Sports Reporting Class Articles

  Finding a Way to Keep a Career Alive By: Harris Eisenberg To say Davis Shoener is a baseball lifer would be an understatement. He started playing baseball at age four in his hometown of Nashville, T.N. Shoener grew up in Nashville before moving to Greensboro, N.C. at the start of high school, where his baseball skills were getting noticed. One school in particular that was interested was High Point University. Shoener had plans to play for the Panthers coming in as a freshman. But then a major injury to his UCL ligament in his elbow, which required reconstructive surgery, prevented him from completing his goal of playing Division I baseball.  But Shoener wasn’t going to let an injury end his baseball career. He would end up joining the club team at High Point University where his career took off, quickly finding himself as a mainstay in the lead-off spot and playing center field. He would battle more injuries and adversity in his time at HPU, but his warrior-like style of pl...

  Panthers Turns it on Late to defeat Campbell, Earns Automatic Bid to NCAA tournament BY: Harris Eisenberg HIGH POINT, N.C.- The High Point Panthers earned an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament as they defeated Campbell in four sets. The matchup featured the top two teams in the Big South. Thursday was the first time the two foes had faced each other since the 2019 Big South Tournament semifinal when Campbell ended  High Point’s season. The Panthers got their revenge on the Fighting Camels to remain undefeated at 13-0 for the season. The Panthers split the first two sets with Campbell but won sets three 25-22 and set four 25-20 to secure the victory. High Point was able to tame the Campbell attack in the final two sets. The Fighting Camels hit just .037% in the final two sets and hit .110% throughout the entire match. High Point was led by redshirt sophomore Madison Smith who paced the Panther attack with 16 kills. It was a bounce back match for the Ohio native as she had j...