This spring, the Blythewood girls lacrosse team was going to have a new look. The coronavirus pandemic put the Bengals’ plans aside, just for the time being. First-year head coach Margaret Roberson, who was the JV head coach and a varsity assistant for the last four years, wanted to get the team off to a […]
Facing Challenges the Blythewood Way
May 21, 2020 By
After a one-win season in 2019, Blythewood High School boys lacrosse head coach Jason Cuzzupe’s team finally turned the corner. When Cuzzupe took over the program three years ago, he knew he wanted to change the program’s culture – to really cultivate positivity among the players. The coaching staff bought in to the idea of […]
Bengals Fielded Experience
May 14, 2020 By
After 39 years of teaching, 25 years as a high-school soccer coach, and several other years as a club soccer coach, Peter Wittig was going to coach boys soccer for one last season in 2020. Six games into the season, though, Gov. Henry McMaster ordered all high schools closed because of the global coronavirus pandemic. […]
Bengals Miss Out on Big Year
May 7, 2020 By
The 2020 girls soccer season was set to be a big one for the Blythewood girls. After finishing a close second behind Region 4-5A winner Spring Valley, the Bengals finished 15-5-2 and 7-1 in region play. They reached the second round of the state playoffs before bowing out to Riverside. This spring offered an open […]
Bengals Softball… put on hold
April 30, 2020 By
The Blythewood softball field looked razor sharp this spring. “We spent a lot of time getting the field ready for this year,” head softball coach Jordan Atkinson said. “We had it laser graded and we felt like it was the best the field ever looked in its history. It was awesome.” Likewise, the Bengals softball […]
The season that never happened
April 23, 2020 By
Blythewood Council Honors Teams and Senior Athletes Life has changed. It’s different. The impact of the novel coronavirus has been felt across the world, the nation, the state and right here in Blythewood. And while our normal routines have dwindled into the distance, we are confident that our lives will return to what they were. […]
Blythewood Baseball: What Might Have Been
April 23, 2020 By
It was no secret among Blythewood players as well as coaches, players and reporters from around the state that 2020 was poised to be the year of the Bengals. Instead, because of the precautions taken because of the COVID-19 pandemic, 2020 will go down as the season that might have been. Coming off a 2019 […]
Westwood holds Redhawks Invitational
March 26, 2020 By
BLYTHEWOOD – Having just opened the door into what could be a highly successful season, the track teams from Blythewood and Westwood high schools were able to compete one last time before the South Carolina High School League’s spring sports suspension due to COVID-19 entered effect. Meeting on Westwood’s home turf, Blythewood and Westwood faced […]
BHS girls soccer defeats Dreher
March 19, 2020 By
COLUMBIA – Kathy Knight’s soccer team took one more win last week before the COVID-19 sports suspension entered effect. The Bengal girls took down Dreher last Wednesday with a 3-1 final. Amy Caroll scored first off of a free kick taken by Ariana Paex. Caroll struck again from a Megan Compas assist for the Bengals’ […]
Blythewood takes two
March 19, 2020 By
BLYTHEWOOD – The Blythewood softball team was off to a 5-2 start before the ongoing precautions taken to reduce the spread of the Coronavirus brought prep athletics across the state to a halt. On Sunday, Gov. Henry McMaster ordered all South Carolina public schools closed through March 31. Then on Monday, South Carolina High School […]
