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SportsTalk: High School Football Games this Friday

With Vance County, and many others on a bye week, Scout Hughes and Doc Ayscue talk about the high school, college and pro football games happening this weekend!

High School Games this week:

  • J.F. Webb (2-2) vs. Northwest Halifax (3-1)
  • Warren County (3-1) vs. Roanoke Rapids (1-3)
  • Louisburg (4-0) @ Carrboro (0-4)
  • Bunn (2-2) @ Beddingfield (1-3)
  • Wake Prep (3-2) @ Washington County (2-2)
  • Mecklenburg County, VA (1-3) vs. Bassett, VA (2-2)

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Vance County High School

SportsTalk: Vipers Football Week 5 Recap

Scout Hughes and Doc Ayscue recap Vance County’s football game against Northeastern last Friday. The guys also talk about other games that happened in high school, college and the NFL.

High School Scores for Week 5:

  • Northeastern 40 Vance County 8
  • Franklinton 35 Riverside Durham 7
  • Hillside Durham 20 Wake Forest 7
  • Holly Springs 23 Heritage 7
  • Knightdale 38 South Granville 35
  • Cary 38 East Wake 20
  • Warren County 28 Nash Central 8
  • Louisburg 23 Beddingfield 18
  • Wake Prep 48 North Edgecombe 0
  • Greensville County (VA) 14 Mecklenburg County (VA) 13

College Scores for Week 4:

  • Central Florida 34 North Carolina 9
  • Duke 45 NC State 33
  • Virginia 48 Stanford 20
  • Virginia Tech 38 Wofford 6
  • BYU 34 East Carolina 13
  • Rice 28 Charlotte 17
  • NC Central 62 NC A&T 20
  • Louisburg College 27 Sussex County CC 9

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Vance County High School

SportsTalk: Vance County Football Week 4 Recap

Scout Hughes and Doc Ayscue recap Vance County’s Week 4 game vs. Rocky Mount, as well as some of the other high school games in our area. The guys also talk about the college and NFL games that happened over the weekend.

High School Scores from Week 4:

  • Rocky Mount 41 Vance County 14
  • Louisburg 28 Franklinton 8
  • Wake Forest 42 Wakefield 7
  • Burlington Williams 24 Heritage 0
  • Sanderson 42 Knightdale 39
  • East Wake 28 Bunn 26
  • J.F. Webb 28 Eden Morehead 0
  • Warren County 13 South Granville 6
  • Wake Prep 49 ALA-Johnston 14
  • Amherst County (VA) 19 Mecklenburg County (VA) 0

College Scores around the area in Week 3:

  • NC State 34 Wake Forest 24
  • North Carolina 41 Richmond 6
  • Tulane 34 Duke 27
  • Virginia 55 William & Mary 16
  • Old Dominion 45 Virginia Tech 26 
  • ECU 38 Coastal Carolina 0
  • Charlotte 42 Monmouth 35
  • Southern Miss 38 App State 22
  • North Carolina Central 49 Fayetteville State 19
  • Louisburg College 38 Hudson Valley CC 10

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SportsTalk: Louisburg College Football vs. HVCC Preview and other Week 3 College Games

Scout Hughes and George Hoyle have an interview with Louisburg College Football Head Coach Quinderra Spellman to preview their next game against Hudson Valley Community College. The guys also talk about some of the other college games going on for week 3.

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SportsTalk: VCFNF Week 3 Recap

Scout Hughes and Doc Ayscue recap Week 3 in the High School Football Season. The guys also go over scores from college and the NFL.

High School Scores for Week 3:

  • Jordan 52 Vance County 0
  • Franklinton 26 South Granville 14
  • Millbrook 48 Wake Forest 7
  • Leesville Road 50 Heritage 3
  • Panther Creek 24 Knightdale 21
  • Southeast Raleigh 52 East Wake 7
  • Bunn 71 J.F. Webb 32
  • Louisburg 42 Northampton County 0
  • Wake Prep 54 Pamlico County 8
  • Hopewell (VA) 16 Mecklenburg County (VA) 14

College Scores around our area for Week 2:

  • North Carolina 20 Charlotte 3
  • Illinois 45 Duke 17
  • NC State 35 Virginia 31
  • Wake Forest 42 Western Carolina 10
  • East Carolina 56 Campbell 3
  • App State 20 Lindenwood 13
  • Vanderbilt 44 Virginia Tech 20
  • Old Dominion 54 NC Central 6
  • Presbyterian College JV 39 Louisburg College 29

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SportsTalk: 1-1 Vipers Ready to Face Jordan Falcons Friday

UPDATE – FINAL SCORE 

Jordan 52

Vance County 0

RECAP MONDAY ON SPORTSTALK 

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Vance County Vipers Head Coach Aaron Elliott was able to find something positive in last week’s 33-6 loss to South Granville High School, and that’s enough to keep him and the team focused on Friday’s matchup against the Jordan Falcons.

The offense racked up “a considerable amount of yards,” Elliott told WIZS’s Scout Hughes and George Hoyle. “We improved from the week before. We’re not where we want to be, but we improved offensively.”

Elliott said there will be a half dozen or so JV players dressed out, mainly because of some lingering injuries hanging around.

“I’ve never had the injury bug hit us like it’s gotten us the last two weeks,” he said. Zion Thornton is still nursing an ankle injury he sustained in a pre-season scrimmage, for example.

“Our main goal with him – and everybody really – is to get them healthy for conference time,” Elliott said.

But he’s not looking past Jordan, which he said is a good team with a solid coaching staff. They’re 2-0 in the young season, and Elliott said the Falcons beat two good teams – a 22-20 victory over Leesville Road and a 30-7 romp over cross-county rival Southern School of Energy and Sustainability (formerly known as Southern Durham).

“I’ve told my guys all week, if we’re prepared and (we) do not make mistakes – if we play a mistake-free ball game, we can definitely compete,” he said.

Keys to the game are making sure the players are playing assignment football and executing the plays.

“We’ve talked all week about executing,” he said. “I think we’ve got a good game plan, we’ve just got to execute. We’ve got to line up right defensively and we’ve got to do all the small things offensively,” he added.

The Labor Day Holiday meant a shortened week of practice for the Vipers, but Elliott said the team has had a couple of really good days. At the team meeting, Elliott and his staff addressed first thing all the missed assignments and alignments that hampered the Vipers against South Granville.

“We made too many mistakes,” Elliott said of his team’s performance last week in Creedmoor. “The very first play on defense we lined up wrong.” But he’s not one to wallow too long in what could have been.

He told his team not to let that game define who they are as a team. “We want to win. We want our best out there, but we have to think about us being healthy going in to conference play.”

“We built this schedule to make us better…the next three weeks are going to be tough,” Elliott said, but that’s ok because it will only help toughen up the team for what Elliott hopes will be  strong conference play that extends through the regular season and in post-season play.

And, just for the record, the last time Vance County took the field against Jordan was in Elliott’s first year as head coach. After a lackluster first half performance, Elliott was able to rally his team for a second half surge and ultimately a W with a 28-27 final score.

“I’ve definitely learned, especially from that season, that these kids are going to fight to the end,” Elliott said. “Our kids didn’t fold.”

Vance County hosts Jordan on Military and First Responders Appreciation Night for Week 3 of the 2025 season on Friday, September 5th 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: Minor League Baseball Update and AP Top 25 Release after Week 1

Scout Hughes and Doc Ayscue give an update on Minor League Baseball here in North Carolina. The guys also speak on the AP Top 25 Poll for College Football that recently released.

Friday MiLB Scores:

  • Durham Bulls 5 Worcester 3
  • Nashville 5 Charlotte 4
  • Wilmington 2 Greensboro 1
  • Hub City 8 Asheville 0
  • Rome 2 Winston-Salem 1
  • Delmarva 6 Carolina Mudcats 2
  • Kannapolis 10 Salem 7
  • Hickory 6 Columbia 5
  • Fayetteville 8 Myrtle Beach 1

Saturday MiLB Scores:

  • Durham Bulls 7 Worcester 2
  • Nashville 10 Charlotte 0
  • Asheville 9 Hub City 4
  • Wilmington 6 Greensboro 2
  • Rome 7 Winston-Salem 6
  • Hickory 6 Columbia 1
  • Delmarva 3 Carolina Mudcats 2
  • Kannapolis 9 Salem 6
  • Myrtle Beach 5 Fayetteville 3

Sunday MiLB Scores:

  • Worcester 10 Durham Bulls 1
  • Nashville 7 Charlotte 0
  • Winston-Salem 5 Rome 0
  • Hub City 4 Asheville 2
  • Greensboro 7 Wilmington 1
  • Delmarva 1 Carolina Mudcats 0
  • Columbia 1 Hickory 0
  • Fayetteville 12 Myrtle Beach 3
  • Kannapolis 4 Salem 1

Labor Day MiLB Scores:

  • Durham Bulls 4 Gwinnett 1
  • Salem 8 Fayetteville 5
  • Kannapolis 10 Augusta 6

Tuesday MiLB Scores:

  • Jacksonville 6 Charlotte 1
  • Hudson Valley 4 Greensboro 0
  • Winston-Salem 1 Greenville 0
  • Bowling Green 2 Asheville 1
  • Carolina Mudcats 9 Fredericksburg 5
  • Hickory 3 Charleston 2

Wednesday MiLB Games Today:

  • Fredericksburg 4 Carolina Mudcats 3
  • Durham Bulls vs. Gwinnett – 7:05pm
  • Double Header
    • Charlotte vs. Jacksonville – 5:05pm
    • Charlotte vs. Jacksonville – after game 1
  • Greensboro vs. Hudson Valley – 6:05pm
  • Winston-Salem vs. Greenville – 6:30pm
  • Asheville vs. Bowling Green – 7:35pm
  • Fayetteville vs. Salem – 6:35pm
  • Hickory vs. Charleston – 7pm
  • Kannapolis vs. Augusta – 7:05pm

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Vance County High School

SportsTalk: Vance County vs. South Granville Recap

Scout Hughes and Doc Ayscue recap the weekend starting with Vance County football game vs. South Granville. The guys go over other high schools in the area, as well as the college games from the Labor Day Weekend.

High School Games from Week 2:

  • South Granville 33 Vance County 6
  • Franklinton 48 Bunn 6
  • Leesville Road 35 Wake Forest 14
  • Millbrook 36 Heritage 0
  • Enloe 55 Knightdale 25
  • Rocky Mount 20 East Wake 14
  • Warren County 54 J.F. Webb 24
  • Louisburg 31 Southeast Halifax 14
  • North Moore 22 Wake Prep 21 
  • Mecklenburg County (VA) 47 vs. Brunswick (VA) 14

College Games from Week 1:

  • TCU 48 North Carolina 14
  • Duke 45 Elon 17
  • NC State 24 East Carolina 17
  • Wake Forest 10 Kennesaw State 9
  • App State 34 Charlotte 11
  • Virginia 48 Coastal Carolina 7
  • South Carolina 24 Virginia Tech 11
  • New Hampshire 27 NC Central 10
  • Central Georgia Technical 41 Louisburg College 36

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SportsTalk: Major League Standings and Preseason AP Poll comes out

SportsTalk 12:30 p.m. M-Th

Scout Hughes and Steve Lewis give an updated look at the playoff picture in Major League Baseball. The guys also give a rundown of the new AP Top 25 Poll for College Football that was released on Monday.

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SportsTalk: Black History of Sports in Vance County

SportsTalk 12:30 p.m. M-Th 

Scout Hughes and Steve Lewis talk about the historical athletic programs that were at Kittrell College, a two-year HBCU in Kittrell, NC that has since closed it’s doors. The guys also talk about historically black high schools in the area such as Henderson Institute, Mary Potter, J.R. Hawkins, the Franklin County Training School along with others. As well as the role that the NCHSAC played in high school sports in the state of North Carolina. That and much more on SportsTalk!

This is a photo of the 1959 Kittrell College Bulldogs Football Team. Picture from the 1960 edition of the Kittrell College Yearbook “The Bulldog” found at the Granville County Public Library.

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