CRAWDADS: Beat the Grasshoppers in a Tuesday morning battle at Frans

HobbsDailyReport.com HICKORY — The Crawdads were on the field early on Tuesday, with a 10:30 a.m. game against Greensboro, and they won. Let Mark Parker tell you how it happened, what it means and where the Crawdads are headed next — click the link below to his personal website on which he’s all over news associated with the Texas Rangers’ …

HIGH SCHOOL TENNIS CORRECTION: State 2A singles championship post from Saturday

HobbsDailyReport.com Editor’s note: Corrects the first name of state champion from Newton-Conover, which was incorrectly listed as Brian when results were released by the North Carolina High School Athletic Association (NCHSAA). Corrections and clarifications: email HobbsDailyReport@gmail.com RALEIGH – Brann Reid of Newton-Conover High brought home a state 2A singles championship on Saturday. After nudging Maiden’s Daniel Crutcher 6-0, 6-0 in …

COLLEGE TRACK AND FIELD: Bears have 6 females on All-Southeast Region team

HobbsDailyReport.com NEW ORLEANS, La. – Lenoir-Rhyne University has six female student-athletes on an NCAA Division II All-Southeast Region team, the school announced Tuesday. The team is selected by the USTFCCCA (United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association). The Bears’ Autumn Drayton, a freshman from Charlotte, and Domonique Jones, a senior from Greensboro, Ga., are All-Region in two …

HIGH SCHOOLS: Fred T. Foard assistant coach facing charges

HobbsDailyReport.com NEWTON – A former Fred T. Foard High football player who now teaches at his alma mater has been charged with one count of statutory rape and one count of a sexual offense with a student. Jeb Stuart Bass, who played primarily wide receiver on Foard’s varsity football teams in 2005 and 2006 (he graduated in 2007), made his …