Hillsboroughsports.com is expanding its reach for 2019 to focus on Stanford, Gravelly Hill and Stanback Middle Schools.
Middle schools are the foundation where high school sports are built on. We would love to hear from parents who keeps statistics for their children’s games, regardless of the sport. For the fall, we’re particularly interested in football, volleyball, boys soccer and cross country. If you would like to send results, please email hamlin37@hotmail.com.
We plan to continue coverage through the winter to include boys and girls basketball, as well as wrestling. And of course, there’s always baseball, softball, boys lacrosse and women’s soccer in the spring.
Gravelly Hill: The Gravelly Hill Grizzlies football team won its first game of 2019 last Wednesday. Gravelly Hill defeated Northern Middle School out of Roxboro 36-32. The Grizzlies led 12-8 at halftime, but Northern scored three touchdowns in the third quarter to take a 32-20 lead into the 4th quarter.
Gravelly Hills responded with consecutive touchdowns in the fourth quarter. Quarterback Crawford Farmer threw three touchdowns. Tyler Beeman, Derek Yanko and Malachi Poole each had a receiving touchdown. Mason Cates scored a rushing touchdown. Beeman also had an interception.
Gravelly Hill, which lost to Southern Middle School in the opening week of the season, is 1-1. They will host the combined team from Phillips/Smith Middle Schools on Wednesday.
Stanford: The Stanford Chargers won its first football game of the season against Culbreth last week at Chargers Stadium. Stanford dropped its opener to Smith/Phillips. Stanford will travel to Northern Roxboro on Wednesday for a 4:45 kickoff.
There would many more sports that took place at all three middle schools last week, but this is all we have records for. So again, please send us middle school results to hamlin37@hotmail.com so we’ll have a more comprehensive column this week. We plan on making this a feature every few days, if possible.