Several big plays couldn't prevent Hilton Head Prep from bowing out in the first round of the SCISAA Class 2-A playoffs with a 57-37 loss at Thomas Sumter. (full story)
- Photo: Hilton Head High’s Lawrence Jenkins runs the ball during last Friday’s win over rival Bluffton. Jenkins and the Seahawks will host Socastee in the first round of the Class 3-A state playoffs tonight.
Tim Singleton has been involved some way or somehow in just about every 50-point performance in Hilton Head High's football history. (full story)
Strap yourself in, football fans, because this regular-season finale edition of the Saturday Morning Punter comes at you at 75 mph from somewhere on Interstate 26. (Don't worry, I'm in the passenger seat.) (full story)
Hilton Head Christian 24, Northwood Academy 10: Hilton Head Christian won the SCISAA Region 2-AA title and secured home-field advantage through the first two rounds of the playoffs with an impressive win over Uriah Singleton and Northwood Academy on Friday night. (full story)
A bit more than pride will be on the line when Bluffton High School travels to rival Hilton Head High tonight. (full story)
Another Friday night is in the books and as the regular season winds down, many local teams' playoff fates are still up in the air. (full story)
North Charleston 40, Bluffton 22: North Charleston racked up 391 total yards Friday to claim the Region 8-AAA title, the school's first since 2001. Denzel Myers, as usual, was the leading man for North Charleston, having a hand in all six touchdowns. He carried the ball 15 times for 170 yards, including scoring runs of 24, 12 and 48 yards, while completing 7-of-13 passes for 100 yards with scoring tosses of 19 yards to Corey Washington, 7 yards to Moses Smith and 7 yards to Denzel White. (full story)
- Photo: Hilton Head High’s Lawrence Jenkins reaches for extra yards during a game earlier this season. Jenkins and the Seahawks travel to Battery Creek tonight in a key Region 8-AAA matchup.
With the way the first two-thirds of the Region 8-AAA season has played out, every game over the final two weeks of the year is shaping up to be an important one for each of the six teams in the conference. (full story)
Bluffton High School will begin its quest for a third straight Lower State girls golf title as well as its first-ever state crown when the Class 3-A Lower State qualifier gets under way at 9:30 a.m. today at Camden County Club in Camden. (full story)
I don't know about you, but I learned a lot under the Friday night lights this week -- and most of it contradicted conclusions I had drawn after last week's games, which leaves me a little dazed and confused (or maybe I'm just tired; probably just tired). (full story)
Hilton Head High 34, Stall 6 (full story)
- Photo: Beaufort High running back Alex Simmons sheds a tackle during a game earlier this season. The Eagles host Berkeley tonight.
It's no secret what the million-dollar question is entering Friday's much-anticipated matchup between Beaufort and Berkeley high schools: How will the Eagles stop Stags rusher Bruce Ellington? (full story)
Matchup of the week (full story)
The thing about unbalanced non-conference schedules -- and we learn it every year in the early part of the college and high school football seasons -- is you never really know what you've got until conference play starts. (full story)
DeAnte Scott set Hilton Head Prep's single-season record for receptions, hauling in nine passes for 168 yards and three touchdowns to lead the Dolphins to their first win of the season, 42-0 over Charleston Collegiate on Friday. (full story)
- Photo: Battery Creek’s Cleon Wright looks for some room to run during a game earlier this season. Wright and the Dolphins host North Charleston tonight in a key Region 8-AAA game.
NORTH CHARLESTON AT BATTERY CREEK (full story)
Beaufort 48, James Island 41: Beaufort High's Josh McPherson rushed for 285 yards and five touchdowns on 20 carries, and the visiting Eagles outlasted the James Island Trojans, 48-41. (full story)
We've reached the halfway point of the regular season, which means it's time to pass out mid-season report cards to area high school football teams. (full story)
- Photo: Hilton Head High’s Lawrence Jenkins runs past Ridgeland defender Walter Nix during last week’s game at Ridgeland High School. Jenkins and the Seahawks begin Region 8-AAA play tonight with North Charleston.
NORTH CHARLESTON AT HILTON HEAD HIGH (full story)
I can only come up with one explanation for what is unfolding under the Friday night lights of the Lowcountry this season -- we've stumbled into a bizarro world in which up is down, left is right, and defense is almost non-existent. (full story)