanted to make sure it wasn’t just Shelby senior Anika Jones who beat them.
Patton withstood a ferocious fourth-quarter rally by visiting East Rutherford on Tuesday in a South Mountain 2A/3A Conference girls basketball victory.
The Patton girls basketball team registered 17 steals and forced 25 Chase turnovers, scoring on nearly half of them, to push their South Mountain 2A/3A Conference record back over .500 with a 53-29 Friday road victory.
The Freedom High wrestling team remained focused following exam week and rolled to an impressive 57-18 home triumph Friday in a South Mountain 2A/3A Conference match.
The Shelby High swim teams won both the boys and girls portions of Thursday’s South Mountain 2A/3A Conference championship meet, with Freedom and Patton each nipping their heels for a pair of second and third-place results.
After Friday’s 37-32 Freedom girls basketball victory at rival Patton, Lady Patriot coach Amber Fox wasn’t afraid to come right out and say it.
The Freedom and Patton girls basketball teams each have a goal in mind. Freedom’s is to stay near the top of the conference, while Patton’s is to get there for the first time.
Patton completed its final wrestling tune-up before the South Mountain 2A/3A Conference slate begins with a tri-match against St. Stephens and host West Caldwell on Wednesday.
The new year didn’t start off on the right foot for the Patton girls basketball squad, which hosted South Mountain 2A/3A Conference leaders R-S Central on Tuesday.
The Patton girls basketball team split the season series with a third different non-conference opponent after Wednesday’s 68-55 home win over Fred T. Foard. For the first time, though, it was the Lady Panthers exacting revenge from a previous defeat instead of the other way around.
The Patton girls basketball team lost for the first time this year in South Mountain 2A/3A Conference play on Tuesday night at Shelby, 61-48.
Some pesky defense and solid free throw shooting in the final frame fueled the Patton girls basketball team’s game-ending run in a 65-62 comeback win at East Rutherford on Friday.
The Patton girls swimming team pulled out a narrow 180-168 win over rival Freedom, while the Patriot boys evened the score with a 196-159 win over the Panthers in a South Mountain 2A/3A Conference meet Wednesday at the Morganton Aquatic Center.
Patton’s boys basketball team’s new season began just as the old one end — with a victory.
The Patton boys basketball team capped a night of payback by picking up its first win of the season, 61-50 over Draughn at home on Friday.
In a close varsity opener at Patton on Wednesday night, South Caldwell hit its free throws down the stretch to outlast the Lady Panthers, 53-42.
Patton High senior guard Jarron Baker scored a game-high and season-high 27 points, including a 3-point buzzer-beater just before halftime to trim his team’s deficit to 22-20, but Hibriten stayed undefeated with a 56-45 home win Monday.
The Patton JV girls basketball team bounced back from its first loss of the season with a 66-40 road win at Hibriten on Monday.
The Patton High wrestling team had five weight class winners and four runners up to compile 175 points and win the team championship at the inaugural Big Cat Invitational, hosted by the Panthers on Saturday.
The Patton High boys and girls swimming teams opened the season with a pair of wins versus South Mountain 2A/3A Conference foes Chase and East Rutherford in a meet Friday at Isothermal Community College.
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