The Columbia Blowfish defeated the Fayetteville SwampDogs 8-3 Tuesday night to win their first ever Coastal Plain League Petitt Cup Championship. In what has been a magical season for the Blowfish, they ended the season with a dog pile on top of the pitchers mound celebrating the first championship in team history. The Blowfish ended the season with a 38-24 record.
Clemson offensive coordinator Chad Morris says the coaching staff is turning up the heat on the players after Tuesday’s preseason practice. Morris says everyone on offense should feel a little uneasy because no one’s job is safe. “It needs to be,” he said. “This isn’t happiness camp. Some of these guys get this in their mind that this could be happiness camp and it’s not that. We are coming out here and we are pushing these guys. We are driving these guys and straining them.”
Former Coastal Carolina cornerback Josh Norman stole the show at Panthers practice Tuesday. The rookie, who has missed a large part of training camp with a knee injury, intercepted four passes during Tuesday’s workout.
Following two consecutive practices in shells, SC State worked out in full pads for approximately two hours Tuesday morning. The 9 a.m. session was conducted in weather a little warmer than the usual early morning drills that began at 6:50 and the 7:30 evening practices.
True freshman Shaq Roland continues to impress the Head Ball Coach. “Shaq Roland has a knack for going up and getting it at the last moment,” Steve Spurrier said after the team’s first to two workouts Tuesday morning. “He has the ability to get it at the highest point.”
The University of South Carolina football squad returned to the Bluff Road “Proving Grounds” Monday morning for a two-hour full pad workout.
South Carolina just wrapped its first ever major golf championship. Will the state have to wait that long to get its second?
The Columbia Blowfish topped the Fayetteville SwampDogs 7-3 in game two Pettit Cup Playoffs Championship Series. The win for the Blowfish evens the series at one game apiece and the decisive game three will be Tuesday night at 7:05 in Fayetteville.
Wofford is the only FCS team in the state of South Carolina to make the 2012 Sports Network FCS preseason poll. The poll was released Monday.
The Benedict College football team held its first practice in full pads on Monday, and coach James Woody was happy over what he described as the team’s best practice under his tutelage.
