The Greenville (S.C.) Drive continued to play playoff spoiler over the weekend. After a loss Sunday, the Hickory Crawdads will now hope the Drive can spoil someone else’s chances
Baseball is a game of adjustments and failure. The best players quickly recognize it’s important to keep grinding and finding ways to improve.
Four days after the Hickory Crawdads equaled a season high with 15 runs in a game, the team upped the ante for an all-time performance. The Crawdads scored in six straight innings, including eight in the eighth, and blasted the host Asheville Tourists 21-6 in front of 2,212 fans at McCormick…
The Asheville Tourists put together a big second inning which sparked their 9-6 victory over the Hickory Crawdads in front of 3,410 fans at McCormick Field in Asheville on Friday.
One night after the Hickory Crawdads equaled their season high in runs, a trio of pitchers from Asheville shut down the bats and led the Tourists to a 7-3 win Thursday night at McCormick Field.
Patience paid off for the Hickory Crawdads as the visitors evened the current six-game series with the Asheville Tourists by virtue of a 15-7 win Wednesday night at McCormick Field.
LP Frans Stadium will play host to three Carolina Disco Turkey games this June in Hickory. The Disco Turkeys are a collegiate wood bat team, according to the Hickory Crawdads website.
The Hickory Crawdads had more opportunities, but the Asheville Tourists took better advantage of the few they had and gained a 4-2 win in the series opener Tuesday night at McCormick Field.
On the verge of losing the six-game South Atlantic League series, the Greensboro Grasshoppers swatted back-to-back home runs in the eighth inning and defeated the Hickory Crawdads 4-3 in front of 1,268 fans Sunday afternoon at L.P. Frans Stadium.
The Hickory Crawdads closed out a rain-shortened, five-game series at Winston-Salem by splitting a doubleheader Sunday afternoon at Truist Stadium
When the Texas Rangers picked Chris Seise in the first round of the 2017 draft, he was seen by some as the heir apparent to the team’s major league shortstop, Elvis Andrus.
It is the 30th anniversary season for the Hickory Crawdads. However, given the lost season of 2020 and the shortened season a year ago, which had protocols of no fan interaction, limited stadium capacity and mask mandates, the resumption of a season that started Friday has to give baseball f…
The Lenoir-Rhyne University baseball team will make the short trip across the city to play at L.P. Frans Stadium in April.
The field staff of the Hickory Crawdads has been completely overhauled for the 2022 season, as the Texas Rangers announced the minor league staffs for their affiliates Monday.
TAYLORSVILLE — The Alexander County Board of Education approved the hire of Marcus Bowen as the next head coach of Alexander Central High’s track and field team this week.
CLAREMONT — Bradley Rudisill spent the 2022 season as an assistant coach for Bunker Hill High’s varsity baseball team, but he’ll find himself in a new role next year. The Bandys alumnus was approved this week as the Bears’ next head coach, replacing Todd Setzer, who will remain at Bunker Hil…
CATAWBA — Bandys High will have a new varsity girls basketball coach when the 2022-23 season begins in November. Eric King was approved this week as the Trojans’ replacement for Nicki Brittain, who stepped down in April after five seasons as the head coach at her alma mater.
The North Carolina Softball Coaches Association announced its all-state selections for the 2022 high school softball season on Friday. Thirteen players from the Hickory Daily Record‘s coverage area spanning Catawba, Caldwell and Alexander counties were named to the all-state team.
CLEVELAND — The Division II Athletics Directors Association (D2 ADA) has selected Kim Pate, director of athletics at Lenoir-Rhyne University, to serve as president for the 2022-23 membership year.
WINSTON-SALEM — A Hickory native recently received postseason honors for her performance during the 2022 college softball season. Fred T. Foard High alumnus Kalea Bolch, a sophomore at Carolina University this past season, was named a Second Team All-American and a First Team All-Region sele…
The Catawba Valley Community College bass fishing team is going back to the recruiting well once again — this time signing Oakboro angler Dalton Eury to its 2022-23 class.
The last team to get into the NCAA baseball tournament was the last team standing.
Jacson McGowan capped a big Sunday afternoon with a three-run homer in the eighth inning that sent the Bowling Green (Ky.) Hot Rods to a 6-3 win over the Hickory Crawdads at Bowling Green Ballpark.
A pair of top prospects from the Boston Red Sox had big afternoons for High-A affiliate Greenville (S.C.), as the Drive pushed past the Hickory Crawdads 8-3 in front of 3.601 fans at Fluor Field in downtown Greenville.
The Hickory Crawdads begin a series with the Winston-Salem Dash on Tuesday. Here’s a look at both teams prior to the matchup.
The Rome (Ga.) Braves scored four runs in the seventh and then got an assist from a heavy storm to wash away the Hickory Crawdads 7-5 on Sunday afternoon at L.P. Frans Stadium.
The Hickory Crawdads are the High-A affiliate of the Texas Rangers. Most of the players who come to Hickory at this level have either been around the minor leagues for a year or two or they’ve been to college, so they have some life experience under their belts. By the time they arrive in Hi…
The Hickory Crawdads will welcome the Rome Braves to town for six games this week.
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