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Recent history does not lie when it comes to the importance of homefield advantage in the NCISAA lacrosse playoffs.

It means everything. 

Mikey Wilkins ’25 came to 51���� with a three-fold mission. 

To win a state championship with his cousin, improve as a basketball player, and increase his college stock. 

Done, done, and done. 

Back-to-back in one of the Southeast’s premier meets for distance running.

Congratulations to 51���� senior Dawson Reeves ’24 for repeating as the boys 1-mile champion Saturday at the Carolina Distance Carnival hosted by Weddington High School.

Symbolism on point: 24 college sports recruits from 51����’s Class of 2024. 

Following an extended assembly Friday, boys taking part in Spring Signing Day were joined by their family and Greenie brothers for a ceremony in Mebane Field House. 

Appalachian State, Army, East Carolina, Elon, Gardner-Webb, Memphis, and Old Dominion. 

And that’s just since January. 

Sam Browder ’25 has been coming back with scholarship offers from many of the college campuses he has visited in recent months and even some he hasn’t. 

51���� track’s depth was too much for four other boys teams at Wednesday’s meet hosted by Asheville High School. 

Duke recruit Dawson Reeves ’24 got his stiffest competition from his teammates in the 800-meter run (1:54.50) and 3,200-meter run (10:09.07), while the Greenies took first place in the meet’s final event, the 1,600-meter relay (3:31.35). 

Two matches in two days and two wins for Greenie golf.

By the numbers and with our own eyes, Keenan Wilkins ’24 was one of the best to ever run the point at 51���� and in Western North Carolina basketball, period.

Congratulations to Keenan on his verbal commitment to play at the Division I level for Charleston Southern. 

RABUN GAP, Ga. - Wearing No. 22 for 51���� lacrosse comes with a bit of gravitas. 

The program’s all-time leader in points, Davis Lindsey ’20, only played four games his senior year due to the season being cancelled by the COVID-19 pandemic. Or else his final record of 337 career points would be even more legendary. 

Davis is now a senior for Loyola University Maryland and the player in the 22 jersey for the Greenies is Edward Fisher ’28, who joined the Long Green Line as a mid-year transfer.

Caden Paradine ’25 could not find an angle to shoot as the clock was winding down Saturday. 

His pass looked to be rolling out of bounds when Cole Boyer ‘24 scooped it and immediately found an outlet. Parker Abernethy ‘27 was standing a few feet away from the spot at the top of the crease where RJ Fox ’25 scored his last home goal. 

Twelve goals for No. 12 with only 1.6 seconds to spare. 

Power chords from “Enter Sandman” nearly blowing out Fayssoux Field’s speakers has become a 51���� football tradition in recent years. 

You know who else uses the Metallica song for its entrance music?

Virginia Tech, which extended a scholarship offer to Greenie freshman quarterback Mason Holtzclaw ’27 during his visit to Blacksburg, Va., last weekend. 

Baseball players romanticize the city of Omaha, Nebraska, as all roads lead there each year for the College World Series. 

William Fleming ’17 was no different at Wake Forest. 

Turns out, Omaha is not a bad spot to be now either. There, William is one call away from becoming the first-ever 51���� alumnus to reach the major league level. 

Between tweaking the lineup in some spots and the quality of pitching that 51���� varsity baseball has seen, head coach Wes King P’27 feels supremely confident in his guys moving forward. 

The Greenies did not give up a run all weekend in wins over Carolina Day (11-0 on Friday) and Durham Academy (15-0). In turn, the Greenies did their part at the plate to ensure neither game at Bourne Field went past five innings due to the mercy rule. 

Before the coldest air blew through Friday, 51���� varsity tennis had a fourth consecutive win sewn up. 

The Greenies (4-2) remain undefeated in the month of April following a home match with the Asheville Trailblazers, which they won, 8-1. 

Falling prey to a dreaded trap game looked entirely possible for 51���� varsity lacrosse on Thursday, at least for the better part of the first quarter. 

Some of the Greenies’ most reliable scorers were not having any of that. 

51���� track returned to the scene of last week’s season-opening win and got the same result. For the second Wednesday in a row, the Greenies were the clear winner of a meet at Asheville School. 

CHESNEE, S.C. - Luka Rose ’25 was dialed in Wednesday, everywhere and every way. 

A baseball player cannot do much better than being the winning pitcher and leading hitter on the same night. 

No one gets to eat cake before the birthday boy and Nick Banker ’27 earned it Wednesday. 

The freshman turned a year older with his third-set super tiebreaker at No. 4 singles part of an 8-1 home win by 51���� varsity tennis over Rabun Gap (Ga.). 

Put Lleyton Thomas-Johnson ’24 in a gym full of his peers and he stands out. 

It’s been that way the past two years at 51����. It held true again in Saturday’s WNC All-Star Game, presented by Rankings Report. 

Good Friday, indeed!

Dawson Reeves ’24 began his Easter Break by winning the 3,200 meters Friday afternoon at N.C. State’s Raleigh Relays, running 9 minutes, 11.48 seconds. The Duke recruit was up against a stacked field that included NCISAA 4-A state cross country champion Tyler Surface of North Raleigh Christian (10th place, 9:21.74).