HS Baseball Bulletin Board for 4/29/11

| April 29, 2011

HS Baseball due up tonight: Oak Ridge vs. Southwestern Randolph at McCrary Field in Asheboro 5pm Western Alamance at Northern Guilford 6pm Dudley at Grimsley 7pm Southeast Guilford at Page 7pm Glenn at East Forsyth 7pm Western Guilford at Northwest Guilford 7pm Ragsdale at High Point Central 7pm Northeast Guilford at Leford 7pm Southwest Guilford …Read the Rest…

Slow start tonight and finish for Grasshoppers in Greenville

| April 28, 2011

Final: Greenville Drive 12 Greensboro Grasshoppers 1 Top of the 6th inning at Greenville, South Carolina: Greenville Drive 7 Grasshoppers 0 GSO-0-2-0 GRE-7-9-2

Cam Newton selected #1 by the Carolina Panthers at the NFL Draft in New York

| April 28, 2011

from www.espn.com: NEW YORK — Quarterback Cam Newton was selected with the No. 1 pick by the Carolina Panthers on Thursday as the NFL returned to to some semblance of normalcy with its college draft. Newton’s selection marked the third straight draft in which a quarterback was taken with the first pick. The Heisman Trophy …Read the Rest…

Important High School Baseball Games coming up on Friday night

| April 28, 2011

Some of these key games coming up on Friday night, will have a bearing on the playoffs, that are set to start in about two weeks….. Friday night: Dudley at Grimsley Southeast Guilford at Page Glenn at East Forsyth Western Guilford at Northwest Guilford Ragsdale at High Point Central Northeast Guilford at Leford Southwest Guilford …Read the Rest…

Southwest Guilford Cowgirls Basketball NCSHAA 4-A State Champions make Congressional Record:Howard Coble is here with the team…

| April 28, 2011

On March 29th in Washington, DC, the Hon. Howard Coble read into the minutes of the Congressional Record that Southwest Guilford High School Women’s Basketball won the 4A State Championship. On Wednesday, April 27, Congressman Coble presented the Congressional Record to the women’s basketball team at SWGHS. This was truly an honor for the school, …Read the Rest…

UNCG #’s from 10-3 win over High Point University last night with Crawford(Dudley) and Walker(Grimsley)

| April 28, 2011

UNCG 10 High Point University 3 UNCG(22-17)/HPU(21-23) Locals in the UNCG Spartans’ victory: Ray Crawford(Dudley HS) dh 2-3 with 1 run scored…. Cody Walker(Grimsley HS) lf 3-4 with 2 runs and 2 RBI’s….. Season totals for the two UNCG locals: #31 Ray Crawford(Dudley)….. .299 batting average….27 games-16 starts…..20-67 at the plate……11 runs scored…..1 double…0 triples…2 …Read the Rest…

Hitting Zone Baseball Tryouts/Practice at Guiford College

| April 28, 2011

The Hitting Zone Baseball will be having 16 and 18 under baseball practice Saturday at 9:00 am at Guilford College. If any high school player wants to play showcase baseball and has not yet committed to play on a team you guys are welcomed to come to the tryouts Saturday morning. The practice will consist …Read the Rest…

Sanders Kuxhausen(NWG) set to sign with Newberry College next week

| April 28, 2011

Northwest Guilford baseball player Sanders Kuxhausen (SS-OF) will sign a letter of intent with Newberry College Tuesday May 3rd in the school media center at 2:00pm. Kuxhausen, known to many as “Kuxie”, has had a steady career with the Northwest Guilford Vikings and he had solid run last summer with the Golden Spikes….. He will …Read the Rest…

The Royal Wedding Coverage – Not Here!

| April 28, 2011

For those interested, we will not be covering the Royal Wedding. When informed that he could not wear Shorts and his K-Zone T-Shirt, Andy Durham returned his invitation. However, we will continue to provide coverage of the Royal Rumble, the Kansas City Royals and China King (a royal buffet if we say so).

Panthers looking at one of four possible picks:Most still feel it will be Newton

| April 28, 2011

from Tim Hall at www.wralsportsfan.com: Carolina Panthers team sources told ESPN’s Sal Paolantonio that the No. 1 overall pick will be used on one of four players. They are Cam Newton, Marcell Dareus, Patrick Peterson or A.J. Green. Most observers still feel that the Panthers will pick Peterson, I mean Newton….The Panthers will pick Peterson …Read the Rest…

More honors coming in for Moore(Grimsley HS/West Point)

| April 28, 2011

from www.goarmysports.com: WEST POINT, N.Y. – The weekly accolades continue to flood in for Army senior SS Clint Moore, who was named to the College Baseball Foundation and Diamond Sports National All-Star Lineup on Wednesday. Moore hit .391 with five home runs and 16 RBI to lead the Black Knights to a 4-1 record last …Read the Rest…

Local college baseball roundup from Wednesday and Around the Horn for today…

| April 28, 2011

from Wednesday: UNCG 10 High Point University 3 Elon 5 Wake Forest 0 Appalachian State 6 N.C. A&T 1 For today(Thursday): Georgia Southern at UNCG 6pm Davidson at Elon 6:30pm

HS Baseball Bulletin Board for 4/28/11

| April 28, 2011

Southern Alamance at Eastern Guilford 7pm….I thought this one was set for yesterday, but EG faced Burlington Williams on Wednesday and the Wildcats will see another Alamance County contender this evening… Southern Guilford at North Forsyth 7pm….The is a very winable game for the SG Storm….Did not get a report back in on their game …Read the Rest…

The ‘quality’ of Quality Education’s education coming under question

| April 28, 2011

Are the basketball players at Winston-Salem’s charter school, the Quality Education Academy(QEA), taking the core courses that they need to get into college and when it comes time to go off to college, do they have the overall grades to get in the door at their chosen universities? There doesn’t seem to be a question …Read the Rest…

Brian Hall captured them all:The BIG plays on video from last night’s SEG-WG game courtesy of WFMY NEWS 2 Sports

| April 28, 2011

Brian Hall, the man to call, when you want to see them all, has the BIG plays from last night’s Western Guilford-Southeast Guilford baseball game at SEG and you’ll see Senior night festivities, the PLAY at the PLATE with the Western Guilford runner being called out by the home plate upmpire, “was he safe or …Read the Rest…

Women’s Lacrosse Final – Guilford 16, Sweet Briar 9

| April 28, 2011

SWEET BRIAR, Va. – E’leyna Garcia scored five goals and an assist in Guilford College’s storm-shortened 16-9 lacrosse win at Sweet Briar College. The Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) contest was played in rain and eventually stopped 18:04 into the second half due to thunder in the area. The teams played to an 8-8 draw …Read the Rest…

Hoppers up early 2-1, but streak ends at 9 in Greenville as Drive get it in gear and win 7-4 over GSO….

| April 27, 2011

The Grasshoppers’ nine-game winning streak came to end tonight down in Greenville, South Carolina…… Greenville Drive 7 Greensboro Grasshoppers 4 WP: Celestino (1-1, 4.91) LP:Adam Veres (0-1, 4.85) HR: GSO: Galloway (4), McConkey (2) GRE: Head, M (5), Brentz (4), Coyle (3) GSO(12-8)/GRE(10-10) GRE-7-8-1 GSO-4-8-1

HS Baseball Tonight for 4/27/11:SEG and Williams in the Winner’s Circle this evening

| April 27, 2011

Burlington Williams 8 Eastern Guilford 3 WP- Dallas Baldwin Southeast Guilford 3 Western Guilford 0 WP:Dylan Shutt(7-0) LP:Nin Marrero HR:(SEG)Josh Tobias SEG(20-2) Senior Night at Southeast Guilford and they honored the seniors prior to the first pitch with WG and the Falcons had Josh Tobias, Dylan Shutt, Dillon Barker, Colby Keene and DJ Flinchum take …Read the Rest…

HS Lacrosse Playoffs start on Friday and the pairings are in/out….

| April 27, 2011

Grimsley, Northern Guilford, Northwest Guilford, Western Guilford, are all in and you can check out who meets who in the NCHSAA Lacrosse Playoffs that begin this Friday when you CLICK HERE…… Coming in from News and Record.com……..

All the buzz about Cam Newton:Will the Carolina Panthers select him with the #1 pick on Thursday night?

| April 27, 2011

Thusday night at 8pm the NFL Draft is set to get started and do you think the Carolina Panthers will use that #1 pick, the first selection in the entire draft and select Cam Newton(Auburn), and make him their quarterback of the future? The way the buzz is going around today, at least the buzz …Read the Rest…