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NBC Sports is letting fans vote on which Charlotte-area high school football game gets featured during Sunday Night Football's Panthers-Lions broadcast Oct. 4, and the Marvin Ridge at Weddington SCC showdown is on the ballot with voting closing Wednesday, Sept. 30.
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Piedmont defeated Cuthbertson 55-28 on Friday, Sept. 25, ending a 16-year losing streak against the Cavaliers as Cooper Wise ran for 367 yards and four touchdowns, dropping Cuthbertson to 1-5.
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Weddington High offensive lineman Bryce Johnson has been named to the 44-player North Carolina roster for the 90th Shrine Bowl of the Carolinas, set for Dec. 19 in Spartanburg, S.C.
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Weddington's varsity football team shut out Sun Valley 42-0 on Friday, Sept. 25, improving to 6-0 overall and 2-0 in conference play ahead of a home matchup with Marvin Ridge on Oct. 2.
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Marvin Ridge volleyball upset previously unbeaten Lake Norman Charter 3-1 on the road Wednesday, extending the Mavericks' win streak to 13 matches and setting up a first-place Southern Carolina Conference showdown at Weddington on Sept. 29.
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Weddington's unbeaten football team heads to Sun Valley on Friday, Sept. 25, the women's tennis squad hosts a Marvin Ridge rematch Thursday, and field hockey celebrates Senior Night on Tuesday.
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The Waxhaw Board of Commissioners recognized Sandy Ridge Elementary students Tinley Carpenter, 8, and Jordan Carpenter, 9, after both placed in the national top five in the long jump at the 2026 AAU Junior Olympics in Des Moines, Iowa.
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James Michael Smith, who started his Union County coaching career as an assistant for the Marvin Ridge girls basketball team, died unexpectedly Sept. 18 at age 56 while serving as head girls basketball coach at Piedmont High School.
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Weddington High School's athletic department is selling $20 Pink Out shirts starting Tuesday, Sept. 22, ahead of the Warriors' Friday, Oct. 2 Homecoming football game, as the team carries a four-game winning streak into the heart of Southern Carolina Conference play.
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Marvin Ridge boys soccer is 8-1 overall and 2-0 in the Southern Carolina Conference, sharing first place with unbeaten Charlotte Catholic ahead of a Wednesday, Sept. 30 showdown at the Cougars' field.
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Evan Culicerto's goal-line tackle on a 2-point conversion with 30 seconds left preserved Marvin Ridge's 35-33 win over Ashbrook on Sept. 10, and the Mavericks followed with a 51-7 homecoming rout of Piedmont to start 5-0 under first-year coach David Johnson.
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Marvin Ridge's girls and boys cross country teams both won first place at the 16th annual Hare and Hounds XC Invitational on Saturday at McAlpine Creek Park, with Caitlin Kasten winning the girls' race and Adam Haggart finishing second in the boys' race.
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