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Lady Bruin, Vols post Classic pool play wins

 

Lancaster and Andrew Jackson each posted two wins in Lancaster County Classic softball pool play games on Wednesday.

Lancaster, in games at Buford, defeated the host Lady Jackets, 3-2 and McBee, 8-1.

Carolina Speedway hosts Trull Memorial race March 7-8

  GASTONIA, N.C. – Carolina Speedway will host the 14th annual Carolina Clash Skyler Trull Memorial race March 7-8.

Vols edge Eagles, earn title game berth

 

Unbeaten Andrew Jackson and Parkwood will meet for the championship in the Comporium Preseason baseball tournament at the Buford High School field at 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, March 8.

Lady Vols battle Bishops for state title

 


Andrew Jackson faces Bishop England for the Class AA girls state championship on Saturday, March 8 in the Colonial Life Arena at 2 p.m.

Losses helped AJ, BE girls

 Class AA girls basketball state finalists Andrew Jackson and Bishop England have 49 wins between them this season, but when their coaches reflect on their stellar seasons, they harken back to holiday tournament losses as key points in their banner campaigns.

The two teams meet Saturday at the Colonial Life Arena at 2 p.m. in Columbia.

Vegetarians live longer

A recent issue of Time magazine cites several reasons for vegetarians living longer. The article was prompted by a report in American Medical Association’s Internal Medicine that a vegetarian diet lowers blood pressure, a key factor in risk of heart failure and stroke.

Fire destroys Kershaw home

A Kershaw home is a total loss after a fire tore through it during the early morning hours of Sunday, March 2.

Sheriff’s deputies and members of the Flat Creek, Kershaw and Rich Hill volunteer fire departments responded at 1:16 a.m. to a house fire in the 3700 block of Meadowview Road, according to a Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office incident report. 

Hunter committed to his town

Kershaw Town Councilman Wade Hunter is committed to his community and on March 4, the Kershaw Chamber of Commerce showed appreciation by honoring him as its “Citizen of the Year.”

Sheila Hinson, president of the Kershaw chamber, said Hunter’s devotion to the community made him a prime candidate for this honor.

“The main reason we chose him is because he’s so active in our town,” she said. 

Lancers thump Titans in sweep

 

The University of South Carolina Lancaster Lancers capped a four-game Region X sweep with a pitching gem on Sunday, March 9 at the Lancaster High School baseball field.

Minimize coyote damage to small pets and property

What Doris Starnes thought was an act of vandalism instead was a pack of determined coyotes.

Some type of prey, most likely a rabbit, sought refuge in a drain pipe buried well beneath the ground in Starnes’ front yard.

Not ones to give up easy, the wild canines tore away the ground and destroyed about 80 feet of the drain pipe. The responding sheriff’s deputy said it probably took hours for the persistent pack to do the damage. The fate of the prey is unknown.