LEWISVILLE – The Richard Winn JV and varsity volleyball teams kept their early unblemished records intact with their second season victory over the Lewisville Lady Lions on Monday. The Lady Eagles varsity defeated LHS once again in three straight games, 25-12, 25-11 and 25-11, this time on Lewisville’s home court. RWA’s JV team won in […]
Redhawks Skin Gators
August 26, 2014 By
LEXINGTON – The Westwood Redhawk football team, in its third year and its 4A debut, came onto the field Saturday and showed no mercy. Despite the team’s youth and relatively small school size for a 4A team, they demolished the Gators of River Bluff High School, 46-0. Fortunately for the teams, the prior game […]
B-C Sinks Griffins in Double OT Thriller
August 25, 2014 By
CAYCE – Forty-eight minutes was not enough for the Bearcats of Brookland-Cayce to christen their new stadium with a win in the suffocating heat Friday night against a Fairfield Central squad feeling their way around for the first time behind sophomore quarterback Stanley McManus. One overtime would also not quite do the trick, as […]
Eagles Blister Fountain Inn
August 25, 2014 By
WINNSBORO – Richard Winn Academy began its season with a dominating 64-0 victory over Fountain Inn Christian, led by senior quarterback Matt Taylor. Taylor accounted for four rushing touchdowns as Richard Winn dominated the game on the ground. The Eagles began their dominating performance with a 48-yard rushing touchdown by Taylor on the game’s […]
Bearcats Exploit Bengal Youth in Opener
August 25, 2014 By
BLYTHEWOOD – Bengals’ head coach Dan Morgan said before the season that his Bengals would be talented but young this year. In the opener Friday night against Rock Hill, it was the youth that showed up as Blythewood fell 40-6 to the Bearcats at home. There is hope, however. Last season, the Bengals fell […]
Reactor Money Talks Begin
August 22, 2014 By
Delegation Pitches Ideas to County WINNSBORO – In a meeting at the Midlands Tech QuickJobs center Monday night, six of seven County Council members sat down with Fairfield County’s legislative delegation to begin discussions about the future impact of expected revenues from two new reactors currently under construction at the V.C. Summer Station in Jenkinsville. […]
Botanical Beauty
August 21, 2014 By
Horticulture magazine praised it as “one of 10 gardens that inspire.” HGTV calls it “one of 20 great public gardens across America.” Well you don’t have to drive across America to see it. A 30-mile drive will take you to the Riverbanks Zoo Botanical Garden, across the Saluda River from the zoo proper. Now’s a […]
Kissimmee and Tell –
August 21, 2014 By
Westwood junior TJ White of Blythewood (left) congratulates teammates after a win in the Gold Medal Games earlier this month. White was selected to play for the USSSA/USA 15u National Team that competed at the Houston Astros spring training facilities in Kissimmee, Fla., Aug. 4-7. The USA National Team played against teams from Italy, Germany, Great Britain, […]
All Tuned Up and Ready to Go . . .
August 21, 2014 By
Bengals, ‘Hawks, Eagles, Griffins Take in Jamboree Action COLUMBIA/LAURENS – In their final tune-ups before this weekend’s launch of the 2014 high school football season, local teams got a taste of live, game-like action in area jamborees. Westwood Saturday afternoon, the Westwood Redhawks’ starting eleven blanked Irmo 14-0 in the first of two quarters of […]
Lady Eagles Sweep Lewisville
August 20, 2014 By
WINNSBORO – Even though the season is still very young, the Richard Winn varsity volleyball team is showing signs of greatness. The team was victorious in all four of their pre-season jamboree matches at Newberry College on last Saturday, defeating Union County High School, Mid-Carolina High School, King Academy and Laurens Academy. The season opener […]
