Mattamuskeet Lakers Coverage
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HSOT staffers make picks for week 9 HS football games
HighSchoolOT staffers are back with picks for the slate of 20 of the top high school football games in North Carolina. -
Sights and sounds from Mattamuskeet's season finale
The Lakers completed their first season of football since 2017, and it was the first 8-man season in the NCHSAA to be completed since the 1960s. -
Mattamuskeet's 'Heroes of Hyde County' return football to the Road Less Traveled
Mattamuskeet went four seasons without football. When it returned this year as an 8-man version of the sport, it was a challenge to complete the season. -
Mattamuskeet seniors: We did our best to bring football back
Seniors Alex Jimenez, Jason Stotesberry, and Ismael Cuevas (from left to right) completed the school's first season since 2017. -
Tommy Loftus: The community itself needs those Friday night lights
The former Mattamuskeet athletics director was instrumental in getting the Lakers back on the field. -
Richard Perry: They're heroes in Hyde County
This season's Mattamuskeet football team was the first since 2017. The Lakers played 8-man football, believed to be the first NCHSAA team to complete an 8-man season since the 1960s. -
Photo Gallery: What football looks like at Mattamuskeet High
Photos taken by J. Mike Blake's visit to Mattamuskeet, which completed its first season of 8-man football after spending the last five seasons without football at all, on Oct. 28, 2022. The Lakers were hosting Father Capodanno. -
Riverside golfers take top two spots, win team title at 1A East Regional
Golfers from Riverside-Martin took the top two spots in the 1A East Regional Championship at the Washington Yacht and Country Club on Monday, leading the Knights to the team title as well. -
As more schools resume sports, some opt to delay participation until 2021
The number of school districts, schools, and student-athletes participating in high school athletics continues to rise this week as the N.C. High School Athletic Association regular season approaches. -
Columbia, Mattamuskeet to drop to 8-man football for 2020
There will be two N.C. High School Athletic Association member schools playing eight-man football in 2020. -
Six NC counties have never won a state championship in any sport. Why?
If high school sports are a source of community pride, then state championships are a tangible achievement that those communities can hang their hat on. -
To keep the Friday night lights on, it's time for 8-man football to make its comeback
With football participation dropping and some schools being forced to stop offering the sport, J. Mike Blake says it's time for the NCHSAA to offer 8-man football as an option.
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