Tag: football
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Leesville Homecoming 2025
Leesville’s Homecoming theme for 2025 is Luau at Loonieville, incorporating a fun, tropical, and vibrant theme. The Homecoming Game is scheduled for October 10, and the dance is scheduled on the following day, October…
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Leesville 2025 Homecoming Football Game
On Friday, October 10, 2025, the Pride Varsity football team beat Enloe to win the 2025 Homecoming football game. The score at the end of the game was 40-13. “I thought it was really…
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Powderpuff Football: Leesville’s Fun Way to Boost School Spirit
Powderpuff is a football game where girls play and boys can either cheer or coach the girls. Any girl can join and participate in the game. To sign up, there is a google form…
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How do Severe Injuries Affect Student Athletes?
Leesville has a large population of student-athletes who are at risk of injury during their high school sports career. Sports like soccer, football, dance, cheer, baseball, etc., can cause a tear of their ACL…
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Leesville’s First Home Football Games of the Season
Every LRHS football game, Leesville students show up to represent their school and cheer on their team. The first home football game’s theme was Hawaiian Out. (Photo courtesy of Gaby Lefcheck)
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LRHS Dance Team prepares for Football season
As the football season approaches, the dance team is finalizing routines and perfecting their sideline dances alongside the band. They showcased two different dances this past Friday, along with special quarter dances performed between…
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What to expect with Leesville’s athletic conference next year
For the 2025-2026 school year, Leesville Road High School will be a part of the Cap 8A conference. This conference has new teams coming in and old teams leaving. The current Cap 4A conference…
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It is very important for teenagers to play a sport
Every teenager should play a sport. Now I know some people will disagree with me on this opinion, but hear me out. Sports play a huge role in the lives of teenagers. They’re not…
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THE BEST ADS AT SUPER BOWL LIX
Every year, the price for a 30-second Super Bowl ad skyrockets. This year’s Super Bowl was no exception. Brands pay millions of dollars for a spot in the coveted commercial breaks, finding any way…
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2025 Super Bowl Eagles exciting Victory
On February 9, 2025, the Philadelphia Eagles beat the reigning champions, the Kansas City Chiefs, in Super Bowl LIX. The Chiefs have been in 5 out of 6 of the past super bowls, and…
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Braxton Berrios’ #8 Becomes Leesville’s First Retired Jersey
Braxton Berrios, #8, wide receiver, graduated from Leesville in 2014; his number became the first retired jersey in school history. Pictured above, Berrios speaking at the jersey retirement ceremony. (Photo used by permission of…
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lessville football regular season recap
From left to right: Christian Shaw (Sr), Deiondre Goldston (Sr), William Colombo (Sr), and Sam White (Jr) walk onto the field with the referees before kickoff. This marks the start of the last conference…
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What did Leesville students do for Homecoming 2024?
Leesville’s Homecoming game and dance was on Friday, October 5, 2024. The dance happened late after the 7:00 PM football game against Sanderson. The dance lasted until 11:30 at night. On the Saturday after…
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2024 Duke vs. UNC football game
Saturday, September 29, 2024, the Duke Blue Devils took on the University of North Carolina Tar Heels at Wallace Wade Stadium. This game held high stakes for the Duke Blue Devils and Carolina Tar…
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Junior Varsity Football deserves more fans
Junior varsity’s last game was a win, but not everybody may have known that, as people don’t really get super excited about junior varsity as compared to varsity, especially in football. Last Game On…
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2028 Los Angeles Olympics
The Paris Olympics recently came to a close and was a huge success for Team USA. The United States came first in the medal count from the games: winning 126 total medals (40 golds,…
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Leesville Sports Pre-Season Workouts
Leesville Road High School’s Varsity baseball started workouts for their spring season during the fall of 2024. The team begins to prep the field for play. (Photo courtesy of Alexis Engelson)
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Start of leesville football season
Seniors line up in front of the student section in all white at Leesville’s first home football game. Students hold up lucky threes to cheer on the team as they reach a third down.…
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Leesville High School Senior Sports commitments
Here at Leesville, we have many athletically gifted students. Ashley Lamme Ashley Lamme, a senior here at LRHS, has been playing volleyball since she was in 7th grade. Lamme committed to DIII, York College…
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Leesville 7 on 7
Triangle 7 on 7, is a league that hosts 7 on 7 games. LRHS is a part of this league. (Photo courtesy of Triangle 7 on 7)
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The rise of Sketch
TheSketchReal is a Twitch streamer who has been the face of social media and memes within the past few months. He currently has 3,051 active subscribers as of April 11, 2024. As of April…
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Leesville Alumn: Braxton Berrios
Braxton Berrios is a 28 year-old wide receiver and return specialist on the Miami Dolphins. He has had 6 successful seasons playing in the National Football League, but his football career started at Leesville…
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EA Sports College Football 25
Electronic Arts (EA) is developing a new college football video game, College Football 25. College football fans and video game players are ecstatic about the revival of the beloved EA NCAA football game series.…
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WCPSS New Spectator Event Bag Policy
On March 1, 2024, the Wake County Public School System will implement a new bag policy for high school spectator events. This new policy is intended to deter people from bringing weapons to these…
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Taylor Swift Rigs the NFL?
Three Kansas City Chiefs players during a 2021 game against the Commanders. The NFL has recently been under fire for potentially biasing the Chiefs during the 2023-24 playoffs. (Photo Courtesy of Public Domain)
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Superbowl Halftime Show
The iconic 2024 Super Bowl Halftime show featured Usher along with special guest appearances including H.E.R, Alicia Keys, Ludacris, Jermaine Dupri, Lil Jon and Will.i.am. This show featured a popular mash-up of many Usher…
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Wake County Introduces Flag Football
Football is America’s most popular sport to watch and play, bringing in over 100 million viewers per year. It is a heavily male-dominated sport with very few women playing at any level, and even…
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NCSU Football Regular Season Review
North Carolina State football had a chaotic year with injuries, position changes, and discovering hidden gems. Despite the team’s chaos, they finished the season with a 9-3 record and ranked 18 in the College…
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Football Season Recap
Last Friday night Leesville Road High School played against Cleveland high school looking to knock them out of the playoffs and advance to win a high school title. During the game last week, Leesville…
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Loonies and their Effect on the Theme
The student section at Neon Out Thursday, October 19th, 2023. At the last home game of the regular season, as well as the class of 2024’s senior night. (Photo courtesy of Daniela Plata).
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Real-Sports app review
Real-Sports is an up-and-coming sports app that seeks to revolutionize the way fans interact with other fans. Real-Sports seeks to revolutionize the way fans interact with each other through the use of social elements…
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Senior night
Leesville Road High School has a senior night every year that’s celebrated during sports games. This year, senior night was celebrated during the varsity football game against Athens Drive, and the volleyball game against…
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Football rivalry — Leesville Pride vs. Gibbons Crusaders
The game the Loonies have been waiting for is upon us: Leesville vs. Gibbons. This Friday October 27, the Pride will be playing the Cardinal Gibbons Crusaders away from home. If you’re not familiar…
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Football injuries at Leesville Road High School
The LRHS football players take their positions as part of a team very seriously; they know that to play at the best of their ability they need to avoid injuries. However, since football is…
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Leesville set to have Homecoming Dance this year
Leesville has arranged to have a Homecoming Dance this fall for the first time in several years. The dance will be on Friday, October 13 from 10:00-12:00 PM and directly after the Homecoming football…
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Leesviles 2023-2024 Students Section Leaders
Leesville’s first football game of the season was held on Friday, August 18, 2023. Not only was this the first game of the season, but it was also the first game with the 2023-2024…
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The Upcoming “23-24” Seahawks Season
The upcoming NFL season for the Seattle Seahawks is upon us. Surprising everyone last year by making the playoffs after trading away their franchise quarterback, the Seahawks look to improve upon last season’s success. …
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7 ON 7
As the football off-season continues for Leesville Road High School, some of the players play 7 on 7 on the weekends. These games take place on Saturdays and Sundays consisting of 1-2 games in…
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2022 Football Season Recap
The Leesville Pride Football season ended on Thursday, November 10 with a loss against Wake Forest High School, 45-21. The Pride easily won their first 4 games of the season against Wakefield, Panther Creek,…
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2022 Leesville Football Season Recap
The Leesville Football season ended on Thursday, November 10 with a loss against Wake Forest High School, 45-21. The Pride easily won their first 4 games of the season against Wakefield, Panther Creek, Wallace-Rose,…
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Student Spotlight: Elijah Stevenson
Football is one of the most popular sports in the Leesville community. It would not be the same without Elijah Stevenson, the wide receiver on the junior varsity and varsity teams. Stevenson, a sophomore, has…
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Leesville Football: More than a Team
As the year advances, Leesville football season slips away, leaving staff and students with wonderful memories of the last few games. The Leesville football team played against schools such as Sanderon, Athens Drive, and…
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Talkin’ Leesville Podcast
Host, Jack Short, talks Leesville athletics with athletes, coaches, and fans. Jackson ShortI play wide receiver here at Leesville. I love writing and talking about sports!
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Are the offenses of LSU and Alabama better than the Cleveland Browns?
(From left to right) Joe Burrow, Baker Mayfield and Tua Tagovailoa are shown in the picture above. Each of the quarterbacks have thrown for at least 2,000 yards, but that’s the only comparison that…
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Leesville stays undefeated in CAP-8 with Broughton win
Leesville is off to a 2-0 start in conference play thanks to a solid 24-7 victory over the Broughton Capitals in week 8 of the 2015 football season. For the second game in a…
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Leesville Football downs Enloe for homecoming win
Clinging to a 14-13 lead late in the third quarter, the Leesville offense — backed up on their own 20-yard line after two threatening Enloe drives produced no points — desperately needed a big…
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Leesville Football overcomes Sanderson, Mother Nature
Seventy-one hours and 18 minutes after the opening kickoff at Sanderson, the Leesville football team made one last tackle, the final seconds ticked off the scoreboard and the Pride secured a crucial conference win.…
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Inside Leesville Football 2014: The new generation
For the second consecutive year, we spent the first game week of the 2014 season immersed inside the Leesville football team. What happens when the team isn’t under the spotlights of Friday night? Read…
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The power of Powderpuff
The Powderpuff games will take place on Friday, October 17 at 5:00 p.m. The price per ticket for the event is $3.00 with exemptions for players and coaches. The Powderpuff practices will be held…
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Leesville Football rallies to spoil Broughton’s homecoming
When the Pride needed it most, Leesville’s stars took the initiative and led their team to a critical comeback win on Friday night at Broughton. Mike Dehaney, senior running back, rushed for 136 yards…