BIG WIN FOR THE COWBOYS
I received this text message info earlier tonight from the SWG Cowboy-Glenn Bobcat baseball game and here it is after I broke it all down:
Southwest Guilford 12 Glenn 1
Southwest wins the outright regular season conference title with a convincing win over the Glenn Bobcats. On Senior Night the Cowboys celebrated [...]

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‘Hoppers Break April Attendance Record
April Per-Game Average is all-time best 6594
Greensboro, N.C. – The Greensboro Grasshoppers broke their Franchise Record for April per-game average attendance tonight as they drew 6040 against the Delmarva Shorebirds. This gives the ‘Hoppers 65,935 fans in 10 April openings, for an average of 6594 per game. The previous April record [...]

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Northwest Guilford 9
Grimsley 5
NWG(17-3)
High Point Central 10
Smith 2
HPC has won 5 of 6 heading into next week’s Metro 4-A Conference tournament…

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Southwest Guilford 12
Glenn 1
Southwest Guilford wins Piedmont Triad 3-A final over Glenn to take first place in the regular season. Double by Brock Hudgen, RBI single by Cal Sutphin, Bo Rein connects with two-run homer in the third, Sutphin adds double and more coming in later tonight…..(I was collecting the previous info from a [...]

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Greensboro Batting Center 12U playing in the very competitive Battle in the South this weekend in Rockwood , TN.
Pool play begins tonight with GBC taking on N. Alabama Titans. Here is GBC pool:

GBC Team Acceleration (NC)
N. Alabama Titans (AL)
South Oakland A’s (MI)
West Chester Sluggers (OH)

Best of luck to Rod and Carmine and the GBC12U!
Battle [...]

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Here are the results of the Mid-Piedmont 3a Track & Field Championships hosted at Southeast Guilford High School in Greensboro, NC (Pleasant Garden) Coach Alton Tyre served as host and meet director. All results were hand held timing for running events.
Mens Champions: Ragsdale HS
Men’s Runner-up: Southeast Guilford HS [...]

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Ragsdale at Southeast Guilford(Senior Night) 7PM*****Brian Webb, Trey Gilmore, Garreth Bigham and Tivon Clark among those to he recognized tonight.*****
High Point Central at Grimsley
Glenn at Southwest Guilford
Dudley at Western Guilford(Senior Day)
JV 4:30/Varsity 7pm
WS Parkland at High Point Andrews
from Wednesday:
Rockingham County 2
Northeast Guilford 0
WP:Mitchell
LP:Paula
Western Guilford 5
Bartlett Yancey 2
WP:Casey Jones
Eastern Guilford 3
Reidsville 2
from Tuesday;
Southwestern Randolph 10
Southeast [...]

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Updates on a couple of our local kids now on the college football scene and I remember these guys all the way back when they were at Aycock Middle School. Updates courtesy of their mom Mary Via, a football savvy lady. Thanks Mary!
Michael Via just finished up spring ball at Virginia Tech with [...]

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Wrestling legend PLAYBOY Buddy Rose – also known as Paul Perschmann – was found dead on Tuesday at his home in Vancouver, WA. He was 56.
According to Buddy’s wife, Tammy, she came home from work at about 4pm and found Buddy non-responsive in his favorite chair. No cause of death has been determined, although he [...]

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The NCCA All-Star Soccer game will be held on July 21 at the UNCG soccer stadium and will bring together players from all over the state of North Carolina. We have Guilford County kids represented on the team from Northwest Guilford and Southwest Guilford.
Here are the East and West rosters for this year’s game.
2009 [...]

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Ragsdale retires 3 baseball jerseys
by Ogi Overman:Jamestown News
(This article was sent to us and we did not remove this from The Jamestown News. Thank-you Mr. Overman.)
It’s not exactly Fenway Park, but there is one aspect of Ragsdale High School’s baseball stadium that bears a strong resemblance to the famed Boston landmark. It adorns the [...]

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From the Associated Press – Buzz Peterson has changed his mind and is returning for a second stint coaching Appalachian State.
The school announced today that Peterson has accepted the job, three weeks after initially turning it down. He’ll replace Houston Fancher, who was fired last month.
Peterson went 79-39 in four seasons at Appalachian between [...]

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Western Guilford at Bartlett Yancey
JV 4:30 Varsity 7:00
Northwest Guilford at Ledford
*****Do we have any others?*****

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Saturday, April 25, YWCA Greensboro held the 3rd Annual Girls & Women In Sports Awards Dinner at the NC A&T Alumni Foundation Event Center. Rosemary Plybon, WFMY News 2 served as Mistress of Ceremony.
It is the belief of the YWCA Greensboro that the achievements of girls and women in sports need to [...]

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Hopper homers today for Jeremy Synan(Brown Summit) and Kevin Mattison(Kernersville) as the Greensboro Grasshoppers topped the West Virginia Power 7-2 at NewBridge Bank Park. Synan connected on a three-run shot over the scoreboard in right field for his second long-ball of the season and Mattison launched a two-run missle to right for his third [...]

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Bobby Stutts took pictures before the game and I took a few during the game. In all – 62 pictures, click on any one of the three below to see the full set.

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Below is the schedule for the Eastern Conference Semifinal Series between the Carolina Hurricanes and the Boston Bruins. The series opens Friday night in Boston.
Friday – Carolina at Boston
Sunday – Carolina at Boston
Wednesday, May 6 – Boston at Carolina
Friday, May 8 – Boston at Carolina
*Sunday, May 10 – Carolina at Boston
*Tuesday, May 12 [...]

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Charlotte Observer NASCAR writer David Poole died on Tuesday of a heart attack. He was 50.
A native of Gastonia, N.C., Poole became the Observer’s NASCAR writer in 1997. He also wrote at the racing website, ThatsRacin.com and hosted a daily radio program on Sirius Satellite Radio.
The National Motorsports Press Association named Poole Writer [...]

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Greensboro Grasshoppers 8
West Virginia Power 3
WP:Kyle Kaminska(2-1)
LP:Gabriel Alvarado(1-2)
HR’s:
GSO-Ben Lasater #5
Kevin Mattison #2
GSO(10-9)
WVA(6-13)
GSO:8-11-1
WVA:3-7-1

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Dudley 12
Western Alamance 6
*****See Dudley box score below.*****
Northern Guilford 9
Morehead 5
WP:Scott Wells
NG(15-5/9-4)
Ragsdale 8
Randleman 1
David Coffey pitched four innings (two hits, 2 walks eight strikeouts) for his seventh win on senior night. Eric Maynard took the loss. Ragsdale was led at the plate by Ben Fultz (2-3, DB, 2 RBIs, run scored), Kyle Brandenburg (2-4, [...]

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