By CT McDonald District Five sports teams have started the new season, and some of them have done it in a big way. IRMO On Tuesday Irmo’s girls varsity tennis team defeated Richland Northeast 6-0 on the road in its season opener, and that one goes on the Region 4-4AContinue Reading
By CT McDonald Some Lexington Five fall sports teams are already active, while others are being phased into the season a week at-a-time. As reported last week, the Class 4A Irmo High teams are starting their seasons in their turn, and so it is with the Lexington Five 5A teams,Continue Reading
Dustin Johnson is once again golf’s number one player. The Dutch Fork graduate assumed the world’s number one ranking this past Sunday by dominating the field in Boston. The tournament was the first of three in the PGA Tours version of the play-offs. The 11 shot victory placed him numberContinue Reading
By CT McDonald Irmo High School athletic teams will compete in a new region and classification this year under the recent South Carolina High School League’s (SCHSL) region realignment for 2020 – 2022. They are about to get that new season started, with guidelines and requirements in place to preventContinue Reading
By CT McDonald There is a new baseball championship team based here in the midlands, and its home is west of the Saluda River in Lexington County. West Columbia Post 79 won the South Carolina American League Baseball Summer League (SCALBSL) state championship in a four-team tournament of finalistContinue Reading
Local athletes competed at the National Junior Olympics which was held in Satellite Beach FL Aug. 5-8th. Chantice Burton, 8, of Irmo competed and placed All American in the 100m and long jump. Jalen King, 16, competed and placed All American in the shot put and discus throw. Chaniya Burton,Continue Reading
By CT McDonald Second round competition of the South Carolina American League Baseball Summer League (SCALBSL) playoffs will wrap up this week with one local area midlands team still in the mix at midweek. After Monday’s first game of the best-of-three second round featuring West Columbia Post 79 and FlorenceContinue Reading
Chapin High School varsity cheerleader Sarah Miller has been named the South Carolina High School League (SCHSL) Division 5A Cheerleader of the Year. “I’m so honored to receive this award and couldn’t be more grateful to have been on a team with the hardest working group of girls I know,”Continue Reading
By CT McDonald Local South Carolina American League Summer Baseball (SCALSB) teams got the playoffs started early this week in the best-of-three format, with second round games set to begin before week’s end. West Columbia Post 79 completed the regular season as the undisputed winner of the Midlands Division andContinue Reading
ACC Announces Plans for Football and Fall Olympic Sports GREENSBORO, N.C. (theACC.com) – The Atlantic Coast Conference recognizes the uncertain and challenging environment all areas of our society are facing during the COVID-19 pandemic. Intercollegiate athletics is just one area that we must address as we work to return toContinue Reading
By CT McDonald South Carolina American League Summer Baseball (SCALSB) teams will complete their regular seasons this week, and the playoffs are just ahead for this year’s independent version of American Legion Baseball. West Columbia Post 79 (WCP79) leads the Midlands Division without any threat to its position as theContinue Reading