Langston Wertz Jr.

Providence High’s nationally ranked baseball team, and hard-working coach Danny Hignight, would probably like to forget their last two N.C. 4A playoff performances.

History is staring Charlotte Catholic boys tennis star Kyle Johnson squarely in the eye. Johnson has won three straight N.C. 3A individual state championships. No N.C. boys tennis player has ever won four.

By now, most of Mecklenburg County’s high school baseball teams know about Nick Salisbury.

Since winning the Super Bowl with his New York Giants in February, former Charlotte Latin High star Chris Canty hasn’t exactly been out celebrating much.

It was an exciting high school basketball season for teams in the Charlotte Observer's coverage area. The year concluded with state finals play Saturday in Chapel Hill and Raleigh.

With 48.5 seconds left in a third-round playoff game at South Mecklenburg late last month, West Charlotte High boys’ basketball coach Baronton Terry called time out.

Harding High has never been to a girls' basketball state championship game. West Charlotte's boys have been to a bunch of them. But after both teams won N.C.

Ten minutes after Friday's 59-55 overtime win at South Mecklenburg, the best high school game I've seen in five years, the West Charlotte Lions glided into the Sabres' visitors' locker room, got dressed and then they gathered in a circle.

Lake Park High coach Dale Similton considers himself, as he puts it, "extra lucky." He says he has most everything he always wanted:

Tonight, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools will hold conference championship games at three different high schools. There are some great matchups between some highly ranked teams.