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By Jed Blackwell
Sports Editor
Before taking the job as head coach at Wren High School six years ago, Mickey Moss had never considered beginning his team’s football season a week early.
Moss, now the head coach at Blacksburg, has begun with a Week Zero game every year since.
He doesn’t want to do it again.
Moss and the Wildcats […]

By Jed Blackwell
Sports Editor
Four local schools will change regions and nearly every area team will be affected under a proposed realignment plan released by the South Carolina High School League last week.
Spartanburg will move from its’ traditional home in Region II-4A to Region III-4A, while the old Region II-2A will be no more, with Chesnee […]

By Stan Olenik
For Hometown News
Drayton Melton and Leslie Cox made their first round leads hold up to claim the boys and girls titles at the Coca-Cola Spartanburg County Junior Amateur championship.
Cox carried a three shot lead into the final round but struggled to start her final round.
“I played pretty bad on the font and was […]

By Stan Olenik
For Hometown News
Daniel Stanley did not shoot a record setting ten-under par 62 in the final round of the 2009 Coca-Cola Spartanburg County Amateur but his three-under par 69 was good enough for his second straight championship.
The Boiling Springs High School grad once again battled Kyle Milner for the title but this year […]

By Stan Olenik
For Hometown News
Most of the time when a golfer says they lost their putter it usually means they didn’t have any confidence in their ability to make putts. However, sometimes when a golfer says she lost her putter, it really means she lost her putter.
Stephanie Van Inwagen lost her putter late in the […]

By Jed Blackwell
Sports Editor
A group of young baseball players from the area will soon learn first hand about the game’s greatest players.
The Upstate Braves, a 12-and-under travel team built on players from District Five and one from Boiling Springs, will head to Cooperstown, New York for a tournament at the Baseball Hall of Fame.
“It’s a […]

One of the Upper State’s premiere 1A baseball teams has a new leader.
Landrum High School named Dennis Brown head coach on Monday, ending a search that began at the end of the 1A playoffs. Don Landrum had held the job on an interim basis last season.
“As everybody knows, baseball is #1 in Landrum,” Athletic Director […]

 By Jed Blackwell
Sports Editor
The Boiling Springs High School football team will miss all scheduled jamborees and will not be allowed to participate in the 4A playoffs this season due to rules violations resulting from playing an 8th grader in contact drills during spring practice.
The South Carolina High School League’s Executive Committee voted 12-0 last week […]

By Stan Olenik
For Hometown News
Josh Gallman led wire to wire to claim the Palmetto Amateur Championship at the Palmetto Golf Club in Aiken. The victory gives the rising senior at USC Upstate a victory in one of the most prestigious amateur events in the country.
“This was very exciting and I really enjoyed it, I had […]

By Leon G. Russ
HOMETOWN NEWS
The Blue Eagles, your local wooden bat collegiate level baseball team, has opened its second season in the Southern Collegiate Baseball League.
The Blue Eagles kicked-off their second season on Monday.  The home opener at Wofford College’s Russell C. Johnson Field is slated for Saturday versus the Asheville Redbirds.  Baseball purists will […]