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Number of Upstate players among A-Sun’s best

After winning 41 games and advancing to the championship game of the A-Sun Tournament, the USC Upstate softball team ended the season by topping the league in seven statistical categories.
Upstate finished the year with a .980 fielding percentage to top all A-Sun teams. The percentage is tied with East […]

By Jed Blackwell
Sports Editor

Photo By Travis Jenkins
Chesnee’s Zack Miller clears the last hurdle on the way to a victory in the 110 hurdles at the 2A state track meet on Saturday. The victory was the Eagles first-ever state title in a sport other than baseball.

On Friday, Chesnee track and  cross-country coach Eric Ludeman announced that […]

By Jed Blackwell
Sports Editor

File Photo By Stan Olenik
Byrnes’ Torrey Johnson is one of three local golfers to be named to next week’s North-South All-Star matches in Myrtle Beach.
Five local athletes and one coach have been selected for the North-South All-Star games for their respective sports.
Byrnes’ Torrey Johnson, Dorman’s Arran Setro and Gaffney’s Adam Goins were […]

Eagles one win from 2A title; Byrnes, Dorman postponed
By Jed Blackwell
Sports Editor
The Chesnee Eagles used an outstanding performance on the mound by Brandon Henderson and an 11-run outburst at the plate to take control of the 2A baseball championship series Monday night.
Chesnee defeated Hanahan 11-0, and now needs a win at home on Wednesday to […]

Late run gives Byrnes District title
By Leon G. Russ
HOMETOWN NEWS

 There was one out in the bottom of the ninth, the score knotted at one.  Johnny Ponder was standing on third.  Ninety feet stood between him, home plate and a Region IV District championship for the Byrnes Rebels.
Across the diamond, catcher Andrew Cleveland led off first […]

By Jed Blackwell
Hometown News
Seven local athletes and one coach will represent the area at a pair of South Carolina Soccer Coaches Association all-star events this summer.
Athletes from Dorman, Gaffney and Woodruff will participate in the events, while Byrnes boys head coach Matt Brophy will direct an all-star squad.
Dorman forward Daisy Walker has been selected to […]

By Jed Blackwell
Sports Editor

Photo by Phil Buchheit
The Lady Cavaliers defeated the Easley Green Wave 11-0 in the opening round of the 4A girls soccer playoffs Monday night.

Playoffs got underway for area soccer teams on Monday night, and one local tennis team was still alive early in the week.
The Dorman tennis team was to host […]

Having just completed his second year as a student-assistant coach for the USC Upstate tennis teams, Julio Peralta continues to prove he is among the world’s most elite players, himself, as the business administration major posted a 6-1, 6-4 upset of 301st-ranked Caitlin Gard of Hungary in the finals of the Country Club of Spartanburg […]

In the movie Days of Thunder, Cole Trickle became upset with teammate Russ Wheeler because he felt that Wheeler was harassing him on track. It looks as if the modern day version of Days of Thunder is being played out between Jeff Gordon and Jimmy Johnson.
In the movie, both Trickle and Wheeler drove for a […]

Putting ink to paper on Tuesday, April 20, Johnna Stripling made the leap from former Spartanburg Viking to future Spartanburg Methodist Pioneer.
Stripling was the second area player recruited by SMC Women’s Basketball Head Coach MJ Napfzger.  The previous week Dorman’s Ashia Mitchell signed on to the SMC program.
Will it be difficult for Stripling to put […]