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University of Georgia football coach Kirby Smart here at Florence Christian to apparently watch Florence native Jordan Burch play basketball for Hammond.
Halftime: South Florence QB LaNorris Sellers has passed for 425 yards and 7 touchdowns. He also rushed for another. The
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Bruins lead No. 9 Wilson 63-0
University of South Carolina Hall of Famer Derick Urquhart (Florence native, ex-South Florence star) earns 500th career win with Florence Post 1's 22-3 win over Hamlet NC tonight
LaNorris Sellers 255 total yards in the first half. He passed for 115 yards on 4-of-7 attempts (3 of those completions were TDs). And, Sellers rushed for 140 yards and another score.
Honestly surprised Jody Jenerette did not win 5A lower-state football coach of the year. Led West Florence to region title in first year. Beat the team that was coached by honoree for this category.
What more can a coach do?
Two years ago today.... now he's in NCAA Sweet 16 with Kansas State...Boys Basketball Player of Year: West's Diarra credits slick moves on court to dancing background via
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Former Hartsville baseball star Jacob Shumate, who also coached Red Foxes to 2007 state baseball crown and was an Atlanta Braves 1st rd pick, is on South Florence's football coaching staff as offensive Coordinator
UPDATES to reflect that Talaysia Cooper has surpassed 1,000 points. and she's in 8th grade...East Clarendon girls reach first state final since 1971 via
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Francis Marion University holds moment of silence for Morning News assistant sports editor Mark Haselden, who died this morning. Haselden graduated from Francis Marion, and its sportsmanship award is named in his honor.
Williamsburg Academy baseball has won the SCISA Class 2A state championship. Stallions coach Tyler Boyd is the son of Lamar coaching legend, J.R. Boyd.
Former Francis Marion women's coach and current Univ. of North Carolina women's coach Sylvia Hatchell on hand at South Florence tonight to observe the Bruins' home game against the Tigers. Wilson guard Loyal McQueen likely the reason Hatchell is here.
SCAAA Hall of Fame inductees for this year: Shell Dula (retired AD from Greenwood), Chuck Jordan (retired AD from Conway), Bill Johnson (retired AD from Greenville), Deb Osborne (retired AD from JL Mann), Jack Cantey (retired AD from Bishop England)