HobbsDailyReport.com HICKORY – Danny Williamson, head cross country and track and field coach at Lenoir-Rhyne University since 2017-18, is leaving the Bears to take the same positions at UNC Asheville. Williamson LRU’s women to a South Atlantic Conference (SAC) title, the school’s first in women’s track and field, and he was named the SAC’s Coach of the Year and a …
COLLEGE BASEBALL: Lenoir-Rhyne hires head coach from Illinois Springfield
HobbsDailyReport.com HICKORY — Lenoir-Rhyne University Director of Athletics Kim Pate has announced Chris Ramirez has accepted the position of head baseball coach of the Bears. Ramirez comes to Hickory from the University of Illinois Springfield (UIS), where he was named the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association Division II National Coach of the Year in 2018. He will become the 20th …
MEN’S COLLEGE LACROSSE: Wingate eliminates LRU in conference tournament
HobbsDailyReport.com WINGATE – Wingate downed Lenoir-Rhyne University 16-8 on Friday in a semifinal of the South Atlantic Conference (SAC) men’s lacrosse tournament, ending the Bears’ season. The Bulldogs (12-3) meet the winner of Friday’s No. 3 Queens-No. 2 Catawba semifinal on Sunday at 4 p.m. at Wingate in the tournament title match. LRU finished 6-8, which includes a record adjustment …
WOMEN’S COLLEGE LACROSSE: Lenoir-Rhyne edges Lincoln Memorial, faces Queens for tourney title
HobbsDailyReport.com WINGATE – Rachel Elmore and Alyssa Sack combined on Friday for 11 goals, leading Lenoir-Rhyne University to a 16-8 victory over Lincoln Memorial in a South Atlantic Conference (SAC) women’s lacrosse tournament semifinal. The second-seeded Bears (12-5) face top-seeded Queens (16-2) in the tournament final on Sunday at 1 p.m. at Wingate. Queens beat fifth-seeded Wingate 20-5 in Friday’s …
MEN’S COLLEGE LACROSSE: Bears have 3 first-team All-SAC players
HobbsDailyReport.com ROCK HILL, S.C – Three Lenoir-Rhyne University men’s lacrosse players were selected first-team All-South Atlantic Conference (SAC) this week. Joe Buduo, Eric Dickinson and Tyler Bane of the Bears were selected by conference head coaches and Noah Johnson made the league’s second team, league officials said in a press release. Budo, a senior from Shrewsbury, Mass., and Dickinson, a …