November 12, 2019 – Tuesday Schedule

BASKETBALL

6:00 Fayetteville Street at Faith Christian

November 11, 2019 – SPECIAL FEATURES

Dennis Garcia delves into the success of the 2019 Providence Grove High School football team on the SPECIAL FEATURES page.

November 10, 2019 - CROSS COUNTRY

FROM WHEATMORE HIGH SCHOOL: Wheatmore cross country ran in the state 2A cross country championship on Saturday 11/9 in Kernersville. The boys finished 20th in the state.

Boys' Results:

Jaxon Kimmons 19:04

Girls' Results:

Neva Hippert 22:57

Tyler Brooks and Neva Hippert ran personal record times.

This concludes the best cross country season in school history.

Changes to school records that happened this year:

*Jaxon Kimmons is now the 5th best boy runner in school history with his PR of 18:55.

Local results at SportsTone CROSS COUNTRY.

SportsTone has the VOLLEYBALL championship results or read the NCHSAA recap stories HERE.

November 9, 2019 - ASHEBORO FOOTBALL

Asheboro High School has announced that Kevin Gillespie has resigned as head coach of the Blue Comets football team. The announcement was made Friday night following the team's final game of the season. Gillespie has spent the last three seasons at Asheboro accumulating a 5-28 record.

Gillespie made the move from Page High School following the 2016-17 school year after eleven seasons leading the Pirates' football program. Under Gillespie, Page won the State 4AA Championship in 2011 and finished as state runner-up in his final two seasons there. Page football was 101-45 under Gillespie's leadership.

Gillespie, who grew up in the Archdale area, previously served as head football coach at Trinity High School. The Bulldogs had a 34-26 record during his tenure from 2001-2005.

November 9, 2019 – Saturday Results

CROSS COUNTRY – STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS - LOCAL RESULTS

2A Men (Team Wheatmore + Randleman and E Randolph runners)

MEN'S SOCCER – STATE PLAYOFFS

#5 Christ the King 1, #12 Uwharrie Charter 0

#23 Clinton def. #7 Wheatmore 7-5 (PK)

Ryan Smith scored both goals in regulation with an assist from Sergio Garcia. Jake Clodfelter had 12 saves in goal. Wheatmore got penalty kick makes from Garcia, Jagur Williams and Collin Burgess.

November 9, 2019 – FOOTBALL PLAYOFFS UPDATED

FIRST ROUND MATCHUPS:

2A WEST

#12 Providence Grove (8-3) at #5 Eastern Randolph (9-2)

2AA EAST

#16 Morehead (4-7) at #1 Randleman (10-0)

SportsTone FOOTBALL PLAYOFFS

November 9, 2019 – Saturday Schedule

CROSS COUNTRY – STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS

2:30 2A Men (Team Wheatmore + Randleman and E Randolph runners)

MEN'S SOCCER – STATE PLAYOFFS

3:00 #23 Clinton at #7 Wheatmore

November 8, 2019 – Friday Results

FOOTBALL

Northwest Guilford 35, Asheboro 28

Southeast Guilford 31, SW Randolph 14

Elijah Reza completed 13 passes for 215 yards but had three interceptions. Mason Cross had 33 receiving yards, Luke Hall 32, and Luke Dalke 16.

Eastern Randolph 62, Trinity 0

Cade Snotherly passed for 164 yards and crossed the 2000 passing yard threshold for the season with an 11 for 14 night and touchdown passes to Osiris Ross, Curtis Williams and two to J B Farrish.

The Wildcats also returned a punt for a score.

Trinity's Chandler Shell completed 7 of 15 passes for 65 yards with an interception.

Providence Grove 47, Jordan-Matthews 8

Caleb Rogers carried for 75 yards and scored three touchdowns, Drew Needham scored with 57 rushing yards, Travis Boone had a rushing touchdown, Cam Way returned an interception for a touchdown and Luke Thomas - 6 for 10 with 127 passing yards - threw for a touchdown to Mason Collins.

November 7, 2019 – Thursday Results

FOOTBALL

TW Andrews 56, Wheatmore 22

November 6, 2019 – Wednesday Results

MEN'S SOCCER – STATE PLAYOFFS

#7 Wheatmore 3, #26 Walkertown 0

#12 Uwharrie Charter 5, #21 Piedmont Community 0

November 5, 2019 – Tuesday Results

VOLLEYBALL – EAST REGIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP

#3 Ayden-Grifton def. #1 Wheatmore 3-1 (19-25, 27-25, 25-15, 25-15)

MEN'S SOCCER – STATE PLAYOFFS

#10 Gray's Creek 4, #23 Asheboro 2

November 4, 2019 - SOCCER PLAYOFFS - UPDATED FOR 1A CORRECTIONS

Southwestern Randolph, Wheatmore and Uwharrie Charter will open the men's soccer playoffs at home while Asheboro and Eastern Randolph begin the postseason with road games.

In the 3A West Region, the #13 seeded Cougars will host #20 Cuthbertson at 6 PM Wednesday.. In the East Region, #23 Asheboro travels to #10 Gray's Creek High School. The top seed from the Mid-Piedmont Conference, Williams High School, is the third seed in the east and will host #30 Union Pines.

Wheatmore, Eastern Randolph and Jordan-Matthews are all in the 2A East Region with #7 Wheatmore hosting #26 Walkertown, #31 Eastern Randolph playing at #2 Carrboro and #19 Jordan-Matthews at #14 James Kenan in the opening round.

Yadkin Valley Conference opponents Uwharrie Charter and Albemarle will face off against each other in the first round of the West Region when the #12 seeded Eagles host the 21st seeded Bulldogs on Wednesday.

Uwharrie Charter will host Piedmont Community in the first round after corrections were made to the 1A seeding. The Eagles are still seeded #12 but Piedmont replaced Albemarle as the 21 seed. The Bulldogs are the #20 seed and will play at Lincoln Charter. Conference champ Gray Stone is also in the west with a first round bye. North Moore is a 10 seed in the 1A eastern bracket and will host #23 East Carteret.

Brackets with area teams are available on the MEN'S SOCCER page.

November 4, 2019 - SPECIAL FEATURES

Welcome the newest feature to SportsTone by checking out Dennis Garcia's story on the Wheatmore High School volleyball team. This and future stories will be found on the SPECIAL FEATURES page.

November 4, 2019 – STATE PLAYOFFS

In fall sports, football is in it's final week, seeding for the soccer playoffs will take place today, volleyball and cross country are in the final week of playoffs and the golf and tennis championships have been decided.

Williams won the Mid-Piedmont soccer championship and Southwestern Randolph finished in second place. Those teams will receive automatic bids into the state playoffs which are scheduled to begin Wednesday. Third place Asheboro will likely qualify and the season could continue for fourth place Southern Alamance.

Wheatmore won the Piedmont Athletic championship with Eastern Randolph and Jordan-Matthews finishing tied for second place. Either the Wildcats or the Jets will receive an automatic bid while the other, and the rest of the PAC 7 teams, wait for today's seeding process.

Gray Stone Day School won the Yadkin Valley soccer championship with Uwharrie Charter and North Moore ending in a second place tie. Both the Eagles and the Mustangs will likely make the 48-team field in 1A soccer with the rest of the conference watching the seeding process.

High School volleyball has reached the state semi-final stage. Tuesday night Wheatmore will host Ayden-Grifton High School in the East Regional Championship match. The winner will advance to the State Championship this Saturday evening at Fayetteville State University's Capel Arena.

November 3, 2019 – CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS

Regional Meets were held Saturday in all four classifications. A minimum of four teams from each region along with the fastest seven runners who are not on one of those teams advanced to the State Championship Meets this Saturday, November 9.

From Randolph County, the Wheatmore men's team advanced to the 2A Championship as did Benjamin Garcia (RHS) and Brody Gardner (ER).

The Eastern Randolph women's team qualified along with Olivia Frankel (PG), Katie Kocher and Halie Hains (RHS) and Morgan Cunha, Katie Fritz and Neva Hippert (WHS).

The State Championship Meets will be held at the Ivey M Redmon Sports Complex in Kernersville.

Morning races will feature the 1A and 3A championships for men and women with several runners from Mid-Piedmont (3A) and Yadkin Valley (1A) Conference teams racing at 9:00 (3A men), 9:30 (1A men), 10:00 (3A women) and 10:30 (1A women).

Afternoon race times are 2:00 (4A men), 2:30 (2A men), 3:00 (4A women) and 3:30 (2A women).

FROM WHEATMORE HIGH SCHOOL: Wheatmore traveled to the 2A Mideast Regional Meet in Cary, NC on Saturday. The warrior girls finished 7th in the region as a team while the boys finished 4th. 

November 2, 2019 – Saturday Results

CROSS COUNTRY – REGIONALS - LOCAL RESULTS

2A Men at Wake Med Soccer Park, Cary

VOLLEYBALL – STATE PLAYOFFS

#1 Wheatmore def. #4 Clinton 3-0 (25-17, 25-21, 25-16)