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  • AAA wins district title
    The Lancaster Dixie Baseball AAA all-stars completed a stellar tournament run, rolling to a 4-0 mark and the District Two crown highlighted by a 13-0 win over Gaffney in four innings at the Rodman Sports Complex in Chester County on Wednesday night. The mound duo of Kaden Sapp and Adam Wright teamed for the shutout. Sapp hurled three innings and notched nine strikeouts, while Wright went an inning and fanned two.
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  • Douglas hails Summitt a coach for life
    Former Tennessee and Andrew Jackson High School basketball star Karla Douglas, the former Karla Horton, called the passing of her UT Lady Vols coach Pat Summitt “another gut punch.” Douglas knows all too well. She’s been there. Five months ago, she lost her husband David, a former Tennessee standout lineman who later played in the NFL with Cincinnati and New England, to brain cancer. Some five years ago, she lost her son, Aaron, who also played college football.
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  • P-31 team in busy week
    Lancaster Post 31 is in a busy week of League V baseball play as it looks to take the league title as it heads to the Legion baseball Upper State playoffs. Lancaster, in a rare Sunday game, dropped a 6-5 home loss to Rock Hill Post 34 at Eggleton Field. P-31, up 3-0 at one point in the game, saw Rock Hill P-34 rally to take the one-run win. Lancaster, 7-3, battled to the wire, scoring two runs in the final frame. Brady Horton opened the Lancaster ninth with a hit and Druw Rollings drew a walk to put runners at first and second.
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  • AAA stars open strong in district tournament
    The Lancaster Dixie Baseball AAA all-stars (ages 10U) are going great guns in the District Two tournament at the Rodman Complex in Richburg. The AAA stars are 2-0 after ripping Gaffney, 24-3 and York, 20-0. The Lancaster stars routed Gaffney by 21 runs on Monday night at the Rodman Complex. Toby Taylor paced the AAA stars with a single, double and a triple and scored two runs. Kaden Sapp supplied two hits and a double and tallied a run.
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  • Softball stars going strong
    The Lancaster County Dixie Softball teams are going strong in the Dixie Softball District 2 tournament at Springdale Park. The Lancaster County Angels stars, ages 9-10, are unbeaten with a 3-0 record. The Angels stars opened with an 18-2 win over Chester and then notched a 9-4 win over Union on Sunday. On Monday, the Angels rolled to a 31-9 victory over Lewisville.
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  • Dixie Baseball stars start strong
    The Lancaster Dixie Baseball AA (8U) all-stars opened play in the 2016 District 2 tournament, taking a thrilling 6-5 win over the Union all-stars at the Cherokee Sports Complex in Gaffney on Saturday. The Union team is the defending state champion and was the World Series runner-up. Lancaster built a 5-1 lead and was able to hold on for the one-run win. “We put the pressure on Union by scoring three runs in that first inning and played great defense to hold on for the win” Lancaster manager John Avant said.
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  • Lancaster P-31 goes 1-2 in tourney
    The Lancaster Post 31 team went 1-2 in the Carolinas Challenge at Asheboro N.C., over the weekend. The P-31 team was 1-1 in two games Saturday before dropping a 10-0 loss to Rowan County, N.C., at McCrary Park in Asheboro. Lancaster opened the baseball tourney play, taking a 6-2 win over Kernersville, N.C. In that game, Ryan Griffin and Eric Miles each had two hits to lead the Lancaster offense. Evan Flynn had a hit and twice reached after being hit by a pitch and scored two runs for Post 31.
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  • Rain a pain for P-31 baseball play
    Lancaster Post 31 American Legion baseball has been plagued by wet weather this week. Post 31, 2-2 on the season, had two game halted due to rain. On Tuesday, Lancaster was at Fort Mill for a League V game with host Post 43 and play was washed out in the third inning with the home team on top, 7-1. On Wednesday, a late afternoon thunderstorm canceled play at Eggleton Field. Lancaster was slated to face Rock Hill Post 34 at home, but the storm halted the action before the opening pitch.
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  • Dixie Softball stars set for tourney
    Lancaster County Parks and Recreation girls softball all-star teams will open play in the Dixie Softball District 2 tournament at Lancaster’s Springdale Park this weekend. Lancaster County will field three all-star teams – Darlings (ages 7-8), Angels (ages 9-10) and Ponytails (ages 11-12). u The Lancaster County Darlings all-stars are led by coach Gene Knight. He is assisted by Garrett Plyler, Darrell McManus and Chris Timmons. The Darlings stars open play Saturday at noon when they face Chester.
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  • Lancaster Piranhas fall in home meet
    The Lancaster Piranhas fell to 1-2 on the season after dropping a 335-243 loss to the Lake Wylie Gators at home on Monday. Lancaster, in the loss, was led by Amelia Wright, Samuel Page and Alaina Houghtaling who had three firsts each. Bristol Glenn, Titus Trammell, Isabella Thorpe, Charlee Brooke Henry and Tamra Tipton each posted two wins in the meet. Single winners included Alex Trimnal, Mallory McDow, Rose Ellis, Ryder Lucas, Will Wilson, Tyler Tipton and Matt Prete. Lancaster visited River Hills on Thursday in Metrolina League swim meet action.
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