BLYTHEWOOD – Although the festivities met with a soggy, anticlimactic ending, with the games to decide the final standings rained out, the S.C. Diamond Invitational got in nearly three full days of baseball last week as teams from across the state descended on Blythewood High School for the fourth consecutive year. While the weather decided […]
Eagles Earn Ugly Season Split Over FCHS
April 23, 2014 By
WINNSBORO – Three outs is all it takes to retire the side in baseball. Give a team more than that and you’ve got trouble. Monday night, the Griffins had trouble. Ten Fairfield Central errors led to no fewer than seven Eagle runs as Richard Winn Academy held off the Griffins 13-10 at Fairfield Central, splitting […]
Cavs Rally Past BHS, Force 3-Way Tie
April 23, 2014 By
COLUMBIA – The Region IV-4A baseball standings got a little tight when Blythewood pitcher Connor Grant hit Richland Northeast right fielder Garrett Lemon with a pitch Tuesday night. With the score knotted at 7, the bases loaded with Cavaliers and one out in the ninth, Grant slipped up and plunked Lemon, who trotted to first […]
Scout Selfie –
April 18, 2014 By
Several members of Winnsboro Girl Scout Troops 2212, 2344 and 453 are shown here snapping selfies of themselves after lunch at Lizards Thicket on April 5. This followed their morning participation in a fundraising walk for the Department of Mental Health Bullstreet Campus. The girls walked with their leaders, family members, friends and even got […]
All That Jazz –
April 18, 2014 By
It was like New Orleans in Ridgeway on Saturday as shoppers were treated to the trumpet sounds of Dennis Bright, a Ridgeway resident. Bright played for appreciative passersby outside The Town Hall Restaurant. Behind him, the restaurant’s owner, Vesha Sanders, is busy dipping ice cream into waffle cones just off the griddle for hungry shoppers.
The Spirit of 76
April 17, 2014 By
A Summer Road Trip Across S.C., Part One: From Spring Branch to Mayesville Summer means road trips. Here’s a guide to crossing South Carolina in three drives. Slung across the Palmetto State like a thin, low-hung belt and cosigning with 176, 378, 301, I-26, I-126, and other roads, 76 runs across the Palmetto State entire. […]
Major Coach of the Year
April 17, 2014 By
BLYTHEWOOD – South Carolina head coach Boo Major of Blythewood has been named SEC Equestrian Coach of the Year for the second straight season. Major’s selection was determined by a vote of the league’s four head coaches. Major, in her 17th season at the University of South Carolina, led the Gamecocks to the 2014 SEC […]
A County Divided: How — and Why — Blythewood Fled Fairfield
April 11, 2014 By
On Nov. 16, 1910, a group of Fairfield County residents petitioned their state government for annexation into Richland County. Here is their story – which is also the story of How Doko of Fairfield County became Blythewood of Richland County . . . Blythewood in Fairfield County Until 1910, Blythewood was content to be in […]
Write-In Pulls Election Night Upset
April 10, 2014 By
RIDGEWAY – Although the results are still unofficial, the final numbers rolling in Tuesday night appear to have carried a surprise candidate to victory in Ridgeway’s municipal elections. Charlene Herring easily won her third term as mayor Tuesday night, besting challenger and sitting Councilwoman Belva Bush 91 votes to 27. Russ Brown also coasted to […]
Diamond Invitational Returns to Blythewood
April 10, 2014 By
BLYTHEWOOD – The Town of Blythewood and Blythewood High School will host the fourth-annual South Carolina Diamond Invitational Wednesday, April 16 to Saturday, April 19 with the Championship Game being played on Saturday at 3:30 p.m. The four-day high school baseball tournament will welcome some of the top teams and players from the Southeast to […]
