The Greensboro Green team has done it again, winning 6-1 this afternoon over the Chesterfield Ball Club from Chesterfield County Virginia.
The line score went 6 runs on nine hits with one error and seven men left on base for Greensboro Green and it was 1 run on two hits with two errors and four men [...]

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When you look up and down on the East side you may not see it. You have to look real close and you may have to step inside a few of the businesses. There’s talent down here and where it all might end up some day is anybody’s guess!
What I’m talking about can [...]

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from Rob Daniels today at www.news-record.com:
The Boston Red Sox would apparently like Manny to be Manny somewhere other than Beantown, and the trade talks involving Manuel Aristides Ramirez, the Hall of Fame-bound slugger with a currently grumpy disposition, might impact the Grasshoppers.
According to several national reporters, notably ESPN’s Jayson Stark, the Sox are fronting a [...]

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Brian Schultz Paces Struggling Offense with 2-for-3 Performance
Eastlake, Ohio – Greensboro erased a one-run deficit to garner the lead in the fourth inning. Lake County responded by erasing its own two-run deficit on a two-run home run by Todd Martin in the sixth inning before tacking on the game-winner in the eighth to hand the [...]

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Greensboro Strikes Out 14 Times in 6-1 Loss to Lake County
Eastlake, Ohio – Greensboro didn’t have an answer for Lake County’s Ryan Morris Wednesday night.
The southpaw fanned eight Hoppers in six hitless inning of work for the Captain before Mike Stanton broke up Lake County’s no-hit bid with his league-leading 27th home run of the [...]

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Let’s go ahead and get the blatantly obvious ones out of the way: 1. both are golf courses 2. both are holding a PGA event 3. both fully infested with squirrels 4. both have lots of trees……….that’s enough of that. You do know the punch line is a little more remote, especially for the non [...]

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The Greensboro Green Colt baseball team will be going for the Gold in the 2008 East Zone tournament at War Memorial Stadium after last night’s 11-6 victory over the Lou Gehrig team from Hamilton, New Jersey.
The Greensboro team ended up with 11 runs on 12 hits, with one error and six men left on base; [...]

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Butler Township out of Pennsylvania/Ohio has just defeated Rockingham County out of North Carolina 5-4 in game one of the Colt East Zone baseball tournament in Greensboro, N.C. at the War Memorial Stadium.
Alex Bollinger was the winning pitcher for Butler Township and the guys out of Pennsylvania/Ohio went up early 5-0 and held on to [...]

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By Don | - 3:01 pm - Posted in College

The annual USA South Football Media Day–which includes Greensboro College–will be hosted by Averett University and take place on Tuesday, August 5 at 10:30 a.m. Each of the Conference’s eight football coaches will address the media and give their thoughts on the upcoming football season.
The press conference will once again be video streamed live over [...]

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World Wrestling Entertainment has had a king, Jerry ‘The King” Lawler, on board for several years and now the WWE has added a prince or Prinze to be exact. Freddie Prinze Jr., whose dad Freddie Prinze used to be the star of the NBC sit-com Chico and the Man.
Drugs took out Freddie [...]

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I was at the Page practice this morning and I stopped by Grimsley last night.
These are not official practices. Page is working a mini-camp to help get the kids ready for Friday and Grimsley is doing a lot of the same things only in the evening. Grimsley has to replace QB Zach Maynard [...]

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Greensboro Green plays at 8 pm(on Wednesday) vs Hamilton, NY, if they win, they play Chesterfield Baseball Club out of Virginia at 6:00 pm on Thursday, if they win that the winner of Butler Township, Ohio and Rockingham County await in the winners bracket final at 3:00 pm on Friday. Tourney Championship is 11:00 am [...]

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Stanton Pushes League-Leading Home Run Total to 26 With Two More Against Lake County
Eastlake, Ohio – Greensboro was one out shy of shutting out Lake County in the series opener Tuesday. But the one Captains run wasn’t enough to take the distraction away from the fact that the Hoppers belted four home runs in the [...]

Read The Complete Article - Longball Responsible for All Seven Runs in Hoppers’ 6-1 victory

By Andy | July 29, 2008 - 11:19 am - Posted in Amateur

from thisboardrocks.com:
Randolph 12
Rowan 2
WP: Austin Moyer(Southeast Guilford/University of South Carolina-Upstate)
LP: Parker Gobbel
Rowan rests most of the starters in this 7th inning affair. Moyer pitched a gem for them and a couple Rowan errors aided Randolph to jump on top early 4-0. Rowan only registered 4 hits in the game and just couldn’t get too much [...]

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By Andy | - 10:49 am - Posted in Amateur

The Colt East Zone tournament begins tomorrow at War Memorial Stadium, on Yanceyville and Lindsey Streets. Our local Colt team, the Greensboro Green, will be involved with Coach Alan Ashkinazy in charge. We should have times and matchups coming our way later today from our Colt rep, Larry Farrer.
Here’s the Colt roster for [...]

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High School football practice starts this Friday morning at Midnight on many of our area campuses and as we have been saying in the off-season, watch out for Dudley and Page.
We know that Dudley has talent with many of their big offensive and defensive linemen returning from last year’s State Championship squad. The very [...]

Read The Complete Article - Page is going to be Very Good this year, but it’s not just Newman…

By Andy | - 9:30 am - Posted in College

Here’s the early word on ACC Football from Ross Lucksinger at foxsports.com.
Champion: Virginia Tech
The Hokies have some big holes to fill at skill positions on offense with the loss of RB Brandon Ore and each of their top four receivers from last year, but quarterback Sean Glennon is back for his senior season. On top [...]

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The ECU Pirates and VA. Tech Hokies are scheduled to open the season at noon on August 30th in Charlotte, North Carolina. If you are interested in purchasing select individual game tickets for the neutral site contest, they have opened up a limited supply to just the ECU Pirate Club donors until this Friday, August [...]

Read The Complete Article - A few tickets still remain for East Carolina vs. Virginia Tech in Charlotte

Two-time Major Winner will play at Sedgefield
GREENSBORO, N.C. – Two-time major winner John Daly has accepted a sponsor’s exemption and will play in the 2008 Wyndham Championship, it was announced today. Daly won the 1991 PGA Championship and the 1995 British Open.
Daly joins a Wyndham Championship field that already includes defending [...]

Read The Complete Article - JOHN DALY COMMITS TO WYNDAM CHAMPIONSHIP…..

By Don | July 28, 2008 - 3:38 pm - Posted in Professional

I was looking on the News & Record website today, when i saw this headline – Hoppers get greedy in victory. JR, please let these folks out a bit.
Just because Michael Stanton hit a 2 run homer in the 9th with a 6 to 1 lead does not mean they are greedy. Michael [...]

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