By Darren Headrick / Carolina Mudcats (919-269-2287/mudcatsradio@carolinamudcats.com) Salem, VA May 8, 2013 – Garin Cecchini cracked a mammoth, two-run blast over the right-center wall to rally the Salem Red Sox past the Carolina Mudcats on a soggy Tuesday night at LewisGale Field. The latest setback is Carolina’s fifth straight, and ninth in 11 games.   Owen Dew (2-3) suffered the loss for the Mudcats ...

Charlotte, NC May 7, 2013 - Eighteen years after signing his first contract with the Carolina Panthers, John Kasay has once again signed with the team.   This time it is a one-day contract as Kasay, who spent 16 seasons with Carolina, retires as a Panther.   “When we came to Charlotte, our oldest son was about six weeks old,” Kasay said. “To be able to watch your family grow, not only in number, b ...

Fort Mill, SC May 7, 2013 - Chicago White Sox LHP John Danks will make a Major League Baseball rehab start for the Charlotte Knights tonight as the team faces the Columbus Clippers from Huntington Park in Columbus, OH. First pitch of today's doubleheader is set for 5:05 p.m. and fans can hear all of the action at 94.3 FM WRHI, 1340 AM WRHI, online at wrhi.com, or at charlotteknights.com. Danks will start ga ...

Columbus, OH May 6, 2013 - Monday's game between the Charlotte Knights and Columbus Clippers from Huntington Park in Columbus, OH, has been postponed due to inclement weather. The two teams will play a doubleheader on Tuesday with first pitch of game one scheduled for 5:05 p.m. Tuesday's doubleheader will feature two seven-inning games. The Knights were set to meet the Clippers in Columbus on Monday for the ...

CHARLESTON, SC May 6, 2013 – Freshman Josh Lorenzetti (Columbia, S.C.) and junior Alex Ellis (Austin, Texas) will represent the College of Charleston men’s golf team in NCAA Regional play May 16-18 at The University Club in Baton Rouge, La., the NCAA announced Monday night. Lorenzetti earned an automatic bid to the NCAA Regionals by virtue of winning medalist honors at the 2013 Southern Conference Men’s Cha ...

May 21st match at WakeMed Soccer Park to kick off at 7:00pm   CARY, NC May 7, 2013 – The 100th edition of the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup is coming to WakeMed Soccer Park on Tuesday, May 21st at 7:00pm when the Carolina RailHawks host a Second Round match against the winner of the Carolina Dynamo (PDL) and Chattanooga FC (NPSL).  The U.S. Open Cup is a knockout style tournament that begin in 1914 and is o ...

GREENSBORO, NC May 6, 2013 - NC State's Augusta James and Brittany Marchand were selected to the 2013 All-ACC Women's Golf team on Monday by a vote of the league's head coaches. Head coach Page Marsh of the 20th-ranked Wolfpack was the runner-up in Coach of the Year balloting after guiding her club to a second-place finish at the ACC Championship, the best in program history. Both from Ontario, Canada, Marc ...

Lincoln, AL May 5, 2013 RAGAN WINS FIRST RACE FOR FRONT ROW MOTORSPORTS ·         David Ragan registered the second NASCAR Sprint Cup Series win of his career and first at Talladega. ·         Tonight’s win is the first for Front Row Motorsports. ·         Ford now has 897 all-time NASCAR wins (NCWTS, NNS and NSCS combined). ·         Today’s win by Ragan is the first NSCS triumph for any active Ford driver ...

Myrtle Beach, SC May 6, 2013 - The National Golf Association Professional Golf Tour announced today that the Eagle’s Landing Country Club, a Member of the ClubCorp family of clubs, will serve as host to the No. 3 Men’s Professional Golf Tour in the United States on Aug. 19-25, 2013.   Eagle’s Landing Country Club, a Tom Fazio-designed championship layout in Stockbridge, Ga., is the previous home of the ...

Toledo, OH May 5, 2013 - Over the last three days, the Charlotte Knights have resembled the team that won 83 games last season. Sunday's Box Score RHP Jason Berken allowed just one run over eight innings, Jim Gallagher had two hits including a home run, and the Charlotte Knights beat the Toledo Mud Hens 4-1 on Sunday afternoon at Fifth Third Field in Toledo, Ohio for their third win in-a-row. The win also g ...