FLORENCE – Around this time three years ago, the Blythewood girls basketball team finished the season 0-19. On Friday night at the Florence Center, the Bengals won the 5A Division I state championship with a 62-56 victory over lower-state champion Summerville. “Their hard work has definitely paid off,” second-year head coach Emily McElveen-Schaeffer said. “That […]
Bengals fall short of 5A D1 state crown
March 13, 2025 By
FLORENCE – One week after the Blythewood boys basketball team’s clutch win over Dorman for the 5A Division I upper-state championship, the Bengals season came to an unfortunate end Friday night at the Florence Center. Ridge View used a ferocious man-to-man defense throughout the game to keep the Bengals off balance, and used a 20-4 […]
Bengal girls and boys to play for 5A state titles
March 6, 2025 By
Girls break through for first semifinal victory in history FLORENCE – The Blythewood girls’ basketball team faced a difficult third quarter Saturday afternoon—until Sherron Waters launched a near-midcourt three-point shot that fell through the net at the buzzer. The senior point guard’s shot came seconds after Annie Gillam drained a 3 to give the Patriots […]
Blythewood boys down Byrnes and Clover; set to face Dorman Saturday
February 27, 2025 By
BLYTHEWOOD – The Blythewood boys basketball team may have lost out to a region championship because of back-to-back losses to Ridge View, but the Bengals are making it up with a solid run in the 5A Division I playoffs. Third-seeded Blythewood (22-5) received a first-round bye and opened the postseason with a second-round 73-58 win […]
Blythewood girls top Byrnes, Rock Hill, head to Florence Saturday
February 27, 2025 By
BLYTHEWOOD – The Blythewood girls basketball team is in rare territory. Three years after going 0-19, the Bengals won a share of the Region 5-5A championship, earned a first-round bye in the 5A Division I playoffs and beat Byrnes and Rock Hill in the second and third rounds. For the first time in school history, […]
Bengals land high playoff seeds
February 20, 2025 By
BLYTHEWOOD – The Blythewood girls’ basketball team fell 55-47 at arch-rival Ridge View Friday night, but clinched a share of the Region 5-5A championship, their first since 2008, which was also a share of the title. Sharon Walters scored 13 points to lead Blythewood. India Williams had 12. Chase Thomas, the Region 5-5A Player of […]
Williams joins 1,000 point club
February 13, 2025 By
BLYTHEWOOD – Blythewood High School sophomore India Williams is the newest member of the Bengals’ 1000 point club. Williams put up 16 points in the team’s win over Ridge View on Saturday. Williams tallied 349 points in 26 games her freshman season and 233 in 22 games in the 2023-2024 season. This season, Williams helps […]
Bengal girls pick up win #24, boys fall to RV
February 13, 2025 By
BLYTHEWOOD – Blythewood and Ridge View’s Saturday matchup provided plenty of entertainment—four of the top Region 5-5A teams clashing in a late-season matchup with region championship implications. It was a game two weeks into the making. Originally scheduled for Jan. 21st, the matchup was delayed because of the Midlands snowstorm. The game was set for […]
Bengals beat L-E, West Florence
February 6, 2025 By
BLYTHEWOOD – Tyler Stephens scored 20 points to lead the Blythewood boys basketball team to a 50-34 victory at Lugoff-Elgin Friday night. The Bengals (19-3, 8-1) followed up with a 69-34 win over West Florence (1-18, 0-9) Tuesday night. T.J. Lewis scored 26 points to lead Blythewood. In the girls game Friday night, juniors India […]
Blythewood basketball teams ease past Lugoff-Elgin, West Florence
January 16, 2025 By
BLYTHEWOOD – Blythewood boys basketball team (15-3, 3-1 Region 5-5A) whipped Lugoff-Elgin 72-56 Jan. 8, beat West Florence 91-50 Friday night, and beat Sumter 71-50 Tuesday. T.J. Lewis scored 36 points to lead the Bengals over the Knights. Tyler Stephens had 13 points. The Blythewood girls (18-1, 5-0) also breezed past Lugoff-Elgin 94-31, then did […]
