***********COLLEGE BASKETBALL MOVEMENT********** Andy Pack, formerly of Northern Guilford High School, is leaving Elon University and headed to Bridgewater College, up near Harrisonburg, Virginia….Andy Pack’s high school teammate, Kellen Hodge, is on the Eagles’ team up at Bridgewater, and Northern Guilford assistant coach Derek Hodge, also attended and played college basketball at Bridgewater…. Andy Pack, the former Northern Guilford Nighthawk, headed to Bridgewater College…. I’m Committed….!!Double exclamation mark (again) Pack, Andy Position:G Height:6-4 Weight:200 Class:Sophomore Hometown:Summerfield, N.C. High School:Northern Guilford Andy Pack’s basketball career at Elon University: SOPHOMORE (2019) • Appeared in 31 games • Averaged 1.8 points and 1.4…
College Women’s Tennis Final – Guilford 5, Averett 4 GREENSBORO, N.C. – Guilford College’s women’s tennis team pulled off its third 5-4 victory of the season Friday with a 5-4 home win over Averett University. The Quakers (3-2) grabbed a slim 2-1 lead after doubles play by winning the second and third-doubles contests by matching 8-6 counts. Guilford’s Luci Gordon and Chandler McDonald collected the third-doubles point. Fernanda Gonzalez and Hailey Fishman teamed for an 8-6 second-doubles victory over Oliva Scott and Jesse Gomes. The wins set the tone for good days by the Quakers’ Gonzalez and Fishman. Gonzalez downed…
College Baseball Final – Guilford 20, Averett 6 GREENSBORO, N.C. – Guilford College’s Brett Shapcott amassed six RBI as the Quakers claimed a Thursday afternoon victory over Averett University, 20-6. The contest featured eleven combined errors with ten of the contest’s 26 runs unearned. The Quakers scored in every inning except the sixth inning, but the Quakers placed a runner in scoring position with two outs in the frame. Guilford’s big innings came three times in the contest, starting with a four-run rally in the bottom of the third inning where the Quakers posted three of their four runs with…
RICHOMND, Va. – Elon women’s basketball’s Nikki McDonald has been named the Colonial Athletic Association Women’s Basketball Rookie of the Week, as announced by the conference office today, March 7. McDonald notched a new career-high 14 points in 18 minutes played in Elon’s regular-season finale win at William & Mary last week. The rookie finished 8-of-7, another career high, to shoot 86 percent on the night, including a perfect 2-for-2 from beyond the arc to match her third career high of the night. She also hauled down six rebounds in the game to help the Phoenix dominate on the boards,…
Hit one of our posts on the web site here tonight, while trying to get to or back to another post and saw this news on former Eastern Guilford Wildcat and Elon College Fighting Christian runninghack Bobby Hedrick passing away at age 57…This is the first I had seen or heard of it and I played against this man back in high school and we are both the same age….This one of those crazy ones since Bobby Hedrick is one of the top runningbacks back in college football history and he led Elon College to the NAIA National Championship… I…
Defense, Freshmen Key Elon Win at Stony Brook STONY BROOK, N.Y. – The Elon defense intercepted four passes and two freshmen scored fourth-quarter touchdowns to lead the Phoenix to a 21-7 victory over the Stony Brook Seawolves on Halloween afternoon. The win snapped a four-game skid for the maroon and gold and Elon improved to 3-5 overall and 2-3 in CAA Football action. Stony Brook dropped to 2-5, 1-5 on the season. Quotable: “It was a good win, like any win is. The game went probably how I thought it would. We made some plays on the turnovers. We played…
ELON, N.C. – The Elon University Athletic Communications Office announced the hiring of Josh Gresh as assistant director of communications on Monday, Aug. 17. Gresh will serve as the primary communications contact for Phoenix men’s basketball, women’s soccer, men’s and women’s golf and men’s and women’s tennis. Prior to coming to Elon, Gresh spent a little over a year in the Wake Forest Athletic Communications Office. At Wake Forest, he served as the primary communications contact for Demon Deacons men’s soccer and track and field, as well as the secondary contact for men’s basketball. Gresh assisted with managing the athletic…
RICHMOND, Va. – The Colonial Athletic Association released its 2015 preseason volleyball poll today, Aug. 17. According to a vote by the conference’s head coaches, Elon was predicted to finish eighth as the Phoenix begins its second year in the league. Sophomore Sydney Busa was selected Preseason Honorable Mention after earning CAA All-Rookie accolades last season. For the third consecutive season, the College of Charleston sits atop the CAA preseason poll with 55 points and four first-place votes followed by James Madison and UNCW both in second with 51 points. The Seahawks received two first-place votes, while JMU earned one.…
ELON, N.C. – Elon University head softball coach Kathy Bocock announced on Monday, Aug. 17, the addition of transfer Kristin Hoover to join the Phoenix for 2015-16. Hoover arrives after spending her freshman season at the University of California last year. “We’re really excited about Kristin joining our program,” said Bocock. “Coming from the Pac-12 and a great academic university, she has the experience of performing at the highest level of softball and academics. She’s a true student-athlete who brings lots of intangibles to the table. I know she will help us continue on our path to strive for CAA…
@@@@@:7pm Tipoff in the Alumni Gym on the Elon University campus@@@@@ *****Watch for Christian Hairston(Greensboro Day School) to be in there for ELON….***** +++++Appalachaian at Elon TONIGHT at 7pm and ASU brings in Jay Canty(ORMA/Ragsdale), Frankie Eaves(Page), Michael Neal(ORMA/Northern Guilford)….11.8 points per game….,Michael Obacha(High Point Christian/ORMA)….9.7 Rebounds per game…Mike Kobani(HPCA/Caldwell Academy), Mitch Purgason(Wesleyan) and Jacob Lawson(ORMA.Northern Guilford)….+++++ $$$$$GREAT chance for a sellout for Elon, especially with all of the locals coming in from APP…..7pm tip in the Alumni Gym….$$$$$
from Tuesday afternoon:Duke 86, Elon 48…Andre Dawkins led Duke with 15 points, on 5-7 shooting from three-point range…. UNCG men vs. N.C. State on Monday at 7pm in the Greensboro Colieum and then TODAY/(Tuesday), you have Duke vs. Elon…..Duke-Elon listed at 1pm per key reports and that may effect attendance…Afternoon game?…OK…. You would think this would get the local ACC fans fired up and the Coliseum should draw in a lot of Duke fans, with the drive being minimal, from Durham to Greensboro…. Most feel the Duke crowd will make the biggest impact over the two days/nights, and I guess…
Local college baseball for today/Friday May 3:Campbell at High Point University 6pm…Elon at Appalachian State 6:30pm…UNCG at Samford 7pm… from www.theacc.com: Coastal Carolina @ Georgia Tech Atlanta, Ga. 2:00 PM TV: ESPN3 Virginia Tech @ Boston College Chestnut Hill, Mass. 2:30 PM Coastal Carolina @ Georgia Tech Atlanta, Ga. 6:00 PM TV: ESPN3 UCF @ Florida State Tallahassee, Fla. 6:00 PM TV: ESPN3 Presbyterian College @ NC State Raleigh, N.C. 6:30 PM TV: ESPN3 St. John’s @ Miami Coral Gables, Fla. 7:00 PM
Southern Conference Men’s Basketball order of finish in, with the preseaon coaches and media polls and the UNCG Spartans, under the guidance of head coach Wes Miller, are looking to pull off an Atlanta Braves-type move, with a vault from worst to first in the league…UNCG could barely win a game when Miller took over and now they are picked to win the SoCon North, in both the coaches and media polls…Elon is working to make a good showing too, going #2 in one poll and #3 in the other… Predicted Order of Finish (Coaches Poll) North Division Team (1st…
Alexander(Alex) Swim, a catcher from Northwest Guilford High School and Elon University, was taken in the 36th Round of the Major League Baseball Draft today, with the 1110 pick, by the St. Louis Cardinals today….. Congratulations are in order for Alex, his brother Adam and his mom and dad on a job well done, with the NWG Vikings, the Phoenix of Elon University and now on to the St. Louis Cardinals….
Our one on one/question and answer session, with Thuc Phan formerly of Page High School, who has spent the past school-year at the Deerfield Academy, a prep school up in Massachusetts…Thuc is now ready to transition and play football for the Phoenix, at Elon University, in 2012…. Andy Durham:Was Elon always a school on your list of potential colleges? Thuc Phan:Initially Elon wasn’t on my top list of potential colleges to attend however it was definitely on the list and I was always fond of the school and the football program. AD:Did they follow or keep up with you, while…