HobbsDailyReport.com HICKORY – Sparky Woods, a former head football coach at Appalachian State and South Carolina, will be the keynote speaker at this year’s Catawba County Sports Hall of Fame (CCSHOF) inductions. Woods, an assistant on Mack Brown’s coaching staff at North Carolina, has worked on the same coaching staff as Class 0f 2019 inductee Brad Lawing during his career. …
DENVER NUGGETS BASKETBALL: Tryouts scheduled at East Lincoln High
HobbsDailyReport.com DENVER, N.C. – Tryouts for the Denver Nuggets Travel team for boys’ basketball are scheduled for East Lincoln High. All basketball players in Lincoln and surrounding counties are encouraged to try out. They will need to complete parental permission, medical consent and information forms that can be found at http://denvernuggetsnc.teampages.com/ The tryouts – for seventh- through 11th-graders — are …
BREAKING NEWS: Basketball’s West Regionals will return to Hickory this season
Title games will be played at CVCC, Lenoir-Rhyne University HobbsDailyReport.com CHAPEL HILL – In a Tuesday press release, the North Carolina High School Athletic Association (NCHSAA) announced it has reached an agreement to return its Western Regional basketball tournament title games to Catawba County. The press release: The North Carolina High School Athletic Association (NCHSAA) and the Hickory Metro …
HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL UPDATE: Pairings for Dick’s Sporting Goods Classic changed
HobbsDailyReport.com HICKORY – Pairings for the Dick’s Sporting Goods Classic high school basketball tournaments have been redone. The tournaments (girls and boys) — scheduled Dec. 27-29 at Catawba Valley Community College’s Tarlton Complex — had some seeds revised on Thursday afternoon. Those came after the original pairings were released in the morning. Tournament officials announced changes and said the brackets …
MEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL: Cobras halt Red Hawks’ unbeaten start
HobbsDailyReport.com HICKORY – Caldwell Community College and Technical Institute (CCC&TI) halted an unbeaten start by the Catawba Valley Community College (CVCC) men on Wednesday night with a 68-63 men’s basketball win at the Tarlton Complex. CCC&TI broke a 34-all tie at the half and won behind their free-throw shooting, going 22 of 39 while CVCC went 14 of 39, including …