Isaiah Saint Hilaire Staff Writer It has been interesting to see that the UNCG softball and UNCG baseball teams have both been performing very well and have been chosen as favorites to go far and even be crowned as the Southern Conference champion. The UNCG baseball team entered the season as reigning champs and have lived up to expectations with a 20-6 overall and 2-1 … Continue reading The tale of two teams in 2018
Daniel Johnson Sports Editor We are now marching out of the spring and into the month of April, marking the final month of the semester. With the arrival of April showers and pollen which will make breathing out of the nose for any person cursed with allergies a task so difficult, you would think it is only one of twelve labors you need to perform. … Continue reading Five Things I Learned in March
Isaiah Saint Hilaire Staff Writer The weekend saw a lot of surprises as the Spartan baseball team capped off a 2-1 series victory against the VMI Cadets. Bad weather on Saturday forced the teams to play a double header on Friday before closing out the series on Sunday. The series would be the first on the Spartans’ SoCon schedule. UNCG defeated VMI in the first … Continue reading UNCG Goes 2-1 in Weekend Series Against VMI
Chelsea McBay Staff Writer The Major League Baseball season starts March 29, and very soon we’ll kick off six months of peanuts and cracker jacks. From trade moves, to scheduling and coaching changes, all of the teams are about ready to throw the first pitch of the season. Spring training has been fun to watch thus far, but all the excitement truly stems from Opening … Continue reading MLB Season Preview
Daniel Johnson Sports Editor Today the 1968 MLB season is known as “The Year of the Pitcher,” as the entire season saw entire teams unable to hit or score against the pitching staffs they competed against. To illustrate how poor the hitting was, Boston Red Soxs outfielder Carl Yastrzemski won the American League batting title with a .301 batting average, 11 points higher to his … Continue reading Did You Know?
Andrew Salmon Staff Writer UNCG Baseball Stadium is a fine ballpark. The seats are comfortable. It is spacious and clean, with a wide concrete concourse flanked by an impressive field house to the left and the actual field to the right, leading fans from Stirling Avenue directly into the stadium. The field itself is pristine, tended to by a scrupulous grounds team. The infield soil … Continue reading Let’s Give UNCG Baseball Stadium a Better Name
Tripp Hurd Staff Writer The UNCG Baseball team completed a weekend sweep of Lafayette on Saturday afternoon at UNCG Baseball Stadium. The three game series was scheduled to finish up on Sunday; however, the threat of rain caused Sunday’s game to turn into a double-header on Saturday. The Spartans have not had any trouble producing runs this season, and that continued this weekend, as they … Continue reading Spartans Sweep During Spring Break
Andrew Salmon Staff Writer The defending SoCon champion UNCG Spartans opened their 2018 campaign over the weekend with a three game series against Appalachian State. The Spartans won the first two games and dropped the third to bring their overall record to 2-1. It was an up-and-down series for UNCG, which dominated the first two games with a seemingly endless offensive output before falling to … Continue reading UNCG Baseball Kicks Off Season with Three Game Series Against Appalachian State
Daniel Johnson Sports Editor MLB Player’s Data reported at the beginning of the 2017 baseball season that about one-third of the players in the Major Leagues were from Latin America (31.9 percent). Forty two and a half percent of the players in the game were people of color, while the other 57.5 percent are white Americans. Now based on the numbers, it would be safe … Continue reading Baseball’s Modern Culture Divide: ‘The Right Way’
Daniel Johnson Sports Editor MLB Hall of Famer Rickey Henderson remains the all-time leader in stolen bases with 1,406 stolen bases during his 25 years in the game. Throughout the 1980s, Henderson led all but one season in stolen bases and had three separate seasons of over 100 stolen bases. Incredibly, in 1998, at the age of 40, Henderson led the league in stolen bases … Continue reading Did You Know?
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