Salisbury sets 2025 football schedule

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 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.