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Baseball: WCDS Wins NCISAA 2A State Championship (PHOTO GALLERY)

Baseball: WCDS Wins NCISAA 2A State Championship (PHOTO GALLERY)

The memory of losing last season the COVID-19 pandemic has driven the Wayne Country Day baseball team all season long. On Saturday afternoon, the Chargers erased those demons with a series-clinching 15-1 win over The Burlington School in game two of the N.C. Independent Schools Athletic Association 2A state championship series. Wayne Country Day claimed…read more »

Looking Back On The 2008 Mount Olive Baseball National Championship

Looking Back On The 2008 Mount Olive Baseball National Championship

From UMO Media Relations MOUNT OLIVE – Prior to 2008, the small town of Mount Olive, North Carolina (population 4,589) was known primarily as the home of the Mt. Olive Pickle Company, the largest independent purveyor of pickled cucumbers in the United States. The University of Mount Olive baseball team dramatically changed that narrative in 2008.…read more »

Bitzenhofer Wins First Wayne County Amateur Title (PHOTO GALLERY)

Bitzenhofer Wins First Wayne County Amateur Title (PHOTO GALLERY)

On Sunday afternoon, Chris Bitzenhofer shot a 74 in the third round of the Wayne County Men’s Amateur and clinched his first-ever Wayne County Men’s Amateur Open Division championship at Walnut Creek Country Club. Bitzenhofer posted a three-day score of 216 to win the championship, and Bitzenhofer had to overcome a three-stroke deficit in the…read more »

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