LEGION BASEBALL: Cherryville nips Hickory, runs win streak to 12 games

HobbsDailyReport.com NEWTON – Cherryville Post 100 just keeps on winning in American Legion baseball. On Sunday afternoon, Cherryville nipped Hickory Post 48 at the Legion Fairgrounds 6-4 and ran its win streak to 12 games. Robbie Cowie got a pitching win and Matt Bumgarner a save in an Area IV victory that left Cherryville 12-1 overall and Post 48 at …

FOOTBALL CAMPS: Trojans’ coaching staff works with young players

HobbsDailyReport.com HEAD FOOTBALL COACHES: If you’re working with local student-athletes or rising junior varsity or varsity football players at your school and would like to have pictures from that posted on HobbsDailyReport.com, send them (jpegs only, original pictures) to hobbsdailyreport@gmail.com. If you’re sending award winners — i.e. tops in weight-lifting — be sure to provide the player’s first and last …

CRAWDADS: Crowd of nearly 6,800 sees Lakewood win via clutch hits

HobbsDailyReport.com LAKEWOOD, N.J. – The BlueClaws’ clutch hitting on Saturday night pinched the Hickory Crawdads. After Raul Rivas’ run-scoring triple in the ninth inning forced a South Atlantic League (SAL) game before 6,760 to extra innings, Lakewood (N.J.) won 2-1 when Arquimedes Gamboa delivered a two-out RBI hit in the 10th inning. The win moved Lakewood (39-30) into a tie …

BASKETBALL: Denver Nuggets have camps scheduled at East Lincoln

HobbsDailyReport.com DENVER, N.C. – The Denver Nuggets have scheduled two basketball camps at East Lincoln High, both directed by Chip Ashley, the Nuggets’ director. A camp for rising second- through sixth-graders and rising seventh- through 10th-graders – boys and girls — is scheduled June 26-29. The daily sessions for the second- through sixth-graders is 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. The …

LEGION BASEBALL: Schedule from Sunday through next Sunday

HobbsDailyReport.com AREA IV AMERICAN LEGION BASEBALL (from original schedules) SUNDAY Cherryville at Hickory, 3 p.m. (Legion Fairgrounds, Newton) Lincoln County at Maiden, 7 p.m. (Maiden High) MONDAY Caldwell County at Asheville, 7 p.m. Cherryville at Taylorsville, 7 p.m. (Alexander Central High) Gaston Braves at Maiden, 7 p.m. TUESDAY Burke County at Taylorsville, 7 p.m. (Alexander Central High) Hickory at Henderson …