COLLEGE BASEBALL: Red Hawks gain 18th win after head coach proposes

HobbsDailyReport.com NEWTON – Catawba Valley Community College (CVCC) head baseball coach Paul Rozzelle got the answer he wanted on the day his team picked up its 18th victory of the season. Rozzelle proposed to his long-time girlfriend, Cayley Berry, prior to the Red Hawks’ 11-0, five inning run-rule win over the Lenoir-Rhyne University junior varsity at the Legion Fairgrounds. She …

WOMEN’S COLLEGE LACROSSE: Bears first to beat Queens after Sousa reaches 100 goals

HobbsDailyReport.com HICKORY – Gabby Sousa will likely remember the day – for many reasons — when she scored her 100th goal in women’s lacrosse. Sousa scored five on Wednesday afternoon, including a match-winner with 56 seconds left, as Lenoir-Rhyne University handed visiting Queens its first conference regular-season loss in history, 12-11. he Royals (2-7, 1-1) had never lost a South …

MEN’S COLLEGE LACROSSE: Buduo breaks own scoring record as Bears pummel Queens

HobbsDailyReport.com HICKORY – Joe Buduo bumped his own scoring record on Wednesday night when he led Lenoir-Rhyne University’s men past visiting Queens 24-8 in men’s lacrosse. Buduo, a junior attacker from Shrewsbury, Mass., scored eight goals to break his own school record for a single match as the Bears improved to 9-1 overall and 3-0 in the South Atlantic Conference …

WOMEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL: Simpson receives honor, also promoted by Lenoir-Rhyne

HobbsDailyReport.com ATLANTA – One of the top 30 women’s college basketball coaches under the age of 30 is on the staff at Lenoir-Rhyne University. Sierra Simpson, who has been with the Bears for one season as an assistant coach after stints on coaching staffs at Wofford and Anderson (S.C.), made an elite list selected for the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association …

MEN’S COLLEGE TRACK AND FIELD: Bears’ Lotharp wins conference weekly award

HobbsDailyReport.com ROCK HILL, S.C. –A third-place finish by Lenoir-Rhyne University’s P.J. Lotharp in the 100-meter dash over the weekend at the 49er Classic netted him conference honors on Tuesday. Lotharp, a sophomore from Indian Trail, was selected as the South Atlantic Conference (SAC) Outdoor Track Athlete of the Week for men. He finished third in Charlotte with a school-record time …