After a difficult loss, the first thing a good team wants to do is get back on the court and get the bad taste out of their mouths. And the longer they go without being able to do so, the worse it tends to be for the next opponent.
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After an eventful winter break that saw a number of local teams competing both before and after Christmas, regular-season schedules resume this week, with a number of teams hitting the hardwood or the mats starting today.
Last month, Lee Christian began its 2021-22 basketball season with a trip to Cape Fear Christian Academy in Erwin. Trailing the entire game, the Falcons mounted a furious fourth-quarter rally that came up six points short.
Last month, Lee Christian began its 2021-22 basketball season with a trip to Cape Fear Christian Academy in Erwin. Trailing the entire game, the Falcons mounted a furious fourth-quarter rally that came up six points short.
Early in the second quarter of Friday night’s conference opener, Lee Christian head men’s basketball coach Donovan Perry had seen enough.
The Lee Christian basketball team made its home debut on Monday night and was unable to overcome early struggles in a 59-40 loss to the Chatham Thunder.
Last week’s NCISAA 1A state cross country championships saw Grace Christian flirt with the state championship on both the men’s and women’s side of the meet, and the Lee Christian women weren’t too far off, either.
Both Grace Christian and Lee Christian had outstanding volleyball seasons this fall. The Crusaders won their first conference title in 17 years and earned a No. 3 seed in the NCHSAA playoffs. The Falcons, with one of the youngest teams in the state, made a spirited defense of their state cha…
Grace Christian School is knocking on the door of the NCISAA 1A state championship game again.
A number of state playoff games and conference tournaments will be getting under way in the days to come, starting with a handful today. Both volleyball and soccer have important matches upcoming.
Against any odds or reasonable expectations, the defending state champs have returned to the elite eight of the NCISAA 1A state playoffs.
Perhaps no team in the state could have had a better excuse for a bad season than defending NCISAA 1A state champion Lee Christian.
Brackets for the upcoming NCISAA 1A state playoffs in volleyball and soccer were announced on Sunday, and Grace Christian received some very favorable placings in the brackets.
Friday night was Championship Night at Grace Christian School, as the Crusaders hosted the Mid-Carolina Conference championship in four different levels of soccer and volleyball.
The championship battle in NCISAA Mid-Carolina Conference volleyball seesawed between Sanford and Clayton right down to Grace Christian’s regular-season finale Tuesday night.
The volleyball teams from Grace Christian and Lee Christian were in action on Tuesday evening, with the Crusaders coming out on top.
Since winning their final two matches of a season-opening tournament at home two weeks ago, Lee Christian’s volleyball team has kept on rolling.
Lee Christian had its first home volleyball matches of the 2021 season over the weekend, with the school hosting a tournament in which it played four times and came away with a 2-2 split.
Teams from both Grace Christian and Lee Christian will have their eyes on a trip to the state finals this afternoon. Crusaders fans can watch all of the action right here, while fans of the Falcons will need to take a road trip to Henderson.
Both local girls soccer teams competing at the NCISAA level earned bids to the 1A state soccer championships this week.