The Germans are apparently a lot better at baseball than most Americans might think. Former Minnesota Twins farmhand Tim Henkenjohann (pictured) fired a solid 8 2/3 innings while teammates blasted three home runs, leading Germany to a 6-3 win over USA Baseball’s National Team in the World Baseball Challenge late Monday night in Prince George, […]
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Grandal leads the way as USA gets back into the win column
Yasmani Grandal (pictured) blasted a two-run homer in the sixth, giving USA Baseball’s National Team the lead for good in a 5-2 win over host Canada in the World Baseball Challenge in Prince George, British Columbia. The win in the opener of the event broke the Americans’ two-game losing streak. Christian Colon of Cal State-Fullerton […]
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Wood keeps club-record streak alive as Mudcats win series finale
The Travis Wood Express continues for the Carolina Mudcats. The Mudcats’ homestand ended on a high note behind the left arm of Wood (pictured), as Carolina whipped the Chattanooga Lookouts 6-1 at Five County Stadium for its second straight win. Wood (9-3) has now won a club-record nine straight decisions. In today’s game, he fired […]
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Chapman’s homer gives Mudcats a split
It might have taken two tries, but the Carolina Mudcats were able to stop their losing streak late Saturday night. Pinch-hitter Steven Chapman (pictured) ripped a two-run homer in the fifth inning, giving the Mudcats a 2-1 victory over the Chattanooga Lookouts to end a four-game slide. Chattanooga won the first game at Five County […]
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Mudcats rained out, Eymann promoted
The Carolina Mudcats’ game with the Chattanooga Lookouts was rained out Friday night at Five County Stadium and will be played tonight as part of a 6:15 p.m. doubleheader. The Mudcats will be attempting to break a three-game losing streak during tonight’s twin bill. Carolina will have a new player for tonight’s action in infielder […]
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NCCU women’s basketball program adds two assistant coaches
Joli Robinson has hired two assistant coaches for her women’s basketball program at N.C. Central. Joining the Eagles are Antonio Davis, a former head coach at St. Augustine’s, Livingstone, Kentucky State and Morristown (Tenn.) College who spent the last two seasons as an assistant coach at South Carolina State, and Leah Frierson, who was head […]
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Mudcats’ slide continues in slugfest loss
The Carolina Mudcats have been on a downhill slide for much of the second half so far, and tonight’s meeting with the Chattanooga Lookouts did nothing to change that. Jesus Castillo allowed just four hits over seven innings, leaving the game with a 5-1 lead and watching his team hold on in a 10-6 victory […]
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Brickey crosses town to join Eagles
Former Duke basketball standout has a new job across town. Robert Brickey, who spent last season as assistant director of basketball operations for the Duke women’s team under Coach Joanne P. McCallie, has been named an assistant men’s coach at N.C. Central to complete new Eagle head coach LeVelle Moton’s staff. Brickey was previously head […]
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11th-inning errors give Japan series win
It all ended in an extra-inning heartbreaker. USA Baseball’s National Team came within a whisker of knocking off homestanding Japan in their 37th annual Collegiate Friendship Series, but a pair of errors in the 11th inning spelled doom in an 8-7 loss at Jingu Stadium in the deciding Game 5. Vanderbilt’s Sonny Gray made an […]
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Durbin, Lookouts blank Mudcats in opener of five-game series
J.D. Durbin was nearly unhittable for eight innings, sparking the Chattanooga Lookouts to a 2-0 victory over the Carolina Mudcats in the opener of their five-game series at Five County Stadium. Durbin (2-3) allowed just five hits while striking out three on a night neither he nor reliever Matt Sartor – who earned his eighth […]