COLLEGE BASEBALL: Bears enter Saturday doubleheader under .500 in conference

HobbsDailyReport.com HICKORY – Lenoir-Rhyne University heads into Senior Day at Bears Field on Saturday under .500 in South Atlantic Conference (SAC) baseball. Visiting Coker beat the Bears 13-7 on Friday night, leaving LRU at 12-13 in the league and 26-20 overall with a doubleheader on Saturday starting at 1 p.m. LRU will honor its seniors a half-hour before the first …

SAC TRACK AND FIELD CHAMPIONSHIPS: Both LRU teams in top 4 after first day

HobbsDailyReport.com CHARLOTTE – Both Lenoir-Rhyne University outdoor track and field teams headed into Friday’s second day of the South Atlantic Conference (SAC) Championships in fourth place. In competition at Johnson C. Smith’s Irwin Belk Track, the Bears’ women had 26 ½ points and the LRU men had 20 points. The men share fourth place with Anderson, S.C. Queens led the …

MEN’S COLLEGE TENNIS: Lenoir-Rhyne has first-team All-SAC doubles team

HobbsDailyReport.com ROCK HILL, S.C. – Lenoir-Rhyne University has an All-South Atlantic Conference first-team doubles team in men’s tennis. In selections released on Wednesday, conference coaches voted the Bears’ Shane O’Dea and Hamed Gandouz to the first team. They went 7-2 overall and 5-1 in the conference. O’Dea is a junior from Dublin, Ireland and Gandouz is a junior from Hammam …

WOMEN’S COLLEGE GOLF: Hartsell-led Bears rally to get third in league tourney

HobbsDailyReport.com ELGIN, S.C. – With a last-round surge, the Lenoir-Rhyne University women finished third on Tuesday as the South Atlantic Conference (SAC) Championship tournament wrapped up at The Members Club at Woodcreek. The Bears moved from eighth place to third place, closing at 110-over par 974 on a par-72, 5,830-yard course. Wingate won the team title at 76-over par 940. …

COLLEGE SOFTBALL: Lenoir-Rhyne sweeps, extends win streak to 16 games

HobbsDailyReport.com HICKORY – The Bears just keep on rolling in softball. Getting key home runs from Mackenzie Cates and Erin Boone, Lenoir-Rhyne University extended its win streak to 16 games on Wednesday by beating visiting Newberry (S.C.) 11-0 and 6-3. LRU, ranked seventh in NCAA Division II, improved to 42-5 overall and they finished 19-1 in the South Atlantic Conference …