Campbell baseball

Walter Jenkins, 2 Deacons picked in 1st round of MLB Draft

July 12, 2023 Cory Lavalette

While the story of the first day of the Major League Baseball Draft was LSU teammates Paul Skenes and Dylan Crews going 1-2 to the Pirates and Nationals, respectively, North Carolina also made some noise […]

Wake Forest, Duke advance to baseball super regionals

June 7, 2023 Shawn Krest

The only thing that could slow down Wake Forest on the first weekend of the NCAA Tournament was the weather. In between rain showers, the Demon Deacons stormed to their third super regional in school […]

Wake Forest leads 8 NC teams in NCAA baseball tournament

June 1, 2023 Shawn Krest

Wake Forest, which spent the last few weeks of the regular season as the consensus No. 1 team in the nation, received the top overall seed in the NCAA Tournament. The Demon Deacons earned its […]

Trea Turner leads impressive group of NC products on major league rosters

March 29, 2023 Shawn Krest

One of the biggest stories of the World Baseball Classic was new Philadelphia Phillies shortstop Trea Turner. Among the biggest free agency signings in the offseason, Turner showed what all the offseason fuss was about […]

Martin County legend Gaylord Perry remembered

December 7, 2022 Shawn Krest

According to family lore, Evan Perry turned down the chance to play minor league baseball because his family needed him to help work on their farm. He eventually inherited the 25-acre tobacco, corn and peanut […]

Camels crash 1st round of MLB Draft

July 20, 2022 Brett Friedlander

Members of the Campbell baseball team fancy themselves as “a bunch of nobodies from nowhere” because of their remote location in Buies Creek and the considerable shadow cast by their nationally recognized neighbors at UNC, […]

Tar Heels overcome suspension, join ECU in super regionals

June 8, 2022 Shawn Krest

For the second straight week, the story surrounding the NCAA baseball tournament in North Carolina is about who isn’t there rather than who is. Seven days ago, the NC State Wolfpack players and fans were […]

ECU, UNC host regionals as 5 teams make baseball tourney

June 1, 2022 Shawn Krest

Five baseball teams from North Carolina colleges received bids to this year’s NCAA Tournament, but the big story when the brackets were revealed on Memorial Day afternoon was who didn’t. NC State was left out […]

Campbell’s redemption starts at Big South Tournament

May 25, 2022 Brett Friedlander

The Campbell baseball team couldn’t wait to get back to the postseason after coming within a run of extending eventual national champion Mississippi State to a decisive winner-take-all final game in an NCAA regional last […]

Crunch time for area college baseball teams

May 4, 2022 Brett Friedlander

Duke baseball coach Chris Pollard gathered his players for a pep talk last week as they prepared to begin the final month of the regular season. “May ball is here,” he said in the speech, […]