Fighting Scots
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Edkins named to all-region team
LAURINBURG — Hunter Edkins of the Scotland boys soccer team was named to the North Carolina Soccer Coaches Association All-Region 4 team. Edkins, who scored six goals as a senior this season, was also named to the all-Sandhills Athletic Conference team after the Fighting Scots finished 3-16 in their first…
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Scotland’s basketball teams prepare for action
LAURINBURG — Basketball season is here, and it’s going to be an unusual one for Scotland. The Fighting Scots don’t have access to the school’s main gym, which was damaged by floodwaters during Hurricane Florence. It might be that way until the end of the school year. But that hasn’t…
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Scotland’s Edkins named to all-conference team
LAURINBURG — Hunter Edkins, a senior on the Scotland boys soccer team, was named to the all-Sandhills Athletic Conference team. Edkins scored six goals for the Fighting Scots this season. Twenty of his 30 shots this year were on target. The Scots finished 3-16 in Blake Dickerson’s first year as…
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Scots prepare for ‘emotional’ end to regular season
LAURINBURG — Richard Bailey got the first 119 wins of his coaching career over the 12 years he spent at Jack Britt. He’ll need to guide the Scotland football team to a win over the Buccaneers on Friday in order to get win No. 201. “You get a little emotional…
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Tester: Fighting Scots need to limit mistakes against Pirates
The Scotland football team needs to win now more than ever, and the Fighting Scots shouldn’t have a problem getting a victory on Friday against Lumberton. Unless Scotland continues to shoot itself in the foot. The Scots picked up 16 false start penalties and turned the ball over four times…
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Scots prepare for Pinecrest’s unfamiliar scheme
LAURINBURG — The Scotland football team is fighting for its postseason life. Head coach Richard Bailey knows his team will have to win the majority of the four games remaining on its schedule in order to contend for a spot in the state playoffs. “Every game needs to be played…
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Lady Scots end season with loss to Richmond
LAURINBURG —Sarah Eury was overcome with emotions after the Scotland volleyball team lost 3-0 (19-25, 16-25, 14-25) to Richmond on Tuesday night. Eury and her fellow seniors – Beatrice Eddy, Nakiya Locklear and Jahkayla Walker – had just played their final game with the Fighting Scots. “It’s been a blessing…
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Experience is a factor as Fighting Scots face 71st
LAURINBURG — Scotland football coach Richard Bailey called his team’s game on Friday at Seventy-First a “tale of two different quarterbacks.” “We’re playing two very inexperienced quarterbacks,” Bailey said. “Our quarterbacks have four starts between them, and then you’ve got their guy who has probably started 40 or 50 games…
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Powering through the storm
LAURINBURG — After starting 1-2 for the first time since 2009, the Scotland football team faced another setback when Hurricane Florence made landfall in the Carolinas on Sept. 14. The hurricane, which hit the region as a Category 1 storm on that Friday morning and gradually weakened to a tropical…
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Sports take a back seat as recovery begins
If you were to ask any coach at Scotland High School when their team will be able to practice or play a game again, they’d probably tell you there’s more important things to worry about right now. And they’d be right. Those coaches are starting to return to their classrooms…
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Slow start haunts Scotland in loss to Jack Britt
LAURINBURG — For most of the first half of its game on Monday night against Jack Britt, the Scotland boys soccer team couldn’t seem to get the ball into the attacking third of the field. Jack Britt kept pressuring the Fighting Scots’ backline and scored three goals in the first…
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Senior running backs help Scots stay focused
LAURINBURG — Senior Joseph “Poppa” McKoy knows that Scotland’s running backs will shoulder more responsibilities now that injured starting quarterback Bruce Wall is out for the season. But he believes in the Fighting Scots’ backup quarterbacks. “I feel like we’re back to last year with our running game, but Tyler…
