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By Jed Blackwell
Sports Editor
The South Carolina Automobile Dealers Association will present its annual Mr. Football award on December 11 at the Myrtle Beach Performing Arts Auditorium beginning at 7 p.m. The banquet will be held the evening before the SCADA North-South All-Star football game.
The Mr. Football award, sponsored by the Moore Orthopaedics Clinic, is the […]

By Stan Olenik
For Hometown News
Lexington held their first round lead and won their sixth straight 4A golf title by four shots over Dorman at Three Pines Country Club in Woodruff. Lexington shot rounds of 318 and 324 for a four shot victory over the Cavaliers.
Maureen Dunnagan may have set a state record by being a […]

By Jed Blackwell
Sports Editor
Byrnes tailback Marcus Lattimore was disgusted with an incomplete pass attempt in the third quarter of last week’s game against Dorman.
“That killed me, man,” Lattimore said of his toss toward an open Corey Miller, which was batted down by Dorman’s Kendrick Smith. “I swear I didn’t see him. I thought for sure […]

By Stan Olenik
For Hometown News
Spartanburg County reclaimed the Powerade Cyder Cup with a four-point win in the annual Ryder Cup style matches held at River Falls Plantation.  The Spartanburg golfers won nine of the sixteen final matches to win the championship 18-14.
The tournament included the top sixteen golfers from each counties amateur championship playing a […]

By Jed Blackwell
Sports Editor
For one night last week, the Spartanburg and Boiling Springs volleyball teams squared off in a match in which the score was secondary.
The Vikings and Bulldogs participated in one of many “Dig for the Cure” events that are scheduled to take place this month, as local volleyball teams observe National Breast Cancer […]

By Stan Olenik
For HOMETOWN NEWS
MJ Mcguire of St Petersburg, Florida won the 2009 Bobby Chapman Junior Invitational championship with a birdie on the first sudden death playoff hole. McGuire topped first round leader Austin Cody of North Charleston for the championship.
“It is great for my confidence to win such a prestigious tournament,” said the 16-year […]

By Stan Olenik
For Hometown News
The Boiling Springs girls  cross country team won the Coaches Classic Championship division title in Columbia on Saturday. The Bulldog cross-country runners edged out Bluffton to take the top spot in the division.
The race was run on the Clemson Sandhills Research Center grounds, the same track that will host the state […]

By Stan Olenik
For Hometown News
The Dorman boys’ cross-country team started the new season right where they finished last season. The Cavaliers claimed the title in the International Division race at the Eye Opener Cross Country meet at Milliken.
   Dorman won the South Carolina 4A title last November and are considered a favorite for a second […]

By Stan Olenik
For Hometown News
Broome cross-country coach Skip Frye gave his team some advice about running in Saturday’s Eye Opener. Frye told his team you can’t win the race in the first mile. It might also be a suggestion for the entire season. You can’t win a state championship in the first race.
The first […]

By Jed Blackwell
Sports Editor
Dorman head coach Dave Gutshall said the Cavaliers’ 295-yard rushing output against Spartanburg last Friday was not by design. Instead, Dorman took advantage of an opportunity in its 20-7 victory over the crosstown-rival Vikings.
“The way they lined up, we know they were going to give us the run,” Gutshall said. “They weren’t […]