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Bruins fifth in state golf...

The Lancaster High School golf team earned a fifth-place finish in the Class AAAA state golf tournament at the Barony Course at Hilton Head on Tuesday.

Lancaster, the Class AAAA Upper State runner-up, shot a 614 (303-311) over two days to finish in the top five.

A.C. Flora of Columbia posted a 592 to take the Falcons’ eighth straight links crown.

Flora was followed by Myrtle Beach 602, Wren 604, Hilton Head 611 and LHS at 614.

Blackwelder named 911 center...

Stephen Blackwelder, the Lancaster County fire marshal since 2007, has been named the county’s director of public safety communications.
Blackwelder will begin his new job in the county’s emergency services June 12. He will oversee the daily operation and 20 employees at the public safety communications center on Pageland Highway. Its dispatchers answer 911 calls and handle communications with law enforcement officers and fire and EMS crews.

Wren ends LHS softball drive

Wren ended the Lancaster Lady Bruins’ Class AAAA postseason softball run, taking a 4-1 win over the LHS girls on Monday at WHS.

Lady Hurricanes’ Brianna McBride led WHS with a hit, two RBIs and scored a run.

WHS pitchers Emma and Ashley Collins combined to hold LHS to four hits and struck out six.

Sydney Cauthen led the Lady Bruins with a hit and a walk. Ashley Abbott had a hit and a sacrifice.

BHS faces must-win situation...

Buford will have to bounce back in order to claim its second straight Class AA softball state championship.

The Lady Jackets, in their final home game of the 2017 season, dropped the best-of-three series opener as Latta ignited for three runs in the seventh inning to defeat BHS, 6-5 Monday at the BHS field.

Game two is 6 p.m. today at Latta where 23-5 Buford must win to force a rubber game Friday at a neutral site.

Defense leads in LHS spring game

In the final athletic event on the natural turf at Lancaster Memorial Stadium, the blue and white teams battled to a scoreless tie in the annual Bruins spring football game Thursday.

The game, which featured no kicking, had the teams put the ball in play and if no first down was made, the ball went back to the original line of scrimmage.

Panthers halt Jackets’ playoff...

Buford’s banner run in the Class AA baseball Lower State championship playoffs ended with a tough 5-4 loss to host Batesburg-Leesville on Monday night.

The Panthers, up 5-2 going to the top of the seventh, held off the Jackets’ valiant charge to take the narrow win to stay alive in postseason play.

BLHS rallied from a 2-1 deficit to score four runs in the bottom of the sixth to take the 5-2 edge.

Funderburk to guide BHS athletics

BUFORD – Take the assistant tag off Eric Funderburk’s assistant athletic director’s title.

He’s officially the Buford High School athletics director, replacing veteran Jackets’ AD Mike Wells, who is retiring with the 2016-17 school year.

Column: Trump’s nuts? So is...

Dr. John Gartner, a practicing psychotherapist and former faculty member at Johns Hopkins University Medical School, says the psychiatric community has an ethical responsibility to warn America that Donald Trump has a dangerous mental illness.

County pool opens May 27

The Lancaster County pool, at 106 South Wylie Street, opens for the 2017 season May 27.

Vicki Robinson is the pool manger.

Public swimming is Monday-Friday, 3 p.m. to 5, Saturday, noon to 5 p.m. and Sunday, 1:30 p.m. to 4:30.

Lancaster Super Speedway to host...

Lancaster Super Speedway is hosting ladies night in honor of all mothers for Mother’s Day weekend Saturday night at the half-mile track.

The track special is ladies grandstands admission $5.

The LSS card will featured seven exciting divisions of racing action, with the headliner for the night Andrew Baker.

Baker will start in the rear of the field for the Renegade main event, after capturing three straight wins as per track rules.