The Uwharrie Wampus Cats are a collegiate wood-bat baseball team that began play with the 2023 season! Ahead of our 2024 season, we have joined the Southern Collegiate Baseball League, a league founded in 1999 and partially-funded by MLB.
Making their home at what will be a newly-upgraded Don Montgomery Park in Albemarle, North Carolina's downtown area, the team will again play a schedule of more than 40 games during the summer and compete with the Carolina Disco Turkeys of Winston-Salem for the Highway 52 Cup as part of a season rivalry series.
Other opponents for the Wampus Cats will include top area and regional teams, including high-profile exhibition match-ups at the Asheboro ZooKeepers and Boone Bigfoots of the Coastal Plain League. League rivals include the Concord A's, Mooresville Spinners, Queen City Corndogs, and others.
What are Wampus Cats games like?
We offer America's pastime, concessions, cold beer, and affordable, family-friendly entertainment much like going to a Kannapolis Cannon Ballers or Charlotte Knights game.
At the friendly surroundings of Don Montgomery, we'll have seating for hundreds in bleachers, new tabletop and picnic seating areas. Fans can also bring along lawn chairs from home for our lawn areas. We'll have the concession stand open at all of our home games and often will have local food trucks, as well.
What is a wampus cat?
If you’re from Albemarle or the Uwharries, you may have been in the proximity of a wampus cat all your life and not known it.
The wampus cat is a cat-like creature in American folklore and can take on a trickster quality. Throughout generations in our region and throughout the South, reported livestock thefts and unexplained property damage, we contend, has often been due to wampus cats.
Some even think the wampus cat to be a shapeshifter. This summer they’ll take the shape of college ballplayers representing our area on the diamond.
