SportsTalk: South Granville’s Coach Johnson Aims For Great Strides

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After defeating Bunn, 27-6 in his first victory as a High School Head Football Coach, Sterling Johnson gives us his rundown on how he plans to prepare his Viking Team, as South Granville travels to Henderson to face off against Vance County on Thursday Night.

Area High School Football Games for Week 2:

  • Vance County (0-1) vs. South Granville (1-0)
  • Franklinton (1-0) @ Bunn (0-1)
  • Wake Forest (0-1) vs. Leesville Road (0-1)
  • Heritage (1-0) @ Millbrook (1-0)
  • Knightdale (0-1) @ Enloe (0-1)
  • East Wake (1-0) vs. Rocky Mount (0-1)
  • J.F. Webb (1-0) @ Warren County (1-0)
  • Louisburg (0-0) @ Southeast Halifax (0-1)
  • Wake Prep (0-1) vs. North Moore (0-1)
  • Mecklenburg County, VA (0-0) @ Brunswick, VA (0-0)

(Our WIZS written coverage will appear here soon.)

 (Note that it was announced that the High School Football Game between Vance County & South Granville would be moved to Thursday after Wednesday’s SportsTalk had concluded.)

Vance County hosts South Granville on Military and First Responders Appreciation Night for Week 2 of the 2026 season on Thursday, August 27th and you can hear all the action on WIZS 1450AM, 100.1FM, and online at wizs.com with pregame starting at 6:50 p.m. and kickoff thereafter at 7:00 p.m.

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SportsTalk: Coach Spellman Ready For Canes Football In 2026

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Quinderra Spellman, Head Football Coach of Louisburg College, joins SportsTalk to speak about the great strides that the Canes team has made in the offseason, as well as to preview the upcoming Week One game against Community Christian College.

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SportsTalk: Vance County Football Week 1 Recap

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Scout Hughes and Doc Ayscue recap Vance County’s loss to Warren County back on Thursday.

High School Football Scores from Week 1:

  • Warren County 52 Vance County 12
  • Franklinton 34 Person 14
  • Southern Durham 26 Wake Forest 21
  • Heritage 30 Wakefield 28
  • Southern Nash 33 Knightdale 13
  • East Wake 27 Riverside 20
  • J.F. Webb 28 Western Harnett 7
  • South Granville 27 Bunn 6
  • North Raleigh Christian 33 Wake Prep 13
  • Mecklenburg County, VA 19 Rustburg, VA 6

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SportsTalk: Coach Brind’Amour Inspires Us All

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Head Coach of the Carolina Hurricanes Rod Brind’Amour joins SportsTalk with Scout Hughes and George Hoyle to speak about winning the Stanley Cup as a player and now as a coach. Coach also talks about how he’d like to grow the sport of Hockey more in the Triangle and North Carolina.

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SportsTalk: Vipers Getting Prepared for Week 1 Rival

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UPDATE – FINAL SCORE 

Warren County 52

Vance County 12

RECAP MONDAY ON SPORTSTALK 

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Vance County High School Head Football Coach Aaron Elliott said tonight’s County Line Clash that takes the Vipers to Warren County High School is going to come down to which team can be more disciplined and more in control of emotions – it’s Week 1 AND a rivalry, to boot.

The game was moved to Thursday because of the threat of storms on Friday.

But that’s ok with Elliott. “This is my favorite week as a coach,” he told WIZS’s Scout Hughes and Doc Ayscue on Wednesday. “You tend to get a little extra out of the kids – Week 1 and playing a rival – you get the best out of them this week.”

Kickoff is set for 7 p.m. in Warrenton.

Elliott said the Vipers’ offense is shaping up pretty well after playing a couple of scrimmages. They moved the ball pretty well during the Jamboree and had some positive runs against last week’s scrimmage against Sanderson in Raleigh.

The Vipers will need that and more when they take the field against the Eagles, a team that Elliott said is a physical team. “They like to get after it. They’re going to play hard…they’re going to bring their A game,” he said.

Coach Victor Hunt’s team has athletes “all over the field,” and the Vipers have been able to review a bit of film to create a game plan for the matchup.

The Eagles are a 2A team, but the County Line Clash always seems to be a close one, although Vance County has more W’s in the rivalry.

Tune in to WIZS for the pre-game show at 6:50 p.m. tonight and then listen to the play-by-play for Week 1 of Friday Night Football.

Area High School Football Games for Week 1:

  • Vance County @ Warren County
  • Franklinton vs. Person
  • Wake Forest vs. Southern Durham 
  • Heritage @ Wakefield 
  • Knightdale vs. Southern Nash 
  • East Wake @ Riverside 
  • J.F. Webb vs. Western Harnett – Game at Granville Central MS
  • South Granville vs. Bunn 
  • Wake Prep @ North Raleigh Christian

Vance County travels to Warren County High School for Week 1 of the 2026 season on Thursday, August 20th and you can hear all the action on WIZS 1450AM, 100.1FM, and online at wizs.com with pregame starting at 6:50 p.m. and kickoff at 7:00 p.m.

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SportsTalk: Eagles Ready for Rivalry Game vs. Vance

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Warren County Head Football Coach Victor Hunt, joins SportsTalk with Scout & Doc to speak about how they have prepared to host Vance County for Week 1 of the High School Football Season.

(Our WIZS written coverage will appear here soon.)

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SportsTalk: AP Preseason College Football Top 25 Released

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Scout Hughes and Doc Ayscue talk about the new preseason College Football Top 25 released by the AP, Monday at 12 noon.

The Preseason AP Top 25:

  • 1. Ohio State
  • 2. Oregon
  • 3. Georgia
  • 4. Notre Dame
  • 5. Texas
  • 6. Indiana
  • 7. Miami (FL)
  • 8. Texas A&M
  • 9. Ole Miss
  • 10. Oklahoma
  • 11. LSU
  • 12. Texas Tech
  • 13. Alabama
  • 14. BYU
  • 14. USC
  • 16. Michigan
  • 17. Washington
  • 18. Penn State
  • 19. SMU
  • 20. Tennessee
  • 21. Utah
  • 22. Iowa
  • 23. Houston
  • 24. Louisville
  • 25. Missouri

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SportsTalk: What the Real ADM Numbers Tell Us

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Scout Hughes and George Hoyle dive into each school in the Kerr-Tar’s ADM Numbers and look at how many of those athletes are from early college and other speciality schools. With that, we determine what school would actually be in today’s NCHSAA Classification Measures.

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SportsTalk: The Case Made For Numbers

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Scout Hughes and George Hoyle debate as to if you don’t have the numbers to field a high school varsity team, in any sport, do you move everyone up from JV to fill in Varsity and not have a JV team, or not have the Varisty and rebuild through JV?

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