COLLEGE BASEBALL: Lenoir-Rhyne at 4-1 after split with West Virginia State

HobbsDailyReport.com HICKORY – Lenoir-Rhyne University opened its home baseball schedule on Friday with a split against visiting West Virginia State. The Yellow Jackets won the first game 4-1 before the Bears took the nightcap 12-8 to improve to 4-1 heading into an 11 a.m. start against West Virginia State on Saturday. West Virginia State 4, LRU 1 The Yellow Jackets …

BREAKING NEWS: Former Lenoir-Rhyne AD McGeachy dead at age 75

HobbsDailyReport.com HICKORY – Neill McGeachy, former director of intercollegiate athletics and executive director of the Piedmont Educational Foundation/Bears Club at Lenoir-Rhyne University, died early Friday morning at age 75. “The Lenoir-Rhyne University community is deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Neill McGeachy,” Fred Whitt, president of the university, said in an LRU press release on Friday. “Neill was …

COLLEGE: Lenoir-Rhyne makes schedule changes in baseball, softball

HobbsDailyReport.com HICKORY – Lenoir-Rhyne University has made changes for the weekend in schedules for its baseball and women’s softball teams. Baseball The Bears will now play a Friday doubleheader and one game on Saturday against West Virginia State. Friday’s games will be seven innings each and the first game is at 3 p.m., while the game on Saturday begins at …

MEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL: Catawba 84, Lenoir-Rhyne 77

HobbsDailyReport.com WEDNESDAY’S SUMMARY CATAWBA 84, LENOIR-RHYNE 77 (at Goodman Gymnasium, Salisbury) LENOIR-RHYNE (9-13, 7-9 SAC) Diallo, Djibril 6-16 13-16 26; Thomas, Cory 8-16 4-4 20; Awana, Bertrand 5-9 2-5 12; Lucas, Reed 1-6 2-2 5; Simmons, Darius 1-4 3-4 5; Wembi, Emmanuel 1-2 2-2 4; Calhoun, Jarvis 1-7 1-2 3; Leskovar, Filip 1-1 0-0 2; Bales, Billy 0-2 0-0 0; …