ECBL: North Lenoir defeats Spring Creek

La GRANGE -- North Lenoir exploded for seven first-inning runs and cruised past Spring Creek, 8-3, in an Eastern Carolina Baseball League contest. Jensen Barwick paced the Gators' offense with two hits and two RBI. Christian Yarborough started on the...

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SENIOR LEGION: Post 11 turns back Farmville

FARMVILLE -- Jack Casbarro swatted his first-ever home run on the Senior American Legion baseball scene and Wayne County Post 11 claimed an 11-6 decision over Area I East newcomer Farmville Post 151 on Friday evening. It was Casbarro's fourth...

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ALL-AREA BASEBALL: Aycock's Davis named pitcher-of-the-year

By JUSTIN HAYES jhayes@newsargus.com PIKEVILLE -- He grew up along a drag-bunted stretch of Highway 117 north, snug in the powder blue baseball culture his family scratched out of the dirt.   His childhood, like many in Wayne County,...

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ALL-AREA BASEBALL: Saints' Jernigan named player-of-the-year

By JUSTIN HAYES jhayes@newsargus.com DUDLEY -- The weight room at Southern Wayne High School is a smallish box of  bricks on the east side of its sprawling, hemispherical campus. Stationed in the foreground of the 700 wing, it houses...

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ALL-AREA BASEBALL: Gators' Whitfield selected as coach-of-the-year

By JUSTIN HAYES jhayes@newsargus.com SEVEN SPRINGS -- The concept dates back a century, when ballparks perched tall on the street corners of an expanding America, spilling shadows on passers by and hosting the most colossal figures of our national pastime...

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