Today's Sports

Former Lancaster Golf Club champion Chris Johnson holds a five-shot lead heading into the final round of the club championship tournament today at the LGC.Johnson, playing from the white tees with the rest of the championship field, shot a sizzling 67 in the opening 18 holes Saturday.“Chris is going to be awful tough to catch with a five-shot lead going into Sunday,” said Fredrick Thomas of the LGC staff.

Jeff Reynolds will defend his Lancaster Golf Club championship this weekend, seeking to top a field of 23 hopefuls in the two-day tournament.Reynolds, in capturing his first LGC title last August, won a second-hole playoff with Drew Walters, the USC-Lancaster golfer who finished as the runner-up medalist in the National Junior College Athletic Association tournament earlier this summer.Reynolds, down as many as four shots in the final six holes last year, made a solid late charge to force the play-off with Walters.

With the county high school kickoffs two weeks away, teams will move their preseason schedules into area jamboree action.Buford and Andrew Jackson get the jump on their county grid brethren as they battle in the 33rd annual Camden Shrine Jamboree tonight at Camden’s Zemp Stadium.

Late model driver Andy Blackwood notched a solid win at Lancaster Motor Speedway on Saturday night to highlight an action-packed night.As soon as the late model green flag flew, Blackwood did not let anything get in his way.He took the lead and as soon as he did, his crew and family were on their feet in support of Blackwood.Blackwood knew Mike Huey was second, and every lap Huey tried to get Blackwood, but Blackwood was determined and took the checkers.Blackwood was followed by Ron Parker, Huey, Daniel Tucker and Chris Hargett.u I