COLLEGE BASEBALL: Trio of Bears make first-team All-South Atlantic Conference

HobbsDailyReport.com ROCK HILL, S.C. – A trio of Lenoir-Rhyne University baseball players were first-team picks on Tuesday for All-South Atlantic Conference (SAC). The selections were announced by the conference in a press release and conference coaches voted junior outfielder Justin Dean, sophomore starting pitcher John Grigg and senior relief pitcher Landon Whitson to the first-team. Dean leads the Bears in …

ALL-SAC MEN’S BASKETBALL: Bears’ Diallo gains honorable mention

HobbsDailyReport.com ROCK HILL, S.C. – Lenoir-Rhyne University junior Djibril Diallo is on the honorable mention list for All-South Atlantic Conference (SAC) men’s basketball, released Thursday by conference officials. The Bears did not have a player make the first- or second-team selections by league head coaches. Diallo, a junior from Conakry, Guinea, averaged 15.1 points this season and finished with 111 …

ALL-SAC WOMEN’S BASKETBALL: Bears’ Weigt makes All-Freshman unit

HobbsDailyReport.com ROCK HILL, S.C. – Two Lenoir-Rhyne University women’s basketball players – freshman Kennedy Weigt and junior Maddi Suddreth – were recognized Thursday as among the top players in the South Atlantic Conference (SAC). Weigt, from Manteo, Ill., was on the All-Freshman team, and Suddreth, who is from Taylorsville and starred at Alexander Central High, earned honorable mention when the …

MEN’S COLLEGE SOCCER: Lenoir-Rhyne’s de Goya named conference player of year

HobbsDailyReport.com ROCK HILL, S.C. – Ignacio de Goya was named the 2017 South Atlantic Conference Player of the Year in men’s soccer on Wednesday, giving Lenoir-Rhyne University back-to-back winners of the award. In a vote of league coaches, de Goya followed Ismael Noumansana of the Bears as the league’s top player. A junior midfielder from Madrid, Spain, de Goya leads …