Lexington-Richland School District Five is implementing guidelines for spectators at sporting events for the 2020-2021 school year. School District Five will follow the South Carolina High School League’s (SCHSL) guidelines for spectators and venues to account for COVID-19. This comes as the league was approved to host events with atContinue Reading
By CT McDonald After a long wait and much debate, public high school football gets under way in South Carolina this week. Other fall sports teams and independent school football teams have been in action for a few weeks, and now it is time for the Friday Night Stadium LightsContinue Reading
Major League Fishing (MLF) and FLW recently announced the 2021 Tackle Warehouse Pro Circuit schedule, will kick off February 11, 2021 at Lake Okeechobee in Florida, and wrap up August 1, 2021 at the St. Lawrence River in New York. The 26th season of FLW’s top professional circuit will featureContinue Reading
Dontray Jemison and Jim Mosteller (recreation deacon at Cornerstone church) organized a basketball tournament. Six teams played in a round robin and then a single elimination championship, for a total of eight games. Many of the players had played basketball for Irmo High School, but there were players from allContinue Reading
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