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USA Today
15-04-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
SEC names Texas A&M baseball's local product Player of the Week
SEC names Texas A&M baseball's local product Player of the Week The Texas A&M baseball team is on an impressive six-game winning streak and has won back-to-back SEC series. There is a lot of work to be done if the Aggies want to make the postseason, and they will need everyone to be at their best. Bryan-College Station product Blake Binderup has been struggling most of the season and was starting to split time. However, when Gavin Kash went down with an injury, Binderup was given the full opportunity, and after some tweaks to his swing he showed up big in the South Carolina series. On Tuesday, the SEC named the redshirt sophomore as the SEC Player of the Week after a six-hit, eight RBI, two home-run weekend at home against South Carolina. Below is the excerpt from the release from the conference officials: Texas A&M's Blake Binderup helped the Aggies extend their winning streak to a season-high six games with a team-high .538 average to go along with a stolen base, two doubles, two homers and 10 RBI. Binderup recorded a hit in all four games, including a pair of multi-hit performances in the Aggies' sweep of South Carolina. The first baseman also recorded an RBI in all four contests, including a career-high tying five in Friday's series opener. With the Maroon & White trailing 3-2 in the series opener, Binderup ripped his second grand slam of the season to give Texas A&M a 6-3 advantage. In the series finale, Binderup reached base safely in all six plate appearances and delivered a key two-out, two-run homer in the Aggies' historic comeback win. Texas A&M will host Tarleton at Blue Bell Park on Tuesday, April 15, at 6:00 p.m. CT. The game will be streamed on SEC Network+. Contact/Follow us @AggiesWire on X and like our page on Facebook to follow ongoing coverage of Texas A&M news, notes and opinions. Follow Jarrett Johnson on X: @whosnextsports1.
USA Today
14-04-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Texas A&M sophomore first baseman is coming off an exceptional week
Texas A&M sophomore first baseman is coming off an exceptional week Not a bad week for Blake Binderup: • 7-for-13 • 2 Doubles • 2 HRs • 10 RBI#TheBoogeyman — Ryan Brauninger (@R_Brauninger) April 12, 2025 Texas A&M (20-15, 6-9 SEC) is on a six-game winning streak after sweeping South Carolina, starting with Thursday's walk-off 8-7 win, followed by Friday's 17-0 run-rule shutout, and capped off with Saturday's epic 15-12 comeback win after trailing 12-2 in the bottom of the sixth. While Hayden Schott and Kaeden Kent's consecutive grand slams led the ninth-inning win, redshirt sophomore first baseman Blake Binderup, who has started the last eight games due to Gavin Kash's injury issues, has been one of the underrated bright spots in the lineup despite his previous struggles at the plate, combined with several defensive lapses. A College Station native, Binderup's 6'6" frame began to show its advantage this week, finishing 7-13 for two doubles, two home runs, and ten RBI, including five RBI during Thursday's first game against the Gamecocks. On Sunday, Binderup's two-run homer started the Aggies' comeback effort, leading to two more runs in the seventh and making way for the two grand slams in the final frame. Blake Binderup is a prime example of sticking with a player through struggle, and if he keeps up this level of play, I could see a situation where head coach Michael Earley opts to keep him at first base and place Gavin Kash in left field when he is healthy. This move would also solidify Caden Sorrell at DH for the remainder of the season. Texas A&M's postseason chase needs Binderup to continue producing at the plate, so while his performance this week was a pleasant surprise, this needs to become the norm if the Aggies have a shot to make it back to the College World Series. Contact/Follow us @AggiesWire on X and like our page on Facebook to follow ongoing coverage of Texas A&M news, notes and opinions. Follow Cameron on X: @CameronOhnysty.\
Yahoo
27-02-2025
- Yahoo
Lincolnton vape shop accused of illegal sales opened near school just before city changed rules
LINCOLNTON, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) — There has been a push in North Carolina municipalities, including Lincolnton, to put zoning restrictions in place which ban new vape shops from opening near schools. Queen City News started looking into the zoning regulations after a manager of a vape shop that was the scene of an armed robbery and shooting earlier this month in Lincolnton was charged this week with felonies including selling drugs to underage students. Dave's vape shop is right beside Lincolnton High School on North Aspen Street. According to Lincolnton's assistant city manager, the business was allowed to open there under the city permit it received in November 2023. Two men accused of armed robbery at Lincolnton vape shop, one of them hospitalized from employee who fired back State Alcohol Law Enforcement agents say they started looking into Dave's because they say they got more and more complaints about vape products confiscated from underage students. A couple of businesses and neighbors don't like the vape shop being so close to Lincolnton High School. A two-lane street is all that separates them. Neighbors remember the chaos three weeks ago. 'I heard the four gunshots, I immediately knew they were gunshots, so I grabbed my daughter, and I ran to the room,' said a neighbor, who did not want to be identified. The neighbor didn't know where the shots came from at first and feared it was a school shooting. 'I initially was pretty spooked because I live close to the high school, so I thought they could come here to hide,' said the neighbor. Right beside Lincolnton High at Dave's, police say three suspects robbed the store and got into a shootout with a worker there. 'It's pretty upsetting, especially in town here, we don't have a lot of violence,' said another neighbor, Dave Binderup. Three weeks later, ALE officials and the Lincolnton Police Department announced that they charged Omari Cole, the manager of Dave's, with 20 charges, including a dozen felonies. ALE agents say they found some of the business's Delta 9 products contained more than 0.3% THC, making them illegal. 'I don't have a problem with someone doing their business, whatever their business is, as long as it isn't detrimental to the kids at the school,' said Binderup. He says Lincoln County officials should consider doing what one other county in North Carolina, Wake County, has done. There they've banned new vape shops from opening within 1,000 feet of a school in the unincorporated parts of the county. 'Especially with the heightened awareness on shootings at schools, we just really don't need any of that, we don't need the threat, we don't need the opportunity for a threat,' said Binderup. The assistant city manager for Lincolnton says when Dave's opened in 2023, the business was allowed to open up based on the zoning. But just months later, on Jan. 4 of this year, a new city zoning amendment was passed that bars new vape shops to open within 500 feet of a school. Lincoln County man found with 20 grams of fentanyl, charged: Sheriff Assistant City Manager Scott Clark sent Queen City News the following information on the requirements of the zoning amendment: Smoke shop with the following prescribed standards: 1. Shall not be located within 500 feet of any K-12 public school or licensed child care facility; 2. Shall not be located within 1,000 feet of any other smoke shop; 3. Separation is required to prevent overconcentration, which is defined as three or more of these uses existing within a 1,000-foot radius of the business. Required separation distance shall be measured as a radius from the front door of one business to the front door of the surrounding business located within or outside the city's corporate limits; and 4. Must meet all sign regulations in the udo including but not limited to: (a) flashing signs or any signs with flashing or intermittent light or lights or reflective devices of changing degree of intensity or color are prohibited; or (b) a maximum of 10% of the wall area of any wall on the building. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
