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  • Defense keys Lady Vols to Classic title

     

       

    BUFORD – Andrew Jackson captured the title in the third annual Lancaster County Classic softball tournament, taking a 3-1 win over county foe Indian Land on Saturday night at the Buford High School softball field.

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  • Correction

    The date for the Lancaster County Republican Women meeting is March 20 not March 6. The date was incorrect in the story in the Sunday edition of The Lancaster News.

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  • Coach Wells deserving of Shrine Bowl honor

    Come mid-December, Buford High School head football coach Mike Wells is in for a real gridiron treat.
    Wells, a veteran of 28 years in prep coaching, will experience one of the top benefits of being a high school football coach in the Carolinas as the Whare Shoals native will serve as a coach on the S.C. Shrine Bowl staff.
    The Shrine Bowl is the annual all-star football game, which features the top senior players in the Carolinas.

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  • Stallions hold off Bruins

    Ernie Rowell
    For The Lancaster News
    South Pointe of Rock Hill held on to take the championship in the second annual Comporium Preseason Baseball Tournament at Andrew Jackson High School on Friday night.
    The Stallions built an 8-2 lead on Lancaster, but had to hold on with a furious Bruins’ rally in the seventh inning to take an 8-7 win and the crown.
    Khory Phillips, who belted a pair of homers and drove in six runs, highlighted the LHS seventh inning rally with a grand slam.

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  • County teams battling for Classic crown

    Kevin Sims
    For The Lancaster News
    Four Lancaster County high school softball teams advanced to the championship round in the third annual Lancaster County Classic.
    The four Lancaster County schools were slated to meet at the Buford High School softball field on Saturday for four games to decide the champion.
    Lancaster, which won its pool, faced Indian Land in the Saturday opener, followed by Andrew Jackson against Buford, a pool champion. Indian Land and AJ finished as the pool runner-up teams.

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  • Lady Bruins roll in tourney play

    Eric Rowell
    For The Lancaster News
    The Lancaster Lady Bruins, with two impressive wins, look to be on their way to a fourth preseason girls soccer championship.
    The Lady Bruins, who have won three straight Cyclone Cup titles in Chester, played host to their own tournament and rolled to big wins Thursday and Friday.
    Lancaster opened play Thursday with a 7-0 victory over York and then rolled to an 8-0 win over Lugoff-Elgin.

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  • Lady Bruins’ hopes are high for softball season

    Robert Howey
    For The Lancaster News
    Hopes are high for the 2012 Lancaster Hgh School Lady Bruins softball season.
    The LHS girls, under the leadership of second-year head coach Kim Perry, return four all-region players from a squad, which went 12-9 and was the district runner-up and also finished as the region runner-up.
    “We’ve been working hard since November,” said Perry, who earned the Region III-AAAA softball coach of the year last season.  “We have a positive feeling about our new season.

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  • Man arrested in murder

    Christopher Sardelli
    csardelli@thelancasternews.com
    Tips from the community and evidence gathered by crime scene investigators helped deputies arrest a Lancaster man this week for murder.
    Terry Catoe, 39, 747 Shiloh Unity Road, was charged Thursday with murder in the killing of Lancaster resident Linda Massey Gaymon, 54, according to a sheriff’s office press release.
    Gaymon’s body was found inside a vacant house in the 900 block of Starnes Street Feb. 24.

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  • Pet goats stolen from local farm

    Reece Murphy
    rmurphy@thelancasternews.com
    While any theft is a bad theft, there’s no getting around the fact that some are worse than others. Sometimes it’s not so much because of the value of what’s stolen, but because of who it happens to and what the items are.              
    Take, for instance, Lois and Neal Zarelli. The couple is asking for the public’s help in finding their stolen goats, two of which were only two days old.

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  • City nixes raise motion

    Jesef Williams
    jwilliams@thelancasternews.com
    Sara Eddins wanted city of Lancaster employees to get an immediate pay raise. But her colleagues obviously felt differently.
    Prior to voting on a mid-year budget revision at Tuesday’s meeting, the city councilwoman motioned to give all employees an immediate 4 percent raise.
    Her motion died from lack of a second.
    “It’s time we come through for our employees, because we need them,” Eddins said during Tuesday’s discussion.

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