Asheville - October 30, 2006 - In a game that was postponed from Friday to Monday due to the weather, the Asheville Cougars appeared to like Monday Night Football as they defeated the #1 ranked and previously unbeaten Franklin Panthers (9-1, 4-1) by a score of 14-7.  Barring a major upset this Friday at North Buncombe, Asheville will share the MAC title with Franklin (if they defeat Enka), and should get the top seed in the upcoming 3A playoffs. 

The Cougars have been somewhat erratic in attaining their 6-3/4-1 record, but put it all together against Franklin, over whom they hold a 10-1 record and also spoiled a potential perfect season for the second consecutive year.

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The 2006 AHS Women's Tennis Team is continuing the winning tradition by clinching its fourth consecutive Mountain Athletic Conference championship and moving forward in the state playoffs.

“No o­ne expected this from us this year,” Coach Buster Brown said. “We lost some good players like Ashley Brown and Alexa Ely (State 3A Singles Champion) and people counted us out a little bit. So this is a good feeling, this is probably the sweetest o­ne for what we overcame.  The girls competed hard today (in defeating Roberson 5-4 to win the MAC title) and showed lots of heart. That’s this team’s greatest quality and that’s all I can ask of them.”

In the first round of the playoffs, freshman Taylor Margaret Haynes, playing at No. 3 singles, finished off freshman Khoury Beshara in about 30 minutes, helping the Cougars to a dominating 5-0 win over Foard in the 3A bracket.

At No. 2 singles, Nicole Powell won 6-2, 6-0, and Christiane Pheil won, 6-2, 6-1 at No. 1 singles.  Junior Miah McClinton and sophomore Libba McKinsey also won singles matches to clinch the victory.

Pheil (12-0) and McKinsey (13-0) are undefeated in singles play this year.  Pheil recently committed to play college tennis at Colorado next year, and Nicole Powell has committed to play basketball at the College of Charleston.

Waynesville - October 20, 2006 - Asheville kept its MAC championship hopes alive by holding off Tuscola 22-10. The Cougars scored the first 22 points in the first and second quarters.  Asheville got scores from Troyce McCants o­n a 65 yard run, from sophomore Greg Ray (recently pulled up from JV) o­n a 28 yard run, and from Antonio Carson o­n a 1 yard run.  Tuscola got a 30 yard FG from Leo Gamez and scored o­n a Madison Davis to Nathan Heath 4 yard pass play.    This sets up a big matchup for the Cougars at home next week versus Franklin where the MAC Championship will likely be decided. 

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Franklin - October 19, 2006 - The Asheville High boys and Roberson girls won team championships Thursday at the Mountain Athletic Conference cross country meet held at Enloe Farm in Franklin.  The Cougars (42 points) beat the Rams (48) in the boys race for the first time this season and were led by senior Andrew North (third place, 17:13.22).   Roberson senior Josh Dubin took first place (16:34.97) individually.

In the girls race, Roberson (19) beat runner-up Asheville by 51 points.   Rams junior Caroline Kirby also won individually with a time of 20:29.16.

Congratulations Asheville!

Boys results:2006 Boys MAC Results  Girls results:2006 Girls MAC Results

Congratulations to the Lady Cougar Field Hockey team for another great year. As the regular season winds down and the team prepares for playoffs, Jeff Dave submitted some photos from the season.

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