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29 Gastonia, Shelby area baseball, softball teams qualify for NCHSAA state playoffs
High school baseball and softball teams in Cleveland, Gaston and Lincoln counties now know their respective paths to a NCHSAA state title. Twenty-nine area teams qualified for the 2024 state playoffs, 16 baseball and 13 softball. ...
12 Gastonia, Shelby baseball, softball teams who could make a deep run in NCHSAA playoffs
It’s win-or-go-home from here for baseball and softball teams in Cleveland, Gaston and Lincoln counties. The 2024 NCHSAA playoffs begin Tuesday, with the tri-county area well represented. Of those in the mix, which ones have the best shot at making a deep run? Here are several teams with a legitimate shot at claiming state gold, along with a few others flying under-the-radar as the postseason gets underway.
Jurors should have considered stand-your-ground defense in sawed-off shotgun killing, judges rule
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A man convicted of killing his landlord’s adult son with a sawed-off shotgun is entitled to a new trial because the presiding judge failed to instruct jurors about a possible self-defense argument, the state Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday. A three-judge panel vacated the first-degree murder conviction of Ronald Wayne Vaughn Jr. in the 2017 shooting death of Gary Somerset. Vaughn was on the porch of the Lincoln County trailer he was renting and had the weapon when Somerset yelled “Let’s end this” and rushed at him, according to Tuesday’s opinion. The two and Somerset’s...
46 Gastonia, Shelby high school baseball, softball players to watch in NCHSAA playoffs
Baseball and softball teams in Cleveland, Gaston and Lincoln counties begin their quests toward NCHSAA state titles as the postseason gets underway Tuesday, May 7. What area players could be difference makers? Here are 46 players who could be X-factors, with stats through Tuesday, April 30. WEEK 10 HONOR ROLL: Gastonia, Shelby top performers:...
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