Archive By Author - Tom Didato
Woe for three
Three pitches. Over the course of a seven-inning baseball game, it hardly amounts to a drop in the bucket unless, that is, two of those baseballs never came while another was booted for an error. All totaled, that trio of pitches led to six Blythewood runs as the Bengals left Optimist Field with an 8-2 win over host Lugoff-Elgin in a Region 4-4A contest. The defeat dropped the Demons to 5-6 ...
Ten-run first does in Dogs in 17-7 loss to Darlington
Nobody has ever accused Camden's American Legion Park of being a launching pad for baseballs.
CHS JVs top rival Demons and Foxes
The Camden High junior varsity baseball team won two of their past three games, sandwiching a loss to Sumter with victories over Hartsville and Lugoff-Elgin.
Southern Wesleyan suits L-E's Spaulding to a tee
Fortunately for Lugoff-Elgin golf coach Mike Robinson, when Henry Spaulding and his son Cory were looking for a school for the younger Spaulding to enroll in after moving to South Carolina, they found a home and a good fit when they visited the West Wateree area of Kershaw County.
Community rallies in support of Jorge Torres
While Jorge Torres continues to lie in a hospital bed at Palmetto Health Richland recovering from an assortment of injuries suffered as the result of his being thrown from Malibu Moon in last fall's Colonial Cup, his friends, family and even those who never met the 26-year-old jockey are not leaving his side.
Fernandez coming to grips with Tores' spill, recovery
It took being unseated by the same horse which threw Jorge Torres into a nightmare of a past four months for Rafael "Ray" Fernandez to realize that what took place at the Springdale Race Course last November was not his fault.
Walker's sac fly lifts Demons past Dogs, 5-4
Few times has a game which has meant virtually nothing in the standings been so intriguing.
Gamecocks hold off Bulldog JVs, 9-6
By Jerry Broughton Special to the C-I (Camden, S.C.) The Camden High Bulldog jayvee baseball team lost their first game of the season, 9-6, to the visiting Sumter Gamecocks last week. Sumter scored a run in the top of the first to carry a 1-0 into the top of the second. Camden scored a ...
Demons split pair with Dogs, Vikes
The Lugoff-Elgin boys soccer teams traveled to Camden Monday to take on the Bulldogs and scored a two-game sweep of the hosts at Zemp Stadium.
Vikings' Guerreri no-hits Demons
COLUMBIA – Sometimes, you just have to tip your hat to an opponent and live to fight another battle.
Mr. Commons puts in bullet work at Hollywood Park
Mr. Commons, a 3-year-old colt prepared in Camden by Mickey Preger Jr. at the Camden Training Center, had a bullet work at five furlongs on Tuesday at Santa Anita Park.
Royals to keep swinging her racquet for Fighting Koalas
There is one person whom Lydia Royals said she still cannot beat at tennis. Fortunately for the Lugoff-Elgin senior, she will not have to face that person while playing tennis for Columbia College.
Right on target
The South Carolina General Assembly recently recognized North Central High School in Kershaw County as the first public school in the state to form a clay-target shooting team.
Demons drub RNE in opening match, 6-2
Last week's season opener for the Lugoff-Elgin boys soccer team at Richland Northeast was a cold but victorious night for the visiting Demons.
Dogs storm back to upend scrappy Lakewood, 10-2
By all accounts, a young Lakewood squad is not expected to be much of a factor in the Region 6-AAA baseball race.
Articles By Author - Tom Didato
Sandbar gives Fenwick Farm a winner at Churchill
Sandbar, a 2-year-old War Pass filly developed at Fred and Wilhelmina McEwan's Fenwick Farm in Camden, broke her maiden at first asking with a win in a $45,000 maiden race at Churchill Downs on June 8.
Win well worth the wait for 17ers
While Mother Nature was putting on her own Triple Crown performance --- wind, rain and lightning --- outside, Kershaw County American Legion head coach Craig Smith was bringing the thunder inside.
Injury ends Carmon's season
Camden's Stephen Carmon was placed on the disabled list on Monday, retroactive to Sunday, June 9, by the Fort Wayne TinCaps, the San Digeo Padres' affiliate in the class A Midwest League.
17ers ride Robinson's arm to win over Post 68
MANNING -- After beating Hartsville 7-4 on Tuesday in Kelleytown to improve to 2-4 in American Legion League III, Manning-Santee Post 68 had a chance to assert itself firmly in the talk for third --- and even second --- place in the standings with a victory over Kershaw County on Wednesday.
After a one-year hiatus, Post 17 returns to its old League III home
What did the Kershaw County Post 17 Senior American Legion team get for being the nice guy last year? A final 4-12 record in its first and only season in League IV.
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