Archive By Author - Tom Didato
Lady Demons press their way past North Central
On a night in which Lugoff-Elgin was without its leading scorer for the entire night, North Central head coach Mitch Lowder wondered where his team, which played so well in the first half, went for the final two quarters.
Sumpter’s buzzer-beater gives Demons 62-61 win
This is one Christmas present which the Lugoff-Elgin basketball team will not have to return.
Live Life to the Fullest
Ron McKie remembers the night as if it were yesterday. He recalls how a high school gymnasium, packed for a pre-Christmas basketball tournament game, went silent in a matter of seconds. How an alley was formed by people in the commons area at Hilton Head High School when the stretcher carrying Marcus Warren was wheeled through the area to an awaiting ambulance. Listening to the Camden High School boys' basketball coach tell it, the scene ...
Demons’ prescription not what Dog (tor) ordered
There isn't enough sugar in a candy store to have made this medicine go down. One week after Camden took his team out of its offensive rhythm by employing several different zone defenses in a 62-61 Bulldog victory a week ago, Lugoff-Elgin head coach Derek Belton took a "what's good for the goose is good for gander" approach when the two rivals met Friday night inside the Dog Pound. Causing the hosts fits by changing ...
CHS girls storm back to overtake Lady Demons
If steam actually could come out of a person's ears, then the smoke emanating from those of Natalie Jeffcoat could have steamed up half the windows in downtown Camden.
AJ hangs on to down Demons 67-64
Derek Belton smiled and shrugged his shoulders as soon as the question was put to him about his team's final trip down the floor in Tuesday's 67-64 loss to visiting Andrew Jackson.
Commitment to defense leads L-E past Lady Vols
Who needs a grease board when the spoken word will do. Forsaking a diagram of the X's and O's, Lugoff-Elgin girls' basketball coach Von Duncan used halftime of Tuesday night's game with visiting Andrew Jackson to appeal to her team's heart … not to mention their pride in trying to overcome a 23-17 halftime deficit. The second 16 minutes were a different story, as an energized Lady Demon squad took it to the Lady Volunteers ...
KC team wins South Carolina Open Cup
The LCSC Kershaw County boys' U18 soccer team finished off their season by winning the South Carolina Open Cup.
Bradford's free throw lifts Dogs past L-E, 62-61
There are ways to get your teams' attention and then, there was the nugget which Camden head coach Ron McKie threw out to his team as they were clinging to a 62-61 lead over host Lugoff-Elgin with 2.9 seconds left in Friday's first of two meetings between the two rivals.
Lady Bulldogs race to 63-36 win over L-E
As has been her team's M.O. since taking over the reins to the Camden's girls basketball team, Natalie Jeffcoat has put the "run" into the Runnin' Lady Dogs.
Camden opens with a sweep of Gators; All 3’s not enough for Lady Knights
For the second time in their last two games, the North Central girls' basketball team failed to score a point in the first period.
Turnovers bake Knights in 70-47 loss to AJ
There was a plan of attack for when Andrew Jackson went to a match-up zone. What North Central could not have prepared for was the abundance of turnovers which it would commit against the Volunteers' non-pressing defensive scheme. Without having to unleash any full-court pressure, AJ was able to jump to an early double-digit lead against the Knights and leave The Castle in Boonetown with a convincing 70-47 win over Andy Johnson's charges. A ball-hawking ...
Rodriguez, L-E bottle up Rams
That first win of the season sure doesn't come with many side benefits. After having opened the season with a pair of losses, the Lugoff-Elgin girls closed out the first week of their season with by doubling up visiting Chesterfield, 58-29, Friday night. While the victory left the Lady Demons felling better about themselves, head coach Von Duncan said her squad should not expect cookies and cake when they arrive at the gym today to ...
Demons end 11 frustrating months by knocking off Chesterfield, 85-56
Derek Belton had not been able to smile like this after a game since the last time his Lugoff-Elgin basketball team played Chesterfield, some 339 days ago.
Six-point, pre-match hole trips up Demons
Knowing his team trailed, 6-0, before the first two wrestlers took to the mat on Wednesday, Lugoff-Elgin wrestling coach Even Moxie hardly had a warm, fuzzy feeling about how that night's pairing with visiting Rock Hill would turn out.
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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