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AROUND IREDELL SPORTS HAS MOVED

Statesville Express provides avenue for continued training

When simply winning became a little ho-hum at East Elementary, track and field coach Leonard King decided to take on a bigger challenge.

NSA World Series directly in the Storm’s path

There’s a certain business-like mindset to the Piedmont Storm, a local 14-and-under fastpitch softball team.

North Piedmont All-Stars prepare for trip to regionals on heels of winning state title

It was just moments after Statesville’s 10-year-old Babe Ruth All-Star team won the state championship Monday when someone piped up in the midst of a massive celebration: “We’re going to Disney World.”

Actually, they’re going to Winterville.

Former South Iredell star Tiffany Whiting helping build USC Upstate

Former South Iredell basketball star Tiffany Whiting is going through the rebuilding process.

Again.

Known in Iredell County for both her scoring prowess and being the catalyst of a major Vikings turnaround, Whiting is now facing the same challenge in college at University of South Carolina Upstate.

Iredell teen continues to excel when she saddles up

Kristi Johnson lassoes with the best of them, but occasionally she gets thrown for a loop.

Numbers swell at Statesville camp after 9-4 season

With 39 fellow campers looking on Wednesday morning, awaiting their shot at the tackling dummies, Pierce Conger stepped to the front of the pack and aided Randall Gusler with his demon-stration of the proper tackling technique.

MMA fighters will rumble in Mooresville

The Mooresville National Guard Armory will host 15 mixed martial arts bouts Saturday night.

Legion season gets underway tonight

The Statesville Owlz open the 2008 American Legion baseball season tonight against the Lake Norman Pirates.

Nina Kelly takes home top medal in gymnastics competition

Lake Norman High School sophomore Nina Kelly took the first place gold medal in the April 12 Star Trophy Invitational in Woodbridge, Va.

Chamber Challenge more than just golf

More, much more in fact, than just county-wide bragging rights will be on the tee during the course of this month’s annual Iredell Chamber Challenge golf outing.

Local anglers fill boat

Starting at the top and filling up positions up and down the line-up in between, area anglers were among those emerging as big winners from earlier this month’s area scheduled tour stop on the Wal-Mart Bass Fishing League series circuit.

Monroe shares skills at basketball clinics

At both the high school and college level, Rodney Monroe was a basketball point-scoring wiz.
That ability that also enabled him to pursue his goal of playing the game of basketball as a professional is now one that he is willing to share.

Free throw competition sign-ups end Friday

The routines are sure to be just as varied as the releases, but the objective of all will remain the same.

Make that free throw.

Mooresville Rec starts signups

The question as to “Who’s on first,’’ and the rest of the line-up routine begins for the Mooresville Recreation Department as of early next week.

Gator Club make strong showing at tournament

For baby steps, the Mooresville-based Gator Wrestling Club keeps making some major strides on the competitive mat.

The youth wrestlers, fresh off an earlier impressive outing earlier this month, continued to maintain a steady showing during participation in this past weekend’s Amateur Athletic Union Falcon Flight Novice Wrestling Tournament held at nearby East Lincoln Middle School in Denver.

Madness approaches in form of free throw contest

Mooresville’s own miniaturized version of March Madness remains firmly in place just at the end of the free throw lane, literally.

Youth wrestlers win big in tournament

You can’t weigh desire, but you can reward it. These are just but a portion of the local youth wrestlers pulling more than their share of the weight when representing the Mooresville Recreation Department during the course of this season’s Youth Recreational League Wrestling Tournament held in Hickory.

Lake club makes strides in angling

Lake Norman-based Balls Creek Junior Bass Club is making quite a name for itself in the eyes of the state’s youth bass angling organizations.

SCUBA enthusiast dives right in

Mooresville’s Billy Creswell isn’t at liberty to dispose the real reason why he got involved in scuba diving.

It’s classified military information.

If Creswell did reveal it, he’d have to kill those he told (OK, not really).

Fishermen have trouble finding top catches

Finding enough legal-sized fish wasn’t a problem for the two highest-finishing immediate Mooresville anglers participating in the professional pool during the American Bass Anglers Weekend Series tournament tour stop held on Lake Norman.

Finding them big enough to contend for top honors and the guaranteed $5,000 grand prize, though, was.

Dodgers seek new players

If the area-based Lake Norman Dodgers tournament-caliber baseball team is planning to remain artful, it’s gong to need players to make it happen.

SIAA sign-ups set for this weekend

Spring, in the eyes and information center within the South Iredell Athletic Association, has sprung.

Talbert, Segue receive tennis recognition

Mooresville players were among those singled out for special selection during the course of earlier this winter’s annual North Carolina Tennis Association’s annual awards luncheon as part of North Carolina’s 2008 Tennis Weekend.

Senior center warms up for table tennis tourney

Mooresville’s Gerard Schreuders still swings a mighty mean table tennis paddle.

He will be among those providing proof of just that as he is expecting to be in the field for both the singles and doubles portions of the scheduled 2008 Spring Table Tennis Tournament taking place early next month.

It takes two to take winter classic

Troutman resident jerry Godfrey was one glad fisherman to have fellow resident Roger Morrow as an accompanying boatmate during the course of late last month’s annual Lake Norman Striper Swipers Winter Classic.

Radicals support No. 1 billing

Being billed as No. 1 is one thing. Living up to that billing is another.

As it turned out, the Mooresville-based Radicals of the area’s Race City Volleyball Club organization did both during the course of major competition last month.

Calling all turkeys

When Mooresville’s Kyle Gilliland commences calling, the state’s wild turkey population has a hard time not answering.

A year removed from emerging as his age division’s winner of the Mooresville-held North Carolina State National Wild Turkey Federation Calling Contest, Gilliland showed no signs of silencing upon winding up as the highest-finishing local entry in this year’s state championship competition event as well.

Women’s Bassmaster offers direct route to Classic

Lake Norman area and additional participants from all across North Carolina will be traveling a lot more but have more incentive to make those extra miles pay off during the course of competition on this year’s upcoming Bass Anglers Sportsman Society’s Women’s Bassmaster Tour.

Remember Thliveros?

Patience, local experience and a “What the heck?” attitude paid off earlier this month for Bass Anglers Sportsman Society Bassmaster Elite Series pro Peter Thliveros, who lives less than an hour from the St. Johns River, where he won the Bassmaster Southern Open, the opening stop on this year’s BASS tour schedule.

Vipers in need of players

The Mooresville-based Carolina Vipers 12-and-under tournament caliber youth baseball team is making an attempt to add more poison to its game.

With all team positions still up for grabs, the Vipers are in the process of scheduling tryouts for any and all interested players in continued preparation for the fast-approaching beginning of the tournament schedule season.

Special Olympics sends soccer team to state games

The first-ever Special Olympics of Lake Norman entry in late last year’s Special Olympics of North Carolina Fall State Games has only itself to blame and/or credit – depending on its preferred point of view—for upgrading its rookie-level status during the course of the single weekend’s event.

Stikeleather nets state’s biggest crappie

A few precious ounces wound up carrying a lot of welcome added weight for area angler Brian Stikeleather during a fishing excursion on Lake Norman late last year.

Stikeleather, who goes by the nickname of “Buck,” of Stony Point broke the white crappie North Carolina state record on Dec. 9 after reeling in a 1-pound, 13-ounce fish from Lake Norman’s waters.

Anna McAllister plows over competition

Practically from the outset, the second-generation competitive tractor driver sitting high in the seat onboard her farming family’s fourth-generation stock machine has proven to be a force to be reckoned with and one hard-pressed to beat with any kind of regularity on the Old Timey Tractor Pulling Association, Inc. competition trail.

Cobras prepare for 2008 season with fundraiser

Organizing officials for the local-based Mooresville Cobras 12-and-under and 13-and-under tournament caliber youth baseball teams aren’t wasting any time getting the ball rolling for the upcoming 2008 competition season.

This month alone, beginning as early as this weekend, the Cobras are setting into motion matters helping them additionally prepare for the fast-approaching campaign.

Mooresville Rec now accepting volleyball, basketball

Girls, it seems, will be the ones having all the fun courtesy of a pair of events scheduled to get underway early in 2008 and being conducted through the Mooresville Recreation Department.

The MRD is currently registering participants for both its planned volleyball and basketball clinics on tap to take place throughout the months of January and February. There is no charge to take part in either affair, but sign-ups in advance are required as only a limited number of vacancies are available for each.

Duke, PBA , NASCAR gather for cause

Followers and friends alike kept beckoning throughout the introductions for diminutive master of ceremonies Norm Duke to stand up. The multi-time honored Professional Bowlers Association Tour member kept reminding them that he was.
He wasn’t the only one.

Woodie bags top honors at lake tourney

Morganton’s Bradley Woodie left a lasting impression on his fellow competitors in the final Balls Creek Bass Tournament of the season held earlier this month on Lake Norman.

Youth baseball tryouts this weekend

Tryouts are scheduled for any and all youngsters meeting the age qualifications and wishing to secure a roster spot on either one of a Mooresville-based 12-and-under and 13-and-under tournament caliber baseball teams for the upcoming spring season.

Baseball camp starts Dec. 21

Once again this late December, the annual Baseball at Christmas pitcher and baseball camp will be held. Registration is underway now and is rounding the bases towards home plate for the affair that is on tap to take place Dec. 21-22.

U-12 Coyotes take division

Stellar all-around play proved to be just the ticket as the newly-formed group of under-12 Coyotes kicked aside their rookie status to emerge as the victors of this fall’s South Iredell Soccer Association age division champions.

Rookie Tornadoes outshine CAYSL veterans

Opponents haven’t heard the last from these members of the Lake Norman Soccer Club’s nine-and-under Lady Tornadoes soccer team. In their inaugural season, the Lady T’s posted a first-place finish in the Charlotte Area Youth Soccer League 2007 Fall U-9 Girls Silver Division, posting a 7-1 record in the process.

Season full of venom for U-12 Vipers

For the most part, it was a campaign filled with venom for these members of the South Iredell Soccer Association’s 12-and-under Lady Vipers.

Moose conducting a soccer clinic for area youth

The Justin Moose Professional Soccer Clinic will be held Dec. 3-4 at the Statesville Soccer Complex.

Lake Norman youth soccer takes division

The Lake Norman Soccer Club’s U9G Lady Tornadoes soccer team won the CAYSL (Charlotte area youth soccer league) 2007 Fall U9G Silver division with a 7-1 record.

Former Lake Norman football standout finds new athletic venue

Here it finally was, Jason Carr’s 21st birthday, and there was no cake or booze in sight.

U-12 Coyotes howl as division champs

Stellar all-around play proved to be just the ticket as the newly-formed group of under-12 Coyotes kicked aside their rookie status to emerge as the victors of this fall’s South Iredell Soccer Association age division champions.

U-9 Cobras claim winter state crown

U-8 Cobras take state honors

If it’s true that teams do seem to get better with age, then brighter days are definitely in store for these members of the local-based Carolina Cobras eight-and-under tournament youth baseball team.

Pirates claim fall baseball booty

All of the riches on this most recent Mooresville Recreation Department’s Fall Baseball League ship wound up being collected by these members of the Pirates.

Cobras take first in Blast

Participating in the November Blast wound up being just that for these players and coaches of the Mooresville-based Carolina Cobras nine and under tournament caliber baseball team.

Time is now for Carolina Comets-Teal

Forget about being a championship-caliber tournament level Mooresville-based girls fastpitch softball team in the making. The Carolina Comets-Teal 12-and-under squad is already there.

It has the evidence to prove it.

Three-way affair on tap

They’ll be taking care of business as often as three at a time during the course of Saturday evening’s Night of Champions in Mooresville’s National Guard Armory.

Courtesy of WrestleKings II Productions and Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, the grand floor in the armory will be transformed into a major professional wrestling ring in order to cater to a full night of championship-caliber grappling.

Register now for youth rec sports

‘Tis the sign-up season in regards to the youth basketball and wrestling programs again being conducted this late fall and winter through the Mooresville Recreation Department.

Registration actually kicked off for both sports late last week and will continue to be accepted through the end of November.

It’s midget football’s time to shine

Now, it’s the Mooresville Midget Football League’s Pee Wee Division teams turn to shine within the Southland Football League ranks.

Last weekend, the MMFL Midget teams got their turn, all four of the squads taking their turn to compete for overall bragging rights when engaging in the annual Midget Bowl Day affairs held on the Bandys High School field.

Blue Knights seeing red

Despite their relative newness to the tournament-level baseball diamond, the local-based Mooresville Blue Knights 12-and-under United States Specialty Sports Association team is leaving its opponents, for the most part, seeing red.
In just their second tournament appearance of their short existence, the Knights stormed their way through the field on the final day of play to capture the most competitive Gold Division medalist honors during the course of play in earlier this month’s USSSA Lake Norman Challenge.

‘Kicks for Kids’ hope feet don’t fail them now

When they need them the most, JJ Morse Kicks for Kids scholarship finalists Michele Magnuson and Will Mack hope their feet are there when they take aim at final boots worth the winning of the available $1,000 payoff.

Cobras seek teammates

With a late fall chill in the air, it’s not too early to start at least thinking about the spring.
That is the thinking of the organizers with the area-based Carolina Lady Cobras, a fastpitch girl’s tournament-caliber team scheduling tryouts for its spring roster as of this weekend.

Midgets prepare for playoffs

Several days of welcome rain and its lingering aftermath wound u throwing a delay of game penalty at the Mooresville Midget Football League Pee Wee Division clubs engaging in Southland Football League Bowl Day action last weekend.
Scheduled games set for the Newton-Conover High School field were put on hold and will now be played the following weekend instead.

Warriors back in title tilt

It’s a feat worth repeating for the area-based Iredell Warriors semi-professional football team.
The Warriors earned their way back to another appearance in the Central Carolina Football Conference’s championship game after holding on to claim a 38-30 triumph over the Carolina Eagles on the final weekend of October.

Pumpkin Run on tap for weekend

It may not be the great pumpkin, but it is the Pumpkin Run and accompanying events taking place this weekend courtesy of the Mooresville Recreation Department.

Warriors host CCFL playoff game

It’s upward and ever onward for the area-based Iredell Warriors semi-professional football team.
The Warriors, comprised primarily of local and Iredell County talent, earned the right to not only advance into but also host this weekend’s semifinals of the ongoing Central Carolina Football League playoffs after easily eliminating the Carolina Bulldogs, 35-0, in quarterfinal round play last weekend.

Club volleyball preps for tryouts

It’s time once again to get serious once again about club volleyball.

Race City Volleyball Club is once again proud to announced that it’s now making plans for its upcoming second season.

Bill Bruckner takes special honors in AutoFair

Mooresville car enthusiast Bill Bruckner didn’t drive way from this year’s annual Food Lion AutoFair empty handed. His prize showcase vehicle helped see to that.

Bruckner wound up being one of a select number of participants in the yearly affair to earn a specialty award, his pride and joy 1967 Pontiac GTO selected as the recipient of the Bob Laidlein Award for being the event’s Most Original.

Fobare marks first hole-in-one

Mooresville’s Mark Fobare will never forget his round of golf played at nearby The Warrior Golf Club late last month. He has one unforgettable shot to thank for that.

Dodgers edged out of youth tournament

Women’s golf hosts, tops tourney

Moose lodges compete in state horseshoe tourney

The steady clang of steel meeting with steel, the occasional thud from hitting wood, the subtle swish of landing in sand, and the constant hooting and hollering filled the horseshoe pitch stalls of the Mooresville Moose Lodge.

Nearly a dozen two-player teams converged on the six groomed pits maintained by local Lodge 2012 just of U.S. 21 north of Mooresville recently, when the lodge hosted the annual N.C. Moose Lodge Horseshoe Championships.

Midget Warriors take tough loss

Warriors beaten in regular-season finale

Rowan Rampage quarterback D’Andre Hopper threw a touchdown pass, ran for another schore and kicked a 27-yard field goal on Saturday in an 18-12 win over the Iredell Warriors.

Junior Bobcat league holds organizational meetings

The Statesville Recreation and Parks Department will hold registration for the 2007-2008 Junior Bobcats Youth Basketball Program from Oct. 15 through Nov. 9. This program will run throughout the winter, from December to February.

Youth wrestling meetings begin Oct. 15

The Statesville Recreation and Parks Department will hold registration for the 2007-2008 Youth Wrestling Program Oct. 15 through Nov. 9. This program will run throughout the winter, from December to February.

Basketball league organizes meetings

The Statesville Recreation and Parks Department is making plans for the 2007-2008 Men’s Basketball Program. Two leagues are being offered: Men’s Open and Men’s Industrial. Participants in the Industrial League must be full-time employees of the sponsoring industry.

Midget Football League results

Mooresville Midget Football League gains on the Southland Football League came at the expense of MMFL last weekend.

Engaging in games played in the Mooresville Stadium, all wins posted by the local organization came against teams also aligned within the same outfit to account for a full day’s play.

Mooresville course hosts charity golf tourney

Defense rescues Warriors

Defense rode to the rescue for the area-based Iredell Warriors semi-professional football team last weekend.

Riding the effort on that side of the scrimmage line, the Warriors allowed the game’s only touchdown to stand up as the difference in a tight, 7-0 edging of the host High Point Raiders.

Golf association urges community to think pink

Think pink.

That was the overwhelming message, in all it’s splendor, splashed upon the field for this year’s annual Rally For A Cure golf tournament once again conducted under the hospitable services of the Mooresville Women’s Golf Association.

Bruckner nets Most Original

Mooresville car enthusiast Bill Bruckner didn’t drive way from this year’s annual Food Lion AutoFair empty handed. His prize showcase vehicle helped see to that.

Bruckner wound up being one of a select number of participants in the yearly affair to earn a specialty award, his pride and joy 1967 Pontiac GTO selected as the recipient of the Bob Laidlein Award for being the event’s Most Original.

Local pair finishes second

Though holding the numbers advantage, Mooresville’s Jamie and David Munari wound up feeling a tad bit outnumbered during the final Friday Night Fishin’ Friends event.

One of a host of entries competing in the finale out if Midway Marina and used to draw the circuit’s 19-week schedule to a close, the all-in-the-family Manuri crew just missed bagging both the heaviest amount of Lake Norman bass overall and accounting for the single largest catch overall to finish a close second on both regards.

McReynolds to host golf tourney again

Mooresville’s Larry McReynolds spent time during the past year busily thumbing his way through a favorite joke book, finding suitable anecdotes he could use while hosting his Larry McReynolds Celebrity Golf Tournament.

McReynolds, who makes it a point to try and welcome all in the field personally, was once again up to his old tricks.

Moose lodge hosts horseshoe championships

The steady clang of steel colliding with steel, the occasional thud from hitting wood, the subtle swish of landing in sand, and the constant hooting and hollering filled the horseshoe pitch stalls of the Mooresville Moose Lodge.

Nearly a dozen two-player teams converged on the six groomed pits maintained by local Lodge 2012, just of N.C. Highway 21 north of Mooresville, as it took its turn late this summer as the host of the annual N.C. Moose Lodge Horseshoe Championships.

Septuagenarian finishes what she started

Mooresville’s Grace Hoglund must have had the feeling she was on a course all her own during earlier this month’s inaugural Historic Mooresville 5K.

In a way, she was.

At 72, Hoglund was the oldest by almost five years of any other of the 190 runners in the field of the inaugural race. And she took top finishing honors in her female age 70-90 division.

Registration open for memorial tourney

Organizers of the annual Kin Gallyon Memorial Golf Tournament are hoping that earlier does indeed mean better.
Conducting matters nearly a month ahead of when they were last year, this early fall season’s affair is accepting registration full bore now for its ninth annual event that will be held Oct. 5.

Warriors shut down Thomasville Titans

The Iredell Warriors got back on track Saturday.

After losing their first game of the year last week, the Warriors (8-1) held Thomasville’s offense to 10 total yards in a 21-0 victory.

Mixed results in midget football

All the good news for the Mooresville Midget Football League within the Southland Football League play last weekend came complete with the bad.

That was the case as, for the first of two times all season, MMFL teams squared off against each other in both the SFL Pee Wee and Midget divisions in games additionally spiced by the fact that it accounted for the first time they squads set foot on the new synthetic playing surface on their home Mooresville Stadium field.

Winston preps for new ballpark

A small army of backhoes, bulldozers and dump trucks are making tough work look easy, leveling steep, kudzu-lined slopes to clear the site of Winston-Salem’s planned downtown baseball stadium.

Warriors suffer first loss

Perfection has finally eluded the area-based Iredell Warriors semi-professional football team.

Riding a seven-game winning streak overall that included all previous games within their Central Carolina Football League, the Warriors were stopped shy of picking up number eight following an 18-12 loss suffered near the state’s capitol to the Durham Rattlers last weekend.

Hickory classic sets record attendance

Several high-profile players, a special 9/11 ceremony and gorgeous weekend weather spurred the Greater Hickory Classic to record attendance last week.

More than 101,000 people converged on Rock Barn Golf & Spa for the annual Champions Tour golf tournament, which features seven days of events. The previous record was more than 90,000.

Trick golfer impresses at Hickory Classic

Darrell Dietz says he struggles to hit a motionless golf ball.

That’s why watching golf trick shot artist Chuck “The Hitman” Hiter on Tuesday was just amazing.

Planning to attend the Greater Hickory Classic?

Officials expect about 80 golfers in the tournament. Spectators average between 60,000 to 90,000 during the week, says Pete Fisch, tournament manager.

The biggest problem security has is traffic. Spectators are not allowed to park inside Rock Barn without a proper pass. Cars parked on the side of the road will be towed, Fisch said. Today through Thursday, a shuttle will pick up spectators at the equestrian center on North Oxford Street at Rock Barn Road. Friday through Sunday general parking is at the Hickory American Legion Fairgrounds on U.S. 70.

Warriors continue impressive play

The Iredell Warriors dominated the rival Catawba Hornets on Saturday in a 28-6 win.

Link has right name, and game, for golf

By sheer coincidence, UNC-Greensboro women’s golfer Jennifer Link of Mooresville caught up with a group of regulars on the Mooresville Municipal Golf Course.

Then, she passed most of them.

Midgets get taste of NFL

Some members of the Mooresville Midget Football league got a jump on the rest of the field recently and did so with the aid of professionals.

Some 30 participants in the MMFL program were in attendance at the Panthers Junior Training Camp held on the National Football League’s Carolina Panthers training ground.

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