Tar River Preps, LLC | Covering the sports scene in Granville, Franklin, Johnston, Vance, and Wake counties. | Founded by
@MattPage_TRP
| 📸: TarRiverPreps
🚨UPDATE🚨
I didn't realize when I posted the finalists yesterday that it was going to be difficult to access the South voting poll. So going forward, the links below will be where you can access the voting polls.
North:
South:
Please keep the Kirby family in your prayers as South Granville High School student-athlete Matthew Kirby lost his battle with Covid-19.
A GoFundMe benefiting Fielding the Future is in the Dirtbags ⚾️ (
@dirtbag_swag_
) Instagram bio if anyone would like to donate to the family.
What a 7 days it has been for
@GCHS_Hoops
2021 Guard
@HarcumTerence
. On 2/27, he scored his 2000th career point! On 2/29, he tallied his 3rd triple double of the season in the 3rd round of the playoffs. Finally, he was awarded the
@NCHSAA
Performance of the Week for all of NC.
🚨🚨BREAKING🚨🚨
Per
@JHSFalcons
website, Former
@VCHSVipers
AD
@JosephSharrow
has been named the Athletics Director at Jordan High School.
Below is the Press Release from Jordan High School⤵️
Photo from Jordan High School's website
Congratulations to Granville Central High School (
@GCHS_Hoops
) guard Terence Harcum (
@HarcumTerence
) on his commitment to Appalachian State University! Hope to cover your Senior year and to follow your career with the Mountaineers!
Congratulations to
@JFWebbWarriors
'23 multi-sport athlete Beau Burnette on committing to Sewanee University to play Lacrosse! Congratulations to Beau and we look forward to covering you this school year and beyond!
And the last category in the Tar River Preps End of Year Awards is Team of the Year.
Your 2020-2021 Team of the Year is…
Kerr Vance Academy’s ⚾️ Team!
The finished off the season with their 4th straight State Championship!
Breaking News: Top boys, girls basketball seniors named to 2021 Carolinas Classic All-Star rosters, but there won't be a game this year due to COVID-19
Your 2020-2021 Sports Story of the Year is...
Mackenzie Pendergrass's overcoming astrocytoma and playing both basketball and softball for
@VCSKnights
middle school teams!
Next up we have our Traditional Winter Sports.
First we have our Women's Basketball Player of the Year.
The Winner is...
Emerson Thompson (
@emersonfaith9
) of
@flaathletics
!!!
Yes! It was good to finally meet
@TarikCohen
! Glad to see there are good people who care about their hometown. Hopefully we can meet again down the road!
🚨ANNOUNCEMENT🚨
As you know, nothing is official until it's Twitter official.
More info will be coming in the next few days on what is to come for this season and beyond for Tar River Preps.
Thank you to everyone that has supported Tar River Preps to get us to this point!
Your 2020-2021 Male Athlete of the Year is...
Michael Holtzman of
@KVAathletics
!!
Michael was a 3 sport athlete this season at Kerr-Vance Academy. He played Soccer, Men's Basketball, and Baseball.
The 2022-2023 Sports Story of the Year is...
South Granville Softball honoring rival J.F. Webb's Seniors when their senior night got canceled.
📷:
@MattPage_TRP
@FHSAthletics6
WHAT A FINISH! Franklinton’s Travon Sharp grabs the loose ball and lays it up as time expired to give the Red Rams the upset in the
@NCHSAA
3A Playoffs over Southern Durham!
Congratulations to Henry Daniel (
@Henryj_Daniel
) from
@SGHSVikingFB
on committing to NC A&T University! Can't wait to cover your Senior year and follow your career with the Aggies!
Congratulations to Jamari Mann (
@jhoops0
) of Granville Central High School (
@GCHS_Hoops
) for surpassing 1500 points for his career last night against Bunn.
Congratulations to Nashiya Branch (
@shiyabasketball
) of
@VCHSVipers
on her Committment to The University of Mount Olive! Can’t wait to follow your career with the Trojans!
UNCC softball commit Brooke Bowling of South Granville High School pitched a no hitter and had a HR tonight in a 12-0 win for the Lady Vikings. Congrats
@BrookeBowling6
!
🏐 FINAL:
Louisburg takes Set 3 27-25 to advance to the second round of the 2A NCHSAA playoffs.
@LHSAthleticsFCS
3
(25-21, 25-13, 27-25)
Southwest Onslow 0
#TRPscores
#HSOTScores
Not sure why it never posted to social media, but voting for Tar River Preps End-of-Year Awards has officially begun! Voting will conclude on June 8th!
Follow the link below and vote vote vote!
After a LONG day/night yesterday/this morning, Bunn Wrestling is your Big East regular season and tournament champions! Everyone wrestled hard and earned a couple medals along the way! All eyes on the playoffs now!
#Bunn
#brickbybrick
#NWO
#familystrokes
#Playoffs
Best of luck to the
@CCS_Colts
girls soccer as they face off in the NCISAA Stste Championship against The Oakwood School today at 2:00.
Bring home that state title!
Willow Spring High School Class of '24 Kaitlynn Hunt has committed to play softball at UNC Pembroke! Congratulations and best of luck with your Senior year!
Congratulations to Colton Holbrook (
@ColtonHolbrook9
) of Bunn High School (
@BunnWildcatsFCS
) on his commitment to Louisburg College! We look forward to following your Senior year and beyond!
🚨🚨VOTING IS NOW OPEN🚨🚨
Finalists have been named for the Tar River Preps End of Year Awards & voting is now open. Vote NOW through June 5th for your favorite athletes, coaches, and teams!
First up, we have the Traditional Fall Sports.
We will be starting off with Men’s Soccer.
The Winner of the Men’s ⚽️ Player of the Year is…
Joel Lewis of
@KVAathletics
!!!!
This particular category was the closest of them up! 1st and 2nd were separated by 2 votes!!!
The Winner of Offensive 🏈 Player of the Year is....
@MicahWilkerson7
of
@SGHSVikingFB
!!!
So apparently when I got to the game, it was Set 2 and not 1…
🏐 FINAL:
@LHSAthleticsFCS
3
Rocky Mount 0
It also was
@CoachWammock
’s 300 win as a head coach! Congrats and keep up the great work @
@LHSAthleticsFCS
.
🚨🚨TOMORROW IS THE DAY🚨🚨
We will be announcing the winners of the Inaugural Tar River Preps End of Year Awards. Times for the reveal are listed ⤵️:
Fall Sports: 12-1 PM
(⚽️, 🏐,🏃,🏈,⛳️,🎾)
Winter Sports: 1-2 PM
(🏀,🏊♂️,🤼)
Spring Sports: 2-3PM
(⚾️🥎🥍🏃♂️,⚽️🏌️♀️🎾)
Our inaugural
#tbt
is former
@gchs_soccer
forward Edilson Perez (
@edilsonnn10
). In his 4 years with the Panthers soccer program, he tallied 126 goals, 44 assists, and 296 points for his career! He is the all time leader in goals and points.
📸:
@ButnerCreedmoor
&
@addixon42
It's time to vote for the
@TarRiverPreps
Student-Athlete of the Week. Since the voting got pushed back a day, you can cast your votes below from now until Thursday at Noon!
Now that the majority of fall sports have finished their seasons, we will start working on our area stat leaders and All-Area teams this weekend.
If teams have not submitted stats into maxpreps, please do so by saturday morning to ensure accurate stats are used.
VOTE: Tar River Preps Student-Athlete of the Week August 28th - September 2nd
Voting will end Thursday night at 11:59 p.m. Get those votes in and vote for who you think should be this week's award winners!
Former
@SGHS_Vikings
🏀 player Kaleb Hedgepeth has committed to Wilmington University. Congrats to Kaleb on furthering his athletic and academic career!
I will say one thing.. you can never convince me that
@BobbyPettiford
isn’t one of the toughest young men around. Playing through an injury to try and help his team move on in the playoffs.
We are SO close to 500 followers on here! If you know anyone that follows high school sports in the area, let them know to give us a follow!
We have some big things planned for 2022!
Sorry everyone. I had something come up at work at the last minute so I wasn’t able to make it out to any games this evening. We will try and do it all again tomorrow.
After last night's 2-0 win over Camden County,
@SGHS_Vikings
Charlie Vestal went around and shook hands with every umpire before celebrating with his teammates.
The victory secured a trip to the
@NCHSAA
2A ⚾️ state championship series next weekend.
#sportsmanship