BLYTHEWOOD – The Westwood offense against Region IV-4A rival Blythewood Friday night centered on Rudy Mitchell. It wasn’t that Mitchell sparked the offense or made the right run at the right time. Mitchell was the Redhawks offense in a 35-31 victory over the Bengals. Mitchell carried the ball 41 times and rushed for a school-record […]
Ruff Night for the Raiders
October 24, 2015 By
Sophomore Running Back Propels Griffins to Win COLUMBIA – Maybe Fairfield Central’s offense didn’t bring their ‘A’ game into Bolden Stadium Friday night. Head coach Demetrius Davis certainly didn’t think so. But his defense dug their heels in firmly enough to shut out the Keenan Raiders, while a pair of touchdown runs from Tony […]
First of Large Signs Coming Downs
October 22, 2015 By
BLYTHEWOOD – The big signs are coming down. In response to a town ordinance passed in 2009 to require all signs in the town to conform to new standards by the year 2016 (high-rise interstate signs by 2020), Larry Sharpe Jr. presented plans to the Board of Architecture Review (BAR) Monday night for replacing nonconforming […]
Relay Teams Swim into Top 10
October 21, 2015 By
COLUMBIA – The Blythewood swim teams shattered school records in the 4A state swim meet Saturday, with the boys’ relay team notching top-10 finishes for the first time in school history. In the 200 medley relay, Sean Bell, Ademar Cubero, Hayden Kasavicha and Matthew Owens broke their own school record by over 3 seconds to […]
Turnovers Sink Blazers
October 20, 2015 By
BLYTHEWOOD – The Westwood Redhawks hosted the Ridge View Blazers Friday night at Richland 2 Stadium for a region football game. With Ridge View coming off a victory against the tough Dutch Fork Silver Foxes, it would seem like the Redhawks would have their hands full of Blazer; but it was not so, as Westwood […]
Hawks Overpower Richard Winn
October 19, 2015 By
WINNSBORO – Richard Winn Academy (6-2, 4-2) looked for a chance Friday to make amends for last week’s first loss in 54 weeks. Greenwood Christian (7-1, 5-1) had other plans, dropping the Eagles 56-23 and handing Richard Winn their first two-game losing streak in two years. “We’re fighting for our football lives now,” RWA head […]
Fairfield Responds to Disaster
October 18, 2015 By
WINNSBORO – A Fairfield County caravan bearing food, water and other supplies grew as it traveled last Friday, even gathering volunteers to help alleviate the suffering of families who lost their homes and other possessions in the recent statewide flooding. It all started when Randy Wilkes and his wife Kim of Ridgeway remembered what Randy […]
Foxes Outlast Blythewood
October 17, 2015 By
BLYTHEWOOD – Because of the flooding two weeks ago, Blythewood had postponed last week’s scheduled Region IV-4A opener at Spring Valley to Tuesday, then postponed the game again to Nov. 13. Dutch Fork, on the other hand, opened its region slate with a 28-21 loss to Ridge View at District 2 Stadium Tuesday night. Just […]
McManus, Griffins Carve Up Pelion
October 17, 2015 By
WINNSBORO – It was a quiet second half at E.K. McLendon Stadium Friday night as both the Fairfield Central Griffins and the visiting Pelion Panthers were held off the scoreboard. The first half, however, was the proverbial highlight reel for the Griffins and their quarterback, Stanley McManus. McManus carved up the Pelion secondary for 214 […]
Always the Optimist
October 15, 2015 By
BLYTHEWOOD – Keri Boyce of LongCreek Plantation has long been passionate about promoting youth service projects. So when the opportunity to organize an Optimist Club presented itself last year, she saw it as a natural extension of what she had already been doing. To that end, she joined fellow Blythewoodians Lola Cumbo and Sierra Kelly […]
