LEGION SOFTBALL: Post 48 to have girls’ team with first tryouts set for Saturday

HobbsDailyReport.com HICKORY – Hickory Post 48 will field a girls’ Legion softball team this season and has scheduled tryouts for Saturday and again on April 7. The tryouts will be held at St. Stephens High from 10 a.m. to noon on each of the tryout dates with rainout dates, if needed, scheduled for April 3 from 3 p.m. to 5 …

HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL: Standings through Tuesday games

HobbsDailyReport.com HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL STANDINGS (through Tuesday’s games) SOUTH FORK 2A                                                                        Conf.                       All                    Streak N. Lincoln                                             5-0                         6-1                      Won 6 Bandys                                                  4-0                        7-0                       Won 7 Lincolnton                                           3-1                        5-1                       Won 1 LN Charter                                           3-1                         5-2                      Won 2 W. Lincoln                                          2-2                         4-3                      Lost 1 E. Lincoln                                            0-4                        1-6                       Won 1 Maiden                                                 0-4                        0-6                       …

WOMEN’S COLLEGE GOLF: O’Connor wins in playoff, leads Bears to tourney title

HobbsDailyReport.com MONROE – Ainee O’Connor rallied to win an individual title on the first playoff hole, and Lenoir-Rhyne University’s women won the Wingate Intercollegiate Challenge on Tuesday at the Rolling Hills Country Club. The Bears finished at 39-over par 615 to edge Wingate by 10 strokes in the team standings on a par-72, 5,968-yard course, wrapping up a second team …

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 …

COLLEGE SOFTBALL: Bears’ Kenley, Boone given conference’s weekly awards

HobbsDailyReport.com ROCK HILL, S.C. – After winning all six of their games last week and stretching a win streak to 15 games, Lenoir-Rhyne University swept the women’s weekly softball honors for the South Atlantic Conference (SAC). Bears pitcher Emily Kenley won the league’s Pitcher of The Week award and catcher Erin Boone won Player of The Week, conference officials announced …