Fort Mill High

The 2010 volleyball season will be a lot like the 2009 season as both Fort Mill and Nation Ford high schools should be battling each other for a region title.

The Fort Mill High swim team has been in the pool for weeks working hard and hoping it will pay off come November.

Fort Mill High School’s Mark Blackmon, a three-time state cross country champion, has withdrawn from the school. The rising junior may be enrolling at a Raleigh, N.C., private school, according to his father, Thomas Blackmon. The decision is not yet final.

Three Fort Mill High athletes are getting their feet wet next year at the college level.

For almost 50 minutes of Saturday's third-round Class AAAA boys soccer playoff game, Fort Mill seemed to be in control. That's when the Mavericks found their stride and went on to a 4-1 victory over the Yellow Jackets.

It was anything but a breeze as Fort Mill slipped past the Wren Hurricanes 2-1 in the second round of the Class AAAA boys soccer playoffs.

The loss places a disappointing end on a Fort Mill season that produced a 17-4-1 record.

After a run to its third straight Region III-AAAA title, the Fort Mill High boys tennis team was had a short lived experience in the playoffs.

One swing ended the Fort Mill High Lady Jackets softball teams run in the playoffs last week.

Playing on the road in the playoffs is never easy, but that is the task the Fort Mill High Lady Jackets softball team has had to face last week.

Fort Mill loses 8-5 in pool play game of the Wheels Baseball Invitational at RHHS. The Jackets won their opening game 19-15.