High school sports highlights by MEREDITH BARKLEY Football season is winding down, playoffs are looming and Northwest Guilford and Northern Guilford remain in the postseason chatter after lopsided wins last Friday.
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“I feel like if we handle business, we’ll be okay,” Wallace said. The conference gets one automatic bid. At the moment, that looks like Grimsley (4-0). “We’re hoping we can get an atlarge bid,” Wallace said.
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“Defensively, we’ve been playing really well,” Vikings head coach Kevin Wallace said after the game. And the Vikings offense has found running room behind an athletic line averaging 275 pounds, he noted. The Vikings wrap up conference play this Friday at home against High Point Central (1-1). They had been scheduled to finish the season April 9 at nonconference Cherokee, but that was canceled.
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Northwest looks set for its first winning season since 2016. “We thought going into this season we were going to have a good year,” Wallace said. “We had a lot of guys coming back.” Northern walloped Rockingham County 40-7 at home and looks to wrap up the regular season with a packed schedule – three games in a week and a half. The Nighthawks will finish April 9 at home against Western Alamance (5-0). “It is an awful lot,” Coach Erik
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schedule made necessary when COVIDrelated issues forced Person to reschedule the earlier game. “We’ve got to just deal with it. We’ll find a way.” Northern’s home win over Rockingham County (2-2) preserved the Nighthawks’ chance to win the conference despite their earlier loss to Eastern Alamance (3-0). But factors beyond Northern’s control must fall into place. The conference’s current undefeated teams – Western Alamance and Eastern – meet on Saturday, and Western would have to win. If that happens and Northern (3-1) defeats Western at home April 9 in the head-to-head match-up, the Nighthawks would win the title (Eastern won’t have played enough games to qualify). All of this assumes, of course, that Northern manages to avoid another loss. That won’t be easy. The Nighthawks were scheduled to play Person (2-2) at home Wednesday in a makeup game, then travel to Morehead (1-3) April 5 in a game rescheduled from Friday, before hosting Western four days later.
BOYS SOCCER Ninth-seeded Northern Guilford boys soccer team (12-2) lost 1-0 in the state playoffs’ first round to eighthseeded Terry Sanford (11-1). Sanford Bulldogs’ offense, Nighthawks Coach Aaron King said, centered on junior midfielder Davis Molnar, who at 6-foot-6 towered over the field, giving them the advantage during throw-ins. The Bulldogs’ lone score, in fact, came off Molnar’s header during one of those throw-ins, King said. “That was frustrating,” he said. “I guess they found what worked for them.” Also a problem, he said, was the Nighthawks’ failure to mount a successful offense.
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