Blog – Moore County Edition

Aug

24

2021

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By Bob Sutton

Baker sets sights on comeback in Caraway standings

SportsCaraway, racing, Richard Petty

Area driver aims to move up in points race SOPHIA — Johnny Baker needs a fast finish in a true sense at Caraway Speedway. With the season winding down the Asheboro driver is contending for his third track championship in Mini Stocks. But it’s going to be a challenge. “We’re slowly getting there,” Baker said. “But it’s going to take some good luck.” Baker holds second place in the division, but he has been gaining ground. He has won four of the last five races in a division with diminishing entries. Brandon Collins leads with 1,141 points, while Baker has…

Aug

24

2021

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By Moore County Staff

SWR men’s soccer cruises past North Stanly

Sportssoccer, SWR

NEW LONDON — The Southwestern Randolph High School men's soccer team bounced back from a season-opening loss to Montgomery Central last week with a decisive 6-1 win against over the North Stanly Comets Tuesday night. The Cougars dominated possession throughout the game and went into halftime with a 2-0 lead. A pair of goals were netted by junior Steven Vences with additional talleys coming from freshmen Berni Zuniga and Rudolfo Fiscal. Sophomore Adam Roberts and senior Miguel Vences each added goals to finish the game. The team showed their chemistry by moving the ball with connective passes resulting assists on…

Aug

24

2021

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By Bob Sutton

Concerns calmed about Asheboro water

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Annual changeover brings unusual volume of questions for city ASHEBORO — There has been plenty of curiosity about the status of City of Asheboro water during the past few weeks, but the good news is that there’s really no new news. “Nothing out of the ordinary,” said Bryan Lanier, manager for the city’s water treatment plant. The city’s annual month-long use of a pure chlorine treatment to help ensure a high level of disinfection in water mains concludes this week – with a return to the standard practices set for Aug. 30. For the other 11 months, a chloramines treatment…

Aug

24

2021

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By Moore County Staff

SWR defeats Chatham Central in ladies golf

SportsEducation, Golf, schools, sports

SILER CITY — The Southwestern Randolph Ladies Golf team defeated Chatham Central in varsity golf today with a nine-stroke team win. The match, played over nine holes at the Siler City Country Club, was paced by low-scorer and SWR top seed Lexi Auman who shot a 54. SWR's 2-seed Lindsey Auman shot 56, 3-seed Caiden McDuffie shot 65, and 4-seed Taylor Edwards shot 65. SWR Athletics also announced three changes to the ladies gold schedule on Tuesday: Thursday, August 26 will now be at Asheboro Muncipal vs. Asheboro and Union Pines Wednesday, September 8 will now be at Tot Hill vs.…

Aug

24

2021

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By Moore County Staff

School’s start with some students and staff under quarantine

NewsAsheboro, covid-19, Education, schools, Stephen Gainey

ASHEBORO — Schools across Randolph County are back in session this week. Randolph County Schools started Monday and Asheboro City Schools started Tuesday. As of 5 pm Tuesday, Randolph County Schools had 277 students and staff members under COVID-19 quarantine protocols, according to information provided to the North State Journal by the school system. "Our school system uses a Saturday-Friday week for contact tracing with regard to COVID-19 issues. As a result, from Saturday (8/21/21) to this point in the day on Tuesday (8/24/21), a total of 44 positive COVID-19 cases have been associated with the Randolph County School System,"…

Aug

23

2021

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By Moore County Staff

Randleman Varsity and JV volleyball sweeps Central Davidson

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ASHEBORO — The Randleman Tigers traveled to Central Davidson to face the Spartans in a non-conference volleyball match. In the opener, the Tigers junior varsity team handled the Spartans 2-0 for their first win of the season. In the nightcap, Randleman's varsity team won 3-1 (20-25, 25-23, 25-19, 25-18). Hannah Hinshaw led the way with 18 kills and 11 digs. Chloe Dixon had 15 kills and nine digs. Gabi Carter added five kills and 14 digs. Karli Kennington had three aces and 26 digs. Kenzie Roach had 29 assists and 14 digs. The varsity Tigers improved to 4-1 on the…

Aug

22

2021

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By Moore County Staff

High scoring first week for county football teams

SportsEducation, football, high school, schools

ASHEBORO — Six of the county’s seven varsity football programs begin the second week of the season undefeated following a high-scoring opening week of high school football. Here’s a look at the game outcomes from the first week of the season. Asheboro Blue Comets 20 Randleman Tigers 7 RANDLEMAN — The Blue Comets of Asheboro shocked the Randleman Tigers Friday night in the season opener for both teams. The in-county rivalry game, which was a non-conference game, pitted two teams coming off vastly different seasons last year. The Blue Comets were 0-7 last season while the Randleman Tigers played an…

Aug

22

2021

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By Bob Sutton

Blue Comets collect early prize

SportsAsheboro, Education, football, Randleman, schools, sports

Asheboro pulls opening surprise at Randleman RANDLEMAN — Asheboro’s football team won for the first time in more than 600 days to open the season. Now the Blue Comets will have their sights set on more conquests. After a winless record in seven games when the 2020 season was shifted to this past spring, Asheboro might have been largely dismissed as a factor entering the new campaign. That was far from the case in Friday night’s season-opening 20-7 conquering of Randleman. “We proved that we got the talent,” linebacker / running back Qamelo Butler said. Asheboro plays its home opener…

Aug

20

2021

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By Moore County Staff

Mask wearing is top issue for new school year

NewsCOVID, Education, schools

ASHEBORO — Gov. Roy Cooper lifted a state requirement for schools to require masks in July, but he is ramping up pressure on local school boards to mandate masks instead. Randolph County Schools was the fifth school system to make masks optional on July 20. Since then, a total of 62 systems voted to make masks optional. In Randolph County, Uwharrie Charter joined the county schools in making masks optional. The Asheboro City Schools held their decision for the school board’s August 12 meeting. Just before the meeting, the school board members received a letter from Cooper urging the school…

Aug

20

2021

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By Bob Sutton

Uwharrie Charter Academy lends support to South Sudan

NewsEducation, schools

Local school digs helping role ASHEBORO — It seems like a world away for Uwharrie Charter Academy seventh graders, but helping people on another continent find fresh water tends to hit home. For the past five years, students in Suzanne Bryant’s classes have raised money in what’s called the Iron Giraffe Challenge to support water for South Sudan. “The students were very interested,” Bryant said. “Probably close to 700 students have been involved.” That’s because members of the first group to take part in the project have just entered their senior year at the school. Because the school has sent…