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2008 Jul-30
NOTEBOOK: Hounds hope to renew rivalry with WondersBy Brian Meadows
Statesville athletic director Bobby Morrison said Mooresville’s decision not to schedule the Greyhounds in football in 2009 upset fans. Some of those frowns may turn upside down if Statesville replaces the Blue Devils with K-town. The school is courting Kannapolis Brown — once a fierce rival. “It’s not finalized,” hopeful Statesville football coach Randall Gusler cautioned. “We have not gotten a contract back from them yet.” Morrison believes it will work out. “We have a verbal agreement between the two of us,” he said. The schools haven’t met since 2005, when the Wonders prevailed 24-6 in Greyhound Hollow. That punctuated a run of 23 consecutive years facing off. They battled twice in the same season a couple of times. En route to the 1989 state title, Kannapolis avenged its only regular-season loss by beating Statesville 31-7 in the third round of the playoffs. The following year, Statesville toppled the defending champs during the season and in the playoffs on its way to becoming state runner-up. Even though the series favors Kannapolis 36-12-1, “That has been a good game,” Gusler said. Their rivalry dates back to 1952, the year Kannapolis Brown opened its doors. There have only been nine years since that time that green and white hasn’t clashed with blue and gray. Conference realignment affected the most recent hiatus. The Wonders were the only team expendable in 2006, when Statesville had to make room on its North Piedmont 3A schedule to accommodate the addition of newly built China Grove Carson. SNAP THE BALL Friday marks the first official day of football practice for N.C. High School Athletic Association members. Four county schools will conduct evening workouts, with Mooresville, South Iredell and West Iredell hitting the fields at 6 p.m. and North Iredell starting at 7:30 p.m. Lake Norman and Statesville opted for morning workouts, which commence at 8:30 a.m. and 9 a.m., respectively. Scott Sherrill, Lake Norman’s head coach, favors morning practices for a variety of reasons, but mostly, he said, to avoid weather-induced scrambling. “I’ve never really understood why you would want to do it later with the lightning, thunderstorms and fatigue of the day when your kids come in,” Sherrill said. ELITE STATUS Lake Norman wrestler Harrison Honeycutt continues to excel on the mat in the offseason. The rising sophomore earned All-American honors this month at the USA Wrestling Championships in Fargo, N.D., while competing for the North Carolina national team. Wrestling at 189 pounds, Honeycutt placed fifth in freestyle and sixth in Greco-Roman to become North Carolina’s 12th double All-American in the 38-year history of the prestigious tournament. He won 11 of his 17 matches.
Honeycutt helped Lake Norman to a 26-5 record last fall, the Wildcats’ best finish in program history. As a freshman, he also placed fifth in his weight division at the state tournament.
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