HIGH SCHOL BOYS TENNIS: Hickory faces Carrboro for 3A dual-team title on Saturday

HobbsDailyReport.com STATE DUAL-TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS (Saturday at Piedmont Indoor Tennis Center, Greensboro) 1A No. 3 Voyager Academy (10-4) vs. No. 4 Bishop McGuinness (16-1), 8:30 a.m. 2A No. 4 N.C. Science and Math (10-0) vs. No. 12 Pine Lake Prep (12-1), 12:30 p.m. 3A No. 7 Carrboro (18-2) vs. No. 3 HICKORY (14-0), 8:30 a.m. 4A No. 4 Green Hope (18-1) …

CRAWDADS: Shut out Grasshoppers, move 2 games above .500

HobbsDailyReport.com HICKORY CRAWDADS   Friday’s result at L.P. Frans Stadium: Hickory 3, Greensboro 0 Current record: 16-14, third place in South Atlantic South; 1 1/2 games back of second-place Rome (Ga.) and three games behind division-leading  Bowling Green (Ky.). Next game: Saturday, home vs. Greensboro, 5. p.m. This series: Tuesday through Sunday at L.P. Frans Stadium; vs. Greensboro;  game times: …

ATHLETES LAB: Turf is down on field built as part of expansion in Maiden

By CHRIS HOBBS HobbsDailyReport.com MAIDEN — The turf is down on the multi-purpose field that is part of the expansion at The Athletes Lab. The project will allow The Lab — where the focus in on individual and team improvement through workouts and other programs — to add soccer and other sports as it grows in its goal of helping …