Archive By Author - Tom Didato
Davis looks to stay on a roll while playing for Lancers
After what was considered a sub-par junior season, Kal Davis put up some eye-popping numbers for the Camden High baseball team this past spring.
17ers' rally falls short in 5-4 loss to Sumter
A night which had a controversial start ended with Sumter holding off a late-game Kershaw County rally as visiting Post 15 left American Legion Park with a 5-4 victory Post 17 Monday night in a battle of League III American Legion unbeatens.
Dorton, King lead post 17 past Manning-Santee for third win
MANNING -- Kershaw County Post 17 continued its winning ways on Thursday, defeating Manning-Santee 9-5 at the Manning High School baseball field to move to a 3-0 start on the young American Legion season.
Few ready for the challenge of two seasons of golf after signing with USC-L
College means a change of life for any freshman. That also includes how things are both inside and outside the classroom.
Post 17ers make quick work of Hartsville in 15-4 victory
Lose a chance for a win or protect a young arm.
Out of the pen, into the fire
COLUMBIA -- It was two days before the University of South Carolina baseball team was to open defense of its NCAA national championship and Forrest Koumas still had no idea as to when he would be getting the ball.
Dorton turns up the heat as P-17ers open with a 7-2 win
In a perfect world, first-year Kershaw County American Legion head coach Curtis Johnson would have brought Will Dorton in one or, two innings later.
Winter Memories not ready to melt in the heat of summer
Winter Memories, a 3-year-old El Prado- Memories of Silver by Silver Hawk filly scored her second win in as many starts this year by taking Monday's $150,000-added Sands Point Stakes (Gr. 2) at Belmont Park.
Connell ready to soldier on after signing with The Citadel
All you have to do is look around at the landscape which is college athletics and read the headlines about those who make a mockery of the word "student" in the term student-athlete.
Walker's Landing second in $150,000 Marine Stakes
Walker's Landing, a 3-year-old colt prepared by Donna Freyer's Custom Care Equine in Camden is proving to be a horse for all courses.
Post 17 kicks off season with two-game homestand
New coach. New uniforms. Same goals.
Bulldogs pulled together in carving out a memorable campaign on the courts
Five days after his team lost to Bluffton in the second round of the AAA state tennis playoffs, Camden head coach Roger Smoak took a Sunday afternoon drive. While passing by the Rectory Square tennis courts, he saw five of his players (including four returnees) out on the court playing doubles.
Happy re'tire'ment
If his former players could give Mark Wade a going away present, it would probably be the oversized truck tires which the retiring Lugoff-Elgin strength and conditioning coach would make players flip down the field during the most brutally hot days of the summer.
Post 17 gears up for arms race as locals prepare to open Johnson era
Copycats and sports, oftentimes, go hand-in-hand. So, if you are going to take a page out of someone else's book, you might as well shoot for the moon.
Duggan not prepared to turn her back on volleyball
Sometimes, nothing beats a family discussion at the dinner table to help a young person sort out a potential problem.
Articles By Author - Tom Didato
P-17 vs. Florence game moved to 5:30 p.m. Tuesday
SUMTER -- Kershaw County Post 17 staved off elimination in the South Carolina American Legion State Tournament with a 7-3 win over Chapin-Newberry on Monday afternoon at Riley Park.
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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