Watauga County played a role on Sunday as the West men and women's soccer teams won the gold medal for the first time in two years.

One of the veteran men's head basketball coaches in North Carolina has announced his retirement.

The Watauga Junior American Legion A Team dropped a double-header Saturday night at Maiden. Watauga (3-3) lost the opener 2-1, and lost the second game, 8-6.

The Hickory Crawdads clinched the 1st-Half Northern Division Championship and a 2011 SAL Playoff berth with a 5-3 victory against the Charleston RiverDogs before 1,991 fans at L.P. Frans Stadium on Saturday.

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