COLLEGE BASEBALL: Red Hawks take field Wednesday at No. 11 in country

HobbsDailyReport.com HICKORY – Catawba Valley Community College (CVCC) takes the field on Wednesday up six spots – to No. 11 – in the latest National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) Division II rankings in baseball. The Red Hawks (11-6), who were 17th in the previous rankings released on Jan. 25, play a doubleheader on Wednesday at USC Lancaster with the …

COLLEGE BASEBALL: Bears’ Grigg earns league’s Pitcher of Week award

HobbsDailyReport.com ROCK HILL, S.C. – John Grigg of Lenoir-Rhyne University has been selected as the top pitcher in the South Atlantic Conference (SAC) for last week. Grigg, a sophomore from Lawndale, earned the league award via a five-hit shutout last Saturday in the second game of a doubleheader at Catawba, a game the Bears won 5-0. He struck out five …

COLLEGE BASEBALL: Louisburg limits CVCC to 5 hits in Sunday’s victory

HobbsDailyReport.com NEWTON – Louisburg College checked Catawba Valley Community College’s bats on five hits on Sunday en route to an 8-3 baseball victory at the Legion Fairgrounds. Zaccheaeus Rasberry paced Louisburg (12-4) with three hits, including a solo home run in the top of the second inning. The Hurricanes had 13 hits, including two each from Trey Hicks, Seth Johnson …

COLLEGE BASEBALL: After split of games, Red Hawks to face Louisburg again on Sunday

HobbsDailyReport.com NEWTON – Louisburg College and Catawba Valley Community College (CVCC) will complete a three-game series Sunday after having split a baseball doubleheader on Saturday at the Legion Fairgrounds. The Hurricanes (11-4) and Red Hawks (11-5), ranked No. 17 in the latest National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) poll, will play a nine-inning game Sunday with a first pitch at …

COLLEGE BASEBALL: Grigg’s pitching gives Bears first series edge over Catawba since 2002

HobbsDailyReport.com SALISBURY – Sophomore John Grigg threw a complete game shutout and juniors Justin Dean and Aaron Stamper each homered on Saturday, leading Lenoir-Rhyne University to a split with host Catawba in South Atlantic Conference (SAC) baseball. The Bears won that second game 5-0 after the Indians won the opening game 6-5, and that nightcap victory gave LRU its first …