COLLEGE VOLLEYBALL: Redmond leads Lenoir-Rhyne past Lees-McRae

HobbsDailyReport.com HICKORY – Brooke Redmond’s 19 kills helped Lenoir-Rhyne University topple visiting Lees-McRae 3-1 on Saturday in women’s college volleyball. LRU won 25-16, 22-25, 25-11, 25-19. Redmond sparked the Bears (3-2) with her team-high in kills and 11 digs while Laila Horton added 10 kills, Anna Smith had 29 assists and 14 digs at Shuford Gym. Caityln Smirne led Lees-McRae …

COLLEGE FOOTBALL: Bears beat N. Greenville, pick up first victory

HobbsDailyReport.com HICKORY – Led by a ‘ball hog’ offense and sparked by Nelson Brown with 106 rushing yards and a touchdown on 30 carries, Lenoir-Rhyne University rebounded in style with a 22-10 win over visiting North Greenville (S.C.) on Saturday night. LRU (1-1) snapped a two-game losing streak in the series, improved to 4-1 at Moretz Stadium against the Crusaders …

BLAST FROM THE PAST: Brown found his calling in life very early

By CHRIS HOBBS HobbsDailyReport.com MAIDEN – Tom Brown has never been one to run a what-might-have-been checklist because he knows he found his life’s calling – coaching football – at a very young age. “It was an easy call for me to be a football coach,” Brown said this week. “And once I got involved, I never wanted to be …

COLLEGE CROSS COUNTRY: Bears’ Yarber wins weekly conference award

HobbsDailyReport.com ROCK HILL, S.C. – After posting the top NCAA Division II time last Friday at the Covered Bridge Open in Boone, the first South Atlantic Conference (SAC) women’s cross country weekly award of the season went to Lenoir-Rhyne University’s Audra Yarber. Yarber, a junior from Abingdon, Va., finished 14th in a 123-runner field on a 5K course. Her time …