Hopper’s Wednesday Mid-Week Wakeup

| April 26, 2006

The Hoppers were droppers of their early morning mid-week game up in West Virginia. The contest got underway at 10:36 AM and Greensboro got off to a great start but the ending was way too rough for the boys to handle. The Hoppers went out in front early and rode a 6-2 lead into the …Read the Rest…

Van Houten Has Hopper Fans Shoutin’

| April 24, 2006

Jeff Van Houten has the Greensboro Grasshopper fans shouting after his fifth home run in the past 3 days. Van Houten hit one Saturday night, two more on Sunday afternoon and then two more on Monday during the Hoppers day game victory over the Hickory Crawdads. The Hoppers swept the Crawdads in a three game …Read the Rest…

Incoming News

| April 20, 2006

Got the word today that Alan Ashkinazy’s Grimsley baseball team has moved to 14-5 on the season and they are starting to feel the full effects of the young men that joined the Whirlies this year from the Southeast Guilford Falcon program. Clint Moore now has a 5-1 pitching mark on the mound and Lester …Read the Rest…

High School Lacrosse/N.C. State’s Next Basketball Coach

| April 19, 2006

I had a chance to watch a Lacrosse match between Southeast Guilford and Northwest at the Falcons home field on Tuesday evening. Lacrosse is receiving quite a bit of publicity these days and although I had planned on seeing a baseball game at Southeast the Lacrosse activity turned out to be very entertaining. The girls …Read the Rest…

Hopper’s Sanchez Putting a Hurt on the Ball

| April 17, 2006

The Greensboro Grasshopper’s have found a weapon that is proving to be lethal early in this 2006 season. Gabby Sanchez has been putting a hurting on the ball having already hit 7 homeruns just 11 games into the campain. The Hoppers are leaving town for Lakewood, New Jersey on a four game road trip and …Read the Rest…

Jeremiah Jenkins of Eastern Guilford Getting Attention

| April 11, 2006

Jeremiah Jenkins a senior basketball player from Eastern Guilford has been selected to the Burlington Times All-Regional team that was in last Sunday’s edition of the BT. Jenkins is looking to attend Rockingham Community College with hopes of transferring to a Division I school. There has been some interest expressed in JJ by Tennessee Tech, …Read the Rest…

Hoppers Start Strong

| April 11, 2006

The Greensboro Grasshoppers are off to the best start in the history of the franchise. This team has only been around for 2 years but this really has been a special beginning to year number two at First Horizon Park in beautiful downtown Greensboro. The weather has been super except for the Saturday night affair, …Read the Rest…

Hoppers Hit Home Run

| April 6, 2006

NINE THOUSAND – ONE HUNDRED – TEN…. The largest crowd in current Greensboro baseball history. Needless to say Donald Moore and the Greensboro Grasshoppers have built on last year’s success and are keeping momentum up. Over the winter, the left field berm was rebuilt from scratch and now it can hold easily a thousand or …Read the Rest…

High School Hoops Poll Revisited

| April 4, 2006

We closed out the high school basketball season with our final hoops poll back on March 8th. Dudley won the State 3-A public school title and Greensboro Day School took the boys private school 3-A championship. The Bishop McGuiness girls went undefeated and grabbed the 1-A crown in their first year of public school competition. …Read the Rest…

Revolution – Round Two

| April 3, 2006

The Revolution’s second game was not has successful as the first; but, then this is not the NFL. As the owner has stated, this is entertainment and I say it’s still a good deal. The Lakeland Thunderbolts came to town and they were better than the Revolution on the field. The Thunderbolts are 3-0; but …Read the Rest…

3 Games in 3 Days: All 3 Very Different

| April 3, 2006

Last week saw the baseball season come into full swing for greensborosports.com and with so many choices, we made sure to get at least 3 games in over the end- of -the -week- period, running Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. First Horizon Park played host to 2 of our 3 games and the third meeting took …Read the Rest…