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• Bluffton boys solid in debut, but can't knock off Estill
  If this is indeed a rebuilding year for the Bluffton High School boys basketball team, the Bobcats might have enough blocks to finish the construction a bit more quickly than expected.

• Prep Roundup
  VARSITY WRESTLING

• Bluffton High School wrestling preview capsule
  Bluffton High School wrestling 2008-09

• Prep notebook
  Hilton Head Island players and coaches had a big hand in helping the SCISAA all-stars reclaim the Oasis Shrine Classic title from their North Carolina counterparts Friday.

• Bluffton boys don't know what they're in for this season
  Often a basketball coach knows what kind of team he has before the season even begins. He can prepare for it based on the personnel returning from a year ago.

• High school football coaches relax, but not for long
  Carlos Cave used the time to take in Okatie Elementary School's version of "101 Dalmatians." Jeremy West has replaced his weekend slate of meetings by spending quality time with his wife and dogs. And Mark Clifford? Well, after undergoing knee surgery earlier this week, he's been reclining in his La-Z-Boy, reading a book about New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick.

• Bluffton's Peterson to sign with UNC Pembroke
  Shay Peterson's volleyball career started out with a friendly bet.

• Drop in gas prices helps ease pressure on county schools' travel budgets
  Like all consumers, Jerry Linn couldn't be happier with the falling gas prices, which have recently tumbled below the two-dollar mark at most local pumps.

• Beaufort County wrestlers compete in scrimmage
  Call it the cure for wrestling's cabin fever.

• Bluffton hires new lacrosse coach
  Alecia Burgess has been hired to coach the Bluffton High School girls lacrosse team for the 2009 spring season, she said Friday.

• Ledbetter named Class 3-A volleyball player of the year
  The Hilton Head Island High School volleyball team didn't win the state title it was after Saturday, but the Seahawks picked up plenty of honors when the South Carolina Coaches Association of Women's Sports released its all-state and all-star teams Monday.

• Prep notebook
  As impressive as Hilton Head Christian Academy looked during its 40-16 win against Pee Dee Academy in the first round of the SCISAA Class 2-A playoffs, coach Tommy Lewis admits that there's still work to be done.

• HHH girls win state cross country meet, boys second
  COLUMBIA -- It was a case of simple math for the Hilton Head Island girls cross country team. Five runners plus five great performances added up to a state championship.

• Prep notebook
  Bluffton High School coach Jeremy West has grown sick of of the spread offense. So much so that he completely scratched the Bobcats' offense last week and implemented the wing-T in just three days before the team's loss to Hilton Head Island High School.

• Hilton Head High runners sweep Lower State meet
  It was a clean sweep for Hilton Head Island High School at Saturday's Class 3-A Lower State cross country meet at Sandhills Research Center in Columbia, as both the boys and girls won team titles and the Seahawks also had the individual champions.

• Seahawks claim Bridge Bowl
  Marcus Green says he's just saving his best for the finish. But he didn't leave much room for improvement Friday night.

• Prep roundup - Oct. 31
  VOLLEYBALL Camden 3, Bluffton 2: Bluffton’s volleyball team played what coach Al Stern called its best match of the year. Still, it wasn’t enough to beat Camden in the second round of the Class 3-A state playoffs.

• Week 10: Hilton Head High at Bluffton
  HILTON HEAD HIGH AT BLUFFTON

• Bobcats struggling with 7-game slide
  This isn't what the Bluffton High School football team envisioned. Far from it.

• Bobcats bow out of tennis playoffs
  Myrtle Beach opened the Class 3-A girls tennis playoffs by sweeping Region 8-AAA runner-up Bluffton High School, 7-0, on Wednesday in Myrtle Beach.