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At 3:30 p.m., the Hopewell girls face
Rock Hill South Pointe. Another girls
game will follow at 5:10 p.m., with Berry
facing Victory Christian. The South
Mecklenburg boys tip off against Victory
Christian at 6:50 p.m., while the
opening-round finale featuring Mallard
Creek’s boys against Lancaster (South
Carolina) is slated for 8:30 p.m.
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Dowless improved their combined record
to 22-0.
Honeycutt was named the Most Outstanding
Wrestler for the tournament.
Davidson Day’s Johnson leads
boys team to special victories
After dropping its first two games of
the season to Forsyth Country Day and
Cary Academy, the Davidson Day boys
team has responded with seven consecutive
wins. The Patriots’ two most
recent victories were special to coach
Ron Johnson.
Davidson Day returned from a trip
to Florida last weekend after defeating
Class 4A public school Heritage High
School (Palm Bay, Florida) on Dec. 3
and talented Holy Trinity (Melbourne,
Florida) on Dec. 4.
Johnson said Holy Trinity is considered
one of the best Class 3A publicschool
teams in Florida, but the reason
the victories were so important to the
Patriots’ coach is because both Sunshine
State head coaches – Heritage’s
Steve Link and Holy Trinity’s Stevie
Henderson – played for Johnson when
he coached at Melbourne Central
Catholic School. It’s safe to say he has
bragging rights over his former players.
“If we didn’t win down there, at some
point I would have heard about it –
maybe not that weekend, but sometime
in the future,” joked Johnson. “It was a
very rewarding experience. That’s why I
coach: to see kids do well. I told (Link
and Henderson) that I was proud of
them. I saw some of the same principles
I taught them, and we shared some
stories about how I used to make them
run in practice.”
Hopewell’s Watson wins at
Jim Hayes Invitational
Hopewell High wrestler Nick Watson
swept his matches to win the 215-
pound division at the 43rd annual Jim
Hayes Invitational at East Mecklenburg
High Dec. 4.
Watson pinned the field in a combined
3 minutes, 43 seconds. In the
first round, he defeated Boiling Springs
Crest’s Thomas Willis in 34 seconds.
His next match, against Ardrey Kell’s
Danny Kim, took 1:03, followed by
wins over Independence’s Jabari Cuffie
(57 seconds) and North Gaston’s Cody
Willett (1:09).
The Titans finished ninth among
20 teams. Hopewell’s Wesley Petrick
was second in the 112-pound weight
class with a 3-1 record. Ed Stokes (135
pounds) and Tyshaun Cochran (285)
were fourth.
Wildcats wrestlers win tournament
The Lake Norman wrestling team
was victorious in the first ever Wildcat
Duals on Dec.4. The team improved
to 11-0 with lopsided victories against
East Wilkes (79-0), Concord (74-3),
Jack Britt (50-9), Olympic (65-17 )and
Southern Alamance (60-15).
Josh Smith, Ryan Renfroe, Patrick Hough swimmers make history
Devlin, Cody Karns and RJ Cloninger The first-year Hough boys and girls
all improved their records to 11-0. swim teams won their first I-MECK 4A
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The Huskies boys outscored the Blue
Devils, 201-55, and the Lions, 202-20.
The Hough girls were even more impressive
with routs of Mooresville (213-
53) and West Charlotte (216-3).
The Huskies won every event in the
three-team meet. Alexandria Kitchens
(200-yard freestyle), Payton Schrum
(200 individual medley, 100 breaststroke),
Carson Slayton (50 free),
Shannon Bauer (100 butterfly), Heather
Merritt (100 free, 100 backstroke)
and Brooke Schroeder (500 free) took
individual events for the Hough girls.
Jack Manchester (200 free, 500 free),
Andrew Botelho (200 IM, 100 backstroke),
Max Hofman (50 free), Alex
Kirven (100 fly), Patrick Cowley (100
free) and Andrew Petry (100 breaststroke)
chipped in wins on the boys
side.
Patriot football players honored
Four Davidson Day football players
will compete in the Elite High School
Underclassmen Showcase on Dec. 29.
Tight end/defensive end Aaron D.
Seward, quarterback Will Grier, receiver/defensive
back Ronnie Jenkins
and running back/defensive back Jordan
Brown were selected for the 2010
Junior Rank Elite High School Underclassman
Showcase Dec. 29 in Tempe,
Arizona.
The Davidson Day players also will
attend the Insight Bowl and receive recognition
at halftime on ESPN’s broadcast
of the game on Dec. 28. q
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