Sports

Flying Fish earn third place at City Meet

The Snee Farm Swim Team won its fifth straight City Swim Meet over the weekend. But it doesn’t mean the club, based in Mount Pleasant, has a monopoly on talent. The Daniel Island Flying Fish fared well as a team and had many swimmers shine brightly during the meet, which was held in Goose Creek....

Iron Horses to make Sertoma Football Classic debut

Are you ready for some football? OK, maybe just not yet with LeBron, Wimbledon and the World Cup dominating the sports headlines. After all, it’s late July and it’s time to take that remaining vacation. But this is South Carolina, and when it comes to high school sports, football is...

The 'Slice Girls' carve out their place in tennis history

Sports Illustrated called them the Slice Girls in a Feb. 2, 1998 story because of the way the two young women cut up opponents on the tennis court in the Australian Open. Like the Spice Girls, who were on top of the music world at the time, Serena and Venus Williams had star power. However, unlike...

Down and dirty with catcher Will Bastian

Dirt is the word. Will Bastian is a catcher with a brilliant past, and perhaps a brighter future. He recently graduated from Bishop England High School after helping the Bishops win back-to-back Class AAA state championships and will matriculate to The Citadel this fall to continue...

Hanahan's Cooper Dawson considers scholarship offers in face of ACL injury

It wasn’t the way you want your summer vacation to begin. Cooper Dawson, a talented football player for the Hanahan Hawks, finished classes on June 4. The next day, the rising senior headed to Clemson for coach Dabo Swinney’s football camp. Little did he know that his senior season would be...

BE football prepares for new season, battle for QB position underway

The first chapter of the Bishop England football team’s “Life After Leo” is in the books and what emerged from spring practice is an interesting battle for the quarterback position to replace the legendary QB. Leo, of course, is Leo Albano, the just-graduated three-sport star who excelled in...

Sports roundup

The Bishop England girls’ lacrosse team was well represented on the South Carolina squad that recently competed in the U.S. national tournament, which was held at Stony Brook University on Long Island. The four players include rising seniors Grace Ann Carlson, Morgan Roberts, Ginger Tompkins and...

PSHS Iron Horses ready to tackle new football season

Circle the calendar. And circle the wagons. A year after the Philip Simmons High School football team posted a 7-1 record as a junior varsity program, the Iron Horses will field a varsity program in 2018, opening the season Aug. 17 with a home game against St. John’s. Coach Eric Bendig said the...

BE baseball player Geoffrey Gilbert is a star on and off the field

Geoffrey Gilbert is arguably the most high-profile high school baseball player in South Carolina. After all, the left-handed pitcher was 10-0 with a 0.20 ERA this spring to help the Bishops repeat as the Class AAA state champs. He has a scholarship offer to Clemson in his pocket and a Gatorade...

Sports Briefs June 14

‘Xan Bowman Bridge to Clemson Scholarship’ awarded to two local students Bishop England High School students John Michel and his cousin, Grace Michel, are the first two recipients of the Xan Bowman Bridge to Clemson Scholarship. The awards were announced at the school’s Senior Awards Ceremony on...