HIGH POINT, N.C. – High Point Rockers catcher Luke Napleton today was named to the Atlantic League Postseason All-Star team. Napleton, a catcher, led the ALPB in home runs this year with a franchise-record 41 homers.

Napleton, 24, was High Point’s primary catcher but also saw action in the outfield and at first base. He batted .259 with 41 home runs and 113 RBI while also scoring 93 runs. His 41 homers and 113 RBI were both Rockers team records.

The LaGrange, Illinois native played three seasons at Quincy University before spending his senior season at Louisville in 2024. Undrafted out of college, Napleton joined the Rockers in spring training of 2025 and was almost immediately signed by the Minnesota Twins after hitting .571 with two homers and 10 RBI in his first six games. He would later rejoin the Rockers for the final leg of the 2025 season, finishing with a .407 batting average.

In 2026, Napleton became a staple in the Rockers line-up from the onset of the season and posted historic offensive numbers. He led the ALPB with nine multi-homer games and belted a grand slam against Hagerstown on July 16. In addition, Napleton became just the third Rocker in team history to hit for the cycle, collecting a single, double, triple and home run in the final game of the season on Sept. 13 against Gastonia.

Napleton is the ninth Rocker to earn Postseason All-Star honors and the first catcher to do so. In 2025, outfielders Ben Aklinski and Luis Gonzalez were each named to the All-Star team.

HIGH POINT, N.C. – Truist Point will host the seventh annual Battle of the Badges charity softball game between the High Point Police Department and the High Point Fire Department on Friday, October 2. Game time is set for 6:30 p.m. with the gates opening at 5:30.

Tickets are on sale now for $10 and are available for purchase at www.HighPointRockers.com and at the Truist Point Box Office at 303 Gatewood Ave.

Proceeds from the Battle of the Badges will benefit the “A Bed and A Book” charity and the High Point Police Department’s Angels in Blue.

The last two Battle of the Badges events have raised nearly $25,000 for the two charities. The series stands at 4-2 with the Fire Department holding the advantage.

HIGH POINT, N.C. – Pete Fisch, the president of the High Point Rockers, was named the 2026 recipient of the Atlantic League’s Joe Klein Executive of the Year Award presented annually to the league administrator who has made outstanding contributions to their club and the Atlantic League through operational excellence.

The award is named for the late Joe Klein who served as a Major League scouting director and general manager and was the executive director of the Atlantic League. This is the second time Fisch has been honored as the Executive of the Year, having been honored in 2022 as well.

“Our tremendous, hard-working staff and our dedicated fans make an award like this possible,” said Fisch. “No one does it alone.”

Fisch has guided the Rockers since early in 2020, just before the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. He was instrumental in avoiding club layoffs and continuing to generate events at Truist Point throughout the duration of the pandemic. With the ballpark at full operational capacity, Fisch has helped Truist Point live up to its mission of serving as the catalyst to the revitalization of Downtown High Point. From soccer and baseball events, adult kickball leagues, concerts, comedy shows, graduations, and multiple charity events, the Rockers and Truist Point have helped generate renewed interest in Downtown High Point. He was instrumental in securing multiple collegiate championships for Truist Point which each had an economic impact on the community. Fisch has also been instrumental in the Rockers’ continued on-field success in the ALPB with four trips to the playoffs in seven seasons.

Fisch began his career in sports with the Albany Patroons basketball team in 1982 while still in high school. Upon graduating from college, he became the assistant general manager of the Carolina Mudcats in 1989 before moving to the same role with the Hickory Crawdads from 1992-94. He served for nine years as the vice president and general manager of the Winston-Salem Warthogs and 11 years as the associate tournament director for the Greater Hickory Kia Classic at Rock Barn, a PGA Champions Tour event. From 2015 to 2020, Fisch was an associate athletic director at Wake Forest University where he was charged with guest experience and venue management while operating the Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum. He became the president of the Rockers in March 2020 and guided the club through the Covid-19 pandemic while managing the operation of Truist Point.

Fisch is a 1989 graduate of St. John Fisher University in Rochester, New York where he was a member of the varsity soccer team for three seasons and a member of the Dean’s List.

Pete and his wife, Melissa, are the parents of two adult children and reside in Winston-Salem.

HIGH POINT, N.C. – High Point Rockers first baseman Luke Napleton hit for the cycle to lead a 13-hit attack as the Rockers closed the season with a 15-2 win over the Gastonia Ghost Peppers at Truist Point on Sunday afternoon.

Napleton singled in the first inning, doubled in the third, hit a solo homer in the fifth and then clubbed an RBI triple in the seventh inning. He finished four-for-five on the day with four RBI. His homer in the fifth inning was his league-leading 41^st of the season. The 455-foot shot ensures Napleton finishes as the Atlantic League leader in home runs.

Gastonia scored an opening inning run off High Point starter Yuhi Sako (W, 8-11) when Wade Kelly led off the game with a triple and scored on an infield grounder to put Gastonia up 1-0.

The Rockers retaliated against Gastonia starter Braden Webb (L, 1-3) with seven runs in the bottom of the first, highlighted by catcher Chris Brady’s first home run of the year, a two-out grand slam that accounted for the final four runs of the inning.

Chandler Seagle belted a solo homer in the second to pull the Peppers within five at 7-2.

The Rockers blew up for another six runs in the third with Hogan Windish hitting a solo homer, Napleton knocking a two-run triple  and Ryan McCarthy adding a run-scoring double.

The Rockers finish with a final record of 26-37 in the second half and 55-71 for the full season. The Ghost Peppers wrap up their season at 33-30 and 71-55.

(Tuesday, September 8, 2026, New York) – The Atlantic League of Professional Baseball today announced that York Revolution first baseman Jacob Teter has been named the ALPB Player of the Week for August 25-30 with High Point Rockers starting pitcher Justin Dunn honored as the Pitcher of the Week.

Dunn, 30, joined the Rockers in mid-August after playing at AAA Salt Lake City. In two starts last week at Gastonia, Dunn tossed a total of 10 innings, allowing just three hits and one run (unearned) while walking six and striking out eight. Dunn started on Sept. 1 and threw five innings, yielding just two hits and an unearned run while striking out three before leaving with the game tied 1-1 and receiving a no-decision. In his start on Sept. 6, Dunn again threw five shutout innings, allowed just a single hit, and was lifted in a scoreless game that the Rockers eventually won 4-0.

For Teter, 27, it marks his second ALPB Player of the Week award, having also been honored on July 6. In six games last week against Long Island, Teter hit .500 with 12 hits in 24 at-bats, banging out five home runs with nine runs scored and 13 RBI. He led all ALPB hitters with a 1.806 OPS and a 1.250 slugging percentage. Teter had multiple hits in five of the six games, homered in three contests and drove in six runs in a 10-1 win on Sept. 4.

Now in the final week of the regular season, three of the four ALPB playoff berths have been decided. South Division first half champion Southern Maryland will play second half champ Lexington in the South Division Championship series. In the North Division, the Hagerstown Flying Boxcars, the first half pennant winner, is awaiting their North Division Championship Series foe. York and Long Island entered the final week with identical 38-19 records. With six games remaining, the North Division second half title remains up for grabs between the Ducks and Revs.

The Atlantic League has advanced 61 players to either Major League affiliates or international league teams this season. The league record for player transfers in a season is 73 set in 2021. Former High Point Rocker LHP Kent Emanuel became the first player this year to go from the ALPB to MLB when he started in August for the Cincinnati Reds against the St. Louis Cardinals.

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