For the second straight year, West-Oak High made the three-hour bus trip to Fort Mill to end the Yellow Jackets’ season, this time to upsetting Fort Mill 33-30 in the first round of the dual wrestling playoffs.
National Signing Day was a big day for both Nation Ford and Fort Mill High schools, which had a combined13 students commit to colleges where they will play soccer and football and compete in running sports.
With less than 30 seconds left, South Pointe missed four shots to potentially tie the game as Nation Ford held on for a 41-39 win.
The Fort Mill Yellow Jackets registered as dominant a victory as they have all season against Chester on Tuesday, holding the Cyclones to 22 percent shooting en route to a 64-35 rout.
The Fort Mill Yellow Jackets crowned five Region IV-AAA champions recently and qualified a dozen for the Upper State Championships Feb. 17-18.
The Nation Ford girls won a four-overtime thriller 67-63 that had the Cougar Den in York talking.
Fort Mill’s Jon Brown nailed four of the Yellow Jackets’ nine 3-pointers in a 70-39 region win over Fairfield Central.
Fort Mill High senior cross-country and track athlete Meredith Kilburn has been named the Gatorade Girls Runner of the Year for the state of South Carolina.
The Lady Jackets waited five years to finally taste victory over their cross-town rivals and they savored the 46-38 victory over Nation Ford’s Lady Falcons in front of a rowdy Friday night crowd at Fort Mill High.
Brown scored 13 of his 17 points in the fourth quarter as he went 6 of 7 down the stretch to clinch the game for Fort Mill.
After falling in a close contest to Chester, the last thing the Fort Mill High wrestling squad needed was to lose to York Comprehensive and dig an even deeper hole.
The Nation Ford Falcons dropped two close wrestling meets last week to Rock Hill schools, but it’s not that they lost, but how they lost.
It was one of those injuries you know was bad just by hearing it. For those who saw Fort Mill High junior Hannah-Kate Christopher hit a cement block wall at full-speed during a recent basketball game, they knew it was bad, too.
The bench play of Nation Ford High helped to propel the Falcons to a 63-60 win over South Pointe Friday night to open Region IV-AAA play.
Fort Mill High senior cross-country and track athlete Meredith Kilburn has been named the Gatorade Girls Runner of the Year for the state of South Carolina.