Local Sports

In the Peewee Bowl, the Leroy Springs Tigers defeated the Tega Cay Irish by the score of 14-0. 

Fort Mill High School cross country runner Mark Blackmon, fresh off his S.C. state championship performance, will compete again Nov. 28 at the Footlocker South Regional at McAlpine Park in Charlotte. He will be entered in the seeded race with an elite field of runners from 13 states.

Golf is a sport that can transcend generations and those with the Fort Mill Junior Golf Association are trying to make sure that doesn't change.

A bunch of them, in fact.

The Gold Hill Middle School's seventh grade football team defeated Clover 34-6 recently.

Jack Heinz of the TC Gladiators started the U10 championship with a goal to give the team an early lead when the team took on the TC Blazing Fire.

For the third straight year, if there is one team the Fort Mill Yellow Jackets excels against, it's Nation Ford High School.

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.