Local College Baseball Today

| March 30, 2010

Guilford College vs. Greensboro College at NewBridge Bank Park 6pm Davidson at UNCG 6pm NC A&T at Gardner Webb 3pm Elon at East Carolina 6pm HPU vs Duke at Cary 6pm

ACC Baseball Today

| March 30, 2010

Boston College @ Northeastern Boston, Mass. 3:00 PM Towson @ Virginia Charlottesville, Va. 5:00 PM VMI @ Virginia Tech Blacksburg, Va. 5:30 PM Winthrop @ North Carolina Chapel Hill, N.C. 6:00 PM Georgia Tech @ Georgia State Panthersville, Ga. 6:00 PM Charlotte @ Wake Forest Winston-Salem, N.C. 6:00 PM VCU @ Maryland College Park, Md. …Read the Rest…

ESPN-W Is Coming

| March 30, 2010

ESPNW – The Womens Sports Channel is coming!!!! I saw a story in a “Media Post” newsletter; but the story on the web was not available. So, I searched. ESPNW dot com is an Radiant Heating Company; but on their website, it says “Our website has changed, espnw.com is now esp-nw.com”. The Domain has already …Read the Rest…

Is this a ploy by Roy? Williams favors Duke to win national title

| March 29, 2010

NEW YORK- College basketball’s marquee rivalry apparently ends on Tobacco Road. North Carolina coach Roy Williams is picking Duke to win the national championship next week in Indianapolis, which might be considered treason by the most ardent of Tar Heel fans. The top-seeded Blue Devils play West Virginia on Saturday, with the winner meeting the …Read the Rest…

Burcham a big reason Guilford College softball on a tear at (21-4-1)

| March 29, 2010

Jessica Burcham posted three wins in Guilford’s 4-0 week, including complete-game victories over Mary Baldwin College and Eastern Mennonite University. She also earned a win in relief in the second game with Eastern Mennonite. Burcham fanned 22 in her three appearances, including a season-high 12 in her one-hit shutout of Mary Baldwin Mar. 24. Three …Read the Rest…

Local College Baseball Tonight

| March 29, 2010

Greensboro College at Ferrum up in Ferrum, Virginia at 7pm….Guilford vs. Greensboro College on Tuesday night at 6pm at NewBridge Bank Park and then on Wednesday it is UNCG vs. N.C. A&T at NewBridge….. from Sunday: N.C. A&T 8 Norfolk State 4 Georgia Southern 12 UNCG 0 from Saturday: Elon 12 Davidson 4 Elon 4 …Read the Rest…

Grading system for All Guilford Girls Basketball teams

| March 29, 2010

Special to Greensborosports.com: This is a formula that is used to grade out players and how they fare against their position. In the conclusive grading system as far as basketball goes, this includes totalling up scoring average, assists, rebounds, steals and blocks. Below based on facts this is how each All Area Guilford County Womens …Read the Rest…

More on Guilford County Girls HS Basketball

| March 29, 2010

Special to Greensborosports.com: This is how the All Guilford County selections fared based on steals and blocks. In order to get the composite score one must add the steals and blocks together and add up the sum total: (example: 1 steal plus 2 blocks equal a score of 3.0) Top All Guilford County Defensive Grade …Read the Rest…

ACC Baseball Update

| March 29, 2010

from Sunday: Georgia Tech 11, North Carolina 8 Chapel Hill, N.C. Florida State 9, Maryland 5 Tallahassee, Fla. Boston College 2, Duke 1 Chestnut Hill, Mass. Miami 4, NC State 0 Raleigh, N.C.

More on the “Biggest Quaker”: Jack Jensen

| March 29, 2010

When I was in the sixth grade, at Guilford Elementary School, our teacher, Mrs. Smith had us publish a newsletter/paper at the end of each school-year, called the “The Littlest Quaker”…. Here is more courtesy of Dave Walters and the Guilford College staff, on the man we should all remember as “The Biggest Quaker”, Jack …Read the Rest…

Guilford has lost their beloved coach: The Legend, Jack Jensen passes away

| March 29, 2010

This is a loss for the entire Guilford College community, as former Guilford College basketball coach and current Guilford golf coach passed away on Sunday at age 71…. The news kind of leaves you with a sick feeling in your stomach…… This is a hit and real shock to lose the man we have known …Read the Rest…

High School Baseball Easter Tournament changes/adjustments

| March 29, 2010

from the front page at www.news-record.com: VARSITY BASEBAL Easter tournament at Eastern Guilford on Tuesday: Northeast Guilford vs. Page, 5 p.m. Eastern Guilford vs. Southern Guilford, 7 p.m. NEG is very hot in this tournament so far…. *won vs Eastern 15-3 Johnny brown Jr. HR and Caleb McCain *won vs Southern 19-6 Luis Paula 2HRs …Read the Rest…

No can do for Drew, but give the Devils their due: Up next FINAL FOUR for DUKE

| March 29, 2010

from www.theacc.com: Blue Devils Punch Ticket to Final Four HOUSTON, TEXAS – Duke is back in the Final Four, ending an unusually long absence for coach Mike Krzyzewski’s team – and keeping No. 1 seeds from being shut out of the title chase. Nolan Smith scored 29 points and the Blue Devils returned to college …Read the Rest…

Fran to be the man at Iowa

| March 29, 2010

Iowa has convinced Fran McCaffery to leave Siena to become the Hawkeyes’ new coach. Athletic director Gary Barta announced the hiring in a release Sunday and said McCaffery would be introduced in a press conference on Monday in Iowa City. McCaffery went 112-51 in five seasons at Siena, leading the Saints to three consecutive NCAA …Read the Rest…

Is WFMY Afraid of the Rain?

| March 28, 2010

Will the television people EVER learn? Sunday afternoon, the Piedmont experience its first major storm of the Thunderstorm Season. It was a nasty one. One TV Station meteorologist started tweeting about it early in the day. These storms happen every year, some are bad, some are not. WFMY was airing the last game of the …Read the Rest…

ACC Baseball update and ACC Today

| March 28, 2010

Saturday, Mar 27 Boston College 5, Duke 3 Chestnut Hill, Mass. Wake Forest 5, Virginia Tech 0 Blacksburg, Va. Duke 5, Boston College 4 Chestnut Hill, Mass. Clemson 8, Virginia 5 Charlottesville, Va. Virginia Tech 2, Wake Forest 1 Blacksburg, Va. Florida State 12, Maryland 5 Tallahassee, Fla. Georgia Tech 13, North Carolina 5 Chapel …Read the Rest…

Talking HS Football in March

| March 28, 2010

One of our readers posed this question last week and it probably makes sense to bring this up to the front page in case anyone missed it before we move on…. Only 4 months away from the new H.S. Football season. Who will be the boys to watch this year? QB’S/RB’S. From Greensborosports.com: QB’s: James …Read the Rest…

Highlights from Dave Telep’s Carolina Challenge

| March 28, 2010

The had three game-sessions down in Cary on Saturday and here is how some of the kids from our area scored in those basketball games with their per game average to the far right and to see more on all of Saturday’s sessions at the Dave Telep Carolina Challenge Click Here… P.J. Hairston-Dudley 23 23.0 …Read the Rest…

No NASCAR today: Martinsville moved to Monday

| March 28, 2010

Rain Keeps Cars Parked at Martinsville….. from Click Here: MARTINSVILLE, Va. – Sunday’s Goody’s 500 Sprint Cup race at Martinsville Speedway has been postponed until noon Monday due to heavy rain. The race will be broadcast live on Fox.

Quakers spent Saturday sweeping

| March 28, 2010

GREENSBORO, N.C. – Alex Starbuck’s (Kernersville, N.C./East Forsyth) walk-off sacrifice fly gave Guilford College’s baseball team a 5-4 win over Eastern Mennonite University Saturday and a sweep of the Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) doubleheader at McBane Field. The Quakers (12-13, 5-6 ODAC) snapped an eight-game losing skid with a 5-2 opening-game triumph behind Will …Read the Rest…