Published by admin on Tue, 06/29/2021 - 4:55pm
by shawn long
Sports writer
As seasons for the Wilmington Baseball Softball Association wind down, there is a banner that will come down soon off the fence at the South Island Park ballfield.
The 2021 season was dedicated to Hub Barnes, a coach who never stopped loving the community’s oldest youth league. Barnes, 78, died in August of 2020, vacating a seat high on the bleachers.
Hub’s daughter, Teri Cummings, said he was a student of the game and never stopped learning new ways to coach even when he wasn’t a coach anymore.