HobbsDailyReport.com Seven players with area ties — including the top pitcher in Catawba Valley Community College (CVCC) history — had been selected in the Major League Baseball Draft on Wednesday as it reached its 40th and final round. Major league teams called the names of two CVCC players on this season’s roster and a former Red Hawks pitcher, two stars …
COLLEGE: Lenoir-Rhyne sports information director resigns after 16 years
HobbsDailyReport.com HICKORY – Lenoir-Rhyne University will have a new Sports Information Director after the resignation on Monday of John Karrs, who has handled those duties since 2002. Karrs, 41, was the seventh person hired by the school to handle media relations and other sports matters for the Bears’ athletic program. Newton native Rick Strunk was the first SID at LRU …
COLLEGE BASKETBALL: Bryan Lentz, Barnes back together again at Tennessee
HobbsDailyReport.com KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – Catawba County native Bryan Lentz is going back to work for Rick Barnes, another county native, in college basketball. Barnes announced Tuesday he’s adding Lentz in a Video Coordinator/Director of Player Development role at Tennessee. Lentz has been an assistant coach at Appalachian State for the last four seasons. Lentz — who played college basketball at …
COLLEGE BASEBALL: Bears’ Dean on All-Southeast Region second team
HobbsDailyReport.com GREENSBORO – Lenoir-Rhyne University outfielder Justin Dean is on another All-Region team, selected this week for an American Baseball Coaches Association/Rawlings team. Dean, a junior from Mauldin, S.C., was named second-team on the All-Southeast Region team, a week after being picked for a team selected by the Division II Conference Commissioner’s Association (D2CCA). A first-team All-South Atlantic Conference (SAC) …
MEN’S COLLEGE LACROSSE: Bears’ Dickinson, Lett selected first-team All-America
HobbsDailyReport.com PERRY, N.Y. – Lenoir-Rhyne University has a trio of All-American men’s lacrosse players after selections by the United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association (USILA). The USILA/Nike first-team NCAA Division II teams includes sophomore midfielder Eric Dickinson and senior long stick middle Collin Lett of the Bears, and senior midfielder Ben Corrigan made the second team. Dickinson and Lett are in-state …