Following his resignation on Tuesday, Gamecock athletics and Chad Holbrook are negotiating a settlement to compensate the former head baseball coach for the reaming two years on his contract with the school. As Athletics Director Ray Tanner prepares to find his newest leader for the program, price doesn’t seem to be a problem. Salaries have risen as the sport’s spotlight…
LEXINGTON COUNTY, S.C. (Blowfish) — Spirits were high before Wednesday night’s matchup at Lexington County Baseball Stadium as the Blowfish took on the Florence RedWolves for the second time in the season. Although the Blowfish dropped two games last night in Gastonia, and sat at a 0-7 record, the Fish tried to keep things loose going into the ballgame. However,…
COLUMBIA, SC – Every Firefly batter recorded a hit in Wednesday’s 5-1 victory over Lexington at Spirit Communications Park. Columbia totaled 12 hits and picked up its fifth consecutive home win. The Fireflies have won eight of the last 11 and remain just three games behind the Southern Division-leading Greenville Drive with 12 games left in the first half. The…
Clemson, S.C. (CAC) — Clemson Head Coach Larry Penley has been named the East District Coach of the Year for the 2016-17 golf season by the Golf Coaches Association of America. Penley was one of six coaches recognized with a district award. The others were Greg Nye of Penn State (Northeast), Scott Limbaugh of Vanderbilt (Southeast), Herb Page of Kent…
The search is on for the next Gamecocks head baseball coach. USC Athletics Director Ray Tanner spoke Wednesday at a press conference following Tuesday night’s announcement that Chad Holbrook was resigning from his position leading Carolina’s program. Pitching coach Jerry Meyers will be the interim head coach in the meantime, but Tanner stated that none of the current assistants on…
Gamecocks athletics director Ray Tanner spoke on Wednesday at a press conference following the resignation of head baseball coach Chad Holbrook. The two have had a long working relationship and personal friendship that extends past the ball field. Holbrook was an assistant on the USC AD’s teams from 2009-2012 when Tanner was leading the squad to a pair of College World…
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WOLO)- Local baseball fans have mixed reactions to Chad Holbrook’s sudden departure. Some Gamecock baseball enthusiasts said resigning as head coach was the right thing for Holbrook to do. “We kind of feel like it was time for a change, for something new to happen because we go to all the scrimmage games over there and we know…
COLUMBIA, S.C. (USC SID) – South Carolina head women’s basketball coach Dawn Staley will take the Gamecocks to Tokyo, Japan, for three exhibition games this summer. The trip, which spans June 27 to July 5, includes three exhibition games against the Japan National Team. It will be the Gamecocks’ first international trip under Staley. “We’ve been looking for a trip like this…
Columbia, SC (SID) – Dwayne Jones has been named Head Softball Coach at Cardinal Newman School. The former Spring Valley High School Head Softball Coach has a career record of 483-92-1 and led the Vikings to eight AAAA State Championship Series in his 17 seasons at the helm, winning three state titles (1991, 1993 and 1994) and securing five state runner-up finishes….
GASTONIA, N.C. (Blowfish) — Lexington County got their second and third cracks at the Gastonia Grizzlies at Sims Legion Park Tuesday night in a double header. But the double header was unkind to the Fish. In game one Lexington County clubbed ten hits and brought across four Blowfish but fell to Gastonia 11-4 in seven innings. Gastonia got off to…
