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North Johnston High School hosted a winter track event held on Wednesday, Dec. 10 with boys and girls teams from Wilson Bedding-fi eld, Wilson Hunt, North Pitt, SouthWest Edgecombe and Farmville Central high schools participating.

Results included the fol-lowing;

In varsity boys high jump competition Andrew Daugh-try of North Johnston fi nished in third place with a height of fi ve feet six inches.

Dylan Pinder of North Johnston won the varsity boys 55 meter wheelchair event with a time of 15.8 seconds and the varsity boys shotput with a toss of 11 feet seven inches.

Andrew Daughtry also fi n-ished in fourth place in boys 500 meter run with a time of one minute and 17.8 seconds.

North Johnston Middle School Jaguars had two close games last week winning the fi rst contest 35-30 over Smith-fi eld on Monday, Dec. 8 but dropping the second in over-time 48-40 to Cleveland on Thursday, Dec. 11.

In the Smithfi eld game the Jags were up 8-6 after one quarter and tied 15-15 at the half.

The score after three quar-ters was 26-25 in favor of NJMS and the guys held on for a 35-30 victory.

Daylan Hinnant led the Jags with 16 points while Tiquan Bunn dropped in nine, Diego Santiago added six and Austin Lee and Justin Holland had

In varsity boys 1000 meter run Colby Godwin of North Johnston fi nished in eighth place with a time of three min-utes 32 seconds.

Connor Cooke had a sixth place fi nish in varsity boys 1600 meter run with a time of fi ve minutes 47 seconds.

The varsity girls 500 meter run had Kaylee Jones of North Johnston as a fi fth place fi n-isher with a time of one min-ute 42 seconds and teammate Tracy Godwin in sixth place at one minute 43 seconds.

Abby Bass had an eighth place fi nish in the varsity girls 1000 meter run at fi ve minutes one second followed by Gen-esis Vigil in ninth place at fi ve minutes six seconds.

In the girls 1600 meter run Faith Bowen fi nished in fi fth place at seven minutes 34 sec-onds with Kasey Winstead close behind at seven minutes

40 seconds. With a time of 14.5 seconds

Jamie Dawes fi nished in third place in girls 55 meter hurdles and Godwin had a ninth place fi nish in girls 55 meter dash with a time of 7.95 seconds.

In varsity girls 300 me-ter dash Meghan Sherrod of North Johnston fi nished in second place with a time of

50.07 seconds followed by Cassidy Goodwin in fi fth place with 52.73 seconds and Destiny Fauntroy at 54.8 sec-onds.

Goodwin had a third place fi nish in the girls long jump with a leap of 11 feet seven inches and Morgan Foster fi n-ished second in the girls high jump with a height on four

feet two inches.Maresha Jones of North

Johnston won the girls shot put at 25 feet 10.75 inches and Taylor Woodard fi nished in third place at 22 feet nine inches. Jessie Parrish fi nished seventh in the event at 20 feet

one inch followed by Faun-troy at 19 feet 11 inches.

In total varsity girls North Johnston fi nished in second place among the six teams entered with 75 points while the boys fi nished in fourth place with 35.5 points.

North Johnston hosts winter track and fi eld participants

Jammia Jones had a third place fi nish in girls 55 meter hurdles for North Johnston.

Dylan Pinder of North Johnston, left, won the shotput wheelchair event with a throw of 11 feet seven inches while Cassidy Goodwin fi nished third in the long jump with a jump of 11 feet and seven inches.

two points each. Bunn, Santiago, Lee and

Hinnant were tops in rebound-ing.

“We started out much bet-ter for our second game of the season,” said Coach Casey Creech. “We had a much bet-ter passing game and if we did make a mistake we knew how to fi x it.”

“We had 24 rebounds in the fi rst half and 23 in the second and I was very pleased with our rebounding on both ends of the court,” said Creech. “We came up short on the free throw line going 10-26,” said Creech. “Overall it was a good win but we still have a lot we need to work on.”

Against Cleveland the Jags fell behind after one quarter 10-4 and trailed by 21-10 at the half.

NJMS was still down 30-23 after three quarters but came back to tie the game at 32-32 to send the game into overtime before fi nally losing 48-40.

Hinnant again led the Jags in scoring with 15 points fol-lowed by Holland with 10, Bunn with nine, Lee with four and Santiago with two.

Bunn, Santiago, Lee and Hinnant were once again forc-es on the boards.

“We came out at the begin-ning playing like it was our fi rst game,” said Creech. “We were missing the basics and

NJM Jags top Smithfi eld; fall to Cleveland

North Johnston Middle School Lady Jaguars had a successful week on the bas-ketball court picking up two wins, a 56-6 conquest of Smithfi eld on Monday, Dec. 8 and a 40-32 victory over Cleveland on Thursday, Dec. 11.

Against Smithfi eld the girls jumped out to 18-0 fi rst quar-ter lead and built it to 30-2 by halftime.

The cushion increased to 46-4 after three quarters with the fi nal total being 56-6.

Jordyn Sott led all scorers with 18 points while Blayke Batten and Levossie Taylor added 10 points each.

Next came Hannah Wall with six and Heidi Huddelston with four followed by Kariz-ma Jones, Lindsey Massen-gill, Hailey Medlin and Haley Narron with two each.

“I was very pleased with all our players tonight,” said Coach Pierre Bone. “It was a total team victory.”

“Nine out of our 12 players scored and we really distrib-uted the ball well,” said Bone. “Defensively we did an out-standing job.”

Against Cleveland the Lady Jags took a fi rst quarter lead 9-8 lead and outscored the Rams 17-6 to go up by 26-14 lead at the half.

In the third quarter Cleve-land outscored NJMS 19-10 and both teams scored eight

points in the fourth making the fi nal count 40-32.

Leading scorer for the Lady Jags was Jordyn Scott with 11 points followed closely by Levossie Taylor with 10.

Lindsey Massengill chipped in seven, Blayke Batten added six, Amberlyn Pearce was next with four and

Heidi Huddelston had two.“I was very pleased with

everyone’s effort tonight,” said Coach Bone. “It was a total team victory.”

“We’re happy to be 3-0 af-ter our non-conference sched-ule and this was a good game for us in preparing for confer-ence play.”

Lady Jags pick up two wins

Raheim Stancil (25), left, of North Johnston junior varsity basketball team works for a shot under the basket against Spring Creek while Kameron Wil-liams (5) and Holden Hales (44) look on.

NJ Jayvees victorious over Spring Creek 57-49 and Princeton 59-39

Things are beginning to fall the right way for the North Johnston jayvee hoopsters as they beat Spring Creek 57-49 at home on Wednesday, Dec. 10 followed by a 59-39 vic-tory over Princeton on Friday, Dec. 12.

The two wins bring the Pan-thers’ season record up to 4-3.

Against Spring Creek Ra-heim Stancil was the top scorer for the Panthers with

21 points while Holden Hales added 17.

Hales also fi nished as the team’s leading rebounder.

“We did a good job of ap-plying pressure the entire game and gave them trouble handling the ball,” said Coach Chris Batten.

In the Princeton game the Panthers started slowly only scoring six points in the fi rst quarter to fall behind 10-6 but

by the half had pulled ahead for a 21-19 margin.

The second half was domi-nated by North Johnston as it outscored Princeton 38-21 to pull away comfortably.

North Johnston’s scoring was fairly balanced against Princeton as Hales had 14 points to lead the Panthers while Stancil added 12 and Jeremiah Pettiway contrib-uted 11 with everyone on the team scoring.

“We started slowly and our shots just weren’t falling at fi rst but we fi nally got things turned around by the second quarter,” said Batten.

“Our pressure defense is starting to pay dividends by forcing turnovers and allow-ing us to open the game up more.,”said Batten. “We’re starting to play well now.”

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beating ourselves.”“We struggled the whole

fi rst half missing lay-ups and second chance shots and looked like we had never played with one another be-fore,” said Creech.

“In overtime we just did not capitalize on the simple things and were in a situation where we had to foul to get the ball back,” said Creech.

“I’m still proud of our boys for not surrendering heart and fi ghting until the last buzzer,” said Creech. BThe loss left the Jags with an overall re-cord of 2-1 and 0-0 in the conference.

The Selma Middle girls basketball team lost both its games last week, dropping Monday’s game to Archer Lodge, 28-3, and then on Thursday, despite the biggest offensive output this season, lost, 41-19, at home to Mc-Gee’s Crossroads.

In Monday’s game, Sel-ma’s defense held Archer Lodge to the lowest point total this season. Coach Scot Rorabaugh said he hopes this will help carry the team into future games. Scoring for Selma were Bessy Rojas with 2 points and Yasmin Pinedo with 1.

In Thursday’s game the girls were competitive for the fi rst time this season scoring 7 points in the fi rst quarter and

repeating again in the second quarter to end the half with 14

points, but trailing McGee’s, 22-14.

In the second half, Mc-Gee’s adjusted its defense, causing some issues that slowed Selma. Selma was shut out and McGee’s scored 17 points in the third quarter to put the game out of Selma’s reach, trailing 39-14.

Selma’s 5 points in the fourth quarter were too little too late losing, 41-19. Lead-ing the scoring for Selma were Kenyanah McNeil with 6 points and Bessy Rojas with 5 points. Yasmin Pinedo and Ty’Niazia Dublin each had 3 points While Victoria Perry added 2 points. The team trav-eled to Princeton on Monday and will host Meadow tonight (Thursday).

Selma Middle’s Yasmin Pinedo charges the bas-ket in the last minutes of the game last week.

Selma Middle School girls dropto Archer Lodge; McGee’s Crossroads

The Selma Middle boys bas-ketball team was successful last week, winning on Monday at Archer Lodge, 44-35, and pleasing the hometown crowd by winning, 49-27, against McGee’s Crossroads. The two wins improve the Yellow Jack-ets’ record to 3-0.

In Monday’s game, Archer Lodge held Selma to 4 points and scored 5. Selma fi nally found the bottom of the basket in the second quarter, scoring 15 points and allowing only 8 points and led the half 19-13.

Selma kept up the pressure in the third, doubling Archer Lodge, 16-8. Archer Lodge became more offensive in the fourth quarter, outscoring Sel-

ma, 14-9, but it wasn’t enough as Selma won by 9 points.

Against McGee’s Middle, McGee’s trailed 9-5 going into the second outscoring Selma 11-10 but trailed 19-16 at the half. Selma came out of the locker room a different team outscoring McGee’s, 16-4, in the third quarter and 14-5 in the fourth quarter to win, 49-27.

Leading the scoring for the Vikings were Anthony Coun-cil with 20 points and Isaiah Watson with 13 points. Xavier Pearce added 7 points fol-lowed by Samuel Tucker with 5. Jaidon Stokes and Marquez Simmons each contributed 2 points.

Selma Middle wins two

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