NORTHWESTERN 3A-4A ROUNDUP: South Caldwell inching closer to baseball title

HobbsDailyReport.com South Caldwell High needs a win and/or a bit of help from McDowell and/or Hickory this week to wrap up another Northwestern 3A-4A baseball title. The Spartans, beaten 6-5 on Saturday at Charlotte Christian to fall to 13-2 overall, go into the week with a one-game conference lead over Alexander Central. South Caldwell is 9-1 in conference games and …

NORTHWESTERN 3A-4A ROUNDUP: S. Caldwell nips Hickory, widens lead in baseball

Spartans score all their runs in seventh inning, snap Red Tornadoes’ 5-game win streak HobbsDailyReport.com Hunter Ingle’s two-run single in the seventh inning netted South Caldwell High a 3-2 home victory on Wednesday night over visiting Hickory, widening the Spartans’ lead in Northwestern 3A-4A baseball. The game was originally scheduled for Friday and moved up because of a forecast for …

NORTHWESTERN 3A-4A ROUNDUP: Hamrick-led Watauga hands S. Caldwell first baseball loss

Junior 1-hits Spartans, strikes out 11 to help create 3-way tie for league lead   HobbsDailyReport.com Watauga High junior Travis Hamrick threw a complete game — holding South Caldwell to one hit and striking out 11 — as the Pioneers won 2-0 in Hudson and handed the Spartans their first baseball loss of the season. Watauga (7-4, 6-1) scored is …

COLLEGE FOOTBALL: Catch up on Donnie Kirkpatrick’s return to East Carolina

HobbsDailyReport.com GREENVILLE, N.C. – Catch up on the return of Donnie Kirkpatrick, a former sports star at South Caldwell High and Lenoir-Rhyne University, to East Carolina’s football coaching staff. He’s the son of Don (Red) Kirkpatrick — the first head football coach at South Caldwell when Granite Falls and Hudson were merged in the late 1970s – and his younger …

NORTHWESTERN 3A-4A: Piercy runs for 3 TDs as South Caldwell routs West Caldwell

HobbsDailyReport.com LENOIR – Spencer Piercy ran for 124 yards and three touchdowns on just four carries on Friday night, leading South Caldwell High to a 62-13 romp past West Caldwell in Northwestern 3A-4A football. Piercy opened the game’s scoring with a 31-yard TD run and had scoring runs of 73 and 17 yards as part of the Spartans’ 36-point second …