LENOIR-RHYNE ANNUAL DINNER: Bears to celebrate 100 years of football on Thursday night

HobbsDailyReport.com HICKORY – Lenoir-Rhyne University’s kickoff celebration for the 100th season of Bears football is scheduled Thursday at the school’s Annual Dinner. The Bears Club’s event is at Moretz Mills with cocktails served at 6 p.m. and dinner – courtesy of Texas Roadhouse – starting at 6:45 p.m. A tour of LRU’s new Neill McGeachy Sports Performance Center is available …

LENOIR-RHYNE HALL OF FAME: Class of 2019 will have 6 new inductees

  HobbsDailyReport.com HICKORY – Lenoir-Rhyne University’s next Sports Hall of Fame class will include six new members. The Bears’ athletic department announced in a press release that the school has selected Crystal Clary, Bill Davis, Audrey Kreske, Vernon Long, Tom Lumsden and Lauren (McLelland) Mauldin as the Class of 2019. Due to a scheduling conflict, Clary will be inducted with …

COLLEGE: Lenoir-Rhyne makes 2 administrative hires for athletic department

HobbsDailyReport.com HICKORY – Lenoir-Rhyne University has added two athletic department positions and announced changes for other personnel. The Bears have hired Justin Hay as Assistant Athletic Director for Corporate Relations and selected Jenna Beauregard as Assistant Athletic Director for Compliance. Hay has spent the last five years as an assistant baseball coach at Southwest Mississippi Community College, where he was …

HIGH SCHOOL VOLLEYBALL: Bandys brings one of its top female athletes home as head coach

Ex-LRU softball star Carlee (Carpenter) Belk will teach, coach at her prep alma mater HobbsDailyReport.com CATAWBA – Bandys High has hired a new volleyball head coach, bringing aboard a former three-sport star from its athletic program. On Tuesday, the school’s athletic department announced Carlee (Carpenter) Belk will teach physical education and coach volleyball at her alma mater. Belk played four …

COLLEGE BASEBALL: Lenoir-Rhyne’s new head coach — ‘We want to win now’ (with video)

HobbsDailyReport.com HICKORY — Lenoir-Rhyne University’s new head baseball coach said he has a long range plan for the program but described himself as not being patient — he wants to win as soon as his first season with the Bears. Chris Ramirez was officially introduced on Thursday afternoon on campus. He is coming to LRU from the University of Illinois …