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Today's Sports

  • First Tee academy now open

    Mike Gildea
    Special to the Beacon
    The new $1.5 million Carolina Life Skills and Leadership Academy is open for business and teens are invited to sign up.
    On the 28-acre campus of The First Tee of Brunswick County, just outside Shallotte, the 9,000 square-foot academy will be host to a series of four-day and four-night summer academies in character education through The First Tee’s life skills and core values curriculum.

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  • Milliken gets first victory of...

    By Bill Hennecy

    MYRTLE BEACH, S.C.—Saturday night racing appeared to be a washout, with rain falling most of the day along the Grand Strand. The rain started clearing at 6 p.m. and track-drying efforts were completed and practice started at 7:20 p.m. Euro-style qualifying hastened the program and the fields were set in what turned out to be a great night of racing.

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  • May-Vember?
 One of these days...

    This is one of those weeks when it’s tough to be a fishing report columnist. It’s supposed to be the time of year when the fishing is at its best and I’m full of reports and fish stories from inshore to offshore. Instead I’m going to sound like a broken record poormouthing the rotten weather we’ve been experiencing.

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  • Changing weather patterns keep...

    All right, guys. See that little patch of grass sticking out a little farther than the rest? See the little rip on the down current side? There should be some trout where the smooth water meets the faster-moving water. Josh Benton, from Raleigh, tosses a chicken-bone colored Paul Brown lure into the smooth water and immediately hooks a trout. We throw everything we had at them for about 30 minutes without another bite.

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  • Ex-Trojan Gause pitching for...

     Former West Brunswick pitcher Jay Gause finished the regular season 7-5 with a 3.34 ERA for Walters State Community College, an NJCAA Division I team. Gause, a sophomore, pitched 72.2 innings, third most on the team, and averaged 10 strikeouts a game.

    Walters State is 35-16. It is 18-1 at its home field in Morristown, Tenn.

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  • West beats South in softball

     BOILING SPRING LAKES—The West Brunswick softball team beat South Brunswick 7-1 May 1 in the final conference game of the season.

    West scored five runs in the top of the sixth in the victory. A home run by Ariana Thomas scored West’s first run in the inning. Sam Smith walked, advanced a base on Leilani Emile’s sacrifice bunt and scored on Ashley Smith’s hit. Nicole Phillips followed with a hit, driving in a run. A hit by Bre Small drove in the final run.

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  • West names football coach

     West Brunswick High School Principal Brock Ahrens has recommended to the Brunswick County Board of Education that Scott Frazier be the school’s next head football coach.

    "I feel that coach Frazier will be an instant fit into our athletic program and into our faculty,” Ahrens said. “We are excited to have him join us.”

    Frazier has coached at Western Carolina University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Presbyterian College and Elon University.

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  • Scores, highlights of area golf...

    Brunswick Plantation LGA
    The game April 22 was best of nine. Magnolia-Dogwood: 1. Geri Conroy (21.5), 2. Linda Rothenberger (23.5). Dogwood-Azalea: 1. Dianne Lucarelli (22), 2. Janet Iekel (25.5). Closest to pin: Dianne Lucarelli (Azalea No. 4); Mae Drezek (Magnolia No. 4). Birdies: Camille Cantello (Dogwood No. 4); Mary Helen Naecker (Magnolia No. 7); Alcina Davis (Dogwood No. 8).

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  • Yarbrough wins second race of...

    By Bill Hennecy
    Special to The Beacon
    Sam Yarbrough won his second straight race Saturday at Myrtle Beach Speedway in the NASCAR Whelen All-America Series.
    Driving for owner Chad McCumbee, Yarbrough fought off the challenges of Darlington’s Jamie Weatherford and current track champion Anthony Anders.  
    Yarbrough’s two victories give him the points lead as he seeks a second Myrtle Beach Speedway championship. Following Yarbrough to the checkered flag were Weatherford, Anders, Bobbie June, Barry Andrews.  

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  • Lower your score with advice to...

    Golf is a simple game.
    The ball is not moving when you try to make contact with it. No one is out there intercepting it or catching it and throwing it to first base. When you walk down the fairway, no one is rushing you, trying to tackle you and bring you to the ground.
    There are no defensive players in the grass, waiting to high-stick you. You have no team and there is no opposing team. When you get to the green, nothing stands between you and the cup except your skills and mental readiness.   

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