Tarboro took a first-half lead and withstood a strong charge by Kinston in the second half to win the battle of the Vikings 42-35 in the Eastern Plains 2A/3A Conference

Joel gives his refreshed 2025 football state championship picks, top matchups of the first round, easiest draws, and toughest roads.

LITTLEFIELD — Ayden-Grifton coach Garrett Wingate called Tarboro “the standard,” and now he and the Chargers have a better idea of what to clean up and improve upon to inch toward that standard themselves. Ayden-Grifton lost 41-0 to the Vikings in a ...

The 2025 high school football season enters week 10. This week’s Game of the Week is D.H. Conley at Jacksonville, and the Backyard Brawl is Tarboro at Ayden-Grifton. Tune in to “Touchdown Friday” at 11 p.

The NCHSAA is back to rewarding eight state champions for the first time since the subdivision era ended in 2020-21.

The Twin Counties will send eight football teams and five soccer teams to the postseason, which begins this week.

Conference championships no longer matter for playoff seeding, but they are still important for conference cup and bragging rights purposes.