Community Sports

The real winners in the sixth annual Fore the Kids Golf Tournament were the children in the Lancaster community. Kicking off the 2016 tournament, chairperson Marshall Benson began with prayer, thanking God for providing the volunteers, churches, schools and supporters during the past year. Benson said over 1,000 area children heard the good news of Christ’s salvation and 53 accepted Christ as their savior. Many families were strengthened in a positive manner, Benson said.

Can’t quite recall the situation on our way to Rice Elementary that morning, but it seems in the area of Woodland Drive and Laurel Court, Mama, at the wheel of our family station wagon, offered some sage advice. I wasn’t feeling quite up to par and school, to say the least, wasn’t my top priority that morning, but Mama, not about to turn the car around, gave me a good verbal dose to get me “turned around” as we drew closer and closer to Rice. “Robert, know what President Kennedy says?”

Sunshine broke through the clouds at the Kershaw Golf Course on Saturday as 18 teams competed on the links to conquer the challenge of the 2016 KGC Spring Tournament. The tournament to benefit the Kershaw Golf Course saw two teams tie at 54, 18-under par. The foursome of Hubert Brown, Wade Floyd, Jay Pardue and Jerry Pardue captured first place in a card playoff against the team of Caleb Brown, Chandler Norville, Logan Sowell and Mason Sowell, who finished as the runner-up team. The winning team had a birdie on No. 2 to earn top honors.

Former Lancaster Bruins basketball star Sindarius Thornwell has been honored by the Southeastern Conference, selected to the SEC’s All-Defensive squad. Thornwell is a force on both ends of the court for the Gamecocks. Not only an offensive threat from both inside the lane and beyond the arc, he consistently guards the opponent’s top offensive threat on the defensive end.