COLUMBIA, S.C. (USC SID) — Gamecock senior left fielder Alaynie Page garnered a spot on USA Softball’s 2016 Collegiate Player of the Year Top 50 Watch List, the group announced on Wednesday. Page, from Boiling Springs, S.C., earned first-team NFCA All-America honors last season after hitting .436 with 15 home runs and 45 RBI. The team’s leadoff hitter in all…
BLYTHEWOOD, S.C. (BHS SID) — Blythewood High School recognized 22 student-athletes from the Class of 2016 that announced their intentions to continue their athletic careers on the collegiate level. The ceremony held on National Signing Day 2016, featured seniors from baseball, basketball, football, golf, lacrosse, soccer, and softball. Their families accompanied the players as they celebrated their achievements. The baseball…
COLUMBIA, S.C. (BL SID) — Two Ben Lippen School football standouts made their college choices official today. Mark Rew will attend Division 1 school Georgia Tech. Rew played wide receiver for the Falcons, but also has experience as a quarterback. During his high school career, Rew was named All-State and to the North/South All-Star Team. Lineman Cullen Carlin will play…
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WOLO) — Will Muschamp gets his first chance to prove he was the right choice for the Gamecocks as Steve Spurrier’s successor. Muschamp will discuss his first USC football recruiting class at a national signing day press conference at 3 p.m. Wednesday afternoon. After suffering its worst season since going winless in 1999, Carolina football fans are looking…
Tuesday’s Scores BOYS’ BASKETBALL A.C. Flora 57, Richland Northeast 51 Abbeville 92, Saluda 63 Academic Magnet 74, Battery Creek 66 Aiken 64, Airport 62 Berea 79, Greer 55 Berkeley 53, Hilton Head Island 42 Blythewood 69, Spring Valley 52 Branchville 45, Estill 38 Brookland-Cayce 69, Gilbert 55 C.A. Johnson 53, Great Falls 41 Camden 54, Dreher 48 Cardinal Newman 77,…
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Cam Newton wants any discussion of black quarterbacks in a Super Bowl put away. For good. Newton on Tuesday emphatically tried to lay to rest any relevance of an African-American quarterback appearing in the NFL’s championship game. During a series of questions by a media member that bordered on confrontational, Newton finally said to the…
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — Clemson overcame an eight-point halftime deficit and scored 56 points after intermission, most in any half in 185 games under coach Brad Brownell, on its way to a 76-62 win at Wake Forest on Tuesday. The win improved the Tigers to 14-8 overall, 7-3 in the ACC. Wake Forest fell to 10-12 overall, 1-9 in league…
ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — Yante Maten scored 18 points, Kenny Gaines had 17, and Georgia beat No. 25 South Carolina 69-56 on Tuesday night, giving the Gamecocks their third loss. Georgia led by 10 points at halftime and never trailed in the second half. J.J. Frazier scored 13 points — all in the second half — and hit two 3-pointers…
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Three-time NASCAR champion Tony Stewart has been hospitalized with a back injury and Stewart-Haas Racing is unsure of the extent of his injuries. A team spokesman told The Associated Press that Stewart was injured in a non-racing accident on Sunday. He is being evaluated in an undisclosed hospital and able to move all extremities. No further…
COLUMBIA, S.C. (USC SID) — South Carolina junior center Alaina Coates is the SEC Player of the Week, the league announced today, for her effort in the Gamecocks’ pair of wins last week. The 6-foot-4 Irmo, S.C., product averaged 12.5 points, 12.0 rebounds and a team-high tying 4.0 assists against Ole Miss and then-No. 10/10 Texas A&M. After earning five…
