Archive By Author - Tom Didato
Lady Knights run way from Lions
Like a thermometer, you can usually tell how well the North Central girls are playing based on the redness in the face of head coach Mitch Lowder.
Mr. Commons closes out 2011 with a victory at Santa Anita
It has been a busy and winning post-holiday season for Thoroughbreds with Camden connections.
Naylor locks down Eclipse Award finalists for steeplechase division
There are two certainties as to the 2011 Eclipse Award winner for steeplechasing. First, it will be an Irish-bred gelding. Second, it will be owned by Irv Naylor.
Leopard wrestlers win Carolina Duals for third time in five years
Pretty soon, the organizers of the Carolina Duals wrestling tournament might ask the Lugoff-Elgin Middle School wrestling team to bring the tournament championship trophy with them when they head to the yearly event in Rock Hill.
CHS girls upended by Crestwood
There was no easing into the start of Region 6-AAA play for the Camden girls' basketball team.
Dogs hold off pesky Knights in 6-AAA opener
Camden, S.C.) sports editor
Foxes flatten Demons, 102-69
Had the surface been made of ice rather than wood and if Dutch Fork had traded its sneakers and jerseys for skates and sweaters would anyone have been the wiser?
Lady Demons no match for Dutch Fork
Save for the use of a magic wand, there was no way for Lugoff-Elgin girls' basketball coach Von Duncan to turn her 5-foot-8 center, Nakeisha Counts, into a 6-foot-5 post player. Nor was there some potion which could transform her other players to become taller or faster with one sip of the elixir.
Now that the cold weather has arrived, take measures to prevent hypothermia
With recent freezing temperatures across South Carolina, hunters and outdoor enthusiasts headed to the field should be aware of the threat of hypothermia and how to combat it. Hypothermia occurs when exposure to the wind, cold and wetness drain heat from the body faster than it can be produced.
Braves dial long distance to get past Dogs, 62-49
So much for scouting reports.
Knights dismantle McBee, advance to tourney finale
When a marginal movie suddenly gets interesting, nobody leaves their seats and heads for the exits.
All-area defensive unit is ‘upperclassmen only’ group
Nearly mirroring their offensive counterparts, which appeared in last Fridays' edition of the Chronicle-Independent, the 2011 C-I Kershaw County Coaches' All-Area defensive squad features 12 seniors with three juniors mixed in on the 15-player unit.
A Christmas story of hope
At Christmastime, all roads lead home … even if you go somewhere you never lived before.
Seniority rules on all-area offensive football team
While the wins were far from what Kershaw County coaches, players and fans have become used to in the past, there was no shortage of outstanding individual performances on the football field this past season for the county's four gridiron squads.
Lack of champions fails to slow down Demons
Around midday Saturday, on the second day of the 20th annual May Plant Credit Union Demon Holiday Classic wrestling tournament, Lugoff-Elgin head coach Evan Moxie was asked how his team was faring, at that point, in the 26-team event.
Articles By Author - Tom Didato
P-17ers in it to win it
As he was heading home in the wee hours of Friday morning from Thursday's evening's baseball game at Georgetown, Kershaw County American Legion baseball team pitching coach Will Dorton stopped by a gas station to fill his car's tank. While there, Dorton, who still had his Post 17 uniform on, had a local police officer come up to him asking how the team did and who was pitching in that night's third game.
17ers face Rock Hill in Saturday's state tourney opener
Kershaw County will make its long-awaited American Legion State Tournament debut on Saturday when Post 17 takes on Rock Hill in the third (scheduled for 4:30 p.m.) game at Riley Park in Sumter.
How sweep it is!
Perched in front of their dugout, members of the Kershaw County American Legion baseball team started leaning as they prepared to rush the field after Bradwin Salmond's diving grab of Mark Allen Nash's liner to right field put the locals on the door step of a long-awaited trip to the state American Legion tournament.
Re-rallying the troops
Before they left following Wednesday morning's off-season contioning session, members of the Lugoff-Elgin football team took a knee and listened to their head coach who was in his third full day on the job.
Answering a higher calling
It was a normal day which was about to take an abrupt U-turn.
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