UNCW’s Bobby Leeper, Daniel Cropper and Thomas Pope were named to the Coastal Plain All-Star rosters this week and will play in the midseason classic on July 20 in Wilmington, N.C., at Legion Field, the home of the Wilmington Sharks and Daniel Cropper.
Cropper stayed in Wilmington after UNCW’s season concluded to play for the Wilmington [...]

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WILMINGTON, N.C. – UNC Wilmington rising freshman Tyler McSwain was named Coastal Plain League Pitcher-of-the-Week after shutting down the hometown Sharks last week at Legion Field for the Peninsula Pilots.

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4 Local Stories - Hammers, Sharks, a fishing tournament, and surfing… quite a coastal feel.
1 Jeer - Tiger-Golf.  Federer-Tennis.  Lance-Cycling.  Phelps-Swimming.  The media gets this week’s jeer for totally ignoring the most dominant person in their sport and not even mentioning him in the discussion.
1 Cheer - NASCAR for starting something long overdue.

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UNCW’s Daniel Cropper was selected by the Washington Nationals in the MLB Draft. He has until August 17 to decide if he will return to UNCW or turn in his Seahawk uniform. Daniel is playing with the Wilmington Sharks this summer and took time to speak with Jim Clark before a recent Coastal [...]

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The Wilmington Sharks snapped a six game skid with a 4-3 win over the Columbia Blowfish. The victory runs the Sharks’ record to 10-13 in CPL play. It hasn’t been a great start, but the team has time to get things in gear.

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It was the end of May 2007 when a dream came to a fruition. That was two years ago, when the first issue of the Cape Fear Sports Report began with a feature on the CAA Baseball Tournament and an interview with Ashley Baseball Coach Brian Stewart. Some 54 issues and over one [...]

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In a week where the Sharks offense continued a rise to the top of the CPL charts, the sound of one Wilmington bat cracked with a bit more intensity. That bat belonged to Adam Eggemeyer.

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The Wilmington Sharks have signed four players from UNC Wilmington to the 2009 roster. Wilmington native, Allen King joins the Sharks, along with Daniel Cropper, Alex Hill, and Mike Rooney. The Sharks open their Coastal Plain League slate on Thursday at Buck Hardee Field in the Legion Stadium Complex.

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On the strength of 10 hits and 11 runs the Sharks walked from the 08 Coastal Plain stage with a win Tuesday night in Florence.  

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In a wild flury of ejections and late rallies the Sharks lost 9-6 to Florence in the final game at “The Tank” this season.

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For just the fifth time this season the Sharks were unable to plate a run as they fell 5-0 to the SwampDogs Tuesday night.

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  2008-sharks-weekly-preview-week-10-pdf

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After a long early Sunday bus ride to Columbia, the Sharks endured a long night of baseball dropping both ends of a double header 5-2 then 13-4.

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Bryant Gaines(North Carolina) struck out the side in the bottom of 2nd inning Friday night to set the tone for the rest of a dominating eight innings of a 3-1 Sharks win.

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WILMINGTON, N.C.— In an effort to demonstrate the importance of public transportation, while improving the environment for the citizens of Wilmington, New Hanover County, and all of Southeastern North Carolina, The Cape Fear Public Transportation Authority will be sponsoring the 2nd Annual Alternative Transportation Day on Saturday, July 26, 2007.  On this day, all citizens [...]

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Sending eight to the plate in the first and ten in the fourth, the Sharks jumpped out to an early lead and held on to beat the Redwolves 10-8 in Florence Saturday night.

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