BLADENBORO – Three of the four Bladen County middle school volleyball teams began their regular seasons Monday. Elizabethtown did not play.

ELIZABETHTOWN - It’s never to early to think about getting your Christmas plans on the calendar and for E-town, the annual parade is one of the best Christmas celebrations in Bladen County.

Here is the Bladen County sports schedule for Oct. 27-Nov. 1. Schedule is subject to change.

KERNERSVILLE – Aliah Jacobs had “mixed feelings” during Saturday’s N.C. High School Athletic Association’s 2A girls‘ Central Regional meet. Was she going to be fast enough to qualify for the state championship race?

BLADENBORO – Keon Whittington and Devan Stanley were locked in Friday night at The Castle.

ROSE HILL – East Bladen closed its football season Friday with a convincing 38-0 win against Union and now likely will wait two weeks before beginning the N.C. High School Athletic Association 2A playoffs.

Last week I picked against East Bladen and proclaimed “I’ve got to pick ‘em as I see ‘em.”

ELIZABETHTOWN – Seniors Easton Bostic scored a goal, Davion Lewis had a pair of assists and keeper Colton Daly posted a clean sheet Thursday as the East Bladen boys’ soccer team wrapped up its regular season with a 9-0 shutout of West Columbus in a Carolina Conference match.