Powers & Gregory sends coaches out with a league championship

After being runners-up in 2011, Powers and Gregory Heating and Cooling won the 2012 KCRD Mite League girls' softball title with a 12-1 record. Coaches Frankie Robinson and Benjie Krenz said they could not have been more proud of their young ladies.

Price is perfect in football contest

After four weeks of contestants having to go to the tie-breaking game in order to decide the winner of the weekly Chronicle-Independent football contest, Ina Price took the decision-maker out of the equation.

This week in Kershaw County sports

Monday: Andrew Jackson at North Central in "Dig Pink" match (VB – 6:45 p.m.)

Blaze catches fire to win title

Punt, Pass & Kick contest set for Saturday

The Kershaw County Recreation Department and the Camden Kiwanis Club will hold the NFL Punt, Pass and Kick competition on Saturday, Sept. 22 beginning at 12:30 p.m. at the Larry Doby Complex in Camden.

Spring training in the fall

Lessons learned in the late summer heat and the coolness of the fall should benefit both the Camden and Lugoff-Elgin high school girls' soccer program come the start of practice for the spring season in the winter.

Lexington-Kershaw U18s win opening soccer match

The Lexington County-Kershaw U18 and U16 boys' soccer teams traveled to Lexington on Saturday in what was the first game of the season for Coach Aron Taylor and Coach Josh Witt's U18 boys' team. And the local entry started off with a 5-2 win against BCS Arsenal.

KC 95 Lady Strikers soccer team hosts benefit golf tournament

The LCSC Kershaw 95 Lady Strikers Soccer Team, a first-year girls U-17 soccer team made up of varsity and junior varsity players from both Camden and Lugoff-Elgin high schools, is hosting a fundraising golf tournament for the program on Saturday, Oct. 13 at the White Pine Golf Club in Camden.

CHS, L-E meet on volleyball court Thursday

The Lugoff-Elgin High School volleyball team will head to Camden on Thursday for the first of two meetings between the two cross-river rivals.

Kershaw County medalists

Ballers heat things up by winning tournaments in Hot-lanta

As if the summer could not get any better for the Camden-based Team Ballers AAAU youth basketball franchise, a pair of the squads closed out a memorable 2012 summer campaign by capturing a pair of championship in the End of Summer Youth Championship Tournament, sponsored by Tournaments R Us, in Atlanta on Aug. 3-5.

Developing a taste for winning championships

Chesterfield rallies in last at-bat to top KC Northern

Chesterfield scored three times in the bottom of the sixth inning to overtake Kershaw County Northern 5-4, in the opening game of the District 5 Dixie Youth baseball tournament being played in Pageland.

Softball, hoop camps on tap

The girls will have their weeks on the softball field and basketball court over the next two weeks when the Camden High Softball Camp and the Lugoff-Elgin Girls' Basketball Camp hold their respective sessions over the next two weeks.

Author of Doby bio to present talk at Mills Courthouse on Sunday

Dr. Joseph Thomas Moore, author of Pride Against Prejudice, which was updated and published in 2012 as Larry Doby: The Struggle of the American League's First Black Player, will present a program on the life of the Camden native on Sunday, July 8 at 3 p.m. inside the Robert Mills Courthouse in Camden.

Holliday football, L-E hoop camp on tap

Here are the sports camps on tap in Kershaw County for the week of June 24.

Chopping their way to a title

Springdale 5K at Sunset set for Aug. 17

Registration is open for runners and walkers for the 5th Annual Springdale at Sunset 5K Run & 1-lap walk to be held on Saturday, Aug. 17 at the Springdale Race Course in Camden.

Youth summer sports camps season cover all bases in the county

With the school year coming to a close, it is time for summer sports camps in Kershaw County.