The Hickory Ridge Ragin' Bulls won the Greater Metro Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament with an 8-5 win over A.L. Brown in Harrisburg on Thursday. Photographer Todd Maulden captured these photos.
- Mark Plemmons
This isn’t a lineup built like the ’27 Yankees, bludgeoning opponents with power.Hickory Ridge looks more like the 1934 “Gashouse Gang” Cardinals -relentless, unpolished and unapologetically gritty.“Gritty” is the word that keeps coming up around the 2026 Ragin’ Bulls.
- Todd Maulden Special to the Independent Tribune
Hickory Ridge rallied from down 7 to beat West Stanly 11-10 on Wednesday, April 22. Photographer Todd Maulden captured these photos.
- Andrew Phillips Special to the Independent Tribune
A.L. Brown and Concord wore orange uniforms and played in the annual Jonathan Foundation game at Atrium Health Ball Park.
- Andrew Phillips Special to the Independent Tribune
The Central Cabarrus Vikings made the championship game in the F&M Bank Cannon Ballers Invitational High School Baseball tournament, thanks in large part to their offense. They averaged 10 runs a game through their first two games in the tournament. South Rowan, their opponent in the fin…
- EVAN GRANT The Dallas Morning News
The Texas Rangers’ cursed August has now officially wiped out their entire $500 million middle infield.
- C. JEMAL HORTON
KANNAPOLIS – Slim, trim and still active at age 41, Adam Monteith fits quite comfortably behind a desk.
CHARLOTTE – The National Junior College Athletic Association recently released the 2024-2025 All-Academic Teams recognizing student-athletes from across the country for their dedication in the classroom.
Two of Cabarrus County’s top high school pitchers will have the chance to move on to the next level soon – the professional level.
CJ Gray has long known he was headed for bigger things, as he committed to N.C. State about three years ago.
Some recent graduates of high school baseball programs in Cabarrus County are doing quite all right for themselves at the next level.
The public-school softball playoffs started on Tuesday, and two Cabarrus County teams were still alive for second-round action on Friday.
WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The Texas Rangers’ offense returned to full strength Sunday after multiple early-season injuries left them short-handed for the bulk of the first month of play. They were able to arrange a new-look lineup because of that Tuesday afternoon and immediately reaped rewa…
CONCORD – The first part of April. Three weeks left in the season. A conference championship on the line.
CINCINNATI — Add Kyle Higashioka to Team Torpedo.
HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL: SPC notebook and this week’s complete Cabarrus baseball and softball schedules
CONCORD – The 2025 high school baseball season is young, but it’s been a rough go so far for the Cabarrus County teams in the South Piedmont 3A Conference.
MOUNT PLEASANT – Derek Barringer spent more than a decade helping develop some of Stanly County’s best high school baseball players and teams. Now some of them are his biggest rivals.
New conferences for local schools
A quarter-century ago, Mike Morton was good enough to play in – and win – a Super Bowl.
C. JEMAL HORTON
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SEATTLE — Corey Seager’s season is officially done.
CONCORD – In April, Logan Wagner became the boys soccer head coach at Northwest Cabarrus, but he wasn’t some newbie coming in trying to learn the program.
CHICAGO ― Well, at least Corey Seager, the swing savant who appears singularly focused on the next pitch, held on to the baseball.
Matthew Lefevers progressed slowly after the surgery. It was more than four months before he picked up a baseball.
Ten of the brothers were on varsity. Head Coach Frank Porter said having so many brothers on the team made his job easier.
The playoff format is single elimination until it transitions to a best-of-three series for both the regional finals and the state championships.
EDITOR’S NOTE: In the print edition of the Independent Tribune, we listed the wrong person as Mount Pleasant’s softball coach based on information listed elsewhere. We regret that error and have corrected it in the online edition.
The Cox Mill baseball team is off to a scintillating start under first-year head coach Grayson Butler.