HIGH SCHOOL VOLLEYBALL: St. Stephens wins, off to 4-1 start

Indians are home on Saturday with N-C, Lincoln Charter visiting Editor’s note: Varsity volleyball reports received by HobbsDailyReport.com since the season began. Some of the reporting was not earlier posted because of a four-day delay after our website server crashed. We appreciate the patience of readers and coaches during our unfortunate loss of posting ability for four days… the problem …

CRAWDADS: Fall twice at Hudson Valley, dip 3 below .500 in second half

HobbsDailyReport.com HICKORY CRAWDADS   Thursday’s result at Hudson Valley N.Y.: Hudson Valley 6, Hickory 3 Wednesday’s result at Hudson Valley N.Y.: Hudson Valley 4, Hickory 2 Current record: 24-27, fourth place in South Atlantic League South Division,  2 1/2 games behind third-place Asheville; 5 1/2 games behind second-place  Bowling Green (Ky.); 9 games behind division-leading Rome (Ga.) in second-half standings. …

MINOR LEAGUE BASEBALL: Deal returns to Braves with a scoreless inning

By CHRIS HOBBS HobbsDailyReport.com BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Former Bandys High star Hayden Deal pitched a scoreless inning as he returned to the Mississippi Braves. Deal, a left-hand reliever pitching for the first time in nearly three weeks after time on the disabled list, faced five batters in the Braves’ 10-1 road win over Birmingham (Ala.) on Wednesday night. He gave …

HUNTER HARVEY: Strikes out both batters he faces in win over Seattle

By CHRIS HOBBS HobbsDailyReport.com SEATTLE — Hunter Harvey faced two batters on Wednesday night — striking out both in the fourth inning — as part of the Washington Nationals’ 3-1 win over the Seattle Mariners. The second of five pitchers used by the Nats (42-83), Harvey increased his season strikeout total to 23 in 20 2/3 innings. He threw strikes …

HIGH SCHOOL SCOREBOARD: Wednesday, Thursday results

HobbsDailyReport.com HIGH SCHOOL SCOREBOARD   Editor’s note: Results from athletic events scheduled by schools in the Catawba Valley 2A Athletic, Western Foothills 3A, Northwestern 3A-4A or by Draughn and Patton, with scores listed that were reported or researched by HobbsDailyReport.com. If a result is not listed, it was not reported to the website or was not available in our research: …