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• Bluffton's Blackshear wins state high jump title
  COLUMBIA -- She had to manage her time and her emotions, but-- pardon the interruption -- Bluffton High School's Jasmine Blackshear was rewarded with a trip to the top of the awards stand at Saturday's Class 3-A state track and field meet.

• Bobcats, Seahawks have good showing in lacrosse all-star contests
  Players from Bluffton and Hilton Head Island high schools had impressive showings Saturday in the S.C. Lacrosse League all-star games Saturday at White Knoll High School in Lexington.

• Hilton Head High 4x800 relay is golden again
  COLUMBIA -- For the Hilton Head Island High School boys 4x800-meter relay team, sticking to the game plan meant changing it at the last minute.

• Late goal pushes HHH girls into state semifinals
  Every scoring opportunity Chapin goalkeeper Layla Neal thwarted made it more and more clear the Hilton Head Island High School girls soccer team would have to muster something special to keep its state title hopes alive.

• Soccer season slips away from HHH boys with OT loss
  The eerily familiar feeling started to settle into Myrtle Beach boys soccer coach Jason Himmelsbach's mind sometime during the second half or overtime. He's not quite sure when the memories of his last trip to Hilton Head Island High School began creeping back -- the pangs of playoff heartbreak, the sting of a season ended too soon.

• Bluffton, HHH track and field standouts ready for state meet
  Blake Bishop has given up on making predictions.

• Prep Notebook
  LACROSSE ALL-STARS PLAY SATURDAY

• Q&A with Abby Fennessey
  While her former team makes its push toward a third consecutive state championship, Abby Fennessey is focused on trying to help her new team win its first.

• Missed chances keep 'Hawks from soaring
  They hit the post. They hit the crossbar. They sailed high, and they sailed wide. They went everywhere, it seemed, but in the net.

• No. 1 doubles loss dooms HHH in tennis playoffs
  It was just the situation the Hilton Head Island High School tennis team entered the day hoping for -- a chance to win the Class 3-A Lower State championship with one doubles victory.

• HHH boys open soccer playoffs with 9-1 rout
  At one point in Timo Mesa's life, soccer was just about all he recognized.

• HHH tennis team rolls past Wilson, 6-0
  Top-seeded Hilton Head Island High School kept its perfect record intact, topping Wilson 6-0 in the second round of the Class 3-A boys tennis playoffs on Monday.

• HHH tennis team rolls past Wilson, 6-0
  Top-seeded Hilton Head Island High School kept its perfect record intact, topping Wilson 6-0 in the second round of the Class 3-A boys tennis playoffs on Monday.

• HHH's Kamperman picks Davidson over other suitors
  Growing up, Lauren Kamperman was a soccer player, a basketball player, a swimmer, and even a quarterback for a powder puff girls' football team.

• HHH tennis team overpowers Bluffton in opening round
  Bluffton tennis coach Bob Brown said it was the equivalent of bringing a knife to a gun fight.

• Elliott to leave AD post at HHH; No successor picked yet
  Hilton Head Island High School athletics director Greg Elliott has worked for three superintendents and four principals.

• Sweep of Bluffton gives HHH teams region soccer titles
  Hilton Head Island High School boys soccer coach Josh Taylor hopes by the end of his haircut, he'll at least have some of that shaggy brown hair left on his head.

• HHH moves on in baseball district tourney
  As a relief pitcher, Dustin Berliner by definition has been in some tight spots. But none tighter than the one he found himself in Tuesday.

• Prep Roundup
  The Hilton Head Christian Academy golf team gained ground on Pinewood Prep on the final day of the SCISAA Class 3-A state tournament Tuesday at Quail Creek Country Club in Conway, but not quite enough to catch up.

• Seahawks win region golf crown over Bluffton
  When Timberland decided last week it would not participate in the Region 7-AAA golf tournament, it meant Hilton Head Island High School and Bluffton High School would automatically qualify for next week's Lower State meet and that Tuesday's event at Old South would be a mere formality.

• HHCA golfers a close second after first day of SCISAA state meet
  Hilton Head Christian Academy golf coach Doug Langhals has "no doubt" his team is capable of winning a state title. In less than 48 hours, he'll find out whether the Eagles can realize that potential.

• HHH bobbles away district baseball game
  No single miscue was more damning than another.

• Agee powers Bluffton girls past HHH in lacrosse playoffs
  By her own admission, Lynn Walker has the toughest time staying quiet at any point during a game she's coaching from the sidelines.

• Prep Roundup
  LACROSSE

• HHH looks sound in district baseball debut
  Chris Wells couldn't help but be a tad pessimistic. After all, the previous two times the Hilton Head Island High School baseball team entered the playoffs with a No. 1 seed, it lost in the first round.