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Softball Princeton 1, North Duplin 0 * PRINCETON -- Defending Carolina 1-A Conference champion Princeton squeezed out an unearned run in a 1-0 victory over North Duplin. Rebels pitcher Ansley Hill scattered three hits and posted six strikeouts in the...

Mount Olive rallies past Limestone

WILSON -- It was a game that had everything, strategy, defense, clutch hitting and controversy. Mount Olive College scored five runs in the bottom of the eighth inning and rallied for an 11-7 win over Limestone College on Saturday afternoon...

Trojans' softball eliminated from tournament

MOC Sports Information HARTSVILLE, S.C. -- Mount Olive College was eliminated from the Conference Carolinas Tournament on Saturday after giving up a walk-off hit for the second straight game, this time a three-run homer by Lees-McRae's Paige Coleman with one...

Wayne Country Day-Epiphany box score

Epiphany 201 020 0 -- 5 6 3 W. Country Day 050 213 x -- 11 10 3 Leading hitters -- Epiphany -- Adam Nelson 1-3, 2B, RBI; Tyler Held 2-3, HR, 2B, 4 RBI; Chase Ballinger 1-2. Wayne Country...

Wayne Country Day muscles past Epiphany

Wayne Country Day took advantage of a Spring wind blowing out and played longball in an 11-5 win over Epiphany School on Friday afternoon. The Chargers belted three home runs and six extra-base hits in the win. "I thought we...

Team's departure to Five County Stadium leaves officials scrambling for replacement

Opening day at historic Grainger Stadium signalled a new baseball season, but the end of an era for the Kinston Indians. The Class A Carolina League affiliate of the Cleveland Indians organization heads to Zebulon next spring, which is part...

Baseball-crazed town hopes lights stay on for new team

The rally caps are on -- from 98-year-old Lois Flowers on down to the young children who turn the race for foul balls into a stampede -- that this won't be the final season for minor league baseball at historic...

Future jump (TAG-FUTURE)

Continued from 1B will play in the Carolina League. None of the current employees of the Kinston front office are moving with the team in 2012, so there is an urgency to finding a replacement for the K-Tribe as soon...

ECC tennis agate

SNOW HILL -- Results from the 2011 Eastern Carolina 3-A Conference men's tennis tournament contested at the Snow Hill Tennis Complex: SINGLES First round: Ryan Dorman (South Johnston) d. Allan Cansler (So. Wayne) 6-3, 6-3; Joseph Chaney (Eastern Wayne) d....