Tilda Lindstrom had 16 points while Mikeba Jones added 15 points to lead the Bears to a 75-51 win at Converse on Wednesday night. Both Lindstrom and Jones reached career highs to help the Bears move to 4-2 on the season. The Bears will conclude their three game road trip with the SAC opener at…

Caldwell Community College & Technical Institute outscored Catawba Valley Community College by 29 points in the second half to earn a 115-86 victory Wednesday night in Hudson and sweep the season home-and-home series. Caldwell was led in scoring by Torrence Horton with 21 points. Three other Cobras scored in double figures: Saiquone Harris with 15,…

The American Volleyball Coaches Association and Division 2 Conference Commissioners Association have announced the All-Region honorees this afternoon. Kathy Peter earned First Team All-Region honors in both the coaches and media voting while Emmaleigh Allen was an Honorable Mention All-Region selection by the coaches. The duo are just the third pair in LR Volleyball history…

Coming off a National Championship in 2023, the Lenoir-Rhyne Men’s Lacrosse team has announced its 2024 schedule. The Bears will begin the 14th season in program history on February 3. The Bears open up the campaign at home against Barton on February 3 to kick off the 2024 season. The Bears have never played Barton…

Girls Non-conference Alexander Central: 57 Newton-Conover: 33 East Burke: 62 St. Stephens: 53 Fred T. Foard: 60 West Lincoln: 43 Freedom: 70 Draughn: 41 Hibriten: 72 Patton: 10 Hunter Huss: 63 Hickory: 54 South Iredell: 54 Bandys: 51 Boys Non-conference Bandys: 68 South Iredell: 44 Cherryville: 59 NCSSM-Morganton: 50 Fred T. Foard: 59 West Lincoln:…

The Division II Conference Commissioners Association announced its Women’s Soccer All-Southeast Region Team on Tuesday. Sophomore Elin Hansson headlined the group with being named Southeast Region Player of the Year while five LR players were named to both the First and Second Teams. Hansson becomes the second Region Player of the Year in program history…

For the first time in history of its volleyball program, a Caldwell Community College & Technical Institute student-athlete has been named an All-American. Cobra outside hitter Laney Craig was named a National Junior College Athletic Association Division III First Team All-American on Tuesday. Craig, a freshman from Hickory, NC (Fred T. Foard High School), totaled…

Adding to his list of individual accomplishments, Ivan Rubio was announced on Tuesday as a member of the 2023 D2CCA All-Southeast Region Second Team. Rubio, who completed his second season with the Bears, was the lone LR player to be named to the 2023 All-SAC First Team. The defender was a part of a LR…

Three Appalachian State women’s soccer players earned Academic All-District Recognition from College Sports Communicators. Kerry Eagleston, Kaitlyn Little, and Shannon Studer represented the Mountaineers as the Sun Belt Conference garnered 54 players on the list. Academic All-District® honorees advance to the CSC Academic All-America® ballot. First, second and third-team Academic All-America® honorees will be announced…

App State cornerback Tyrek Funderburk, who intercepted two passes in the 55-27 win against Georgia Southern, has been named the Sun Belt Conference’s Defensive Player of the Week. It’s the second straight week that an App State cornerback has been honored, as Ethan Johnson received recognition following the win at James Madison on Nov. 18.…

The Trio of Blaikley Crooks, Emily Harman and Mikeba Jones combined for 45 of the Bears 58 points as the Lenoir-Rhyne Women’s Basketball team downed UNC Pembroke 58-51 on Sunday evening. Jones added ten rebounds for her first career double-double. Bears hit 23 of 26 free throws on the night to help them rebound and…

In the first game at the Holmes Convocation Center in nearly three weeks, the App State Mountaineers (4-2) dominated the Austin Peay Governors (3-4) from start to finish in the first ever meeting between the two teams, winning 78-58. The Mountaineers led for all but 13 seconds in the game and led by as much…

The Lenoir-Rhyne Men’s Basketball Team ran out to a 40-18 lead at halftime and never looked back in a non-conference road win over Southern Wesleyan on Saturday afternoon, 75-60. The Bears end a five-game road swing to open the season with a 3-2 mark and will have their home opener on Wednesday night. Lenoir-Rhyne went…

Facing a bitter rival, with a highly anticipated jersey retirement to boot, there were plenty of reasons to celebrate on Senior Day at The Rock. Particularly with the action-packed outcome extending App State’s pursuit of a championship ring. The Mountaineers secured an East Division title and clinched a spot in next weekend’s Sun Belt Championship…

For the first time in NCAA Playoff history, the Lenoir-Rhyne Bears won a playoff game on the road with a 35-25 triumph at Benedict on a sunny Saturday afternoon. Dwayne McGee rushed for an LR NCAA Playoff record 216 yards as the Bears advance to the National Quarterfinal for the third time in the past…

2A Reidsville: 41 Bunker Hill: 26 The Bears season ends at 13-1. 3A Hickory: 28 West Henderson: 16 The Red Tornadoes are 14-0 and will host Dudley in the Western Regional Finals Friday night.

The App State women’s basketball team closed out competition at the Thanksgiving Basketball Clasico in Puerto Rico with a 68-57 victory over Binghamton on Friday. The Mountaineers went 2-0 in the tournament, also defeating Furman on Thanksgiving Day, and are now 4-1 (0-0 SBC) on the season. “In June, this team got together for the…

The App State women’s basketball team defeated Furman, 68-63, in its Thanksgiving Basketball Clasico opener in San Juan, Puerto Rico on Thursday. The Mountaineers are now 3-1 (0-0 SBC) on the season. “I’m just really proud of our team and their resilience throughout the game,” said head coach Angel Elderkin. “Furman hit us in several…

On a day where offense came at a premium, the App State Mountaineers (3-2) grinded out a tough 67-57 win against the Murray State Racers (2-2). On less than 24 hours of rest, the Mountaineers finished the Fort Myers Tip-Off Event 2-0 against two teams who have each made NCAA Tournament appearances in the last…

Girls Non-conference Alexander Central: 49 North Iredell: 41 Bunker Hill: 56 Starmount: 44 East Burke: 61 Freedom: 54 Forestview: 62 Bandys: 50 Fred T. Foard: 62 Newton-Conover: 29 Hibriten 64 McDowell: 48 St. Stephens: 42 South Caldwell: 28 Boys Non-conference Alexander Central: 55 North Iredell: 44 Bandys: 77 Forestview: 43 Freedom: 59 East Burke: 58…

The Lenoir-Rhyne Men’s Basketball Team dropped a seven point decision at Converse, 83-76 in non-conference action on Tuesday night in their final action before the Thanksgiving holiday. Nas Tyson erupted for a career-high 28 points on 9-of-16 shooting. Tyson’s previous career-high was 21 points a season ago but he dropped 28 and hit 4-of-6 from…

The Lenoir-Rhyne Women’s Team had five players in double figures lead by 19 from Blaikley Crooks but the visiting Francis Marion Patriots defeated the Bears 76-73 on Tuesday evening. Andrea Torres and Mikeba Jones each had 14 points off the bench while Emily Harman had 11 and Jalen Gathers had 10. The Bears fall to…

Caldwell Community College & Technical Institute’s Cincere Scott would score 26 points in his debut for the Cobras as Caldwell cruised to a 93-69 victory over Cleveland Community College Tuesday night. It was the home opener for Caldwell, as they improved to 4-0 on the season. Cleveland led early, holding an 11-4 advantage. Caldwell chipped…

App State’s first nationally televised game inside the Holmes Convocation Center against the Auburn Tigers is officially a sellout. Tipoff for the ESPN2 broadcast is set for 1 p.m. on Dec. 3. App State men’s basketball has not had a nationally televised home contest since the Mountaineers welcomed Davidson to Varsity Gym in February 2000.…

Falling to a 10-point deficit with just over four minutes to play in the first half, the App State Mountaineers (2-2) would end the game on a 62-22 run and throttle the previously undefeated UNC Wilmington Seahawks (4-1) in their first game at the Fort Myers Tip-Off Event 86-56. The Mountaineers would hold the Seahawks,…

For the sixth time in program history, the Lenoir-Rhyne Women’s Volleyball has advanced to the NCAA Division II Tournament. The Bears earned an at-large bid as the number eight seed and will take on top-seeded Wingate in the First Round at Wingate. The Bears are 4-5 all-time in NCAA Tournament games and will take on…

App State cornerback Ethan Johnson has been named the Sun Belt Conference’s Defensive Player of the Week for his performance in an overtime win against James Madison, and quarterback Joey Aguilar has earned national recognition following the victory. Johnson recorded his first career interception to end a JMU drive into App State territory late in…

The Lenoir-Rhyne Women’s Soccer Team was down to their last 55 seconds of the season before Elin Hansson headed the ball into the back of the net after a corner kick to force overtime. In overtime, Nicole Auger scored in the 95th minute but Columbus State found the equalizer with just three minutes to go…

The Lenoir-Rhyne Men’s Basketball Team shot 62.5 percent from the field and outscored the host Cougars 43-32 in the second half to come away with a six-point victory on Saturday afternoon, their second straight win. Nas Tyson led LR with 18 points and nine boards in the 63-57 win. The Bears slumped offensively in the…

Facing unbeaten and 18th-ranked James Madison with the Dukes serving as the darlings of ESPN’s College GameDay on Saturday, App State stayed in the hunt for a Sun Belt Championship Game berth with a 26-23 overtime victory in front of a sold-out crowd at Bridgeforth Stadium. During a slugfest of a conference showdown with plenty…

Sean White did something no other LR quarterback has ever done in the Bears thumping of Shepherd in the opening round of the NCAA Playoffs. White’s 398 yards passing are the most by an LR QB in the 104-year history of football, breaking the mark of 392 set by Brian Bryson against Mars Hill in…

Sabrina Fleig and Jacob Parkinson both qualified for the NCAA Championship after their performance at the SE Regional. The 2023 NCAA Championship took place from the Tom Rutledge Cross Country Crouse in Joplin, Missouri. Fleig was up first as the Women ran a 6K race as Fleig finished in 94th place with a time of…

It was all gas no brakes for First Flight as they concluded an undefeated season with a 3-0 shutout against Hickory, who were the reigning state champions, to win their second NCHSAA Men’s Soccer Championship. Both the Nighthawks and Red Tornadoes defenders made strong plays early as goalie Colin Rhodes from First Flight made two…

2A Bunker Hill: 24 Monroe: 23 The Bears will go on the road to top seeded Reidsville on Friday. 3A Hickory: 61 AC Reynolds: 38 The Red Tornadoes will be at home taking on West Henderson Friday.

The Lenoir-Rhyne Women’s Soccer team scored three goals in the second half as No. 1 seed Bears defeated the No. 8 seed Carson-Newman Eagles 4-1 in the first round of the NCAA Southeast Regional. Alexis Cagno, Nicole Auger, Ella Garner and Aly Ramsey all scored goals to help the Bears move on to the second…

Hickory Football Club names Carlos Rubio as head coach. Rubio is the head coach of the Lenoir-Rhyne University men’s soccer team. Prior to becoming head coach Rubio has spent the past five years at Lenoir-Rhyne serving as the goalkeeper coach and being a part of both men’s and women’s teams. He will be an integral…

On the heels of its first 30-win season since 2013, App State Baseball has announced its schedule for the 2024 season presented by Chick-fil-A. Of the 53 games on the slate, 44 of them will be played in either North Carolina or a bordering state, including 19 home contests at Beaver Field at Jim and…

The Charlotte Sports Foundation (CSF) announced Thursday that App State and Charlotte will open the 2025 season in the 2025 Duke’s Mayo Classic on Thursday, Aug. 28 in Bank of America Stadium. “We are thrilled to add this passionate regional rivalry to our upcoming slate of Duke’s Mayo Classic games,” said CSF executive director Danny…

For its second-straight NCAA Tournament, the Lenoir-Rhyne Men’s Soccer Team fell short in penalty kicks, this time dropping to Clayton State, 1-1 (4-3), in the decisive shootout. The Lakers found the late equalizer in the 89th minute of regulation as Gonzalo LaChica got lost in the Bears defense and converted for his fourth goal of…

The East Division No. 6 seed App State volleyball team fell to the West Division’s No. 3 seed Troy, 3-0 (25-19, 25-21, 25-16) in the second round of the Sun Belt Tournament on Thursday. App State had entered the match with a first-round victory under its belt, while Thursday’s game served as Troy’s tournament opener.…

The App State women’s basketball team fell to Norfolk State on the road, 67-53, on Thursday. Junior Emily Carver netted a team-high 14 points and pulled down eight rebounds for the Mountaineers. Sophomore Chaé Harris came off the bench to tally 10 points in addition to five rebounds and one block. Junior Rylan Moffitt snagged…

Lenoir-Rhyne’s Mike Jacobs has been named the South Atlantic Conference’s Coach of the Year as announced by the league this morning. Jacobs becomes the sixth LR head coach to earn league Coach of the Year honors. Additionally, five players were named First Team All-Conference while eight others were named First Team All-Division. Jacobs led the…

The App State volleyball team opened Sun Belt Tournament action on Wednesday with a 3-0 (25-21, 25-16, 25-22) sweep of the West Division’s No. 7 seed, ULM. East Division No. 6 seed App State will advance to the second round to take on the West Division’s No. 3 seed, Troy, on Thursday at 4:30 p.m.…

The Lenoir-Rhyne Volleyball Team fell to top-seeded Wingate in three sets at the Rock Hill Sports & Events Center on Wednesday afternoon. Wingate advances to the final while the Bears will have to tune in to the NCAA Selection Show to see if they are in the tournament field. Wingate took the match by scores…

The Lenoir-Rhyne Women’s Basketball team scored all fifteen points in the 4th quarter as the Bears held Mount Olive scoreless in the final frame as LR won their home opener 60-42 from Shuford Arena on Wednesday evening. Emily Harman had 17 points to pace the Bears as Harman added six steals and four assists. Jalen…

After winning a showdown of ranked 149-pound wrestlers in the final of the Mountaineer Invitational, App State’s Cody Bond has been named SoCon Wrestler of the Week. It was Bond’s first tournament victory since he suffered a season-ending injury last year and overcame additional injuries to return for a seventh year at App State with…

After trailing by 11 points at the halftime break, a Donovan Gregory tip-in layup at the buzzer capped off an incredible second-half comeback to force overtime on Tuesday, but a hot overtime period by Oregon State (3-0) propelled the Beavers to an 81-71 victory over App State (1-2) in Gill Coliseum. In a back-and-forth second-half…

3A: Hickory: 1 Enka: 0 Red Tornadoes (23-2-2) advance to the state 3A championship Saturday. They will face First Flight (21-0-1). The contest will take place at Bryan Park in Browns Summit, just northeast of Greensboro, Saturday at 11am.

App State sophomore Maya Winterhoff earned her second career Second-Team All-Sun Belt honor, the league announced Tuesday, ahead of the Sun Belt Volleyball Tournament. Winterhoff, who had been a Second-Team All-SBC selection last fall in addition to the App State volleyball program’s first Sun Belt Freshman of the Year honor, has appeared in 103 sets…

For just the fourth time in program history, Lenoir-Rhyne Volleyball had two players named to the First Team All-Conference as three total earned All-SAC accolades as announced by the league office. Kathy Peter and Emmaleigh Allen earned First Team accolades while Sydney Karjala was tabbed as a Third Teamer. Karjala was also named to the…

The Lenoir-Rhyne Volleyball Team moved on to the SAC Tournament Semifinal with a convincing 3-0 win over Carson-Newman in the SAC Quarterfinal on Monday. The Bears swept the Eagles for the second time in less than a month to advance to the Semis and will take on top seed Wingate. The Eagles used a 7-1…

For the first time in program history, the Lenoir-Rhyne Women’s Soccer Team earned the No. 1 seed in the Southeast Region and will host the First and Second Rounds of the NCAA Tournament. This will be the 10th all-time NCAA Tournament appearance for Lenoir-Rhyne and fourth straight. All 10 appearances have come since 2010. The…

For the third season in a row, the Lenoir-Rhyne Men’s Soccer Team has been selected to the NCAA Tournament. The Bears were listed as the No. 9 seed in Super Region Two and will square off against No. 8 seeded Clayton State at Gaffney, S.C. This will be the sixth all-time NCAA Tournament appearance with…

For the second straight season, the Lenoir-Rhyne Women’s Triathlon won the NCAA Division 2 National Championship in Arizona. The Bears took home first, fourth, and sixth place in the individual standings. Sabrina Fleig won the individual event for all of NCAA Division 2, coming in at 1:04:35.6. Her time was ninth best overall of all…

For the seventh time in program history — all since 2012 — the Lenoir-Rhyne Football Team saw its name called when the NCAA Division II Playoff field was announced. The Bears earned the number four seed in Super Region 2 and will host Shepherd at Moretz Stadium on Saturday, November 18. The winner will take…

The Lenoir-Rhyne Women’s Soccer Team claimed their fourth SAC Tournament title after defeating the No. 2 seed Catawba in penalty kick’s. The teams played to a 2-2 draw after 110 minutes then the Bears hit their first four PK’s to claim the title and wrap up the number one seed in the NCAA Southeast region.…

The Lenoir-Rhyne Men’s Basketball Team used a balanced offensive attack to come back and beat Francis Marion on Sunday afternoon, 76-71. Tay Smith led LR with 16 points and seven different players scored at least six points in the win. LR earns a split in the SAC/PBC/CC Crossover Tournament to open the season by outscoring…

After losing in overtime late last night to USC-Aiken, The Lenoir-Rhyne Women’s Basketball team rebounded to defeat Lander on Sunday on Day two of the PBC/SAC Challenge. Blaikley Crooks, a Freedom High grad, led all scorers with 25 points as the Bears overcame a halftime deficit to get their first win of the season 67-57.…

The Lenoir-Rhyne Men’s Basketball Team dropped a tough 76-72 decision to Chowan on Saturday night in the Bears season opener. This was the first game of the weekend SAC/Conference Carolinas/PBC Crossover Challenge and is hosted by Emory & Henry. Lenoir-Rhyne was led by Cris Paez in his LR debut. Paez scored 15 points and went…

Down 11 points heading into the final period, the Lenoir-Rhyne Women’s Basketball team stormed back to send the game into overtime. However, the Bears fell short as USC Aiken defeated the Bears 74-70 to open the 2023-24 season. Emily Harman had a game-high 23 points and added nine rebounds in the contest. The Bears will…

The App State women’s basketball team won a thrilling game in the Holmes Convocation Center after a huge fourth-quarter comeback to beat Ohio, 71-64, in its first MAC/SBC Challenge game of the season on Saturday. “I have to give a ton of credit to both teams. I thought Ohio came in here and gave us…

In the first leg of the SBC/MAC challenge, the App State Mountaineers (1-1) fell to the Northern Illinois Huskies (1-1) 78-91 on Saturday at the NIU Convocation Center. Despite getting off to a fast 8-2 start before the first media timeout thanks to four quick points by Donovan Gregory, the Huskies would roll off a…

A 20-play drive put Georgia State in position to score first in statement-making fashion during the opening quarter Saturday, but Andrew Parker Jr. pounced on a second-and-goal fumble caused by fellow linebackers Trevor Moffitt and Donovan Spellman inside the 10-yard line. By the fourth quarter, the Panthers were still trying to break through with their…

The App State volleyball team closed the regular season with a five set loss to Louisiana (3-2 (12-25, 25-16, 25-16, 16-25, 15-8)) on Saturday in Lafayette. “We have talked all week about finding positive momentum going into the conference tournament and we created that today,” said head coach Sarah Rumely Noble. “We got better and…

The No. 13/15 Lenoir-Rhyne Football Team scored the first 48 points in a dominating 48-7 win at Tusculum in the SAC Championship. Sean White was named the game’s Most Valuable Player as he went 19-of-30 for 305 yards and five touchdowns with no turnovers. White became the first LR passer to toss five TD’s in…

Cody Bond, Tommy Askey and Jacob Sartorio all won individual titles Saturday as App State Wrestling had 11 top-three finishers in the top division of the Mountaineer Invitational. Bond, who suffered a season-ending injury last year, won a well-earned title with a 5-4 decision against 31st-ranked Michael Gioffre from Virginia in the 149 final. Bond…

Caldwell Community College & Technical Institute’s volleyball rebounded from an opening day loss to win two matches and finish in the top-ten of the National Junior College Athletics Association Division Three National Championships in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. On Friday’s day two of the tournament, seventh-seeded Caldwell defeated fifteenth-seeded Raritan Valley Community College (New Jersey) 3-1…

2A: Bunker Hill: 21 Burns: 14 The Bears advance to the third round, hosting Monroe 3A: Hickory: 48 North Lincoln: 28 The Red Tornadoes advance to the third round hosting A.C. Reynolds West Charlotte: 29 Hibriten: 8 The Panthers season ends at 6-6.

The Lenoir-Rhyne Men’s Soccer Team’s run in the 2023 SAC Tournament has come to an end, following a 1-0 defeat to No. 2 seeded Limestone. Claudel N’goubou drilled the game-winning goal for the Saints in the 66th minute to set up a match with No. 1 seeded Wingate in the SAC Championship. After being listed…

The App State volleyball team fell in three sets to Louisiana (3-0 (25-15, 25-11, 28-26)) in its penultimate regular season match on Friday. The Mountaineers return to the court at 12 p.m. CT (1 p.m. ET) on Saturday for their regular season finale against the Ragin’ Cajuns. Sophomore Maya Winterhoff posted a team-high eight kills…

All the Lenoir-Rhyne Women’s Soccer team needed to advance to Sunday’s SAC Tournament championship game was a 4th minute goal from Neve Duston as the Bears defeated the Carson-Newman Eagles 2-0 on Friday morning in the SAC Semifinals from Matthews, N.C. The Bears got an own goal in the 20th minute to extend the lead…

2A: Salisbury: 40 Maiden: 0 The Blue Devils season ends at 8-4.

3A: Hickory: 4 Hibriten: 1 The Panthers season ends at 19-4-3. The Red Tornadoes advance to the Western Regional Finals where they will face Enka. Hickory will host the Jets on Tuesday. The winner advance to the state 3A championship next weekend.

App State men’s distance coach Brad Herbster has been named Sun Belt Men’s Cross Country Coach of the Year, the league announced Thursday. In addition to Herbster’s Coach of the Year honor, six Mountaineers earned all-conference honors. “I’m thankful for the opportunity to coach a strong team and one that is dedicated to improving,” said…

App State head volleyball coach Sarah Rumely Noble announced the addition of four athletes to the volleyball team on Wednesday. Joining the Mountaineers for the 2024 season will be Julianna Horta, Bella Hutchens, Elise Marchel, and Maddie Smith. “I am so excited about the addition of these four amazing women to our program,” said Rumely…

Caldwell Community College & Technical Institute dropped a five-set decision to Dallas College Brookhaven in the opening round of the National Junior College Athletic Association Division III Tournament Thursday. The tenth-seeded Bears won set one 25-18. Seventh-seeded Caldwell built an early lead in set two and held off a rally by Brookhaven to win 25-23.…

The Lenoir-Rhyne Volleyball Team celebrated Senior Night and recorded a dramatic come-from-behind victory over Emory & Henry to close out the regular season, winning 3-2. On a day where they were announced as the No. 8 team in the regional rankings, LR avoided a damaging upset and secured win number 20 of the season. LR…

In the first week of numerical order of the NCAA Regional Rankings, the LR Volleyball Team is number eight in the Southeast Region. The rankings last week just listed the teams under consideration and ranking is new this week. There will be one more round of rankings, next Wednesday, before the field is announced. The…

A trio of Bears landed major awards this morning as the South Atlantic Conference announced the 2023 SAC Women’s Soccer All-Conference teams and awards. Ria Acton was named Defensive Player of the Year, while Elin Hansson won Offensive Player of the Year for the second straight season and Dean Ward also won his second straight…

The South Atlantic Conference announced on Wednesday, Nov. 8 that four members of the Lenoir-Rhyne Men’s Soccer Team have received All-Conference honors. Defender Ivan Rubio led the way for the Bears with a First Team All-SAC recognition. The graduate student from Pamplona, Spain, ended the regular season with the second-most points on the team with…

Saiquone Harris had a game high 20 points in his debut for Caldwell Community College & Technical Institute as the Cobras won the season opener at Cleveland Community College Tuesday evening by a score of 95-76. Harris was one of four Cobras scoring double-digits. Brandon Morgan added 18, Pharrell Boyogueno had 17, and Torrence Horton…

In front of a good opening night crowd, the App State Mountaineers (1-0) outpaced the Oakland City Mighty Oaks (1-2) 87-49 in the Black & Gold’s 10th consecutive season-opening win. 13 Mountaineers saw game action on Tuesday, including five newcomers who saw their first game action in the High Country. It was a solid night…

The South Atlantic Conference announced its WePlayed Sports Women’s Soccer Players of the Week for games played in during the tenth week of the 2023 season and Lenoir-Rhyne’s Elin Hansson was named the Offensive Player of the Week. Hansson, a sophomore from Halmstad, Sweden, scored two goals in the first 5:09 to lead Lenoir-Rhyne past…

The South Atlantic Conference announced its WePlayed Sports Men’s Soccer Players of the Week for games played in during the tenth week of the 2023 season. Lenoir-Rhyne’s Juan Basabe was named the Defensive Player of the Week. Basabe, a graduate student from Durango, Spain, had a season-best eight saves, topping his previous season-high 6 saves…

2A Owen: 1 (4) Patton: 1 (3), PK Panthers season ends 20-2-4. Community School of Davidson: 3 Newton-Conover: 2, OT Red Devils season ends at 19-6-2. 3A Hibriten: 3 AC Reynolds: 0 The Panthers advance to the fourth round going to Hickory on Thursday. Hickory: 4 Central Cabarrus: 0 The Red Tornadoes advance to the…

The App State women’s basketball team opened the 2023-24 campaign with a 71-65 victory over UNC Greensboro at the Holmes Convocation Center on Monday. “We had two starters from last year out there in terms of Emily Carver and Faith Alston, and so we had different players in different roles and we needed to settle…

The final round of NCAA Regional Rankings were released Monday, November 6, the last before the NCAA Playoff field is announced on Sunday. The Bears come in at number four in the regional rankings, one spot above where they were last week. The format for the NCAA Playoffs features four regions with the Bears in…

The South Atlantic Conference announced its WePlayed Sports Football Players of the Week for games played during week 10 of the 2023 season. Lenoir-Rhyne quarterback Sean White was tabbed as the Offensive Player of the Week. White, a junior from Sarasota, Fla., led the Bears to a 28-7 win over Catawba and a spot in…

The Lenoir-Rhyne Men’s Soccer Team has survived and advanced to the SAC Tournament Semi-Final round with a 2-1 victory over Catawba. Despite being the No. 3 seed, LR was dealing with some suspensions as starting forwards Adrian Martina and Hector Nieto were unable to participate due to yellow card accumulation. That did not seem to…

The Lenoir-Rhyne Women’s Soccer team defeated Mars Hill 2-0 on Sunday afternoon to move on to the SAC Semifinals. The Bears will now face Carson-Newman on Friday afternoon as the Bears will be two wins away from winning their 4th SAC tournament title. On Sunday, the Bears used a goal seconds before halftime from Neve…

After making his Division I wrestling debut Friday in a dual start against NC State, App State true freshman Tomas Brooker won the 184-pound title at the Battle for The Citadel tournament by going 4-0 on Sunday. Brooker used a third-period takedown to win a 5-2 decision against teammate Hunter Adams in an all-App State…

A historic nighttime appearance at The Rock coincided with a resounding victory over a longtime rival. Playing a post-October game on a Saturday night in Kidd Brewer Stadium for the first time and facing Marshall in a home conference game for the first time since 1996, App State rolled to a 31-9 victory against the…

The Lenoir-Rhyne Volleyball Team dropped a match to Tusculum on Saturday afternoon that dropped the Bears to fourth in the league standings. The Bears fell to the Pioneers in three sets but look to bounce back in the regular season finale against Emory & Henry on Wednesday. The Bears will still earn a home game…

The App State volleyball team fell four sets to Georgia Southern (3-1 (29-27, 25-13, 28-26, 25-20) after a hard-fought battle in Statesboro on Saturday. “Even though we didn’t get the result we wanted, we found our grit and our fight,” said head coach Sarah Rumely Noble. “We had some really bright moments as we prepare…

The No. 15/16 Lenoir-Rhyne Football Team captured the 24th conference championship in program history with a 28-7 victory over Catawba on Senior Day at Moretz Stadium in front of a crowd of over 7,000 on Saturday. The win moves the Bears on to the SAC Championship where they will play Tusculum in a rematch of…

Sabrina Fleig advances to the NCAA Championship on November 18th in Joplin, MO. as she finished fifth in the NCAA Southeast Regional Saturday morning hosted by North Georgia University. The Bears finished 4th as a team as LR had a team total of 143. Fleig qualified for her first NCAA Championships as the sophomore finishes…

With seven App State wrestlers making either a first career start or first dual start at his current weight, the 26th-ranked Mountaineers opened the 2023-24 season against an opponent that JohnMark Bentley said was potentially the best team he’s faced in 15 years as a head coach. No. 3 NC State won 40-3 on Friday…

The App State volleyball team fell to Georgia Southern in three sets (3-0 (25-23, 25-15, 25-14)) on Friday. Fifth year senior McCall Denny and junior Lulu Ambrose tallied seven kills apiece, while sophomore Maya Winterhoff recorded six kills and a hitting percentage of .429. Redshirt freshman Katie Cruise recorded a team-high 14 assists, followed by…

Lenoir-Rhyne’s Vice President of Athletics Kim Pate has been selected to the NCAA Division II Management Council by the Division II President’s Council as an at-large representative. Pate adds the DII Management Council to a long list of service to the NCAA and Division II. Currently, Pate serves on the D2 ADA Board as the…

Cameron (Tank) Lunsford and Ryan Carter competed at the IPF World University Cup in Kranjska Gora, Slovenia on Friday. This competition is the biggest stage for collegiate power lifting. Both athletes excelled. Lifting in the 93kg class, Tank went 8-for-9 attempts. Winning a bronze medal in squat (282.5 kg or 623lb), a silver medal in…

1A Corvian Community: 38 Draughn: 28 Wildcats season ends at 8-3. 2A Bunker Hill: 61 East Rutherford: 7 The Bears advance to the second round hosting Burns. Maiden: 31 East Gaston: 21 The Blue Devils advance to the second round going to Salisbury. Monroe: 63 Bandys: 13 Trojans season ends at 6-5. 3A Hickory: 51…

In a back-and-forth contest on Friday at the Miami Field Hockey Complex, the App State Mountaineers (14-5, 6-1 MAC) fell 3-2 on a sudden death goal by Emma Rolston in overtime against the Kent State Golden Flashes (8-10, 5-2 MAC). After fighting to tie the score in the 52nd minute, the Mountaineers’ historic season came…

It will be a year-long celebration for the LR Softball team as head coach Shena Hollar celebrates her 25th year as the head coach at Lenoir-Rhyne. Hollar is closing in on her 1,000th career victory as she enters the season 29 wins shy of 1,000. The season is scheduled to open on Saturday, February 3…

The league’s basketball coaches have voted the Lenoir-Rhyne Men’s Basketball Team to finish eighth in the South Atlantic Conference Preseason Coaches’ Poll as announced by the league. The Bears are coming off an 11-15 season but have many new faces on the team. The Bears feature just six returning players from a season ago and…

Blaikley Crooks, a Freedom High School grad, and Emily Harman were named to the SAC First-Team Preseason All-Conference as the South Atlantic Conference released its Preseason Coaches Poll and All-Conference Teams for the upcoming 2023-24 season. The Lenoir-Rhyne women’s basketball team were picked to finished in 5th place this season as LR garnered 105 votes.…

2A Newton-Conover: 9 Forest Hills: 0 The Red Devils advance to the third round on Monday going to Community School of Davidson. Owen: 3 West Caldwell: 1 Warriors season ends at 13-6-5. Patton: 6 Bandys: 1 Trojans season ends at 14-8-1. The Panthers advance to the third round going to Owen on Monday. 3A Hibriten:…

App State field hockey earned a total of nine All-Mid-American Conference awards, tied for the most of any team in the conference, the league announced Thursday. In her first season at the helm of the program, head coach Emily Dinsmore was named the Co-Coach of the Year alongside Ohio’s Ali Johnstone, while Addie Clark was…

For the second straight season, the Lenoir-Rhyne Women’s Soccer Team defeated the Catawba Indians on the last day of the regular season to capture the program’s ninth SAC Regular Season Championship since 2010. Elin Hansson scored two goals in the first six minutes of the game as the Bears held on for the 2-1 victory.…

After starting the season with only five points through the first five conference matches, the Lenoir-Rhyne Men’s Soccer Team goes undefeated the rest of the way to earn a top four seed in the 2023 SAC Men’s Soccer Tournament. Thanks to his team-high eighth goal of the season, Adrian Martina buried a penalty kick in…

Following a record-breaking regular season, the App State soccer team came through with some more late-game magic to force overtime Wednesday, but fell 2-1 in extra time to the James Madison Dukes on a chilly night at the Foley Sports Tourism Complex. In a fast-paced game that saw both teams generate many quality scoring chances,…

For the second time in three years, the Lenoir-Rhyne Men’s Basketball Team made the trip out to Rocky Top to take on the Tennessee Volunteers. Throughout the full 40 minutes, the Bears exhibited strong growth on the court, but the Volunteers proved to be too much in a 90-48 victory in the preseason exhibition. The AP…

In a battle for second place in the South Atlantic Conference standings, Lenoir-Rhyne fell to Anderson in three sets. With the loss, LR drops a game behind Anderson with just two matches left to play. A hotly contested first set went the way of the hosts by a final score of 25-22. Anderson hit .310…

The Caldwell Community College & Technical Institute volleyball team will be the seventh overall seed in the National Junior College Athletic Association Division III Volleyball National Tournament and will face tenth seeded Dallas College-Brookhaven in the tournament’s opening round on Thursday, November 9 at 12PM (EST) at the Alliant Energy PowerHouse Arena in Cedar Rapids,…

The South Atlantic Conference announced its WePlayed Sports Men’s Soccer Players of the Week for games played in during the ninth week of the 2023 season. Lenoir-Rhyne swept the awards as Adrian Martina was named the Offensive Player of the Week and Juan Basabe was named the Defensive Player of the Week. Martina, a graduate…

App State team captain Jackson Greene, a safety and special teams standout, is one of 73 nominees for the Burlsworth Trophy that goes to the outstanding FBS player who began his career as a walk-on and has shown outstanding performance on the field. A fifth-year redshirt junior playing for his hometown school, Greene has appeared…

1A Highland Tech: 6 North Carolina School of Science and Math – Morganton: 2 The Dragons season ends at 9-6-3. 2A Bandys: 2 North Forsyth: 0 Trojans advance to the second round as they face Patton on the road Thursday Newton-Conover: 5 Morehead: 0 Red Devils advance to the second round hosting Forest Hills Patton:…

App State forward Izzi Wood has earned second team All-Sun Belt Conference the league announced on Monday. A native of Hickory, N.C., Wood enjoyed a career-year for the Mountaineers, scoring a personal-best seven goals on the season, while adding a career-high three assists – totaling 17 points for the Black & Gold. She is the…

App State goalkeeper Kerry Eagleston has been named the Sun Belt Conference Defensive Player of the Week the league announced on Monday. Eagleston posted four saves in a 1-0 shutout victory over Georgia State on Thursday, accomplishing both individual and team milestones in the process. The shutout was the Mountaineers’ eighth of the season, marking…

On a day where the team honored their two seniors and three fifth-year players, the App State Mountaineers (14-4, 6-1 MAC) racked up their ninth straight win, beating the Saint Louis Billikens (3-13, 1-6 A10) 4-0 at Dr. Jan C. Watson Field at the Brandon. & Erica M. Adcock Field Hockey Complex Sunday. The Mountaineers…

In a season with so many down-to-the-wire finishes, sealing a victory with eight seconds remaining almost felt pedestrian, giving App State’s coaches and players at least a moment or two to exhale. Trailing for nearly the entire game, App State took its first lead with 6:37 remaining and scored 20 unanswered points over the final…

On its senior night, the Lenoir-Rhyne Men’s Soccer Team pulled off the upset by taking down No. 18 Lincoln Memorial, 1-0. One of the seniors being recognized, Adrian Martina, buried the game-winning goal in the first half to mark the completion of an undefeated October. In addition to their winning ways, LR has also manufactured…

The No. 7 Lenoir-Rhyne Football Team scored a touchdown with 1:01 left to go up three points but rival Wingate answered on the first play of their ensuing drive with a 75-yard touchdown pass to upset the Bears, 34-30. The loss ends LR’s 10-game regular season winning streak, the second longest streak in the nation.…

Lenoir-Rhyne dropped its first South Atlantic Conference match in over a month as they were defeated at Catawba on Saturday afternoon, 3-1. The Bears previous SAC defeat came at Wingate on Sept. 26. Catawba’s Kelcie Love exploded for a match-high 20 kills for the hosts. Catawba came right out and protected its home court with…

On Senior Day, the #13 ranked Lenoir-Rhyne Women’s Soccer team won their 10th SAC game of the season for just the second time in program history as the Bears defeated Lincoln Memorial, 2-0. The Bears matched the 2014 team in conference victories. The Bears moved to 10-0 in SAC play as Neve Duston and Evan…

Caldwell Community College & Technical Institute’s women’s volleyball team defeated Butler County Community College 3-2 in a five-set thriller on Saturday to win the National Junior College Athletic Association Division III Mid-Atlantic District Championship and advance to their first national tournament appearance in program history. Caldwell, champions of Region 10, traveled to Butler, PA to…

The App State men’s cross country team captured the title at the 2023 Sun Belt Championship meet on Saturday in Foley, Ala., winning their first championship since 2019. “Coach Brad Herbster and the guys put together a plan from Day One and they stuck with it, and now we see the results,” App State director…

High school football playoff brackets were released Friday by the North Carolina High School Athletic Association. First round of the playoffs begins Friday night. Teams from the Hickory Metro in the playoffs with seeding: 1A 13) Draughn hosts 20) Corvian Community 2A 4) Bunker Hill hosts 29) East Rutherford 15) Maiden at 18) East Gaston…

Western Highlands 1A/2A Conference Mountain Heritage: 52 Draughn: 15 Mountain Foothills 7 2A Conference Hendersonville: 56 Patton: 13 Catawba Valley Athletic 2A Conference Bunker Hill: 56 Bandys: 28 East Burke: 50 West Caldwell: 7 Maiden: 34 Newton-Conover: 12 Western Foothills Athletic 3A Conference Hickory: 30 Statesville: 14 St. Stephens: 44 Fred T. Foard: 18 Northwestern…

App State fifth year senior McCall Denny’s 1,000th kill was the highlight of the Mountaineers’ four set loss to Old Dominion (3-1 (17-25, 25-15, 26-24, 25-22)) on Friday. Friday’s match marked App State’s final home match of the 2023 campaign. “We got better this week and killed a lot of balls,” said head coach Sarah…

The App State Mountaineers (13-4, 6-1 MAC) clinched a share of the MAC regular season title after beating the Ohio Bobcats (6-8, 4-3 MAC) 3-2 in an overtime thriller on Friday. This is the first time the Mountaineers have won a MAC regular season title since joining the MAC in 2017 and the highest finish…

High school boys soccer playoff brackets were released Friday by the North Carolina High School Athletic Association. First round of the playoffs begins Monday. Teams from the Hickory Metro in the playoffs: 1A North Carolina School of Science and Math – Morganton at Highland Tech 2A Bandys goes to North Forsyth Newton-Conover is at home…

2A Brevard: 3 Maiden: 0 Blue Devils season ends at 22-6. 3A Ashe County: 3 Hickory: 0 Red Tornadoes season ends at 16-10

A third consecutive victory to finish the regular season came on the road, and in historic fashion. App State topped Georgia State 1-0 on Thursday at the GSU Soccer Complex to secure a first-round bye in the Sun Belt tournament, and a third-place regular season finish, the best in program history. The Mountaineers (9-5-3, 6-2-2)…

The App State volleyball team swept Old Dominion, 3-0 (25-12, 25-19, 25-16) on Thursday in the first of two matches with the Monarchs. Thursday’s sweep marked the Black and Gold’s ninth sweep of the season. The Mountaineers return to the court at 6 p.m. on Friday for their second match against ODU. Friday’s match will…

App State men’s basketball assistant coach Frank Young has been promoted to Associate Head coach, while Bradley Fey and Raheem Martin were both promoted to assistant coaches, head coach Dustin Kerns announced Thursday. Young, who has been an assistant for the past five years, enters into the role of Associate Head Coach for the first…

Lenoir-Rhyne’s Sean Finan was named the SAC WePlayed Sports Men’s Golfer of the Week for events played during weeks seven and eight of the 2023-24 season, the Conference office announced. Finan, a sophomore from Winston-Salem, N.C., took home medalist honors and led the Bears to a team championship at the Lenoir-Rhyne Fall Invitational. Finan fired…

Catawba Valley Athletic 2A Confernece Bandys: 4 Bunker Hill: 1 Newton-Conover: 3 Maiden: 1 West Caldwell: 2 East Burke: 1 Western Foothills Athletic 3A Conference Fred T. Foard: 3 St. Stephens: 2 Hickory: 6 Statesville: 0 Northwestern 3A/4A Conference Watauga: 3 Alexander Central: 2

Caldwell Community College & Technical Institute student-athlete Emily Ramirez was named National Junior College Athletic Association Division Three Volleyball Defensive Player of the Week for October 16-22. Last Saturday in the semifinals and final of the Region 10 D-3 Volleyball Tournament, Ramirez recorded 43 digs as the Cobras captured their first Region 10 championship in…

Coming off her MAC Defensive Player of the Week honors, fifth-year goalkeeper Addie Clark has been named the National Field Hockey Coaches Association (NFCHA) Defensive Player of the Week Honorable Mention for her eight-save performance against Ball State on Friday and 12-save day against No. 8 Louisville on Sunday. “We are so proud of Addie…

Caldwell Community College & Technical Institute will travel to Butler County Community College for the National Junior College Athletics Association Division III Volleyball Mid-Atlantic District Championship on Saturday, October 29. The winner-take-all, best of-five match will start at 1PM at Pioneer Field House in Butler, PA. The winner of the match will receive an automatic…

Fifth-year goalkeeper Addie Clark has been named the MAC Defensive Player of the Week for the fourth time in her career after compiling eight saves against Ball State last Friday and 12 against the No. 8 Louisville Cardinals Sunday. Her 12 saves against the Cardinals fell one short of her career high. “We are so…

2A Maiden: 3 East Gaston: 1 Blue Devils advance to the third round as they will travel to Brevard. 3A Hickory: 3 Franklin: 0 Red Tornadoes advance to the third round going to Ashe County. North Iredell: 3 St. Stephens: 1 The Indians season ends at 16-10. Pisgah: 3 Hibriten: 0 The Panthers season ends…

The Lenoir-Rhyne Volleyball Team earned their 19th win of the year and wrapped up a four-game home stand with a sweep of Limestone on Tuesday night. The Bears have now won 14 straight over the Saints and haven’t lost to Limestone at home since Oct. 20, 1984. LR earned the sweep with wins of 25-21,…

The Lenoir-Rhyne Women’s Golf Team moved up two spots to finish in 8th place at the Flagler Fall Slam. The event was the Bears final event of the fall portion of the schedule. Eve Neild lead the Bears on Tuesday and in the two day event as she shot a 72 in the final round…

Sean Finan wins his first career event as he shot his second straight round under 70 to win the LR Fall Invitational by four strokes over teammate Matthew McDougall. LR also took home their first team event of the year defeating second place Catawba by 36 shots to take him the team title. McDougall shot…

Western Highlands 1A/2A Conference Mountain Heritage: 3 Draughn: 2 Mountain Foothills 7 2A Conference Patton: 5 Chase: 0 Catawba Valley Athletic 2A Conference Lincolnton: 5 Maiden: 0 Newton-Conover: 4 Bunker Hill: 0 West Caldwell: 7 Bandys: 1 Western Foothills Athletic 3A Conference Hickory: 2 Fred T. Foard: 1 St. Stephens: 4 Statesville: 0 Northwestern 3A/4A…

The South Atlantic Conference announced its WePlayed Sports Volleyball Players of the Week for matches played during the eighth week of the 2023 season. Lenoir-Rhyne’s Emmaleigh Allen was named the Offensive Player of the Week. Allen, a sophomore from Wooster, Ohio, had at least 12 kills in all three matches this week, recording 14 kills…

The Sun Belt Conference, in conjunction with ESPN, announced that App State’s sold-out home football game against Marshall on Saturday, Nov. 4, has been elevated to appear on NFL Network with a kickoff time of 6 p.m. in Boone. The Mountaineers last played a Saturday night game at Kidd Brewer Stadium in 2014, their first…

The Lenoir-Rhyne Women’s Swimming Team recorded back-to-back dual meet victories in 24 hours thanks to a 137-95 result over King. In the relay events, the Bears won the 400-yard freestyle relay with a time of 3:50.39 and came in second for the 400-yard individual medley relay with a 4:16.93 posting. Both teams were made up…

In the final road game of the 2023 season, the App State Mountaineers (12-4, 5-1 MAC) flew the flag over the No. 8 Louisville Cardinals (12-5, 2-3 ACC) in shootout fashion on Sunday. The win marks the highest ranked win in program history, the first win ever against a top-10 opponent and the first win…

Just two minutes after an Arkansas State penalty kick goal leveled the score late in regulation, senior Izzi Wood sprinted free on a breakaway and delivered on the finish, to lift App State to a 2-1 road victory and secure a spot in the Sun Belt Tournament. With App leading 1-0 with 10 minutes to…

1A West Mount Airy: 3 Draughn: 1 The Wildcats season ends at 16-7. 2A West Maiden: 3 Anson: 0 North Surry: 3 East Burke: 0 The Cavaliers season ends at 13-13. North Wilkes: 3 Bandys: 0 The Trojans season ends at 18-10. 3A West Hibriten: 3 Rockingham County: 0 The Panthers advance to the second…

Caldwell Community College & Technical Institute’s women’s volleyball team won the program’s first Region 10 Division 3 Championship on Saturday in Sanford, NC, defeating Central Carolina Community College 3-0 in the semifinals and Sandhills Community College 3-1 in the final. Caldwell, ranked ninth in the latest National Junior College Athletic Association poll, made quick work…

App State had plenty of fourth-down magic, but Old Dominion’s late fourth-down conversion set up a go-ahead touchdown in the final minute of a 28-21 conference victory against the visiting Mountaineers. Each of App State’s last four games and five of the last six have been decided in the closing seconds. After a fourth-and-10 completion…

The Lenoir-Rhyne Women’s Soccer Team got first half goals from Evan O’Leary and Elin Hansson to move to 9-0 in SAC play as LR came away with a 2-1 victory over Newberry on Saturday night inside Moretz Sports Athletic Campus. The victory also keeps the Bears unbeaten this year with an 11-0-3 overall record. The…

The Lenoir-Rhyne Men’s Soccer Team remained unbeaten in the month of October with a 2-0 win over Newberry on Saturday afternoon. The Bears wasted little time grabbing the upper hand as Harri Rowe notched his first goal of the year in the 6th minute. Rowe’s goal was the seventh of his career. Adrian Martina would…

The Lenoir-Rhyne Men’s Tennis Team closed off its fall slate with a 5-2 victory over Shaw. Starting with doubles, the Bears got off to a great start with a 6-1 victory by Vadym Rogynskyi and Rufus Plane in the No. 1 line. However, Shaw was able to salvage the point after taking a pair of…

The Lenoir-Rhyne Women’s Tennis Team finished its fall slate with a 6-1 victory over Shaw. In doubles, LR got off to a tough start as they were handed a 6-0 defeat in the No. 3 line. However, the No. 1 duo of Evgeniya Pugina and Nellie Wahlberg in addition to the No. 2 team of…

The No. 10/11 Lenoir-Rhyne Football Team would reclaim the Bishops’ Trophy and move to 8-0 with a two-touchdown victory over Newberry on the road on Saturday afternoon, 24-10 The Bears ended a two-game losing streak to Newberry and held the Wolves to just 42 yards passing and 216 total yards. Newberry becomes the seventh opponent…

The App State volleyball team fell short to Marshall in five sets on Saturday, 3-2 (25-20, 25-23, 20-25, 19-25, 15-10). Sophomore Maya Winterhoff and freshmen Ava Leahy and Delanie Grevengoed posted double-digit kills on the afternoon with Winterhoff recording 16, Leahy recording 12, and Grevengoed recording 11. Redshirt freshman Katie Cruise and senior Sophie Cain…

For the second straight day, the Lenoir-Rhyne Volleyball Team swept a South Atlantic Conference foe. After dispatching of Carson-Newman last night, the Bears rolled past Lincoln Memorial in Shuford Arena on Saturday afternoon to run their SAC winning streak to seven in a row. LR won by counts of 25-17, 25-23 and 25-20 and hit…

Hosting the SAC Championship for the first time in six years, The Lenoir-Rhyne Women’s Cross Country team finished third place at Southside Park in Newton Saturday morning. Sabrina Fleig and Paige Ewald were named to the All-Conference Team after today’s championship race. Fleig was named to the first team All-SAC and the All-Freshman team as…

Catawba Valley Athletic 2A Conference Maiden: 37 Lincolnton: 34, OT Northwestern 3A/4A Conference Watauga: 54 Freedom: 48 Ashe County: 13 South Caldwell: 6

The Lenoir-Rhyne Women’s Swimming Team captured its first dual meet victory of the season with a 129-118 result over Mars Hill. Freshman Anna Buchert led the way for the Bears with first place finishes in 500-yard and 1000-yard freestyle events. The Spartanburg, S.C. native collected a team-high 29 points with times of 5:25.59 and 10:58.53…

The Lenoir-Rhyne volleyball team dominated Carson-Newman to the tune of a 3-0 sweep to move to 11-1 in league play and keep pace with Anderson and Wingate atop the SAC standings. Emmaleigh Allen paced the Bears with 14 kills and moved over 300 kills on the season as she entered play with 290. The loss…

The App State volleyball team fell to Marshall in three sets (3-0 (25-17, 25-21, 25-16)) on Friday in Huntington, W.Va. The Mountaineers return to the court at 2 p.m. on Saturday for a rematch against Marshall. Sophomore Maya Winterhoff posted a team-high 12 kills in addition to the Mountaineers’ sole ace of the evening. Senior…

The App State Mountaineers (11-4, 5-1 MAC) have punched their ticket to the MAC Tournament in head coach Emily Dinsmore’s first year after shutting out the Ball State Cardinals (6-9, 2-4 MAC) on Friday, 1-0 for their sixth consecutive win. It is the third consecutive shutout posted by the Mountaineers and fourth of the season.…

App State wrestlers Tommy Askey, a reigning conference champion, and Will Miller, a returning NCAA Championships qualifier, have been named Preseason All-SoCon selections. Coached by JohnMark Bentley, the Mountaineers return starters from seven of 10 weight classes following a 12-2 season in which they earned a No. 20 final national dual team ranking, secured a…

Mountain Foothills 7 2A Conference Chase: 59 Patton: 0 Catawba Valley Athletic 2A Conference Bandys: 54 West Caldwell: 7 Bunker Hill: 48 Newton-Conover: 21 West Lincoln: 26 East Burke: 0 Western Foothills Athletic 3A Conference Hickory: 61 Fred T. Foard: 14 Statesville: 48 St. Stephens: 10 Northwestern 3A/4A Conference Hibriten: 32 Alexander Central: 31, OT

The Catawba Valley Community College men’s and women’s basketball teams will be holding a special “Meet the Red Hawks” basketball kickoff event on Wednesday, Oct. 25 from 6-8 p.m. at the Tarlton Complex. Those in attendance will be treated to live music and get a chance to get their first look at the 2023-24 Red…

Catawba Valley Community College angler Grant Harris is competing this week at the B.A.S.S. Nation National Championship on Lake Hartwell. Harris, who was the top North Carolina co-angler at the B.A.S.S. Nation Southeast Regional tournament on Douglas Lake in Tennessee earlier this year, is competing against 65 anglers from across the world for a chance…

High school volleyball playoff brackets were released Thursday by the North Carolina High School Athletic Association. First round of the playoffs begins Saturday. Teams from the Hickory Metro in the playoffs with seeds in playoffs: 1A West (16) Draughn will host (17) Mount Airy 2A West (7) Maiden will host (26) Anson (20) Bandys at…

The Lenoir-Rhyne volleyball team dropped a three setter to Lander in non-conference action on Tuesday evening inside Shuford Arena. The Bearcats ran their winning streak to 17 in a row. Emmaleigh Allen led the Bears with 14 kills on the night and posted a .159 hitting percentage to go with a pair of aces and…

Led by Addison Beam’s runner-up finish at 11 under and a tie for 16th by Herman Huus, who shot a final-round 65, App State Men’s Golf placed sixth in the 16-team field at the Phoenix Invitational hosted by team champion Elon. Beam’s 202 total (69-66-67 on the par-71 layout at Alamance Country Club) beat his…

In its final non-conference match of the season, the Lenoir-Rhyne Men’s Soccer Team tied Chowan, 1-1. The Bears jumped out to an early lead in the opening two minutes with a long-distance strike by Ido Omaysi to record his first collegiate goal. Despite going into the break with a 1-0 lead, the Hawks responded quickly…

The App State men’s basketball team has been picked to finish second in the Sun Belt Conference this season, while Donovan Gregory and CJ Huntley earned preseason all-conference honors. This is the highest preseason ranking the Mountaineers have ever garnered as a member of the Sun Belt and marks the highest preseason ranking since the…

For the 33rd time since 2012, the Lenoir-Rhyne Football Team finds itself ranked in the top 10 in the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) National Poll as announced this afternoon. The Bears last cracked the top ten in week two of 2021. The Bears are a perfect 7-0 on the season and dominated Barton 47-3…

High school girls dual team tennis tournament brackets were released Monday by the North Carolina High School Athletic Association. First round of the playoffs begins Wednesday. Teams from the Hickory Metro in the playoffs: 1A Draughn (10-4) receives a first round bye and will go to Highland Tech in the second round on Monday. October…

App State junior Emily Carver has earned Preseason Third Team All-Sun Belt accolades, the league announced Monday. Last season, Carver led the Sun Belt in 3-pointers per game in season and league-only play and shot a league-high .444 from beyond the arc in SBC action. The Asheville, N.C. native started all 31 games and was…

The Caldwell Community College volleyball team is the top seed for the upcoming 2023 Region 10 Division Three Volleyball Tournament. The Cobras and and Sandhills Community College split their regular season matches. To settle the tiebreaker, sets won was the next factor after head-to-head matchups. Caldwell won five sets to Sandhills’ three sets to earn…

The Lenoir-Rhyne Women’s Triathlon Team qualified to 2023 Nationals with a second-place finish in the East Regional. Sabrina Fleig and Eliska Rihova led the way for the Bears as the pair finished first and second respectively amongst all Division II participants. Fleig barely edged out her teammate by two tenths of a second with a…

A seven-goal outburst from the App State Mountaineers (10-4, 4-1 MAC), highlighted by multi-goal games from Sarah Farrell and Sophia Baxter powered the Mountaineers to a 7-0 win over the Queens Royals (0-14) on Sunday. The win marks the Mountaineers’ fifth-straight win, which is the longest active winning streak in the MAC. Five Mountaineers found…

The Lenoir-Rhyne volleyball team won its fifth straight with a convincing sweep of UVA Wise on Saturday afternoon. The Bears won by scores of 25-22, 25-17 and 25-21 to move to 10-1 in South Atlantic Conference play. Emmaleigh Allen led the Bears with 13 kills on the afternoon and Aasia McNeill added 10. Freshman Sydney…

The No. 12/13 Lenoir-Rhyne Football Team throttled Barton by 44 points on a perfect Homecoming afternoon Between the Bricks. After Barton kicked a field goal with 7:36 left in the first quarter, LR outscored the visitors 40-0 to earn an emphatic victory. The defense held Barton to just eight first downs and 148 yards of…

The App State volleyball team capped the weekend’s competition against ULM with a thrilling five-set victory on Saturday at the Holmes Convocation Center. App State defeated ULM, 3-2 (20-25, 24-26, 25-21, 25-18, 15-11). Saturday’s victory marked the Mountaineers’ fourth five-set victory as well as their second reverse sweep of the season. “I am so proud…

The App State women’s cross country team got a preview of the NCAA Southeast Regional course on Saturday as it competed at the USC-Upstate Invitational. The Mountaineers finished 11th overall in the team standings with 268 points. Senior Jasmine Donohue was the first Mountaineer to cross the finish line, clocking a 5K time of 17:42.5…

Western Highlands 1A/2A Conference Draughn: 56 Rosman: 12 Mountain Foothills 7 2A Conference Brevard: 48 Patton: 0 Catawba Valley Athletic 2A Conference Bandys: 34 Newton-Conover: 20 Bunker Hill: 49 Maiden: 9 Lincolnton: 42 East Burke: 14 West Lincoln: 54 West Caldwell: 14 Western Foothills Athletic 3A Conference East Lincoln: 55 St. Stephens: 13 Hickory: 51…

After an evenly matched first half of play, Old Dominion jumped ahead early on in the second half and was able to foil a couple of quality App State chances late, in a 1-0 win for the Monarchs Friday night at the ODU Soccer Complex. The Mountaineers (6-5-3, 3-2-2) battled till the very end, producing…

After forcing a Longwood turnover at midfield, Bridget Donovan handled the ball all the way down into the circle where she dished to Henriette Stegen who slapped a shot into the back of the cage to give App State a 3-0 fourth-quarter lead. Stegen’s fourth-quarter goal was her second of the contest and marked her…

Kathy Peter tallied 19 kills and hit .586 to help the Bears avoid an upset bid at Emory & Henry on Friday night as LR won 3-2. The Bears grabbed wins in the first two sets but the Wasps rallied to force a fifth set that LR won 15-12. The Bears took the first two…

The App State volleyball team swept ULM, 3-0 (25-20, 25-14, 28-26), on Friday at the Holmes Convocation Center. The win marked a second consecutive sweep, following up last Saturday’s sweep of Georgia State, as well as the team’s eighth on the season. App State will return to the court on Saturday at 1 p.m. for…

Western Highlands 1A/2A Conference Ashe County: 3 Draughn: 0 Mountain Foothills 7 2A Conference Hendersonville: 3 Patton: 1 Catawba Valley Athletic 2A Conference Bandys: 3 Bunker Hill: 0 East Burke: 3 West Caldwell: 0 Maiden: 3 Newton-Conover: 0 Non-conference Hickory: 3 Hibriten: 1 Watauga: 3 St. Stephens: 1

Caldwell Community College & Technical Institute’s volleyball team closed out the regular season with a 3-0 victory over Central Carolina Community College on Thursday night. In set one, Caldwell opened the set on a 7-0 run and led 21-10 before closing out the set at 25-18. In the second set, the Cobras led 18-13 and…

Western Foothills Athletic 3A Conference Fred T. Foard: 3 Statesville: 0 St. Stephens: 3 Hickory: 2 Northwestern 3A/4A Conference Ashe County: 3 South Caldwell: 0 Hibriten: 3 Alexander Central: 0 Watauga: 3 Freedom: 0

Western Highlands 1A/2A Conference Madison: 3 Draughn: 1 Mountain Foothills 7 2A Conference Patton: 2 East Rutherford: 0 Catawba Valley Athletic 2A Conference Bunker Hill: 6 West Lincoln: 0 Lincolnton: 5 Bandys: 0 Newton-Conover: 7 East Burke: 0 West Caldwell: 3 Maiden: 0 Western Foothills Athletic 3A Conference Fred T. Foard: 2 Statesville: 0 Hickory:…

Making their first appearance at home in two and a half weeks, the Lenoir-Rhyne Men’s Soccer Team defended their own pitch with a 3-1 victory over Coker. The Bears tallied their best offensive performance at home this season and each goal was recorded by a unique goal scorer. Ivan Rubio netted another mid-week goal in…

The John F. Hall United Way Cross Country Invitational was held Tuesday at Southside Park in Newton. Two local runners finished in the top five of the girls’ invitational – Lexi Matthews of Bandys was second with a time of 21:50 and Marina Zavala-Medina of St.Stephens, 4th, 22:52. Two also in the boys’ race –…

Neve Duston scored a pair of goals in the first half, then LR scored five goals in the second half to roll by Coker 7-0 on Wednesday evening from Moretz Sports Athletic Campus. Elin Hansson scored her 11th goal of the season then Morakane Mokhothu and Anna Grace Sumner scored their first goal of the…

Coastal Carolina’s Kade Hensley kicked a 24-yard field goal with no time remaining as App State suffered a 27-24 loss in a nationally televised Sun Belt Conference showdown Tuesday night at a packed Kidd Brewer Stadium. Two years ago, in a similar situation with App State intentionally stopping short of the end zone to run…

The Lenoir-Rhyne Volleyball Team faced little resistance in a 3-0 sweep of Coker on Tuesday night in Shuford Arena. The Bears won by scores of 25-17, 25-14 and 25-14 and 12 different players saw action in the victory. This win also pushed the Bears home winning streak to seven in a row and completed the…

The National Premier Soccer League (NPSL), the only league designated by USASA as a Tier 1 national league, is proud to announce that Hickory FC (Hickory, NC) has joined the league as an expansion team. The club will begin play in 2024. “We are excited to have Hickory FC as part of the NPSL family,”…

Fifth-year goalkeeper Addie Clark has been named the MAC Defensive Player of the Week after her exceptional performance in the cage against Kent State last Friday. “We are so proud of Addie and her effort this past weekend,” head coach Emily Dinsmore said. “This is not only an honor for her but for our entire…

The South Atlantic Conference announced its WePlayed Sports Women’s Soccer Players of the Week for games played in during the sixth week of the 2023 season. Lenoir-Rhyne’s Elin Hansson was named the Offensive Player of the Week. Hansson, a sophomore from Halmstad, Sweden, collected eight points on the week as she scored three goals, including…

Led by a final-round 73 from Layla Meric, who finished a team-best 13 over through 54 holes, App State Women’s Golf placed 11th among 19 teams at the UNCG Collegiate held at the Grandover West Course. The Mountaineers were tied for sixth place in the 19-team field after the first of three rounds. Jacquelyn Taylor…

Western Foothills Athletic 3A Conference Fred T. Foard: 3 West Iredell: 0 Hickory: 3 North Lincoln: 2 North Iredell: 3 St. Stephens: 0 Northwestern 3A/4A Conference Alexander Central: 3 South Caldwell: 1 Ashe County: 3 Freedom: 0 Watauga: 3 Hibriten: 0

Western Highlands 1A/2A Conference Draughn: 5 Mitchell: 1 Catawba Valley Athletic 2A Conference Bandys: 2 East Burke: 0 Maiden: 3 West Lincoln: 1 Newton-Conover: 5 Lincolnton: 4 West Caldwell: 3 Bunker Hill: 2 Western Foothills Athletic 3A Conference Fred T. Foard: 1 West Iredell: 0 Hickory: 2 North Lincoln: 1 St. Stephens: 2 North Iredell:…

The South Atlantic Conference announced its WePlayed Sports Volleyball Players of the Week for matches played during the sixth week of the 2023 season. Lenoir-Rhyne swept the awards, as Sydney Karjala was voted the Offensive Player of the Week and Kathy Peter was voted the Defensive Player of the Week. Karjala, a freshman from Pinehurst,…

The Sun Belt Conference, in conjunction with ESPN, announced that App State’s road football game at Old Dominion on Oct. 21 has been elevated to appear on the NFL Network with a kickoff time of 7 p.m. Of App State’s first seven games, four will have aired on either ESPN2, the NFL Network, the CBS…

The South Atlantic Conference announced its WePlayed Sports Football Players of the Week for games played during week six of the 2023 season and Lenoir-Rhyne defensive back T.J. Blanding picked up Special Teams Player of the Week honors. Blanding, a senior from Blythewood, S.C., returned a blocked field goal 84 yards for a touchdown and…

Freshman Olivia Simon tallied the sixth hat-trick in Mountaineer program history Sunday, part of a five-goal second half, helping App State to a dominant 5-1 victory over Marshall to remain unbeaten at home. App State (6-4-3, 3-1-2), went into halftime trailing 1-0, but wasted little time flipping the switch. Off a corner kick three minutes…

In a match featuring two teams in the top ten of the National Junior College Athletic Association division three volleyball standings, Sandhills Community College defeated Caldwell Community College & Technical Institute 3-2 Saturday in Pinehurst. Sandhills came into the match ranked ninth, while Caldwell was ranked fifth. The Flyers avenged an earlier lost to Caldwell…

For the first time in the 42 all-time meetings, the Lenoir-Rhyne Bears and the Carson-Newman Eagles played to a 0-0 tie as the two teams battled on Saturday night in Jefferson City. The tie was the Bears fourth of the year but the first scoreless tie. This concludes the Bears four-game road trip as LR…

No. 22 Lenoir-Rhyne Women’s Soccer team moved to 7-0 in SAC play with a 3-0 at Carson-Newman on Saturday afternoon. The win was the Bears 12th straight conference win as LR. Elin Hansson scored her 10th goal of the season then assisted on both Louise Berg’s and Neve Duston’s goals. Ria Acton become just the…

A 20-yard field goal in overtime by freshman Jake Brown capped a thrilling 31-28 walk off victory for Lenoir-Rhyne over Limestone on Saturday afternoon. The back-and-forth contest saw a bunch of game-changing plays in crucial moments by both sides down the stretch but it was the Bears who would come away with a clutch road…

The App State volleyball team swept Georgia State, 3-0 (25-16, 25-22, 25-17), in Saturday’s rematch against the Panthers at the Holmes Convocation Center. “I am so proud of our response today,” said head coach Sarah Rumely Noble. “We executed at a really high level and our serve and pass game was the difference in this…

App State’s upcoming home football game on Tuesday against Coastal Carolina is officially a sellout. Kickoff is 7:30 p.m. for the ESPN2 televised contest. App State has sold out both of its Tuesday/Wednesday home games in the last three seasons. In 2021, a sold-out Kidd Brewer Stadium crowd of 31,061 witnessed a 30-27 App State…

Western Highlands 1A/2A Conference Draughn: 57 Madison: 7 Mountain Foothills 2A Conference R-S Central: 33 Patton: 6 Catawba Valley Athletic 2A Conference Bunker Hill: 28 East Burke: 6 Lincolnton: 49 West Caldwell: 13 Maiden: 14 Bandys: 10 West Lincoln: 26 Newton-Conover: 20 Western Foothills Athletic 3A Conference East Lincoln: 62 Fred T. Foard: 13 Hickory:…

The App State men’s cross country team capped competition at the Royals Cross Country Challenge, hosted by Queens in Charlotte, on Friday. Senior Ben Datte was the first Mountaineer to cross the finish line with an 8K time of 25:47.08, finishing 47th individually. Sophomore Tucker Sangster clocked a time of 25:59.04 to finish 55th. Clocking…

The Lenoir-Rhyne Volleyball Team pushed their winning streak to 13 in a row in the head-to-head series with Limestone thanks to a 3-2 victory over the Saints on Friday night. The teams traded the first four sets before the Bears clinched it with a 15-6 victory in the clinching set. The Bears had 21 blocks…

The App State Mountaineers (8-4, 3-1 MAC) field hockey team picked up a huge conference win on Friday over the Kent State Golden Flashes (3-8, 2-2 MAC), winning in shootout fashion after a hard-fought contest. It took two overtime periods, and all five shootout attempts to decide the contest, but in the end, App State…

The Lenoir-Rhyne Women’s Cross Country Team finished in 11th place out of the 29 teams at the Royals Challenge. The event had a mixture of Division I and II teams as the Bears finished with a team score of 322. The event had Division I teams like Charlotte, Davidson, South Carolina and Wake Forest and…

The App State volleyball team fell short to Georgia State, 3-2 (17-25, 19-25, 25-17, 25-23, 15-12) in Friday’s Pink Day match. Three Mountaineers posted double-digit kills, with fifth year senior McCall Denny recording her 26th career double-double (14 kills, 14 digs). Junior Lulu Ambrose recorded 12 kills as well as her first ace of the…

Mountain Foothills 7 2A Conference Brevard: 3 Patton: 0 Catawba Valley Athletic 2A Conference Bandys: 3 Newton-Conover: 0 East Burke: 3 Lincolnton: 1 Maiden: 3 Bunker Hill: 0 West Lincoln: 3 West Caldwell: 0

Summer Bowman scored her third goal of the season, but South Alabama rallied with a big second half to pull away for a 3-1 victory on Thursday night. Each team generated several first half opportunities with the shots on goal sitting even at three at halftime. The Mountaineers (5-4-3, 2-1-2) however were first onto the…

The Caldwell Community College and Technical Institute volleyball team swept Patrick and Henry Community College on the road, 3-0 Thursday. Set scores were 25-17, 25-13, and 25-10. The Cobras improve to 17-4 overall, 4-0 in Region X, Division 3 play. Caldwell will travel to Sandhills Community College on Saturday for a tri-match. At 11am, the…

Western Foothills Athletic 3A Conference Hickory: 3 East Lincoln: 1 North Iredell: 3 Fred T. Foard: 0 St. Stephens: 3 West Iredell: 0 Northwestern 3A/4A Conference Ashe County: 3 Hibriten: 0 Watauga: 3 Alexander Central: 0

Western Highlands 1A/2A Conference Avery County: 3 Draughn: 0 Mountain Foothills 7 2A Conference Patton: 3 Polk County: 1 Catawba Valley Athletic 2A Conference Bandys: 10 West Lincoln: 1 Lincolnton: 5 Bunker Hill: 3 Maiden: 2 East Burke: 0 Newton-Conover: 3 West Caldwell: 3 Western Foothills Athletic 3A Conference Hickory: 6 East Lincoln: 1 North…

Anna Schuller scored her first collegiate goal in the 10th minute then Elin Hansson scored twice in less then a six minutes span to extended the Bears lead to 3-0 before Vivien Becker Peralta ended the scoring for the Bears as LR scored four times in a 10 minutes span in the first half. The…

The Lenoir-Rhyne Men’s Soccer Team snapped their winless streak at five games on Wednesday thanks to a 4-1 victory over Emory & Henry. It was the best offensive performance of the season for the Bears thanks to their four goals scored by four unique players. LR got off to a blistering start in the opening…

Vice President of Athletics Kim Pate has announced the hiring of Sam Clarke as the head coach of the Men’s and Women’s Tennis programs. Clarke brings four years of collegiate coaching experience and was most recently the assistant coach of Cornell’s women’s tennis program. “I am thrilled to welcome Sam Clarke to our LR Family,”…

The Lenoir-Rhyne Women’s Swimming program was picked to finish fourth in the 2023-23 Preseason All-SAC poll. The Bears ended with 14 total points in the poll results, finishing behind Wingate, Carson-Newman, and Catawba, which had 24, 22, and 16 points, respectively. In addition to the team’s ranking, Ella Penny, Anna Buchert, and Ann-Cathrine Beissel were…

The Lenoir-Rhyne Men’s Golf Team finished in a tie for 8th place this week at the Cateechee Fall Invitational hosted by Lander University. Sam Mace finished in 6th place after a two under par 69 on the final day. The Bears tied the host Lander and SAC foe Limestone with a 855 team total despite…

For a third time this season, App State senior Oliver Wilson-Cook has earned Sun Belt Men’s Cross Country Runner of the Week honors, the league announced Wednesday. Wilson-Cook set pace for the Mountaineers at the Live in Lou Cross Country Classic on Saturday in Louisville, Ky. The Staunton, Va. native finished 35th overall with an…

The Lenoir-Rhyne Volleyball Team earned the season sweep of Newberry with a 3-1 victory inside Shuford Arena on Tuesday night. In their first action in a week, the Bears came out swinging in the first set. Led by four kills each from Emmaleigh Allen and Taylor Osborne, LR grabbed a 1-0 lead with a 25-16…

Caldwell Community College & Technical Institute lost their first home match of the season, falling 3-1 to Region 10 Division II opponent Davidson-Davie Community College Tuesday night in Hudson. Caldwell (16-4) were 8-0 at home entering Tuesday’s match. Davidson-Davie (17-5) avenged a 3-0 home loss to the Cobras from August 26 with the victory. The…

The Lenoir-Rhyne Women’s Golf Team finished in second place at the Patsy Rendleman Invitational hosted by Catawba University. Eve Neild had her best finish of the season as she finished in a tie for 5th place. With the 5th place finish, Neild was named to the all-tournament team. The Bears were ahead of Anderson by…

Led by a ninth-place finish from Herman Huus and a tie for 13th from Addison Beam, App State Men’s Golf finished eighth among 14 teams at the Ironwood Collegiate Classic hosted by East Carolina. The Mountaineers had a 1-under 287 as a team in the final round and finished at 5-over 869 (291-291-287) through 54…

The South Atlantic Conference announced its WePlayed Sports Women’s Soccer Players of the Week for games played in during the fifth week of the 2023 season. Lenoir-Rhyne’s Ria Acton was named the Defensive Player of the Week. Acton, a graduate student from Leicester, England, scored a goal in the upset win over No. 19 North…

Western Foothills Athletic 3A Conference Hickory: 3 Statesville: 0 St. Stephens: 3 Fred T. Foard: 1 Northwestern 3A/4A Conference Ashe County: 3 Alexander Central: 0 Hibriten: 3 Freedom: 0 Watauga: 3 South Caldwell: 0

Western Highlands 1A/2A Conference Owen: 7 Draughn: 0 Mountain Foothills 7 2A Conference Patton: 2 Hendersonville: 0 Catawba Valley Athletic 2A Conference Bandys: 5 Bunker Hill: 2 Newton-Conover: 9 Maiden: 0 West Caldwell: 5 East Burke: 1 Western Foothills Athletic 3A Conference Hickory: 9 Statesville: 0 St. Stephens: 10 Fred T. Foard: 2 Northwestern 3A/4A…

App State’s Nov. 25 home football game against Georgia Southern is officially a sellout. The game, which will serve as App State’s annual “Black Saturday” contest, will include pregame ceremonies to honor the 2023 senior class and a halftime ceremony to retire legendary quarterback Armanti Edwards’ No. 14. App State students will receive information via…

A kicking net and camera operator were unforeseen accessories to Michael Hughes’ award-winning moment. Hughes, who made a 54-yard field goal as time expired in App State’s 41-40 victory at ULM, was named the Sun Belt Conference’s Special Teams Player of the Week. Despite starting their final drive with 1:02 showing on the clock, the…

The South Atlantic Conference announced its WePlayed Sports Football Players of the Week for games played during week five of the 2023 season.  Lenoir-Rhyne running back Dwayne McGee was tabbed as the Offensive Player of the Week. McGee, a junior from Kissimmee, Fla., led the No. 14/15 Bears to a dominating 56-3 win over UVA…

Michael Hughes came up huge at crunch time to lift App State to an improbable Sun Belt win on the road. Hughes’ career-long 54-yard field goal as time expired — the longest game-winning field goal to end a victory in program history — delivered a 41-40 league triumph at ULM late Saturday night. “I’m very…

After being held to just one single shot in the first half, The Lenoir-Rhyne Women’s Soccer team got goals from Evan O’Leary and Kate Casey late in the second half to defeat the Wingate Bulldogs 2-0 on Saturday night. The Bears still have not allowed a goal in their six SAC contests this season. First…

The Lenoir-Rhyne Men’s Soccer Team dropped another conference game to a 2-0 scoreline, this time to Wingate Bulldogs to extend their winless streak to five. The Bulldogs scored a couple of second half goals, while securing the match with a 86th minute winner by Kosi Mafela. Despite the 2-0 score, the shot battle was even…

In another dominant showing, the No. 14/15 Lenoir-Rhyne Football Team thumped UVA Wise 56-3 on a beautiful Saturday afternoon at Moretz Stadium. The Bears scored the first 49 points of the contest to improve to 5-0 overall and 3-0 in league play. It was all LR from the get go as the Bears took the…

Sophomore Sabrina Fleig defeated Anderson’s Kennedy Roush by less then a second to win the SE Region Preview hosted by North Georgia University. The 6k’s race today was a preview of the Southeast Regional Championship in just 35 days on November 4th. Even through Fleig won the individual title, Anderson won the team title as…

The App State volleyball team fought through a tough four sets against Coastal Carolina, who took the match 3-1 (25-21, 25-17, 25-23, 25-17) on Saturday in Conway, S.C. Fifth year senior McCall Denny posted her 25th career double-double with a team-high 14 kills in addition to 11 digs. Redshirt freshman Katie Cruise and senior Sophie…

Off a broken penalty corner in the 11th minute of play on Saturday, Sophia Baxter found fellow freshman Florine Koopman near the post and delivered a great pass that was then swatted into the back of the cage to give the Black & Gold a lead that would stand up in the Mountaineer win on…

The App State men’s and women’s cross country team capped competition at the Live in Lou Cross Country Classic on Saturday, The men’s team finished 10th in the men’s 8K gold race with 302 points, while the women’s team finished 34th in the women’s 5K gold race with 813 points. “We learned a lot today,”…

Western Highlands 1A/2A Conference Draughn: 57 Mitchell: 42 Mountain Foothills 7 2A Conference East Rutherford: 58 Patton: 6 Catawba Valley Athletic 2A Conference Bunker Hill: 21 West Lincoln: 15 Lincolnton: 57 Bandys: 36 Maiden: 51 West Caldwell: 7 Newton-Conover: 34 East Burke: 25 Western Foothills Athletic 3A Conference Hickory: 50 St. Stephens: 7 Statesville: 38…

Less than two minutes into the second half, Izzi Wood delivered a perfectly placed shot into the top right corner of the net, and the Mountaineers defense made the lone goal stand up in a 1-0 victory over Georgia Southern, Friday at The Valley. In front of a season-best crowd – complete with parents, students,…

The App State volleyball team fell to Coastal Carolina in three sets (25-19, 25-13, 25-23) in Conway, S.C. on Friday. The Mountaineers return to the court for their second match against the Chanticleers at 1 p.m. on Saturday in the HTC Center. Live stats will be available and the match will be streamed on ESPN+.…

Just two minutes into the second half of play on Friday, Bridget Donovan took the insert from Florine Koopman off the penalty corner and slapped the ball past the Chippewa goalkeeper to tie things up at one apiece. Donovan’s goal helped spark a string of three unanswered goals scored by the Mountaineers (6-4, 2-1 MAC)…

Western Highlands 1A/2A Conference Draughn: 3 Avery County: 0 Mountain Foothills 7 2A Conference East Rutherford: 3 Patton: 0 Catawba Valley Athletic 2A Conference Bandys: 3 Lincolnton: 1 Bunker Hill: 3 West Lincoln: 2 East Burke: 3 Newton-Conover: 2 Maiden: 3 West Caldwell: 0

Northwestern 3A/4A Conference Alexander Central: 1 South Caldwell: 0 Non-conference Pine Lake Prep: 3 Patton: 0

NASCAR and Speedway Motorsports announced today that the 40th running of the NASCAR All-Star Race will take place at historic North Wilkesboro Speedway as part of a three-day weekend of motorsports entertainment on May 17-19, 2024. The announcement was made in front of the North Carolina Legislative Building in Raleigh as NASCAR President Steve Phelps…

Two unanswered goals by Francis Marion put them past the Lenoir-Rhyne Men’s Soccer Team, who came up just short in the non-conference duel by a score of 2-1. Edorta Cabieces scored both goals for the Patriots, which included the 77th-minute game-winner, to push Francis Marion past Lenoir-Rhyne for the first time since the inaugural meeting…

Western Foothills Athletic 3A Conference St. Stephens: 3 Statesville: 2 Northwestern 3A/4A Conference Alexander Central: 3 Freedom: 0 Hibriten: 3 South Caldwell: 1

Western Highlands 1A/2A Conference Mountain Heritage: 2 Draughn: 1 Mountain Foothills 7 2A Conference Patton: 7 Chase: 0 Catawba Valley Athletic 2A Conference East Burke: 5 West Lincoln: 4 Lincolnton: 9 Maiden: 0 Newton-Conover: 9 Bunker Hill: 1 West Caldwell: 4 Bandys: 2 Western Foothills Athletic 3A Conference Hickory: 5 Fred T. Foard: 0 St.…

In a match-up of division leaders in Region 10, Caldwell Community College & Technical Institute fell in five sets at Spartanburg Methodist College on Wednesday night in Spartanburg, SC. Spartanburg Methodist won the first set 25-20, before Caldwell took sets two (25-23) and three (25-22). The Pioneers dominated sets four (25-12) and five (15-4) to…

The Lenoir-Rhyne Women’s Soccer team upset #19 North Georgia Nighthawks 3-1 inside Moretz Sports Athletic Campus on Wednesday afternoon as the Bears move to 6-0-3 on the season. The Nighthawks suffered their first loss of the season. The Bears have now scored at least three goals in four straight games and six of their last…

Addison Beam and Herman Huus posted top-15 finishes to lead App State Men’s Golf to a 10th-place showing among 16 teams at the J.T. Poston Invitational on Tuesday. Beam, the tournament co-leader after 18 of 54 holes thanks to a 6-under 65 on Monday morning, tied for sixth with a 5-under total (65-69-74—208). He stood…

The Lenoir-Rhyne Women’s Golf Team shot a 310 team score on the final day of the Savannah Lakes Invitational. The Bears finished in 6th place ahead a SAC foes Catawba and Coker as Limestone edged out Wingate for the team title. LR was lead by Eve Neild and Charlotte Colley in the final round as…

The Lenoir-Rhyne Men’s Golf Team finished second at the Jay Jennison Cup on Tuesday afternoon. The Bears finished -17 for the tournament, which was six strokes off the lead as Palm Beach Atlantic took home the team title. After shooting a 285 and a 276 on Monday, the Bears shot a 286 in the final…

App State Wrestling head coach JohnMark Bentley on Tuesday announced a 2023-24 schedule that features a difficult SoCon slate and nonconference dual matches against three opponents with top-10 national rankings, including two that are among the four ACC programs facing the Mountaineers this season. NC State, North Carolina and Cornell are all coming to Boone,…

Western Highlands 1A/2A Conference Owen: 3 Draughn: 2 Mountain Foothills 7 2A Conference Patton: 3 NCSSM-Morganton: 0 Catawba Valley Athletic 2A Conference Bandys: 3 East Burke: 1 Bunker Hill West Caldwell Newton-Conover: 3 Lincolnton: 1 Maiden: 3 West Lincoln: 0

For the first time this season, the Lenoir-Rhyne Volleyball Team came out on the wrong end of a South Atlantic Conference match in a 3-0 defeat at No. 22 Wingate on Tuesday evening. The match wraps up a tough stretch that saw LR play in five games in a week. The first set was a…

Western Foothills Athletic 3A Conference Fred T. Foard: 3 North Lincoln: 1 Hickory: 3 West Iredell: 0 St. Stephens: 3 East Lincoln: 1 Northwestern 3A/4A Conference Ashe County: 3 South Caldwell: 0 Hibriten: 3 Alexander Central: 0 Watauga: 3 Freedom: 0

Western Highlands 1A/2A Conference NCSSM-Morganton: 3 Draughn: 0 Mountain Foothills 7 2A Conference Patton: 3 Brevard: 2 Catawba Valley Athletic 2A Conference Bandys: 3 Newton-Conover: 1 Bunker Hill: 2 Maiden: 1 West Caldwell: 7 West Lincoln: 0 Western Foothills Athletic 3A Conference Fred T. Foard: 3 North Lincoln: 2 Hickory: 6 West Iredell: 0 St.…

App State Wrestling has hired Hunter Richard as an assistant coach, head coach JohnMark Bentley announced Monday. Richard was a two-time NCAA qualifier for a top-10 program at Cornell, with a top-16 finish as a fifth-year senior at 157 pounds to cap the 2021-22 season. He won three matches at the NCAA Championships that year…

The South Atlantic Conference announced its WePlayed Sports Volleyball Players of the Week for matches played during the fourth week of the 2023 season. Lenoir-Rhyne swept the awards as Emmaleigh Allen was named the Offensive Player of the Week and Kathy Peter was named the Defensive Player of the Week. Allen, a sophomore from Wooster,…

Trailing by a goal in the final 90 seconds of regulation, Summer Bowman drilled a shot towards the James Madison goal. While the initial effort went ringing off the crossbar, the ball bounced right back to Bowman who headed it home, to help the Mountaineers pull out a 1-1 draw against the Dukes, Sunday at…

Fifth-year goalkeeper Addie Clark notched a season-high 10 saves on the day as the App State Mountaineers (5-4, 1-1 MAC) fell to the No. 2 North Carolina Tar Heels (7-1, 2-0 ACC) 6-1 on Sunday. A strong second half by the Mountaineers was the story of today as head coach Emily Dinsmore’s squad beat the…

The Lenoir-Rhyne Women’s Triathlon Team finished in first place at the Giant Acorn event to record their second event victory of the season. The combined efforts from the Bears were good enough to surpass Queens and ETSU thanks to four LR triathletes finishing in the Top 10. Sabrina Fleig had the best individual finish amongst…

App State cornerback Tyrek Funderburk’s 17-yard interception return for a touchdown following four first-half field goals from Michael Hughes extended App State’s fourth-quarter lead to a two-score margin, but Wyoming returned a blocked field goal for a go-ahead touchdown with 1:52 left and intercepted a pass at the Cowboys’ 6-yard line with 12 seconds left…

For the second time in as many home conference matchups, the Lenoir-Rhyne Men’s Soccer Team found a last-minute goal to get a more favorable result. This time around, it was Raul Cañas who converted on his first collegiate goal to give the Bears a 2-2 draw to Mars Hill. The freshman midfielder who came on…

In non-conference action, the Lenoir-Rhyne Volleyball Team split a pair of games on Saturday afternoon in a tri-match hosted by North Greenville. The Bears earned a 3-1 win over Francis Marion before falling by the same score to the host Crusaders. Against Francis Marion, Lenoir-Rhyne jumped out to an early start, taking the first set…

Aly Ramsey scored two goals in a ten minute span in the first half to pace the Lenoir-Rhyne women’s soccer team to a victory over Mars Hill on Saturday afternoon inside Moretz Sports Athletic Campus, 4-0. Skylar Noll added a goal right before halftime and Elin Hansson scored in the second half to extend her…

The App State volleyball team fell, 3-1 (25-16, 15-25, 25-15, 25-23), in its second duel with the James Madison Dukes on Saturday in Boone. “I am so proud of our team,” said head coach Sarah Rumely Noble. “We competed incredibly hard against a team receiving votes in the top-25. Our mentality and our fight always…

For the 11th time in the last 12 head-to-head matchups, the No. 15/17 Lenoir-Rhyne Football Team defeated Carson-Newman, 24-7. On a warm and sunny afternoon, the Bears held Carson-Newman scoreless on their final nine drives to move to 4-0 for the fourth time since 1970 and just the 13th time in program history. In his…

Western Highlands 1A/2A Conference Draughn: 49 Avery County: 7 Catawba Valley Athletic 2A Conference Bandys: 48 East Burke: 30 Bunker Hill: 56 West Caldwell: 7 Lincolnton: 22 Newton-Conover: 21 West Lincoln: 33 Maiden: 19 Western Foothills Athletic 3A Conference West Iredell: 34 Fred T. Foard: 7 Hickory: 43 North Lincoln: 14 North Iredell: 27 St.…

The App State volleyball team opened Sun Belt Conference action on Friday, falling to JMU in four sets (3-1 (25-22, 25-21, 19-25, 25-21)). Fifth-year senior McCall Denny posted a team-high 12 kills in addition to 13 digs, recording her 22nd career double-double and fifth of the 2023 campaign. Sophomore Maya Winterhoff totaled seven blocks (one…

Lenoir-Rhyne was pushed to the limit by an upset-minded Catawba squad but the Bears would win 3-1 and became the final unbeaten team in SAC play as Anderson beat Wingate later in the evening. All three of the Bears wins came by scoring more than 25 as the Bears earned wins by counts of 26-24,…

Bridget Donovan notched the first goal of her sophomore season in the fourth quarter on Friday, but the App State Mountaineers (5-3, 1-1 MAC) fell 4-1 to the Miami RedHawks (6-3, 2-0 MAC) on Friday at Brandon & Erica M. Adcock Field. The Mountaineer defense held the RedHawks to just 10 shots in the contest,…

The Hickory Crawdads have announced the start times for their 66 home games next season. Tuesday through Saturday games will begin at 7pm while Sundays will have a 2pm first pitch. Mondays are a league-wide off day throughout the season, apart from Memorial Day in Winston-Salem and a July 1st home game, which will start…

Western Foothills Athletic 3A Conference Fred T. Foard: 3 East Lincoln: 0 North Iredell: 3 Hickory: 0 St. Stephens: 3 North Lincoln: 1 Northwestern 3A/4A Conference Alexander Central: 3 South Caldwell: 0 Ashe County: 3 Freedom: 0 Watauga: 3 Hibriten: 0

Mountain Foothills 7 2A Conference Patton: 1 R-S Central: 0 Catawba Valley Athletic 2A Conference Bandys: 5 Maiden: 1 Bunker Hill: 2 East Burke: 1 Lincolnton: 1 West Caldwell: 0 Newton-Conover: 9 West Lincoln: 0 Western Foothills Athletic 3A Conference Fred T. Foard: 2 East Lincoln: 1 Hickory: 5 North Iredell: 0 St. Stephens: 4 North…

Colton Eliasen buried his first collegiate goal in the 88th minute to give the Lenoir-Rhyne Men’s Soccer Team the late equalizer to bring the match to its 1-1 final. After nearly 80 minutes of play, Anderson’s Mariano Carpena broke the scoreless draw with a header at the back post. However, looking to avoid their second…

A record-setting save and a dramatic finish headlined the Mountaineers 1-1 draw against Coastal Carolina, Wednesday, culminating with App State earning a point on the road in Sun Belt play. Despite trailing for the majority of the match, the Mountaineers pressed on the accelerator late in regulation, creating turnovers with their pressure, and ultimately after…

A trio of Bears got their first career goals as Ella Garner, Tea Sabin, and Aly Ramsey all scored and Elin Hansson added a goal for a fourth straight game as the Bears cruised to a 4-0 victory at Anderson. LR has outscored their opponents 10-0 in their first three SAC contest as the Bears…

Minor League Baseball announced the league awards and All-Star teams for the South Atlantic League on Wednesday afternoon, with the ‘Dads being honored with several selections. Abimelec Ortiz was not only named the first base All-Star, but also the league’s MVP, Chad Comer was selected Manager of the Year, and Josh Stephan was named an…

App State senior Oliver Wilson-Cook earned Sun Belt Conference Men’s Cross Country Runner of the Week honors for a second time this season, the league announced on Wednesday. Wilson-Cook clocked an 8K time of 24:23.73 to finish fifth individually at the Covered Bridge Open on Sept. 15. He nearly matched his personal best of 24:23.1,…

Mountain Foothills 7 2A Conference Hendersonville: 3 Patton: 0 Catawba Valley Athletic 2A Conference Bandys: 3 Bunker Hill: 0 East Burke: 3 West Caldwell: 0 Maiden: 3 Newton-Conover: 0

Lenoir-Rhyne will add eight members and one team to its Sports Hall of Fame as the class of 2023 is set to be inducted on Saturday, September 30 at 10:30 a.m. in P.E. Monroe Auditorium. Tommy Deal, Fred Goldsmith, Rex Harrison, Elizabeth Hawes, Larry Lentz, Roger Maxey, Kat Rivers, Marcus Shuford and the 1960 NAIA…

The Bears move to 4-0 with an intense 3-1 victory over Anderson in a loud Shuford Arena on Tuesday night. The Bears dropped the first set but rattled off three straight victories to grab their fourth straight win. Cheyenne Clonch led the way with a career-high 14 kills and hit .458 in the win. The…

Caldwell Community College & Technical Institute’s volleyball team won their 13th match in row, defeating Patrick & Henry Community College 3-0 Tuesday night in Hudson. Cobras (15-2 overall, 3-0 Region 10 Division 3), won in straight sets for the tenth time this season, taking set one 25-20 and winning sets two and three by a…

The Hickory Motor Speedway 2023 NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Weekly Series would close out their regular season Saturday night in front of a capacity crowd with the running of the 2nd Annual Championship Night presented by the Catawba County United Way. The Renegades would lead off the evening’s festivities with their 20 lap feature. Brian…

Colin Browning compiled two even-par rounds around a 2-under 70 to post a 2-under total of 214 and tie for 33rd place as the top performer from App State Men’s Golf at the VCU Shootout. The Mountaineers placed 15th with a 290-292-307—889 total as Liberty beat James Madison in a sudden-death playoff to capture team…

Highlighted by a second-round team score of 295 at the Elon Invitational — matching the best round App State Women’s Golf had posted in the previous three seasons — the Mountaineers concluded their first fall event under the direction of head coach Brittany Dabule on Tuesday. App State placed 10th in the 15-team field at…

Western Foothills Athletic 3A Conference Fred T. Foard: 3 Statesville: 0 Hickory: 3 St. Stephens: 2 Northwestern 3A/4A Conference Ashe County: 3 Hibriten: 0 South Caldwell: 3 Freedom: 0 Watauga: 3 Alexander Central: 0 Non-conference Kings Mountain: 3 Maiden: 0

Western Highlands 1A/2A Conference Madison: 5 Draughn: 3 Mountain Foothills 7 2A Conference Patton: 9 East Rutherford: 0 Catawba Valley Athletic 2A Conference Lincolnton: 5 Bandys: 3 Newton-Conover: 10 East Burke: 1 West Caldwell: 5 Maiden: 0 Western Foothills Athletic 3A Conference Fred T. Foard: 1 Statesville: 0 Hickory: 2 St. Stephens: 0 Non-conference Hibriten:…

The South Atlantic Conference announced its WePlayed Sports Volleyball Players of the Week for matches played during the third week of the 2023 season. Lenoir-Rhyne’s Emmaleigh Allen was named the Offensive Player of the Week. Allen, a sophomore from Wooster, Ohio, led the Bears to a 3-0 week with 45 total kills, including 36 in…

The South Atlantic Conference announced its WePlayed Sports Football Players of the Week for games played during week three of the 2023 season. Lenoir-Rhyne return man DeAree Rogers picked up Special Teams Player of the Week honors. Rogers, a freshman from Lexington, S.C., broke two program records in the Bears’ 62-0 win over Erskine, while…

The Lenoir-Rhyne Women’s Soccer team got a first half goal from Elin Hansson and then Kara Gavaghan and Evan O’Leary each scored in a 1:59 minute span to defeat Limestone 3-0 on Sunday afternoon from Gaffney, S.C. The Bears remain without a loss through their first six games of the season. Hansson scored a first…

For the fifth time this season, the App State defense held an opponent scoreless, while Izzi Wood’s second half goal provided all the offense the Mountaineers would need in a 1-0 victory over Troy in their Sun Belt Conference opener. App State (4-3-1, 1-0-0), dominated possession throughout the match, holding a 58 percent to 42…

It was all Lenoir-Rhyne as the special teams and defense combined for 35 of the 49 first half points in a blowout win over Erskine on Saturday night, 62-0. DeAree Rogers tied a Lenoir-Rhyne record with two punt returns for touchdowns, both coming in the first half, and already broke Kyle Dugger’s season record for…

A record-tying crowd for the long-awaited return of an in-state rival. And a satisfying, bounce-back result to boot. Facing East Carolina in Boone for the first time since 1979, App State pulled away in the second half to claim a 43-28 victory against the Pirates with a crowd of 40,168 rocking Kidd Brewer Stadium on…

The Lenoir-Rhyne Men’s Soccer Team came up short on the road with a 2-0 defeat to Limestone, giving the Bears their first conference loss of the season. The Saints used a couple of late-half goals to hold off the Bears. In the first half, Claudel N’Goubou scored a penalty kick in the 43rd minute while…

For the third year in a row, the Lenoir-Rhyne Volleyball team has started SAC play winning their first three matches as the Bears move to 3-0 in the SAC with a four set win (3-1) over Mars Hill on Saturday. Sydney Karjala set a career high with 47 assists as the trio of Emmaleigh Allen,…

Western Highlands 1A/2A Conference Draughn: 38 Owen: 0 Mountain Foothills 7 2A Conference Polk County: 57 Patton: 12 Catawba Valley Athletic 2A Conference Bunker Hill: 45 Lincolnton: 37 Maiden: 36 East Burke: 22 Newton-Conover: 47 West Caldwell: 14 West Lincoln: 36 Bandys: 28 Western Foothills Athletic 3A Conference Hickory: 49 East Lincoln: 28 North Iredell:…

In a match-up featuring two nationally ranked teams, Caldwell Community College & Technical Insitute’s volleyball team won 3-0 in straight sets over Sandhills Community College Friday afternoon on the CCC&TI campus in Hudson. Caldwell won 25-21, 25-18, and 25-21 to win their 12th match in a row.  The Cobras came into Friday’s match ranked 13th…

The App State volleyball team fell to Wake Forest in a hard-fought five sets, 3-2 (25-17, 21-25, 27-25, 20-25, 12-15), closing out competition at the Davidson Tournament on Friday. Sophomore Maya Winterhoff posted a career and team high 19 kills and a hitting percentage of .621 against the Demon Deacons. Winterhoff also totaled seven blocks…

After drawing a penalty corner in the 20th minute of play on Friday, Florine Koopman inserted the ball to Sarah Perkins who dropped a pass off to Charlotte Bosma who slapped the ball past the Bellarmine defense to notch her second goal of the day and lead the App State Mountaineers (5-2, 1-0 MAC) to…

The App State men’s cross country team placed second with 51 points while the women’s team placed fourth with 127 points at the Covered Bridge Open in Boone on Friday. Senior Oliver Wilson-Cook led the charge for the Mountaineers in the men’s 8K, while fellow senior Jasmine Donohue set pace for the Mountaineers in the…

Mountain Foothills 7 2A Conference Patton: 3 Chase: 1 Catawba Valley Athletic 2A Conference Bandys: 3 West Caldwell: 0 East Burke: 3 West Lincoln: 2 Maiden: 3 Lincolnton: 1 Non-conference Fred T. Foard: 3 Alexander Central: 1

The Hickory Crawdads season came to a close on Thursday night as they lost Game 2 to the Greenville Drive by a score of 6-3. The Crawdads jumped on the Drive early, getting a run in the first inning. Alejandro Osuna doubled into the left field corner and came home on a base hit by…

The App State volleyball team fell short to Davidson, 3-1 (18-25, 25-23, 18-12, 20-25), on Thursday. The Mountaineers currently stand 9-1 (0-0 SBC) on the season. Fifth year senior McCall Denny and freshman Delanie Grevengoed each posted 12 kills on the night. Grevengoed was one kill away from matching her single-match career high,13, which was…

The Lenoir-Rhyne Volleyball Team erased a 2-1 deficit to come back and defeat UNC Pembroke 3-2 on Thursday night in their second road contest in three days. The Bears were paced by a double-double from Emmaleigh Allen with 19 kills and 12 digs and a career high 44 assists from Sydney Karjala. The Bears won…

A pair of failed clear attempts were costly for the Mountaineers on Thursday night in Lynchburg, as Liberty was able to capitalize on the miscues and deal App State a 2-0 loss at Osborne Stadium. Playing without defender Skyler Walk for the first time in her career, as a result of a pair of yellow…

Western Highlands 1A/2A Conference Rosman: 3 Draughn: 0 Western Foothills Athletic 3A Conference Hickory: 3 North Lincoln: 0 North Iredell: 3 St. Stephens: 0 West Iredell: 3 Fred T. Foard: 0 Northwestern 3A/4A Conference Ashe County: 3 Alexander Central: 0 Hibriten: 3 Freedom: 0 Watauga: 3 South Caldwell: 0

Catawba Valley Athletic 2A Conference Bandys: 7 East Burke: 1 Maiden: 4 West Lincoln: 2 West Caldwell: 3 Bunker Hill: 1 Western Foothills Athletic 3A Conference West Iredell: 2 Fred T. Foard: 1 Hickory: 2 North Lincoln: 0 St. Stephens: 2 North Iredell: 1 Non-conference Alexander Central: 0 South Iredell: 0 Hibriten: 1 Patton: 1

In a rematch of the 2021 Elite 8 contest, the Lenoir-Rhyne Women’s Soccer team played to a 1-1 tie thanks to a goal in the 85th minute from Florida Tech. Elin Hansson scored the Bears lone goal in the 15th minute as the Bears remain unbeaten. The Bears will return to SAC play on Sunday…

Caldwell Community College & Technical Insititute won their eleventh match of the season and the first in Region 10 Division 3 play, defeating Central Carolina Community College in straight sets Tuesday night in Sanford, NC. Set scores were 25-14, 25-14, 25-21. The Cobras were led in kills by Laney Craig with 14 and Catherine Pate…

Western Highlands 1A/2A Conference Draughn: 3 Madison: 2 Mountain Foothills 7 2A Conference Brevard: 3 Patton: 0 Catawba Valley Athletic 2A Conference Bandys: 3 Newton-Conover: 1 East Burke: 3 Lincolnton: 1 Maiden: 3 Bunker Hill: 0 West Lincoln: 3 West Caldwell: 0

The Hickory Crawdads fell 3-2 in a close Game 1 of the Southern Divisional Series against the Greenville Drive. The Crawdads struck first with a run in the second inning. Cody Freeman walked and moved to second on a ground out by Daniel Mateo. Yosy Galan singled to left, bringing in Freeman standing up as…

The Lenoir-Rhyne Volleyball Team used a balanced attack to defeat Newberry 3-0 on Tuesday evening. The win moves the Bears to 2-0 in league play as the quartet of Kathy Peter, Aasia McNeill, Emmaleigh Allen and Taylor Osborne all had at least seven kills.. Aasia McNeill paced the Bears with 12 kills and added five…

Sean Finan shot a 69 on Tuesday in round 3 to finish one shot off the lead as the Lenoir-Rhyne Men’s Golf Team opened their 2023-24 season with an 8th place finish at the Bearcat Fall Invitational. The Bears had the best finish among SAC teams as LR finished right ahead of Lincoln Memorial and…

The Lenoir-Rhyne Women’s Golf team opened the 2023-24 season with an 8th place finish at the Meredith Insurance Fall Kickoff in Greenwood, S.C. The Bears shot a 319 as a team on the final day for a total of 932 over the three rounds. LR tied USC Beaufort for eighth place. Anderson took home the…

The South Atlantic Conference announced its WePlayed Sports Women’s Soccer Players of the Week for games played in during the second week of the 2023 season.and Lenoir-Rhyne’s Ria Acton was voted the Defensive Player of the Week. Acton, a graduate student from Leicester, England, was a huge part of the defense that kept Lees-McRae (3-0)…

The South Atlantic Conference announced its WePlayed Sports Men’s Soccer Players of the Week for games played in during the second week of the 2023 season. Lenoir-Rhyne’s Juan Basabe was named the Defensive Player of the Week. Basabe, a graduate student from Durango, Spain, recorded his first clean sheet of the season in the conference…

App State has named Drew Jacobs as its new Associate AD for Facilities & Event Management. Jacobs will oversee the facilities and event management unit while serving as a member of the department’s administrative leadership team. He will manage all aspects of capital projects for App State Athletics. “I’m very excited to be a part…

Western Foothills Athletic 3A Conference East Lincoln: 3 Hickory: 1 North Iredell: 3 Fred T. Foard: 2 St. Stephens: 3 West Iredell: 0 Non-conference Freedom: 3 Patton: 1 Hibriten: 3 East Burke: 0

Western Highlands 1A/2A Conference Avery County: 4 Draughn: 0 Mountain Foothills 7 2A Conference Patton: 4 Polk County: 3 Catawba Valley Athletic 2A Conference Bandys: 8 West Lincoln: 1 Lincolnton: 9 Bunker Hill: 0 Newton-Conover: 4 West Caldwell: 2 Western Foothills Athletic 3A Confernece Hickory: 4 East Lincoln: 0 North Iredell: 3 Fred T. Foard:…

Caldwell Community College & Technical Institutes’ volleyball team achieved the program’s first-ever national ranking when the National Junior College Athletic Association released their rankings for the week of September 11, 2023. Caldwell was ranked 13th in the NJCAA Division III poll. The Cobras (12-2) will host the fifth ranked and defending Region 10 Division III…

Caldwell Community College volleyball ran their winning streak to ten games, defeating Johnson & Wales University three sets to one in Charlotte on Saturday afternoon. Laney Craig led three Cobras who had double digit kills. Craig finished with 13, while Catherine Pate had 11 and Greenleigh Gleason had 10. Defensively, Emily Ramirez had 21digs and…

The  Hickory Crawdads bats were hot in Sunday’s regular season finale, defeating the Winston-Salem Dash 14-6. Winston-Salem put up a run in the top of the first with a solo homer. The ‘Dads were quick to respond, scoring 7 in the bottom of the inning. Alejandro Osuna walked to start the inning and stole second.…

A pair of free kick goals in the opening half for the home team were too much for the App State women’s soccer team to overcome on Sunday, as they dropped a non-conference matchup to Radford, 3-1, at Cupp Stadium. Five minutes into play the Mountaineers served a ball into the box which slipped through…

Despite a career day on the defensive side for junior goalkeeper Claire Grenis, the App State field hockey team (4-2) fell to the No. 17 Wake Forest Demon Deacons (3-2) on Sunday 3-0. Grenis saved a career high six shots on Sunday in just her second career start. The Mountaineers had another excellent showing on…

Another App State-North Carolina showdown. Another sold-out thriller going down to the final seconds — and, in this case, being decided with the clock no longer needed. After the Mountaineers and 17th-ranked Tar Heels traded scores to begin overtime Saturday night, UNC opened the second overtime with a touchdown and made a defensive stop to…

For the second straight game this week, the Lenoir-Rhyne Women’s Soccer team scored three goals and held their opponents scoreless as the Bears opened SAC play with a 3-0 win over Tusculum on a rainy evening inside Moretz Sports Athletic Campus. The Bears had to wait almost two hours after the scheduled kick-off but LR…

It appeared as if the Lenoir-Rhyne and Tusculum Men’s Soccer Teams were heading towards a conference-opening draw. Until it wasn’t. In the 90th minute, Harri Rowe sent a pass over the Pioneers backline to Adrian Martina, who placed a header right past the outstretched hand of Tusculum’s Nicolas Leite to give the Bears their first…

In their second competition of the 2023 season, the Lenoir-Rhyne Women’s Triathlon Team finished in third place at the Duquesne University Invitational/Beaver County Tri Cup with 69 points. Queens took home first place as a team with a 20-point performance while Wingate was the top Division II score with a 51-point second-place finish. For individual…

The Lenoir-Rhyne Football Team hit the road for the first time this season and came away with an impressive 24-10 victory over Fayetteville State on Saturday evening. In a game that was delayed 85 minutes by weather, the Bears forced three first half turnovers and converted them into 21 points offensively to set the tone.…

In the finale of the USC Aiken weekend tournament, the Lenoir-Rhyne Volleyball Team dropped a three-setter against Augusta on Saturday afternoon. This was a rematch of the 2021 NCAA Southeast Regional Final. Aasia McNeill was the offensive leader for LR, leading the Bears with eight kills and a .222 hitting percentage. McNeill added eight digs.…

The Lenoir-Rhyne Women’s and Men’s Cross Country Teams opened their 2023 season Saturday morning with the SAC Preview at Southside Park in Newton, N.C. Southside Park is the host of the 2023 SAC Championship in just 42 days on October 21. Wingate, Carson-Newman and Newberry joined the Bears to open the season with a preview…

Saturday evening’s contest against the Winston-Salem Dash has been cancelled due to storms in the area. The game will not be made up. Tickets from Saturday evening’s game can be exchanged for Sunday’s regular season finale, any of the playoffs home games, or a game in April/May of 2024. The Crawdads took the division lead…

The App State volleyball team swept UNC Greensboro in the final match of the Black & Gold Tournament on Saturday at the Holmes Convocation Center in Boone, 3-0. Saturday’s win marks the sixth sweep for the Mountaineers this season, as the team has gone 9-0 (0-0 SBC) so far during the 2023 campaign. The program…

Deep into the overtime period, senior Leah Hurwitz inserted the ball into the circle for freshman Kassie Paul who turned and slapped a shot past the JMU goalkeeper to record her first career goal and give the App State Mountaineers (4-1) a 2-1 overtime victory over the James Madison Dukes (2-3) on Friday. Freshmen and…

Non-conference Bandys: 45 South Caldwell: 14 Bunker Hill: 45 Hickory Hawks: 6 Burns: 50 Alexander Central: 7 Draughn: 35 Chase: 25 Freedom: 56 Patton: 6 Hickory: 35 Cox Mill: 15 Maiden: 50 St. Stephens: 19 South Point: 20 Hibriten: 7

The Hickory Crawdads won both of Friday’s matchups, but it was the first victory that sent the stadium in a frenzy as the ‘Dads clinched the Second Half Division Title and a trip to the postseason. Last night’s suspended game resumed in the bottom of the third with the Crawdads leading 6-0. Ben Anderson took…

In the opener of the USC Aiken weekend tournament, the Lenoir-Rhyne Volleyball Team split a pair of 3-0 decisions on the afternoon. Final Match One: Lenoir-Rhyne 3, Belmont Abbey 0 Final Match Two: USC Aiken 3, Lenoir-Rhyne 0 Records: Lenoir-Rhyne (5-2), Belmont Abbey (0-6), USC Aiken (4-2) Location: Convocation Center It was smooth sailing in…

The App State volleyball team registered its eighth consecutive win and fifth sweep of the season on Friday, defeating USC-Upstate, 3-0, on the second day of play at the Black & Gold Invitational in Boone. The Mountaineers saw a crowd of 976 for its Education Day match. Junior Lulu Ambrose posted a team-high seven kills,…

Western Highlands 1A/2A Conference Draughn: 3 Mitchell: 0 Mountian Foothills 7 2A Conference Patton: 3 R-S Central: 1 Catawba Valley Athletic 2A Conference East Burke: 3 Bunker Hill: 0 Lincolnton: 3 West Caldwell: 0 Maiden: 3 Bandys: 1 West Lincoln: 3 Newton-Conover: 0 Western Foothills Athletic 3A Conference Fred T. Foard: 3 St. Stephens: 1…

Non-conference Bandys: 1 Forest Hills: 1 Hough: 2 Hibriten: 0 Statesville: 2 Maiden: 0 St. Stephens: 1 West Caldwell: 1

The App State volleyball team opened action at the Black & Gold Invitational with a 3-2 (21-25, 26-24, 25-14, 23-25, 16-14) victory over North Carolina A&T on Thursday, marking its third consecutive five-set thriller and seventh consecutive victory on the season. Junior Lulu Ambrose recorded a team-high 15 kills on the evening. Fifth-year senior McCall…

Caldwell Community College & Technical Institute’ volleyball team made quick work of visiting USC-Union Thursday, winning in straight sets 3-0 to pick up their ninth win in a row. Caldwell never trailed in sets one and three and only briefly trailed USC-Union 1-0 in set two as the Cobras won in straight sets for the…

Thursday’s soccer match between App State and Western Carolina was canceled due to persistent inclement weather at the Catamount Athletic Complex and surrounding areas. Approximately 35 minutes prior to the scheduled start time of 7 p.m., lightning was detected in the area, and despite the teams waiting until 9 p.m., match officials were unable to…

The Hickory Crawdads pulled ahead 6-0 through two and a half innings but a storm passed through the area, ultimately suspending the game. The game will be resumed Friday at 5:30pm. Following the conclusion of the suspended game, the teams will play the originally scheduled game as a seven-inning contest. The second game will begin…

Non-conference Alexander Central: 3 Bunker Hill: 1 Hibriten: 3 West Caldwell: 0 St. Stephens: 3 South Caldwell: 0 Watauga: 3 Hickory: 2

Western Highlands 1A/2A Conference Owen: 5 Draughn: 0 Non-conference Charlotte Catholic: 3 Hickory: 2 Freedom: 2 West Henderson: 2 Patton: 1 West Caldwell: 1

The Hickory Crawdads came out on top of a back-and-forth game, taking down the Winston-Salem Dash 7-6. Winston-Salem hit solo homeruns in the first and second innings to take a 2-0 lead. The ‘Dads tied the game in the third inning. Cooper Johnson started the frame with a walk and Alejandro Osuna homered to right,…

In the first home match of the Carlos Rubio era, the Lenoir-Rhyne Men’s Soccer Team fell just short to No. 24 ranked Nova Southeastern by the score of 1-0. The difference maker in the match was Nova Southeastern’s Kevin Rubaszeski. The junior forward buried the only goal of the match in the 19th minute, which…

After playing to a draw in their first two games of the year, The Lenoir-Rhyne Women’s Soccer Team broke through for their first victory of the year with a 3-0 win over visiting Lees-McRae inside the Moretz Sports Athletic Campus Wednesday evening. Kara Gavaghan, Ria Acton and Alexis Cagno all scored for the Bears. LR…

Emily Ramirez was selected as the NJCAA Division III Volleyball Defensive Player of the Week for August 28-September 3. She becomes the first student-athlete in program history to be honored for a national player of the week award. Ramirez, a freshman libero from Crumpler, NC (Ashe County High School), recorded 67 digs in 15 sets…

The Hickory Crawdads are excited to announce their 2024 game schedule. The team will start the season on Friday, April 5th in Rome and will return to Hickory for the home opener on Tuesday, April 9th against the Jersey Shore BlueClaws. The ‘Dads will play 132 games next season, 66 on the road and 66…

App State senior Oliver Wilson-Cook snagged the 2023 campaign’s first Sun Belt Conference Men’s Cross Country Runner of the Week honor, the league announced on Wednesday. Wilson-Cook earned the honor after clocking an 8K time of 24:28.4 to place seventh individually at the Firetower Project Run in Boone, N.C. on Sept. 1. He also helped…

Caldwell Community College volleyball defeated Guilford Tech on the road Tuesday night, 3-0. Set scores were 25-23, 25-11, and 25-15. Fred T. Foard grad Laney Craig had a 0.469 hitting percentage with 15 kills on 32 attempts and no errors.  Greenleigh Gleason also had seven kills.  Defensively, Emily Ramirez had 17 digs while Josie Chappell recorded…

Western Highlands 1A/2A Conference Draughn: 3 Avery County: 0 Mountain Foothills 7 2A Conference East Rutherford: 3 Patton: 2 Catawba Valley Athletic 2A Conference Bandys: 3 Lincolnton: 0 Maiden: 3 West Caldwell: 0 Newton-Conover: 3 East Burke: 0 West Lincoln: 3 Bunker Hill: 0 Western Foothills Athletic 3A Conference Hickory: 3 Fred T. Foard: 0…

Non-conference Alexander Central: 9 West Wilkes: 0 Enka: 4 Fred T. Foard: 1 Owen: 3 Newton-Conover: 0 South Caldwell: 5 Statesville: 1 St. Stephens: 8 Maiden: 0

The Hickory Crawdads defeated the Winston-Salem Dash 4-3 on Tuesday night in the series opener. The Dash got a run across in the first but the ‘Dads rallied to tie it in the second. Daniel Mateo doubled down the right field line. He stole third, his 28th steal of the year, and a throwing error…

The Hickory Crawdads scored early and often and the pitching staff held Greensboro to only four hits in a 9-0 win on the road against the Grasshoppers Sunday. It was a complete flip of the script from Saturday’s game that Greensboro won 8-1 and the Crawdads offense was held to only four hits. Wyatt Langford…

Graduate Student Adrian Martina is already living up to his Preseason First Team All-SAC status. The forward converted a penalty in the 74th minute to complete his multi-goal performance and kick off the Carlos Rubio era with a 2-2 tie on the road against Young Harris. It was a strong start for the Bears, who…

Off the insert by Florine Koopman into the circle deep into the fourth quarter, junior Jillian Orcutt saw an opportunity to score at the back post and took the pass and fired the ball past the Davidson goalkeeper to give App State (3-1) a lead that would decide Sunday’s contest as App won 1-0. Orcutt…

With a 2-0 lead and seven minutes to play, Aimee Haywood subbed out her top two goal scorers in Izzi Wood and Stephanie Barbosa. Less than 20 seconds later, the Mountaineers offense found twine anyway, with Reagan Sturgill scoring her first career goal to seal a 3-0 win over FGCU, Sunday at The Valley. Wood…

The Lenoir-Rhyne Football Team dominated St. Augustine’s to open the 2023 season on a perfect Saturday night at Moretz Stadium, winning 45-7. The Bear defense suffocated the Falcons and held SAU to three first downs and two rushing yards on 27 attempts. The Bears scored the first 28 points of the game and never looked…

The Hickory Crawdads fell to the Greensboro Grasshoppers 8-1 Saturday night in Greensboro. The Crawdads offense was held to only four hits on the night. Yosy Galan homered in his second straight game, giving Hickory their only run of the contest. With the loss, Hickory falls to 37-21 on the second half of the season.…

Saturday night at Hickory Motor Speedway, the annual Bobby Isaac Memorial was held with Kade Brown winning the special 150-lap late model event. Landon D. Huffman won the limiteds. Gary Ledbetter won the street stocks, Ashley Huffman won the super trucks and Jordan Black won the Carolina Pro Late Model series race at Hickory Motor…

With the reset button hit, App State Football opened the 2023 season by rallying in the second half and winning in front of a big crowd at The Rock, 45-24 over Gardner-Webb. Showcasing valuable depth, newcomers and non-starters delivered some of the biggest plays during the 45-24 victory against Gardner-Webb in front of 36,075 fans…

The App State volleyball team closed out competition at the ECU Tournament with a thrilling five-set victory over East Carolina, 3-2 (25-23, 18-25, 19-25, 27-25, 15-13). The Mountaineers are now 6-0 on the season following competition at the Mountaineer Classic (Aug. 25-26) and ECU Tournament (Sept. 1-2). “I am so proud of the grit, confidence,…

The Caldwell Community College volleyball team won both games of a tri-meet hosted by the Cobas on Saturday. The Cobras swept Southwest Virginia Community College, 3-0 before defeating USC-Lancaster, 3-1. In the 3-0 win over Southwest Virginia Community College, Catherine Pate led the Cobras with 14 kills and Josie Chappell had 24 assists.  Defensively, Leah…

On the second day of the Bears weekend tournament inside Shuford Arena, LR swept Mount Olive in the morning and defeated USC Aiken in a five-set thriller in the night cap. LR finished the weekend with a 3-1 record. Emmaleigh Allen had 29 kills while Sydney Karjala had 53 assists on the day. The Bears…

For the second straight game to open the season, the Lenoir-Rhyne Women’s Soccer Team played to a draw as the Bears and Mount Olive both were held without a goal on Saturday afternoon. The Bears outshot the Trojans 21-6 during the contest but could not break through against Mount Olive. The Trojans goalkeeper Nicole Solicito made…

The Lenoir-Rhyne Women’s Triathlon Team picked up right where they left off in 2022 with a first-place finish in the ETSU Aquathlon to start the 2023 season. The Bears recorded 116 points in their first competition of the year. The hosts, ETSU, came in second place with 101 points. Sabrina Fleig had the best individual…

Non-conference Draughn: 33 East Burke: 24 Forestview: 27 Freedom: 19 Hibriten: 50 West Caldwell: 7 Newton-Conover: 46 East Rutherford: 39 North Iredell: 21 Alexander Central: 17 South Caldwell: 48 North Surry: 22 Watauga: 47 Maiden: 21 West Lincoln: 49 Fred T. Foard: 20 Wilkes Central: 47 Patton: 0 Off: Bandys, Bunker Hill, Hickory, St. Stephens

The Hickory Crawdads defeated the Greensboro Grasshoppers, 10-8 on the road Friday night. Hickory jumped out to a 4-0 lead after three innings and then put up six runs in the top of the fourth to take a 10-0 lead. However, Hickory saw Greensboro score six of their own in the home half of the…

In front of a packed house at Brandon & Erica M. Adcock Field, The App State Mountaineers (2-1) dropped their first contest in the Emily Dinsmore era against the Drexel Dragons (2-1) 3-0 on Friday. App State’s offense sputtered in today’s contest. The team attempted just two shots for the first three quarters in Friday…

After falling to Valdosta State in the season opener earlier in the day, the Lenoir-Rhyne Volleyball Team rebounded with a sweep of Converse to close the opening day of the Bears Tournament. Emmaleigh Allen had a game high 15 kills while Sydney Karjala had a double-double with 16 assists and 12 digs. The Bears will…

The App State volleyball team swept Bethune-Cookman, 3-0 (25-11, 25-17, 25-16), and came out victorious from a five-set thriller against Campbell, 3-2 (28-30, 21-25, 25-19, 25-16, 15-9), at the ECU Tournament on Friday. App State 3, Bethune-Cookman 0 Freshman Delanie Grevengoed tallied a career and team high 11 kills, while redshirt freshman Katie Cruise posted…

The App State men’s and women’s cross country teams opened the season with a pair of second-place team finishes at the Firetower Project Run on Friday. The men’s team recorded 55 points, while the women’s team recorded 67. “Today was a great start to our season,” said women’s distance coach Annie Richards. “The women are…

Lenoir-Rhyne volleyball battled but fell to Valdosta St. 3-1 in the 2023 season opener. LR hosted the Blazers in a round robin tournament and will have three more home contests this weekend. Cheyenne Clonch led LR with 11 kills in the contest and Kalee Peter had nine kills and six blocks. The Bears had a…

Caldwell Community College volleyball won on the road over Cleveland Community College Thursday night in five sets. Each squad split a set in the first four. Cleveland won set one, 25-18 before Caldwell win the second set, 25-22. In the third set, the Yetis won 25-21 but the Cobras took set four, 25-20. In the…

The Hickory Crawdads defeated the Greensboro Grasshoppers, 7-4 Thursday night on the road. Hickory had three runs in the first inning and three more in the fourth to propel them to the win. Hickory started the scoring in the first inning when, with the bases loaded, Max Acosta doubled, allowing three runs to score. In…

In a matchup of two NCAA Tournament teams from a year ago, The Lenoir-Rhyne Women’s Soccer Team opened the 2023 season with a 1-1 tie against visiting Lee. Elin Hansson scored the lone goal for the Bears battled back from an early 1-0 deficit to open the season with a draw. Kristin Oliver made five…

Western Foothills Athletic 3A Conference Fred T. Foard: 3 North Lincoln: 0 Hickory: 3 West Iredell: 0 St. Stephens: 3 East Lincoln: 2 Non-conference Lincoln Charter: 3 Maiden: 2 South Iredell: 3 Alexander Central: 0

Non-conference Hibriten: 9 Wilkes Central: 0 Hickory: 6 Stuart Cramer: 0 Newton-Conover: 2 West Iredell: 1 Patton: 2 Freedom: 1 St. Stephens: 5 South Caldwell: 0

The Hickory Crawdads fell to the Greensboro Grasshoppers 6-2 on the road Wednesday. Greensboro jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the first inning and tacked on another run in the fourth before Hickory scored. In the fifth inning, Daniel Mateo singled to start the inning. He moved to third when Yosy Galan forced a…