Two Lowcountry teams extend SCISA championship winning streaks
Hilton Head Christian baseball and Hilton Head Prep girls soccer extended their championship streak this week.
The HHCA baseball squad captured its third straight SCISA championship by defeating Cardinal Newman, 7-3, to sweep the best-of-3 series on Thursday. It was the Eagles’ second straight SCISA 4A crown after winning the 3A title in 2024.
Hilton Head Prep girls won its fourth straight SCISA championship with a 3-2 (OT) win over Greenwood Christian at Hammond’s Edens Stadium on Saturday.
Burd’s big night helps Eagles
Stone Burd wasn’t on the field last year when HHCA won the championship, but he made up for it this year by hitting two home runs in the Eagles’ clinching victory.
Stone Burd, the younger brother of HHCA senior Slade Burd, had a medical emergency shortly before the team got on the bus to leave for Orangeburg in last year’s Game 3 matchup against Ben Lippen and was taken to the hospital.
A year later, Burd delivered his best performance of the year and hit a 3-run home run in the sixth inning to make it 7-3. Coming into the game, Burd hadn’t had a home run all season. He finished with five RBI.
“I hadn’t had a home run all season and two in the state championship game, it is big for me,” Stone Burd told WJCL. “And then sharing a moment with my brother. Last game I’ll ever be able to play with him. I’ve always looked up to him. I love him so much. Just to have my whole family here to support me, it means so much.”
Roman Colella was 1-for-3 with two RBI. Jackson Richardson and Dylan Gehm each added two hits for HHCA.
Colt Spargur picked up the win, allowing three earned runs on five hits while striking out 10 in six innings.
HHCA won the opener of the series, 11-5, on Monday in Columbia. Gehm and Slade Burd each homered, and Tucker Nelson pitched six solid innings in the game.
Four in a row for Prep
Eighth grader Adrianna Palazzo scored on a pass from fellow eighth grader Alice Carmines in overtime as Hilton Head Prep defeated unbeaten Greenwood Christian in the SCISA 3A championship to extend the Dolphins’ title streak.
The goal came with less than two minutes left in the final overtime period before the match would go to penalty kicks.
Carmines, who had four goals in the semifinal match, had the Dolphins’ other two goals and finished the season with more than 50 goals.
Junior goalkeeper Brooke Heins finished with 22 saves in net for HHP.
Carmines’ first goal tied the game at 1-1, and she added another one right before halftime to give the Dolphins a 2-1 lead.
Greenwood tied it at 2-2 in the second half.
