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Vance County High School

SportsTalk: Vance County High Prepares For Football Season

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School may be out for the summer, but that doesn’t mean Vance County High School Athletic Director Ray Noel is taking it easy.  Camps are taking place in the coming weeks for soccer, basketball and volleyball.  This week the Viper’s football team is participating in a 7 on 7 camp at NC State.

“It’s an opportunity to work on passing and defense,” Noel said.  One of the teams Vance County has faced is Sanderson.  The Vipers prevailed in that contest but they also have to face Northern Durham and Chambers from the Charlotte area.  It’s a great opportunity for the kids to get some touches on the football according to Noel.  Turnout for these offseason camps and workouts has been strong. “We’ve had good numbers at workouts with 50 to 60 kids,” Noel said.

While losing their starting quarterback to graduation, Noel said to expect big things from Taeshawn Alston and Javon Vines-Holder this season.  Upcoming 7 on 7 camps will be held at Winston-Salem State and St. Augustine’s.

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SportsTalk: Oxford’s Adcock Called Up to the Majors

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Oxford’s Ty Adcock has been called up to pitch for the Seattle Mariners.  The South Granville High School Graduate made his Major League Baseball debut Monday night in relief during the Mariners 8-1 win over the Miami Marlins.  Adcock pitched two innings and gave up no hits, no runs and no walks.  The 26 year old pitcher is the son of Keith Adcock and Jennifer Strickland Adcock. He played college ball at Elon.

The road to the majors has been a long one for Adcock. While at Elon, Adcock developed a back injury in his freshman year, fracturing his L5 vertebra, and shoulder issues hampered his senior season.  After being drafted by the Mariners, the team kept him off the field in 2019 to rehab.  In 2020 Covid took care of the season. In 2021 Adcock tore his UCL ligament in his elbow while facing his 6th batter of the season during a stint in the Mariner’s farm system.  That injury resulted in Tommy John surgery and 17 months of rehab.

Adcock was called up to the Mariners after an injury to pitcher Penn Murfee.

SportsTalk: Wilkerson Wraps Up Junior Season At UNC

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Colby Wilkerson saw much success during his time at Kerr-Vance Academy and that success has continued at UNC where Wilkerson is the starting shortstop.  Wilkerson, who is a junior this year, and the Tar Heels just wrapped up the season making it into the NCAA Tournament.  Wilkerson felt UNC was successful this season but didn’t quite get to where he had hoped this season.  “Every season has goods and bads. We always want to get to Omaha,” Wilkerson said.  Omaha is the site of the college baseball world series, and while UNC didn’t make it this year, Wilkerson did say one of the highlights of the year was his sacrifice bunt in the bottom of the ninth inning in a late regular season game against rival NC State to win the contest.

There were other highlights for Wilkerson including the opportunity to play another year, finishing the season healthy and contributing to other players success.  Wilkerson said that every game is exciting for him and that he credits much of his personal success to having a good routine that he sticks to.

UNC will only lose three seniors for next season which could mean more wins on the diamond for the Tar Heels. “We hope to get a little better and be the last team standing,” Wilkerson concluded.

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SportsTalk: Duke Baseball 2023 Super Regional

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Chris Edwards, play by play announcer of Duke Baseball for Learfield, spoke with John Rose on WIZS SportsTalk.

Super regional play begins Friday for Duke at Virginia at 12 noon.

Wake Forest, Duke and Virginia hope to advance to the College World Series.

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Crossroads Christian School

SportsTalk: Crossroads Celebrates 4th State Championship

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Crossroads Christian School has just wrapped up its girls soccer season with the school’s fourth state championship.  The school had previously won a championship in golf and has had two consecutive boys cross country championship teams.  The girls soccer team has come a long way in the last couple of years, according to the school’s athletic director Scottie Richardson.

“We were 11-10 in 2022,” Richardson said on Thursday’s SportsTalk on WIZS.  “This year we exploded. We were ranked number 1 most of the year. We lost our first game but went on to win fifteen straight games,” Richardson added.  The team, consisting of mostly 8th, 9th and 10th graders, featured two all state freshmen.  “We are still a young team,” Richardson said.

Next year is shaping up as a good one for Crossroads as Richardson said boys soccer will return most of its players after a deep run in the playoffs this season.  Richardson also has high hopes for volleyball and feels that the girls cross country team could add to the championship banners at Crossroads Christian.

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Oxford Prep School

SportsTalk: Oxford Prep Wraps Up Successful Spring Season

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Spring sports at Oxford Prep have wound down, but Athletic Director John Hammett is happy with the outcomes of his teams at the school. The softball team won a conference championship, the baseball team was third in the conference, posting a winning record and advancing to the second round of the state playoffs, and the soccer team posted the most victories in school history with five.

With the softball conference championship, that makes for seven banners in ten years for teams from Oxford Prep. And Hammett is excited for upcoming seasons as well. “Our entire baseball team returns next season, and all but one from our softball team will be back as well,” Hammett said on Thursday’s SportsTalk.

Hammett also indicated that most of the soccer team will also be back, and he feels the next several seasons could be strong for all of his teams.

With the school year at an end, one might think things will be slowing down, but Hammett will be busy with camps for the students getting them prepared for what should be another exciting year for Oxford Prep sports.

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SportsTalk: Vance Charter Soccer Advances To Third Round Of Playoffs

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Update 10 p.m. — Congratulations to Vance Charter!  Survive and advance.

Final Score

VCS-1
Lejeune-0

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SportsTalk: Local Schools Making A Run In State Playoffs

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It’s an exciting time at Oxford Prep and Kerr Vance Academy.  Both schools have teams advancing through the state playoffs.

At Oxford Prep it’s Tommy Anstead’s softball team that is looking to make it to the third round of the state playoffs.   “We’ve never been as far as the third round,” Anstead said on Thursday’s SportsTalk on WIZS. On Tuesday Oxford Prep had a convincing 5-3 win over Union High School.  That school featured a pitcher with 196 strike outs this year.  When asked how you prepare for a pitcher with that type of talent Anstead said, “You hope they don’t have any,” referring to the strike outs. This is the school’s third time advancing to the second round and they must defeat Riverside Martin from Williamston Friday night to make it to round three.  Riverside Martin is ranked eleventh in the state.  That game is in Oxford and will be at 6pm Friday.

Meanwhile, Mike Joyner, Athletic Director at Kerr Vance Academy, will need to be in two places at once Friday night as both the baseball team and the girl’s soccer team will be playing.  The Spartan’s soccer team is ranked #8 in the state and escaped with a 1-0 win over Lee Christian earlier this week and will now face local rival Crossroads Christian.  That game is at 5pm Friday.  At 6pm the #1 seeded baseball team, which is coming off a first round bye, will take on North Hills Christian.  “We lost in the semi-finals last year and we felt we were in good shape to make a run this year,” Joyner said of the team.  “We are young with no seniors but we added two really good players,” Joyner added.  KVA will be at home throughout the playoffs with the championships coming up on May 19th and 20th.

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SportsTalk: Vance Charter Names Athletes Of The Year

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Lance Stallings, Athletic Director for Vance Charter School, and his teams have been very successful on the field during the Spring sports season.  The school’s lacrosse team, co-conference champions with J.F. Webb, hosts a second round playoff game against Swansboro Friday night. The softball team is currently in second place in the conference and two golfers, Hunter Gill and Bill Taylor, have qualified for state regionals.

Stallings, who was on SportsTalk Thursday, also announced that senior Christian Bean has been named male Athlete of the Year for the second consecutive year and sophomore Katherine Suther has been named female Athlete of the Year.  “These two students are nominated and selected by the entire athletic department not just their coaches,” Stallings said.  Both Bean and Suther joined Stallings on SportsTalk to talk about the award.

Bean plays three sports at Vance Charter: cross country, lacrosse and basketball.  Once he graduates this year he plans on attending Appalachian State and majoring in recreation management. Suther also plays three sports: volleyball, basketball and soccer.  “Soccer is my favorite,” Suther said.  “We’ve grown together as a team.  We had a lot of freshmen who had never played before,” Suther said. Suther also said that even though she is only a sophomore she has already begun to look ahead to college where she is considering going into sports medicine.

Soccer is just winding up the regular season and plays Oxford Prep Thursday night.  A win by Vance Charter will ensure the team a share of the conference championship, but a loss will give Oxford Prep the title outright.

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SportsTalk: Orange Co. Speedway Is A Destination For Short Track Racing

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Stephen Dunn — race promoter, announcer and enthusiast — discussed short track, Saturday night racing at Orange County Speedway.  Also, we talked about North Wilkesboro and Hickory and the CARS Tour.

Dunn operates several businesses that help in the sport of racing and beyond.  He is Founder at RPM Group (rpmgroupnc.com), CEO at GXS Wraps (gxswraps.com) and Principal at Graphix Solution (graphixsolutionnc.com).

The Stickered Up Podcast, the Official podcast of the Solid Rock CARS Tour, is hosted by Dunn and can be found anywhere you download podcasts.

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