CRAWDADS: Hickory beats Columbia, S.C., in extra innings, closes series Sunday

The Hickory Crawdads needed extra innings to beat Columbia, S.C., on Saturday night. Click below for a link to Mark Parker’s Crawdadsbeat.com, the most extensive and insightful you will find on Hickory’s Class A baseball team. Thanks again to Mark for allowing HobbsDailyReport.com to link to his site. If you are a Crawdads or Texas Rangers fan, you’re going to …

NW 3A-4A SOFTBALL: Spartans roll, take home conference championship

HobbsDailyReport.com HUDSON — South Caldwell High closed out a championship regular season in Northwestern 3A-4A softball on Saturday by beating visiting Watauga 10-0 in five innings. The victory left the Spartans 13-1 in conference play, and they finished two games ahead of Fred T Foard and will be the top seed in next week’s conference tournament. League officials indicated Saturday …

NW 3A-4A BASEBALL: Spartans spank Watauga, finish second in conference

HobbsDailyReport.com HUDSON – South Caldwell High hit double-figure runs for the third time this season on Saturday, pounding visiting Watauga 10-3 to finish second in Northwestern 3A-4A baseball. The Spartans (16-4-1, 11-3) won their third game in a row to lock up second place in the conference race behind Fred T. Foard (14-5-1, 12-2), which secured a title by beating …

SAC SOFTBALL: Bears fall twice on Saturday, eliminated from tournament

HobbsDailyReport.com HARTSVILLE, S.C. – Lenoir-Rhyne University is out of the South Atlantic Conference (SAC) women’s softball tournament and now waiting to see if it will receive a postseason bid. Carson-Newman defeated the Bears 1-0 on Saturday and Coker knocked LRU, ranked No. 13 in NCAA Division II, out of the tournament by winning 4-3 on Saturday. Coker (41-16) and Carson-Newman …

SD-7 2A BASEBALL: Mustangs No. 1 seed, face No. 8 N-C in opening round

HobbsDailyReport.com East Lincoln High is the top seed for the Southern District 7 Athletic 2A baseball tournament that begins Tuesday with four games at higher-seeds. The Mustangs went 10-4 in the league, finishing a game in front of Bunker Hill and Maiden, and they open the tournament at home against No. 8 Newton-Conover on Tuesday at 7 p.m. The tournament …