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Three North Carolina teams, including two from the Triangle, reached the Pop Warner football national semifinals, but none came home with a national championship this year.
The Division II Junior Midget Silver North Raleigh Bulldogs, the Division II Junior Peewee Durham Screamin' Eagles and the Division I Union Road Jaguars of Gastonia were the top finishers among the eight teams in the Mid-South Region at the 54th annual Pop Warner Super Bowl last week.
Bids by the North Raleigh Bulldogs and the Durham Screamin’ Eagles to win national Pop Warner football championships ended in Tuesday’s Division II semifinal games at Lake Buena Vista, Fla.
In a Junior Midget game, North Raleigh (11-2) was eliminated by the defending champion Far West Jets (12-0) of Glendale, Ariz., 40-8.
In Junior Pee Wee play, coach Joey Strong’s Screamin’ Eagles (12-2) fell to the Yorba Linda (Calif.) Bulldogs, 14-7.
Is another Josh Hamilton waiting to emerge from the Triangle's baseball ranks?
He might get some help from an Eastern North Carolina baseball family.
On Jan. 8, the Narron family and friends will conduct a free skills clinic for players in the seventh grade.
Sarah Bae of Cary has been chosen the girls winner of the N.C. Junior Player of the Year award by the Tarheel Youth Golf Association and the Carolinas Golf Association, the organizations announced Monday.
Bae, a 16-year-old sophomore at Athens Drive High School in Raleigh, and boys winner Davis Womble of High Point, a 17-year-old junior at Wesleyan Christian Academy, will be honored at the N.C. Junior Golf Night Awards Banquet on Dec. 27 at Pine Needles Resort in Southern Pines.
The all-state girls and boys teams also will be recognized.
Starting today, Raleigh Parks and Recreation programs and classes will have three options for registering: mail-in, walk-in and online with Reclink.
Learn more in the city's Leisure Ledger printed publication, or create your own online account.
With places in Friday's championship games on the line, the Durham Screamin’ Eagles and the North Raleigh Bulldogs take on football teams from the West today in the second round of the Pop Warner Super Bowl and National Cheer & Dance Championships at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex at Lake Buena Vista, Fla.
The Durham Screamin' Eagles and the North Raleigh Bulldogs knocked two California teams from title contention Saturday at the Pop Warner Super Bowl and National Cheer & Dance Championships at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex at Lake Buena Vista, Fla.
The Screamin' Eagles Division II Junior Pee Wee team defeated East Bay Wranglers of Oakland, Calif., 14-0. Durham will play Yorba Linda (Calif.) Bulldogs on Tuesday.
The Bulldogs Division Division II Junior Midget team defeated Lee's Summit (Mo.) Titans 16-13. On Tuesday, North Raleigh will play the Far West Jets from Phoenix, Ariz.
The North Raleigh Bulldogs Silver and the Durham Screaming Eagles football teams, along with five cheerleading teams and one dance team, will continue their quests for national championships after winning regional titles on Saturday in Gastonia.
Each football team won its Pop Warner Mid-South Region championship, and the cheer and dance teams finished either first or second, to advance to the Dec. 4-11 Pop Warner Football Championships and National Cheer and Dance Championships at ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex in Lake Buena Vista, Fla.
Six other football teams, like the Bulldogs and Eagles part of the Triangle's Consolidated Football Federation, saw their seasons end in Saturday's regional finals.
Saturday was a great day for the Consolidated Football Federation.
Seven football teams in the Triangle youth sports organization won second-round games, and an eighth, the Division III Pee Wee Apex Cougars, advanced with a bye to reach this Saturday’s Pop Warner Mid-South Regional football championship games at Mount Holly and Gastonia.
Scores and schedule are below.
Nine cheerleading teams and one dance team from the Consolidated Football Federation will have a busy day after Thanksgiving.
The teams have advanced to compete in Friday's Pop Warner Mid-South Region Championships at The Pointe in Fort Mill, S.C., CFF cheer coordinator Julie Sandford said.
