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Indian Land High School’s basketball teams are headed to round two after notching Class AA Upper State opening round playoff basketball wins over Fairfield Central High School on Wednesday, Feb. 18.

The No. 1 ranked Lancaster High School Lady Bruins, 25-0, used a late defensive stand to deliver a thrilling 41-40 home win over fifth-rated Southside High School of Greenville in the third round of the Class AAA Upper State basketball playoffs on Monday, Feb. 23.

LHS, with three fouls to give, held off Southside with back-to-back fouls on the inbounds to leave the Lady Tigers only two seconds to get off a desperation shot.

Let’s begin with the obvious: South Carolina State is a mess. No, it’s way beyond a mess; it is on life support and its very existence is in grave danger.

But it can be fixed and, in fact, the solution is fairly straightforward. It’s not rocket science; if GM can go from the brink of extinction to making a profit in less than 24 months, then SC State’s problems can be solved.

Rarely in life do we get to meet a demon face to face. More often than not, it just stalks our path.

But in this case, I would come to know a demon, who was not only traveling my route, but was a neighbor.

In the late 1970s on the northwest side of Chicago, a demon was obviously hard at work. More than 30 youngsters from the area disappeared and no one had a clue.

It was 1978 and I was then living at the northwesterly tip of the city, just off the O’Hare Airport cloverleaf, and traveling to Wisconsin on business most every weekend.