It’s the Season of the Total Eclipse! The Blowfish Home Opener is Thursday June 1st. Gates open at 6pm and fans will be entertained by the Lexington Community Band during pre game festivities. It’s the first Thirsty Thursday of the season with half off Bud/Bud Light and Stella till 8. 7:05pm game time when the Blowfish take on the High…
Columbia, S.C. (WOLO) – Stephen Davis Jr., a native of Dutch Fork, S.C., is set to join South Carolina this season as a walk-on. Davis, a standout player at Dutch Fork, left Auburn during the offseason. At Auburn, Davis redshirted his freshman year due to a knee injury suffered during his senior year of high school. Davis was a former three-star recruit…
COLUMBIA, SC (Fireflies) – Columbia’s bats sizzled for a second straight night and the home team ripped through Augusta, 8-2. The Fireflies have outscored the GreenJackets 22-4 over the first two games of the series and have compiled 24 hits. Furthermore, Columbia has outscored the GreenJackets 58-16 in six games at Spirit Communications Park this year. Columbia is 6-0 at…
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Chad Holbrook is confident he’s the coach to lead South Carolina back to its NCAA Tournament success, despite missing the postseason for a second time in three seasons. “I met with the team,” Holbrook said Tuesday. “We’re making progress and making plans to make sure that this doesn’t happen again in 2018.” Because it has already…
The Fireflies have another home game tonight against the Augusta GreenJackets. The Fireflies tied a franchise record Monday scoring 14 runs in seven-innings in a rain-shortened game. The star of Mondays game was Dash Winningham who set multiple team records Monday.Winningham finished the day with 2 homers, 6 RBI’s, 10 extra bases, and tied the franchise mark with 3 extra…
New York, N.Y. (WOLO) – Wayne Gallman has officially signed his rookie deal with the Giants, which will earn him a base salary of 2.819 million dollars over four years. In addition to that, Gallman received a $419,644 signing bonus. With the signing of Gallman, only one of New York’s picks remains unsigned: former Ole Miss TE/WR Evan Engram. Gallman…
Columbia, S.C. (WOLO) – South Carolina State has confirmed that defensive coordinator Kirk Botkin is no longer with the football program. Botkin was the linebackers coach at South Carolina under Steve Spurrier for four seasons, and left after the hiring of Will Muschamp. Botkin spent one season as the defensive coordinator before leaving SC State. Per the Baytown Sun, he…
Los Angeles, CA (WOLO) – Dylan Thompson is set to rejoin the Los Angeles Rams after signing with the team. A native of Boiling Springs, South Carolina, Thompson was signed by the team in June 2016 but was released during roster cuts in August. Going into minicamp, Thompson is listed as the third-string quarterback behind incumbent starter Jared Goff and…
Chicago, IL (WOLO) – On Tuesday morning, the Chicago Bears cut former South Carolina quarterback Connor Shaw. The move was made to clear roster space after the team signed wide receiver Victor Cruz. Shaw was projected to be the fourth quarterback on the roster behind newly signed starter Mike Glennon, second overall pick Mitchell Trubisky, and Mark Sanchez. An undrafted…
Blowfish ballplayers from the past and the present were ready to go at Lexington County Baseball Stadium for the college summer league team’s annual Alumni Game. By the top of the second inning Monday, heavy rain, strong winds, and lightning rolled through the area. After trying to play through the storm, Lexington threw the tarp down and later canceled the…
