BLYTHEWOOD – Last Thursday, Bengals lacrosse defeated region opponent Dutch Fork 7-5 and they followed up with an 11-1 win over Catawba Ridge on Monday. Seniors Nick King and Ty Auton had three goals each in the win over Dutch Fork. Freshman Thomas Oakes added one. Tyler Witmer had two assists; Auton and Connor McDonald […]
Bengal girls soccer drop two
BLYTHEWOOD – The Blythewood girls dropped a 2-1 non-region match to Chapin last Friday, then fell by the same margin to A.C. Flora on Tuesday. Sophomore Evelyn Wright scored the Bengals’ lone goal against Chapin. Megan Tarnawsky had an assist. Blythewood will face their first Region opponent, Northwestern, at home on Friday. They will host […]
Leading The Way
Westwood and Blythewood student councils were among the five Richland 2 high school student councils to receive awards at the South Carolina Association of Student Councils state conference. Westwood received an Honor Council Gold Award and placed third in Leadership Activities and third in Recognition. Senior Aniya Knighter was inducted into the Terry McCoy Leadership […]
Bengals Fight Hunger
COLUMBIA – The Blythewood JROTC Bengal Battalion worked with two other JROTC programs on March 5 to acquire all the necessary resources to prepare 20,000 instant oatmeal meals with Harvest Pack, a humanitarian, hunger-relief, nonprofit organization. Blythewood cadets were split into teams with cadets from other schools working in assembly lines to create the packages. […]
Three Bengals are National Merit Finalists
Blythewood High School students Evan Cox, Macy Collins, center, and Grace Gattman have been named as Finalists in the 2022 National Merit Scholarship competition.
Bengals win 4 straight to open season, wins IP Classic
GEORGETOWN – The Blythewood baseball team caught fire in the season-opening IP Classic tournament at Mike Johnson Field, winning four straight games from Thursday to Sunday. The Bengals topped Boiling Springs 10-4 Thursday, York 9-4 Friday, defending 4A state champion A.C. Flora 7-2 Saturday, and Berkeley 7-2 in the championship game Sunday. Landon Penfield was […]
Back On [The] Track
HOPKINS – Westwood, Blythewood and Fairfield Central’s track and field teams hit the ground running in Lower Richland’s annual Diamond Hornet Invitational last Saturday. The Bengal girls’ team finished first place of 31 teams. The Blythewood boys’ team finished in fifth and Westwood boys finished sixth out of 35 teams. Westwood will host the Redhawk […]
Westwood, Blythewood wrestlers finish strong in individual tourney
ANDERSON – Westwood senior Drake Lesher, wrestling in the 195-pound weight class, finished in second to a Greenwood wrestler at the 4A individual state meet. Lesher defeated a West Florence opponent in the quarterfinal and won his semifinal match against South Florence by a second round pin. “I’m am so proud of this young man […]
LAX is back
BLYTHEWOOD – The Bengals girls hosted Spring Valley in their season opener last Wednesday. The Vikings escaped with a narrow 8-7 win. Blythewood dropped a non-region game to Nation Ford 7-10 on Monday, but rebounded back against Mid-Carolina on Tuesday, picking up their first win of the young season with an 8-1 final.
Bengals Clean Up Blythewood
BLYTHEWOOD – Blythewood High School’s Bengal Battalion spent the morning of Friday, Feb. 11 cleaning up Wilson Boulevard from Farrow Rd. to Blythewood Rd. as part of the Keep the Midlands Beautiful Adopt-a-Highway clean-up program. As a part of their physical training, 118 JROTC students picked up trash on roadside and placed it in 18 […]



















