The first-year East Burke junior legion baseball team held its home opener on Sunday at EBHS and entertained the home crowd with a pitcher’s duel.
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The Burke County American Legion Post 21 baseball team traveled down to South Carolina on Thursday and defeated Clover Post 38 by the score of 12-3.
The Valdese Post 234 junior American Legion baseball team earned a measure payback against Morganton on a steamy Thursday afternoon at Patton High.
Burke County Post 21’s two-game win streak ended at Cherryville on Tuesday when host Post 100 scored in seven of the eight innings they batted to win 12-3.
Pitching dominated the day for Morganton’s junior legion baseball team in Sunday’s non-conference doubleheader sweep of fellow first-year program East Burke at Patton High.
With storms popping up throughout the area Sunday night, Burke County Post 21’s game was halted and later called in the top of the seventh inning ...
Tre Young had already hit four home runs this season for Burke County’s legion baseball team.
The Morganton junior American Legion baseball team, playing out of Patton High, traveled to Draughn on Thursday evening and doubled its win total for the season, picking up a pair four-inning, 10-run rule shutouts over Valdese Post 234.
Burke County Post 21 visited Alexander County Post 170 on Wednesday night, and what started as a rare American Legion baseball pitcher’s duel ended abruptly in the bottom of the fifth inning.
The Morganton junior American Legion baseball team snapped out of a six-game losing skid Wednesday night at Patton High, winning the nightcap over Hibriten, 4-3, after dropping the first game of the five-inning doubleheader, 5-2.
This season’s Burke County Post 21 American Legion baseball games have all been close, and Tuesday’s home contest versus undefeated Cherryville Post 100 was no exception.
The first-year Morganton junior American Legion baseball squad slipped to 1-5 on the season following a pair of home losses Tuesday to West Caldwell, 2-1 and 13-0.
Trailing Shelby Post 82 by a couple runs late in Sunday’s American Legion baseball contest at Shuey Field, Burke County Post 21 rallied to snatch a come-from-behind 5-4 victory.
The Valdese Post 234 junior American Legion baseball team opened the home portion of its 2011 schedule at Draughn High on Thursday against the South Caldwell “B” team, losing a pair of games.
A seven-run sixth inning gave the Burke County Post 21 American Legion baseball team new life against Hickory Post 48 on Wednesday night at Shuey Field in the home opener.
East Burke started its inaugural season of junior American Legion baseball on Monday afternoon, splitting with the South Caldwell “A” team.
The first-year Morganton Junior American Legion baseball team opened the 2011 season Monday by splitting a pair of five-inning doubleheaders against McDowell at Patton High School.
Burke County Legion Post 21 opened up the 2011 season with an 8-7 loss to Asheville Post 70 on Saturday night at A.C. Reynolds High School's field.
Burke County Legion Post 21 came from three runs down after seven innings Sunday to defeat rival Caldwell County Post 29, 12-11.
Coach Chris Cozort and his Valdese Post 234 Junior American Legion baseball team moved to 5-1 in division play and 5-2 overall with Tuesday night’s split of a doubleheader at Bunker Hill.
It was storming in Burke County on Wednesday afternoon, but the Burke Legion Post 21 team went to Shelby and found a dry field with no adverse weather. That would prove a sign of good things to come in a 10-4 Post 21 victory.
Tommy Fleming | The News Herald Table Rock Middle School eighth-grader K.J. Nadeau balanced his spring season with lacrosse, baseball and track while maintaining an A/B average in the classroom.
Burke County American Legion Post 21 will have quite a challenge at 7 p.m. Wednesday if they want to snap an early two-game losing streak to Area IV Western Division foes.
This one was a super game for the large crowd that showed up on Veteran's Night at M.S. Deal Stadium on Saturday night, especially since the home team held onto the 10-9 win over one of their main rivals in American Legion Area IV play.
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