Sports

Photo by P. Vankevich By Peter Vankevich Last night, in an away game, the Ocracoke School boys varsity Dolphins beat Bear Grass Charter Bears,...

Lady Dolphins varsity basketball. Photo: P. Vankevich It's basketball week on Ocracoke Monday, Jan. 9Middle school basketball: The Mattamuskeet Lakers cross the sound to...

By Richard Taylor It was like the movie “Groundhog Day,” as the Ocracoke Island varsity baseball team tried to get off the island five times...

By Richard Taylor  Call it Ocracoke’s never-give-up attitude, a full moon on the rise or the luck of the Irish. Dolphin baseballers pulled off a...

Ocracoke’s Cinderella hoops season came to an end Feb. 24 as the ninth-seeded Chatham Central Bears overcame the long trip from Bear Creek to the island, to beat the eighth-seeded Lady Dolphins 44-34 in the second round of the East 1A playoffs.

By Richard Taylor Ocracoke put on a powerful “palindromic” performance Tuesday, trouncing the Triangle Math and Science Academy Tigers from Cary in the first round...

Tuesday, Feb. 22The Ocracoke Lady Dolphins varsity basketball team will play in the first round of the Eastern Division 1A state playoffs against the...

The Ocracoke Lady Dolphins varsity basketball team may have fallen in the first round of the Atlantic 5 (1A) conference tournament on Wednesday, but the team’s impressive season earned them a berth in the first round of the Eastern Division state playoffs. 

By Richard Taylor Ocracoke’s varsity girls’ basketball team chalked up two more impressive wins this week as the top-seeded Lady Dolphins move into the first...

By Richard Taylor Despite a season complicated by COVID-cancelled games and long bus rides, Ocracoke’s varsity girls’ basketball team has persevered, going undefeated (6-0) in...