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Salisbury sets 2025 football schedule

Now a 4-A program, the Hornets are in a new 4-A/5-A conference

Mike Duprez

Salisbury sets 2025 football schedule
Salisbury sets 2025 football schedule / File

Salisbury, a traditional North Carolina power, is in new territory with the latest NCHSAA realignment.

The Hornets will open the 2025 football season against Forest Hills, the team that knocked them out of the 2-A state playoffs in the third round last year.

Salisbury, a 4-A school now, is in a new 4-A/5-A conference with South Rowan (4-A), Concord (5-A), East Rowan (5-A), Jay M. Robinson (5-A), Carson (5-A), Northwest Cabarrus (5-A) and West Rowan (5-A). This will add luster to some ongoing rivalries.

Salisbury was 11-2 last season.

Here is the 2025 schedule:

Aug. 22 – at Forest Hills

Aug. 29 – North Rowan

Sept. 5 – Oak Grove

Sept. 19 – Carson

Sept. 26 – at Jay M. Robinson

Oct. 3 – at East Rowan

Oct. 10 – Northwest Cabarrus

Oct. 17 – South Rowan

Oct. 24 – at Concord

Oct. 31 at West Rowan

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MIKE DUPREZ

Mike Duprez became a freelance sports journalist for Scorebooklive.com several months after retiring from the newspaper business. A native of Oakland, California, Duprez moved around as a child due to his father’s service in the United States Marine Corps. He earned a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1981. Duprez, who lives in North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, had 30 years of experience in newspapers as well as other endeavors before retiring at the end of 2021. He covers stories in both North Carolina and South Carolina for Scorebooklive.com.

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