Archive By Author - Tom Didato
Colonial Cup drops curtain on 2011 NSA campaign
The $100,000 TD Bank Marion duPont Scott Colonial Cup feature highlighted Saturday's six-race card, which included five steeplechases races and one on the flat and brought the curtain down on the 2011 National Steeplechase Association campaign.
No audit necessary
With three fences left to be jumped, Xavier Aizpuru was done with trying to hold back Tax Ruling.
Who do you like in the Cup?
(Editor's note: Don Clippinger is the media consultant for the National Steeplechase Associaton. Here, he gives Colonial Cup fans an outlook of the 12 entries into Saturday's $100,000 feature chase. He also included odds, if pari-mutuel wagering were allowed in South Carolina.)
Colonial Cup feature chase, Eclipse Award up for grabs
It took a cold/sinus infection to do what no horse on this side of the Atlantic could do last month.
Kingsley hoping to catch lightning in a bottle again
Arch Kingsley might feel as if he is a stranger in his own house.
Black Jack Blues out of Cup; illness sidelines race favorite
It's cold and flu season for horses, too.
KC volleyball players earn honors
Following a season in which all three Kershaw County high school volleyball teams finished in the top two of their respective regions --- with Camden and North Central capturing conference titles --- it should come as no surprise that when it came time for post-season honors to be handed out, players from these teams earned state and league laurels.
Walker set to fly with the Eagles
wo springs ago, Lugoff-Elgin baseball coach Randy Stokes decided to put then-sophomore Devin Walker behind the plate to handle a veteran group of hard-throwing pitchers, three of whom signed to pitch at the collegiate level including current USC closer Forrest Koumas.
Field of 13 nominated into Colonial Cup feature
The $100,000 Marion duPont Scott Colonial Cup has attracted 13 accomplished nominees, promising a large and talented field for the year's final major steeplechase race on Saturday, Nov. 19.
CHS' Wise to play in North-South All-Star Game
You only have one chance to make a first impression and Fidel Wise took full advantage of his this past season.
Gamecocks escape from L-E with a 20-19 victory
Without hesitation, Scott Jones decided to go for the two-point conversion and the possible win after Lugoff-Elgin closed to within 20-19 with 66 seconds left to play in Friday's season finale against Sumter.
From Camden to the Breeders' Cup
Three horses with Camden connections will take to the famed course at Churchill Downs for this weekend's Breeders' Cup World Championships which will be run on Friday and Saturday in Louisville.
Demons look to the future tonight against Gamecocks
This, to put it mildly, has not been one of the most fun seasons to be a Lugoff-Elgin football player, coach or fan.
Seahawks ruin Camden’s AAA state title party plans
C-I (Camden, S.C.) sports editor
Chapin ends memorable campaign for CHS netters
Being a social studies teacher, Stephen Sutusky has a keen appreciation for history.
Articles By Author - Tom Didato
17ers try to stay alive with Monday afternoon contest
After suffering a 10-9, 10-inning loss to Inman on Sunday, the Kershae County Post 17 American Legion baseball team fell into the elimination bracket in the double-elimination event.
Zac attack
SUMTER --- When you are in new territory, you sometimes like to feel your way around before you get comfortable.
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.
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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