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Highlights: Lake Norman beats Wakefield in 4A final to win first girls basketball state title
A buzzer-beater from Rayana Minard lifted Lake Norman to a 43-41 win over Wakefield in the NCHSAA 4A girls basketball state championship on Saturday.
Lake Norman girls win first state basketball title on buzzer beater vs. Raleigh Wakefield
Junior Rayana Minard hit a last-second shot to lift the Wildcats in the NCHSAA 4A championship Saturday in Winston-Salem.
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Sisters help lead Lake Norman to historic basketball state title as part of senior swan song
Those two are definitely going to be missed,” Wildcats coach McKenzie Graham said. “I don’t know how we’re going to do it ...
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Warrants: Spring Lake teen used Instagram to arrange meeting with men accused of trafficking her
A teenage girl who was the subject of an Amber Alert ... took the teen to Virginia Beach before returning with her to North Carolina with the plan to turn her over to Cole in Kitty Hawk.