Mocs Softball Wins; Earns Third Seed In SoCon Tournament Monday, May 10, 2021 In a do-or-die game for the Chattanooga Mocs softball team, seniors Hayleigh Weissenbach and Cameren Swafford each homered and combined to drive in three runs during a thrilling 6-3 win over Southern Conference rival Samford on Sunday afternoon inside Jim Frost Stadium. Following the win, Chattanooga (13-23, 8-8 SoCon) clinches a spot in this week s SoCon Championship as the No. 3 seed and will face No. 2 Western Carolina on Thursday, May 13, at 3 p.m. ET in Greensboro, N.C. Samford falls to 18-27 overall, 7-11 in the league and has been eliminated from postseason contention.
Wake Forest University Renames Building In Bid For A More Inclusive History by Paul Garber
9:43pm May 09, 2021 Wingate Hall on the campus of Wake Forest University will be renamed to May 7, 1860 Hall. PAUL GARBER/WFDD
Wake Forest University is renaming one of its campus buildings as part of a review of its history as the university seeks a more inclusive view of its past.
Wake Forest President Nathan Hatch announced last week that Wingate Hall will no longer carry the name of the university’s fourth president, Washington Manly Wingate, who served terms both before and after the Civil War.
Brackets Announced For SoCon Softball Tournament
Mocs Are Number Three Seed, Open Against No. 2 Western Carolina Sunday, May 9, 2021
The Southern Conference has announced the seeding for the 2021 SoCon Softball Championship, which begins Thursday, May 13, at UNCG Softball Stadium in Greensboro, North Carolina. The four-team tournament is slated for May 13-15.
Regular-season champion UNCG (31-15, 14-4 SoCon), the coaches preseason pick to win the league, is the tournament’s top seed for the third consecutive tournament. The Spartans needed to sweep Western Carolina this weekend to earn the top seed and they did so with a pair of 9-1 wins on Saturday and a 5-0 win on Sunday afternoon.
Two Cabarrus County Schools students â Hickory Ridgeâs Bryson Battle and Northwest Cabarrusâs Cameron Meyer â are finalists this year for Best Actor in the annual Blumey Awards.
The Blumey Awards are put on every year by Blumenthal Performing Arts and aim to continue the celebration of high school musical theater. Battle and Meyer will compete with four other actors for the Best Actor Award in a 30-minute program airing on PBS Charlotte on May 25 at 8 p.m. The winner of that event will move on to the National High School Musical Theater Awards on July 15.
Ian Sullivan and Andrea Rassler have worked with their students respectively since their freshmen years and seeing their hard work culminate in Blumey Award nominations has been special for them.
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FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) - TCU’s roster rebuild is up to seven Division I transfers with the additions of two players from Texas A&M, including the Aggies’ scoring and rebounding leader, Emanuel Miller.
The Horned Frogs announced Friday the signings of 6-foot-7 sophomore forward Miller and 6-4 freshman guard Cashius McNeilly, both natives of Scarborough, Ontario. They join an incoming class of eight that also includes a top junior college center but no high school signees.