WOMEN’S COLLEGE SOCCER: Conference coaches pick Bears to finish in fourth place

HobbsDailyReport.com ROCK HILL, S.C. – The Lenoir-Rhyne University women — who will pursue double-digit wins after reaching that for 10 straight seasons — are picked to finish fourth this season in South Atlantic Conference (SAC) women’s soccer. The conference’s head coaches voted on projected team finishes and preseason All-SAC with both released on Monday by the league officials. Carson-Newman, last …

MEN’S COLLEGE SOCCER: Lenoir-Rhyne picked to finish second; 4 Bears on preseason All-SAC

HobbsDailyReport.com ROCK HILL, S.C. – Four Lenoir-Rhyne University men’s soccer players earned preseason honors, and the Bears were projected to finish second this season in the South Atlantic Conference (SAC). In a vote of conference head coaches released on Monday by the SAC, Wingate got nine of 11 first-place votes to emerge as the favorite to win the league title. …

LENOIR-RHYNE: Bears launch $2.6 million campaign to build McGeachy Sports Performance Center

HobbsDailyReport.com HICKORY – Lenoir-Rhyne University has launched a campaign to raise $2.6 million to build the Neill McGeachy Sports Performance Center in honor of the late Bears athlete and former director of intercollege athletics. The school announced the campaign in honor of McGeachy — a 1965 LRU graduate who died earlier this year – at its annual on-campus dinner on …

COLLEGE FOOTBALL: Bears’ Cronic says they must rebuild championship culture

HobbsDailyReport.com ROCK HILL, S.C. – Lenoir-Rhyne University head coach Drew Cronic, who is headed into his first season with the Bears, answered questions and gave his thoughts on the Bears on Friday during the South Atlantic Conference’s Football Digital Media Day. LRU, coming off a 3-7 record, was picked by conference coaches to finish sixth this season in the SAC. …

COLLEGE: Bears’ Salamon named South Atlantic Conference Woman of the Year

HobbsDailyReport.com ROCK HILL, S.C. – For the first time, Lenoir-Rhyne University has produced the South Atlantic Conference (SAC) Woman of the Year. In press release announcement by league officials on Monday, the Bears’ Haylea Salamon, a recent graduate, was tabbed for the award. A native of Saskatchewan, Canada, she graduated from LRU in May with a degree in Health and …