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By Jed Blackwell
Sports Editor
Hillcrest beat Aiken 2-0 to win the Gold Bracket championship of the Tournament of Champions Saturday at Dorman High School.
The two-day event matched some of the best teams in the state and from around the Southeast across all classifications in two rounds of pool play and an event-ending single-elimination tournament.
Hillcrest went undefeated […]

By Jed Blackwell
Sports Editor
Dorman will host a stellar field of volleyball teams this week, as the Tournament of Champions returns for another season.
The tournament, which includes many state championship and playoff teams from South Carolina and other states, is perenially one of the top events in South Carolina.
“I think we’ve got a really strong field,” […]

Broome High School’s softball team hosted a “Paint the Park Pink” event last Thursday night for their game against Woodruff. Money was raised for Breast Cancer Awareness and the team sported pink uniforms.
 
Photo by Jed Blackwell
 

By Jed Blackwell
Sports Editor
The state’s 2A athletic classification could be crowning two football champions next fall.
If a proposal passed last week by 2A athletic directors is ratified by the Activities Committee and Executive Committee of the South Carolina High School League, the 2A class will join 1A and 4A in splitting into large and small […]

By Jed Blackwell
There weren’t any major surprises  in the county during last week’s National Signing Day.
Instead, there were only smiles.

Seven local football players signed letters-of-intent to play at  Division I BCS or FCS schools, with most making good on commitments made several months ago.
Woodruff’s B.J. Johnson offered the day’s only surprise, and that was a […]

A number of local wrestling teams will take to the mat this week in the hopes of winning a state championship.
Duals meet playoffs will begin on Wednesday, as the team portion of the state championship gets underway.
Three local 2A teams qualified for the playoffs, and two brought home the top two seeds.
For the rest of […]

By Jed Blackwell
Sports Editor
Two local high school baseball teams will begin their seasons with targets on their backs.
Byrnes and Chesnee each led their respective classifications’ pre-season polls last week, as the South Carolina Baseball Coaches Association has ranked Byrnes as the #1 4A team and Chesnee as #1 in the 2A classification.
The Rebels, last year’s […]

By Garrett Mitchell
For Hometown News

Broome’s Greg Honeycutt drives past Woodruff’s Javarious Leaman during Friday night’s game. Honeycutt and the Centurions downed Woodruff 76-59 to remain unbeaten in Region II-2A.
The Broome boys’ basketball team has excelled as road warriors this season.  The Centurions picked up their third consecutive region win in as many games, all on […]

By Stan Olenik
For Hometown News

Photo By Stan Olenik
Spartanburg’s Elijah Greene tries to break free from a Woodruff opponent during the finals of the 215-pound weight class at the Armstrong Rebels Invitational at Byrnes last week. Greene won his weight class and helped the Vikings finish fifth in the tournament.
The team championship at the Armstrong Rebel […]

By Jed Blackwell
Sports Editor

Andre Brewton and the Byrnes Rebels bounced back from a 2-2 start to claim the program’s 10th football state championship with a 34-14 victory over Dorman.

1      Byrnes back on top
Despite heavy graduation losses and early-season struggles, the Byrnes football team returned to the top of the state rankings in 2010. The […]