Local Sports

Every year in sports there are comeback stories; the impossible and the improbable. It is part of the reason we love sports. Kids grow up aspiring to be star athletes and any spend their adult years wishing they could go back to high school or otherwise recapture their youth. What if they had worked harder, gave a little extra effort in practice?

For all who have dreamed of one day being a great player and an inspiration for others, you must meet Indian Land senior starting defensive tackle Roberto Rizzo.

Mike Zimmerman of Fort Mill is among the River Hills Interclub team members set to compete for the 2009 CGA Interclub Match Play Championship Nov, 7-8 at Pine Needles Lodge and Golf Club in Southern Pines, N.C.

It's said in football that one week doesn't make a season, but for two struggling teams, things are a little different.

Fort Mill High (0-10) and Nation Ford High (3-7) will meet for the third time on the football field in the season-ending game for both schools. The winner of the now annual fall contest will be able to carry bragging rights into the next year. Kickoff is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. this Friday at Fort Mill High School's Bob Jones Stadium.

The top two seeds in the U10 Boys soccer semifinals squared off Monday: TC Blazing Fire 2, TC Gladiators 1; TC Blazing Fire to championship game;

The Nation Ford High Lady Falcons are heading to the Upper State title game Thursday to meet either Byrnes High School or Dorman High School.

The Lady Falcons beat Hillcrest High School in the third round of the Class 4A state playoffs Tuesday.

An up and down tennis season for the Lady Jackets ended on a sour note last week as they fell to Blythewood High School in the opening round of the Class 4A state playoffs.

It wasn't the Fort Mill Yellow Jackets that stung Nation Ford, but the pain was about the same.

These Yellow Jackets, from T.L. Hanna High School, swarmed the Lady Falcons in the second round of the Class 4A tennis playoffs on the way to a 5-1 victory.

For Nation Ford players and fans, it will be the comeback that almost was.

The Nation Ford Lady Falcons volleyball team breezed through its second-round opponent Boiling Springs 3-0 on Thursday to advance to the third round of the Class AAAA state playoffs.

An up and down tennis season for the Lady Jackets ended on a sour note last week as they fell to Blythewood High School in the opening round of the Class 4A state playoffs.

Fort Mill Middle School's eighth grade football team shut out the Oak Ridge Golden Eagles 44-0. The offense had its highest output of the season and the defense turned in its fourth shutout.

Trojans bomb Warriors, the Bears are maulers and the girls sparkle on the diamond, And that's not all in this week's Recreation Report.

The Indian Land Lady Warriors righted their season just in time to qualify as the third seed in the volleyball playoffs.

It seems there isn't a sport that Frank Snider can't coach. But for now, Snider is content to lead the Nation Ford High Lady Falcons basketball team starting this winter.

Tiger Woods runs off and leaves the field in the third leg of the FedEx in Chicago. He just outworks everybody and that's why he is so lucky.