High School Baseball

Whiteville High School earned a spot in next week's 2A baseball state championship best of three series. The Wolfpack won the eastern title on Friday night on the road against Northwood High School. The UNCW baseball team also won on Friday. The Seahawks edged Delaware 3-2 to advance to the CAA Baseball Championship on Saturday. Full story...

The Whiteville baseball team is just one win away from playing in next week's 2-A state championship series. Whiteville only needs one more victory against Northwood to advance. The UNCW baseball team wants to advance to the NCAA Baseball Tournament. To insure that the Hawks need to win the CAA Tournament. On Thursday the Seahawks beat VCU to start the CAA event off on the right foot. UNCW's next game will be Friday at noon against Delaware. Full story...

Friday night’s sports segment featured the UNCW baseball team in their series opener against Towson. We also checked out the Laney softball and baseball teams as they tried to position themselves for the postseason. We highlighted more high school baseball action from New Hanover and Hoggard. We also featured high school lacrosse playoff games between the Ashley and Laney girls, as well as the Hoggard boys. Full story...

On Tuesday we featured highlights from UNCW's impressive 10-1 win over the 24th ranked East Carolina Pirates from Greenville. We also checked out high school baseball action from New Bern. The Bears beat Laney. We also featured Ashley's win over Hoggard in baseball along with two softball games from Wilmington. Full story...

WWAY’s Friday night sports segment featured the Wilmington Sea Dawgs semi-pro basketball team at home against Big Texas. We also went to Brooks Field to check out UNCW against Hofstra in a battle of the top two teams in the CAA. We even featured high school baseball action between Laney and New Hanover, as well as Wilmington Christian. Full story...

Thursday night sports featured three Tar Heel basketball players who have declared for the NBA Draft next season. We also recognized New Hanover senior guard Kadeem Allen for being named to the All-State squad by the Associated Press. We also featured Laney, Ashley, New Hanover and Hoggard in high school baseball action. Full story...

Could Terry Sanford and Topsail wind up in the same conference? What about Purnell Swett and Hoggard? This possibility raises loads of questions, but discussions for high school re-alignment at this time are preliminary. Full story...

Wilmington native Brack Hardee is battling brain cancer. Former Boston Red Sox outfielder Trot Nixon and several of his friends from the baseball fraternity will be organizing a one day baseball camp fundraiser next week to raise funds to assist in Brack's fight against cancer. Full story...

Coley Thompkins just graduated from Hoggard High School. On graduation day he didn't know his collegiate plans. That changed on Monday when Thompkins decided he'd like to play college baseball in Buies Creek. Full story...

Shortstop Derrick Bracey had two hits and two RBI to lead East Columbus to a come-from-behind 8-7 victory over South Stanly Saturday night in the final game of the North Carolina High School Athletic Association state 1-A baseball championship series. Full story...

East Columbus will have to win twice on Saturday in order to win the 1-A state baseball championship. The Gators had a slew of runners get on base. In fact they had eleven hits, but they didn't get enough clutch hits to beat South Stanly on Friday in game one of the 1-A baseball state championship series. Full story...

The high school baseball state playoffs are winding down. Ashley, East Columbus and North Brunswick remain alive in our neck of the woods. Ashley and Topsail are both alive in the softball state playoffs. Click full story for the matchups of where these teams play next. Full story...

The Coastal Athletics spring break baseball tournament concluded on Thursday with Ashley facing Leesville Road in the championship game at Ashley High School. Full story...

Whiteville baseball coach Brett Harwood only watched half the game on Tuesday night in the Wolfpack's baseball season opener against the defending state 4-A champions, Laney High School. Full story...

Laney and East Forsyth will square off this weekend in the 4-A State Championship for high school baseball. It's Laney's first trip to the state finals in baseball. Full story...