SUMMERTON – After splitting a doubleheader with Clarendon Hall Monday in round one of the SCISA Class A state playoffs, Richard Winn Academy hit the road Tuesday, breaking out the bats for a 10-6 win over the Saints in the deciding game. The win advances the Eagles to the next round, beginning with a doubleheader […]
Winnsboro Native Finalist for Literary Prize
April 24, 2015 By
NEW YORK, N.Y. – Winnsboro native Jack Livings’ recently debuted and highly acclaimed short story collection, “The Dog,” has been named as one of five finalists for the prestigious PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction. The winner of the $25,000 award will be announced at the PEN Literary Awards Ceremony on June 8 at […]
Crusaders Put RWA Bats to Sleep
April 22, 2015 By
WINNSBORO – Timing is everything. In baseball, timely hitting is sometimes the only thing. The Eagles couldn’t get those precious timely hits Tuesday night, stranding 11 runners in a 6-4 loss to Laurens Academy. The SCISA Class A Region II loss puts the standings in chaos heading into the final week of the regular season, […]
Win Puts Griffins into Postseason
April 22, 2015 By
WINNSBORO – The Fairfield Central Griffins hosted the Raiders of Keenan High School, each school tied for the final playoff berth. One stays, one goes. Fairfield Central led the game all the way, but toward the end, Keenan made things interesting. Ultimately, The Griffins prevailed by a score of 8-7. Fairfield Central had a healthy […]
Bengals Make Short Work of Redhawks
April 22, 2015 By
BLYTHEWOOD – It didn’t take long for Blythewood to build a lead on Westwood Tuesday night. The Bengals scored five runs in both the first and second innings at Blythewood Stadium and cruised to an 11-0, five-inning victory over the arch rival Redhawks. Tyler Romanik’s three-run home run in the second punctuated the evening for […]
Father-Daughter Mason Team Solid as a Brick
April 16, 2015 By
BLYTHEWOOD – When Larry Sharpe was looking for a stonemason to build a 40-foot stone fireplace at his Fairfield County entertainment hotspot, The Farm of Ridgeway on Highway 21 between Ridgeway and Blythewood, he wanted the best. And that’s what he got when he hired Jerry Goodman of Blythewood. And Goodman has the title to […]
Residents Stall Rezoning
April 16, 2015 By
BLYTHEWOOD – In addition to two parcels of land on Rimer Pond Road being on the block for Rural Commercial (RC) zoning at the Richland County Planning Commission last week, a 10-acre parcel on Firetower Road was also on the agenda for General Commercial (GC) zoning but was withdrawn by the applicant just before the […]
Big 7th Lifts Demons Over Redhawks
April 15, 2015 By
BLYTHEWOOD – In a reasonably close game up until the last inning, the Demons scored big in the seventh to defeat the Westwood Redhawks by a final score of 12-1. Lugoff-Elgin scored 8 runs in the final inning, with the scoreboard showing just a single run on the Redhawk side. Still, only three runs behind […]
Key Eagle Out in King Loss
April 15, 2015 By
RWA Earns Split with Fairfield Central BATESBURG – There are long nights, and then there are long nights – nights against the Knights. The kind of nights that last two days and cost you more than just a region loss. Richard Winn Academy’s outing against W.W. King Academy lasted just 3 1/3 innings Monday before […]
Vikings Slip Past Bengals
April 15, 2015 By
BLYTHEWOOD – Stranding two baserunners in the bottom of the second inning wound up costing the Blythewood baseball team Tuesday night. Spring Valley put three runs across in the fourth and held off a late rally to get past the Bengals 3-2 at the Blythewood baseball stadium. “The name of the game was we had […]
