HobbsDailyReport.com HICKORY – The Hickory Crawdads are ready to celebrate what would have been the 70th birthday of the city’s late mayor, Rudy Wright. The club announced Monday it’s working with the Wright family and Habitat for Humanity of Catawba Valley to hold Rudy Wright Night on July 6 at L.P. Frans Stadium. The special event will come before the …
CRAWDADS: Adolfo home run helps Kannapolis turn back Hickory
HobbsDailyReport.com KANNAPOLIS – Micker Adolfo’s 10th home run of the season, a two-run shot in the first inning, helped Kannapolis topple visiting Hickory 4-1 on Monday night in South Atlantic League (SAL) baseball. Adolfo finished with two of the Intimidators’ 10 hits, and Mitch Roman and Daniel Gonzalez each added two hits as Kannapolis (43-30, 4-1 second half) sits tied …
BLAST FROM THE PAST: The Crawdads, Mader and all that pizza
As the Hickory Crawdads celebrate their 25th anniversary season, it’s time for a look back. Unless there’s someone out there I don’t recall, I’m the only journalist still around who was there in 1993 (covering the team that year and in 1994 during my tenure as a sports reporter with The Charlotte Observer). I was reporting from the time the …
CRAWDADS: GreenJackets sweep doubleheader on Sunday
HobbsDailyReport.com HICKORY – Augusta (Ga.) closed a South Atlantic League (SAL) baseball series against Hickory with two wins on Sunday before 1,725 fans at L.P. Frans Stadium. The GreenJackets won 8-5 in the first game, which was originally scheduled on Saturday and rained out, and blanked the Crawdads 1-0 in the second game. Hickory (29-45, 2-2 second half Northern Division) …
PGA TOUR: Hickory’s Poston misses cut at Travelers Championship
HobbsDailyReport.com CROMWELL, CT. – Hickory native J.T. Poston missed the cut after two rounds of the PGA Tour’s Travelers Championship. Poston, who played high school golf at Hickory and college golf at Western Carolina, shot a 5-over par in the opening round on Thursday and a 1-under 69 on Friday but didn’t make the cut at 144. He has participated …