West Charlotte Lions Continue to Impose Their Will
Undefeated after more than a month of football, they are certainly on the right track. While they had their doubters before the season began, they gave their opponents fair warning.
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Undefeated after more than a month of football, they are certainly on the right track. While they had their doubters before the season began, they gave their opponents fair warning.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. This is the phrase pushing Brandon Gentry and the Hopewell Football team to lead the charge throughout the month of September and beyond.
The West Mecklenburg Hawks are on a mission this season. To not only prove themselves as a team to beat, but prove their doubters wrong as well.
The Bahakel Sports team takes you around the Charlotte area as they discuss what went down during the opening week of the season.
It is a brand new season for Harding University. In a new conference with a new head coach, they have their work cut out for them.
Success is a key part of any teams motivation, but beyond that the Trojans have another mission. The first back-to-back conference championship is school history.
Why not us? That is a mantra every overlooked football team embraces. The Phillip O. Berry Academy Cardinals want to shock the conference this season.
The Cougars carry themselves with a swagger that cannot be denied. Nothing changed when head coach Brandon Wiggins took the reigns last season.
Once upon a time, the Mallard Creek Mavericks were back-to-back-to-back state champions. They are a staple in the 4A bracket, and yet they still feel overlooked.
On this week's episode, Bahakel Sports Director, Jeff Taylor sits down with West Charlotte Head Coach Sam Greiner to talk about his love for the state of North Carolina and being able to play the sport he loves in the state, from high school to college.
A former player turned seasoned coach, a young team and a winning spirit. All of these are just a few of the things that make up the Independence Patriots.
Conditioning is a crucial part of practice. All of that running, in the heat, shows where the resolve is strongest and where the cracks start to form. But in these moments, Head Coach Tyson Fernandez does what he knows best.
The Butler Bulldogs are the bad boys of the Southwestern 4A conference. They aren't looking to make friends, they want to make more room in their trophy case.
The Knights of Ardrey Kell finished last season 8 and 3 overall and 5 and 1 in the South Meck 4A Conference. That was good enough to finish second in the conference. In 2023, the Knights are looking for more.
This season is a turning point for East Meck, specifically for head coach Lennie Sanders, in his third year at the helm, and for the juniors who have been with him from the beginning.
The Cannon Cougars are only two seasons removed from their first ever state championship, and a conference championship the year after. As they prepare for a conference promotion, their past success is the last thing on their mind.
Take a brand new coach hired in May and combine that with a team that has less than thirty players and what do you get? The Garinger Wildcats who are ready to shock the Queen City high school football scene in 2023.
The two talk about his return to the school he played at, the season the BigI had last year, and what we can expect this year from the Patriots.
Charlotte Catholic won four straight state championships from 2017 to 2021. An achievement new head coach Matt Reilly and a handful of seniors remember, and are desperate to replicate.
The key to success for any new coaching staff is a senior core that is bought in to the philosophy of the new staff. A goal Coach Dayton achieved with this graduating class while they were in middle school.
The Providence Panthers built a reputation of hard work, dedication, maxing out every rep. The only thing missing; translating that reputation into success.
The current upperclassmen want to emulate the leaders that took them so far last season, as they know they wont take anyone by surprise this season.
Kristyn Embler is a rising Junior at Hickory Ridge High School and is one of the top softball players in our area.
This offseason, Coach Drew Witman and his senior class will utilize a love tough mentality, leaning on leadership to lead the Bucs' to the postseason and he believes there is no better time to do so.