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Conley baseball ousts Orange

For the first half of Saturday, Orange High School had D.H. Conley seeing red, but the Vikings summoned some late strength and vaulted themselves past the Panthers and into next weekend’s 3-A state baseball championship.

  • DHC softball completes sweep

    MEBANE — A special year for D.H. Conley’s softball team and its head coach got even sweeter on Saturday afternoon.

  • ECU rallies past Southern Miss

    HOUSTON — East Carolina’s baseball team ended the Conference USA tournament with an 8-7 victory over Southern Miss on Saturday night.

  • Woody Peele: Locals headed to N.C. Amateur

    Two Greenville golfers have qualified to play in the 53rd North Carolina Amateur Golf Tournament to be held June 13-16 at Forsyth Country Club in Winston-Salem.

  • Bayern wins Champions League

    LONDON — Arjen Robben scored in the 89th minute to give Bayern Munich a 2-1 win over German rival Borussia Dortmund in the Champions League final Saturday night, ending four years of frustration for his team in Europe’s biggest tournament.

  • Johnson focused on victory, not history

    CONCORD — Jimmie Johnson is focused on chasing victory at the Coca-Cola 600. He says he’s not thinking about his championship legacy.

ECU

Pirate pair makes history

Making it to an NCAA championship tournament has to be a thrill for any collegiate student-athlete.

  • ECU rallies past Southern Miss

    HOUSTON — East Carolina’s baseball team ended the Conference USA tournament with an 8-7 victory over Southern Miss on Saturday night.

  • Pirates’ tourney title hopes end

    HOUSTON — East Carolina baseball’s Conference USA tournament went from bad to worse on Friday afternoon when the Pirates suffered their second loss in as many games, 6-5 to Tulane at Rice’s Reckling Park.

  • Pirates drop tourney opener

    HOUSTON — There was little to celebrate for the East Carolina baseball team following its debut at the Conference USA Tournament, as the Pirates suffered a 9-4 loss to Houston on Thursday at Rice’s Reckling Park.

  • Coach: Son-in-law to be gets thumbs-up

    Ruffin McNeill always refers to his football players as his sons, but when he comes back from a trip to Jamaica this weekend, the East Carolina head coach will have taken on a different kind of son — the kind with “in-law” at the end.

  • ECU hopes to avenge sweep

    Riding perhaps its strongest momentum of the season, the East Carolina baseball team undoubtedly likes its chances as the Pirates swing into action in the Conference USA tournament today at Reckling Park in Houston.

Wiggins signs with Kansas

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — Top prep basketball prospect Andrew Wiggins told a small gathering of family and friends at his high school gym Tuesday that he will play at Kansas.

  • Auburn overcomes trying season

    MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The Auburn women’s golf team had to overcome far more than the normal highs and lows of the sport to make the NCAA championships.

  • Moran driving UNC's offense

    CHAPEL HILL — Colin Moran has grown from the top freshman in the country to one of the nation’s most dangerous hitters and a top draft prospect for No. 1 North Carolina.

  • Skippers call for livelier baseball

    OMAHA, Neb. — College baseball is on pace to set a record for fewest home runs and a 40-year low for scoring and batting average.

  • Schools grant TV rights to ACC

    The ACC’s 15 current and future member institutions on Monday announced that they had agreed to a grant of media rights, which allows the conference to retain a school’s television rights if it leaves the league.

  • State, Wake play spring games

    RALEIGH — There was more thinking than doing on Saturday and more mistakes than big plays, but after his first Kay Yow spring game, new N.C. State coach Dave Doeren kept his wits about him.

Conley baseball ousts Orange

For the first half of Saturday, Orange High School had D.H. Conley seeing red, but the Vikings summoned some late strength and vaulted themselves past the Panthers and into next weekend’s 3-A state baseball championship.

  • DHC softball completes sweep

    MEBANE — A special year for D.H. Conley’s softball team and its head coach got even sweeter on Saturday afternoon.

  • Special delivery for Deans

    One day after D.H. Conley softball coach Wayne Deans and his wife welcomed daughter Virginia into the world, Deans’ Vikings delivered a shutout victory in Game 1 of the 3-A Eastern Regional series.

  • Vikings take Game 1

    HILLSBOROUGH — It took contributions from just about everybody in the starting lineup and in the bullpen, but D.H. Conley gutted out a crucial road win over Orange in the first game of the 3-A Eastern Regional baseball series on Thursday.

  • Vikings head to regionals

    D.H. Conley’s baseball and softball teams start 3-A Eastern Regional best-of-three series on the road tonight.

  • Conley teams advance

    WASHINGTON — D.H. Conley softball entered the state playoffs as the No. 3 seed out of the Coastal Conference.

Bayern wins Champions League

LONDON — Arjen Robben scored in the 89th minute to give Bayern Munich a 2-1 win over German rival Borussia Dortmund in the Champions League final Saturday night, ending four years of frustration for his team in Europe’s biggest tournament.

  • Johnson focused on victory, not history

    CONCORD — Jimmie Johnson is focused on chasing victory at the Coca-Cola 600. He says he’s not thinking about his championship legacy.

  • Hamlin shatters track record

    CONCORD — Denny Hamlin isn’t ready to say he’s back, even after winning the pole for Coca-Cola 600 with a record-setting qualifying lap Thursday night.

  • Urlacher calls it a career

    CHICAGO — Brian Urlacher wasn’t sure how dominant he could be any longer, so he’s calling it a career after 13 seasons with the Chicago Bears.

  • Golf adopts rule to ban anchored putting

    Golf’s two governing bodies outlawed the anchored putting stroke used by four of the last six major champions, approving a new rule that starts in 2016 and urging the PGA Tour to follow along so the 600-year-old sport is still played under one set of rules.

  • Jordan: Team changing name to Hornets

    CHARLOTTE — Michael Jordan wants to “bring the buzz back” to Charlotte.

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