HobbsDailyReport.com SARASOTA, Fla. – The Baltimore Orioles have optioned former Bandys High pitching star Hunter Harvey to their Triple-A team in Norfolk, Va. The move, announced on Sunday, means Harvey — a former first-round draft pick (2013) battling back from a series of injuries — will be in Baltimore’s minor league camp for the rest of the month. He had …
SPRING SPORTS ROUNDUP: Bandys wins baseball opener, grabs career win No. 100 for head coach
McDowell scores 26 runs in first baseball game of season HobbsDailyReport.com Bandys High had an eight-run fifth inning on Wednesday en route to a 12-0 victory over visiting West Iredell that gave Trojans head coach Frank Porter his 100th career baseball win. Bandys had 11 hits and winning pitcher Alex Reavis checked the Warriors on one hit. Colin Hammonds took …
STATE BOYS HOOP PLAYOFFS: Shelby withstands challenge from Bandys
Trojans still chasing first postseason win since 2000-01 season HobbsDailyReport.com SHELBY – Third-seeded Shelby High’s boys answered the intensity of No. 30 seed Bandys on Tuesday night in the opening round of the state 2A playoffs, edging the visiting Trojans 79-66. The Golden Lions ran their win streak to 10 games, jumping to a 40-28 lead by halftime. Shelby …
SOUTH FORK 2A BASKETBALL: Red Devils’ Cornwell is just scary good
By CHRIS HOBBS HobbsDailyReport.com Thoughts and observations from the South Fork 2A basketball tournament championship games on Friday night at Lincolnton, and the season so far: Just scary good If Newton-Conover High head coach Sylvia White is correct – and she knows her basketball – this is just simply scary for players hoping to defend the Red Devils’ Chyna Cornwell. …
SOUTH FORK 2A GIRLS: Given ‘Green light’, Logan Dutka leads Bandys to tourney final, state playoffs
By CHRIS HOBBS HobbsDailyReport.com CATAWBA – When the time came late in the second overtime of a workhorse-like game of survival in a must-have game on Thursday night, Bandys High girls’ head coach Nicki Sigmon had just the right words ready. The second-seeded Trojans were in a South Fork 2A tournament semifinal dogfight with sixth-seeded and visiting East Lincoln and …