Highlands basketball teams prepping for tourney
The Little Smoky Mountain Tournament looks to be business as usual for the Highlands Lady Highlanders basketball team.
The Little Smoky Mountain Tournament looks to be business as usual for the Highlands Lady Highlanders basketball team.
Area swimmers on the Highlands Hurricanes swim team competed in the Clemson Aquatics Team Invitational for the second straight year and did quite well, according to their coach.
The Highlands Lady Highlanders stood a win away from clinching the Little Smoky Mountain Conference regular season championship with a hard-fought 38-31 win over archrival Blue Ridge Early College.
The Highlands Lady Highlanders placed three players in double figures and canned 17-18 shots from the foul line to ride a second half comeback and defeat Swain County 46-39 in basketball action Wed
After watching a pair of second half comebacks fall just short, Highlands boys basketball coach Brett Lamb was excited to see the Highlanders finish the job on Friday night against Murphy.
A furious comeback effort fell just short as Highlands’ varsity boys basketball team fell to visiting Hiwassee Dam 52-46 on Friday night.
Highlands and Blue Ridge set the table for the 2019-20 rivalry between the two schools with a middle school doubleheader Wednesday in Glenville.
The Highlands boys basketball team stumbled coming out of the gate in its season opener to Tallulah Falls, losing 69-25 on Monday.
With four players tallying in double figures, Highlands’ girls basketball team rallied from a seven-point halftime deficit to down Tallulah Falls 64-49 in its season opener Monday.
“The luck of the draw,” is one of the most over-used clichés in the sports book, but when Highlands took the floor for its first round NCHSAA Class 1A state playoff game, the Lady Highlanders reali