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WNC’s Slugging Cal Raleigh is on Pace for Historic MLB Season
Area native Cal Raleigh of the Seattle Mariners is on pace to hit more major league home runs than any catcher and any switch-hitter ever, and has slugged more (33) homers than any catcher in the first half of a season.
Local Boys’ Tennis Squads Hold Court
Buncombe and Henderson county public high schools again sparkled in boys’ tennis with championships in all four conferences they compete in, and with T.C. Roberson and West Henderson each winning in three playoff rounds.
Beautiful: The Carole King Musical is ‘Some Kind of Wonderful’
Rachel Prather tremendously projects the emotional voice, creative intuition, old-fashioned innocence, pathos, humor, and eventual stardom of Carole King, the queen of pop songwriting, in Beautiful: The Carole King Musical at the Flat Rock Playhouse.
Two Local Squads Reach Round Three in Soccer
Hendersonville Lady Bearcats and West Henderson Lady Falcons went furthest in girls state soccer playoffs, both reaching round three where they lost on the road.
Local State Champion Squads Win WNC Sports Awards
The 2025 WNC Sports Awards winners from Buncombe and Henderson county high schools include three-time reigning state baseball champion T.C. Roberson Rams and star Micah Simpson, state volleyball champion West Henderson Falcons and Emma Bryson, and Erwin football receiver and track leaper Lawson Reynolds.
Mission Inevitable: T.C. Roberson Rams Make History
T.C. Roberson Rams swept Michael Jordan’s alma mater Wilmington Laney last weekend, to become North Carolina’s first 4A public high school baseball team to win three consecutive state titles.
Slamming Rams Aim for Historic Three-Peat
T.C. Roberson’s baseball Rams won four playoff rounds in this month, while Enka’s softball Sugar Jets won three times.
Avalon Rock Fest to Benefit Blue Ridge Humane Society
Local musician and author Christian Justus has his benefit rock festival this Saturday, and launches his first novel next month.
Powerful West Starts Softball Playoffs
West Henderson Lady Falcons beat all but one softball team in one of their finest regular seasons ever.
‘Cats’ at Flat Rock Playhouse is the Cat’s Meow
Dancing, singing, music, costuming, characterization and staging are all whisker sharp in Cats at the Flat Rock Playhouse.