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The Forest City Owls are a baseball team in the Coastal Plain League, a collegiate summer baseball league.The team played its inaugural 2008 season in Forest City, North Carolina after the same franchise (previously known as the Stingers), owned by Ken Silver, moved from Spartanburg, South Carolina in the offseason.
McNair Field is a 2,000 seat baseball stadium located in Forest City, North CarolinaIt was built in 2008 as the home of the Forest City Owls baseball team. It is also used for select games of the Gardner–Webb University Runnin' Bulldogs (), Appalachian State Mountaineers (), Western Carolina University Catamounts, and Wofford College Terriers college baseball games.
Forest City is also home to the Forest City Owls baseball club which is a member of the Coastal Plain League, a collegiate summer league. The Owls, who play at McNair Field in Forest City, won the CPL championship in 2009 with a record of 51–9, again in 2010 and were ranked as the #1 collegiate summer team in America.
Spartanburg Stingers (2003–07, moved to Forest City, renamed Owls) New Bern River Rats (2005–07, moved to Morehead City , renamed Marlins in 2010) Outer Banks Daredevils (1997, 1999–2011, changed leagues)
The Owls franchise continued play in the 1953 ten–team Class D level Tar Heel League, returning to the "Forest City Owls" nickname for the final time. The Owls finished the 1953 season in second place, ending the season with a record of 70–40, playing under managers Len Cross and Boger McGimsey.
Team School City Conference Sport sponsorship Foot-ball Basketball Base-ball Soft-ball Soccer M W M W Brevard Tornados: Brevard College: Brevard: USA South: Greensboro Pride
Wake Forest has also enjoyed substantial success in football; in 2006 they won the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) football championship and participated in the 2007 Orange Bowl in Miami. This was the first major bowl berth for a North Carolina–based ACC team since Duke defeated Arkansas in the 1961 Cotton Bowl Classic .
Forest City, NC: Forest City Owls (1948) Gastonia, NC: Gastonia Browns (1950) Granite Falls, NC: Granite Falls Graniteers (1951) Hendersonville, NC: Hendersonville Skylarks (1948–1949) Hickory, NC: Hickory Rebels (1952); moved to the Tar Heel League (1953–1954) Lenoir, NC: Lenoir Red Sox (1948–1951); moved from the Blue Ridge League (1946 ...