For North Lincoln girls basketball, its NCHSAA 5A state final on Saturday, March 14 against Southern Alamance served as sweet redemption. A year after suffering a deflating loss in the NCHSAA regional ...

HICKORY — North Lincoln girls basketball took a circuitous route back to Winston-Salem, but the Knights are inevitably where they expected to be. After the use of an ineligible player dropped North ...

Following a rollercoaster year, where North Lincoln’s playoff hopes were in jeopardy only a month ago, the Knights’ season ended on Saturday with a court storming and the hoisting of its first state ...

First, he was healthy after a broken wrist he suffered in the middle of his junior run. He finished with 15.8 points and 6.1 rebounds per game — both team highs — and helped Lincoln to a 25-8 record.

North Lincoln forfeited 17 games days before the postseason yet won Class 5A title. Juniors Ally Smith and Ashlyn Black, and sophomore Lydia Cipriano scored key points. Cipriano’s late free throws ...