The Dunn Majors (12-and-under) baseball All-Star team plays Elizabethtown at 11 a.m. today in the first round of the Dixie Youth state tournament in Kenansville. Lillington takes on Mount Holly at 3:30 p.m. Dunn won the Around the Horn competition on Friday. Coats...
Western Harnett's Junior League district champion baseball team has qualified for the Tar Heel Leagues state tournament in Hickory, coming up July 26-29. The Tar Heel state softball championships will begin July 19 in Shelby and will include district champions Erwin...
The Buies Creek Astros topped visiting Down East 3-1 on Wednesday night and regained a half-game lead over Winston-Salem in the Carolina League Southern Division second-half season baseball standings. Bryan De La Cruz, Osvaldo Duarte and Carlos Canelon drove in runs...
Trent Fennell (Triton) pitched two innings in a 9-4 win for the Grand Junction Rockies at Billings on Tuesday night. Fennell yielded three hits and one earned run while walking one and striking out two. Fennell's parents, Bill and Kathy, were on hand last week to...
A 4-1 loss to South Stanley knocked the Dunn AAA (10-and-under) baseball All-Stars out of the Dixie Youth state tournament in the Brunswick County community of Ash on Monday. … The Buies Creek Astros were beaten 6-3 by the visiting Down East Wood Ducks on Monday...
The Buies Creek Astros trailed visiting Myrtle Beach 7-5 in the bottom of the 10th inning but won 8-7 on Sunday with a two-run double by Jacob Meyers to score Jonathan Arauz and Corey Julks. Arauz had the first RBI for the Astros in the final frame. Ronnie Dawson...
The Dunn AAA (10-and-under) baseball All-Stars defeated Waccamaw 24-0 in three innings to open the Dixie Youth state tournament in the Brunswick County community of Ash on Saturday. Dunn plays Boger City on Field One this evening at 6:45. … Myrtle Beach topped host...
After a 52-minute rain delay in the first inning, the Buies Creek Astros scored six runs in the opening frame and went on to an 11-0 win over visiting Myrtle Beach on Friday night. A two-run home run by Carlos Canelon capped the early salvo. Brady Rogers, Brandon...
The Buies Creek Astros defeated the Myrtle Beach Pelicans 6-1 on Thursday evening as Abraham Toro hit a two-run homer for his 14th of the season. Osvaldo Duarte hit his fifth round tripper, a solo shot. Patrick Sandoval (1-0) struck out nine in five innings. Buies...
The Buies Creek Astros scored three runs in the bottom of the ninth inning to edge Myrtle Beach 4-3 at Jim Perry Stadium on the Fourth. Corey Julks drove in the winning run. … Boston topped Washington 3-0 and New York was a 6-2 winner over Atlanta on Wednesday as the...
On this date in 1776, the Declaration of Independence was signed in Philadelphia. Penning the document from North Carolina were William Hooper, Joseph Hewes and John Penn. … Dunn Area Sports received its 37,000th view since Feb. 4 on Tuesday. Thank you! … A three-run...
The Carolina Mudcats topped visiting Buies Creek 3-2 on Monday night on an RBI double by Cooper Hummel that accounted for the go-ahead run in the bottom of the seventh inning. The outcome left the Astros with a one-game lead over the Winston-Salem Dash in the Carolina...
