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.

Former Olympian Johnson to be guest at CHS hoops camp

Shannon Johnson, a member of the gold medal-winning USA women's basketball team at the 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Athens, Greece, will be the guest speaker at next Tuesday's session of the Runnin' Dogs Basketball Camp at Camden High School.

KC Northern meets Chesterfield in District 5 opener

Kershaw County Northern will begin play in the District 5 tournament next Monday in Pageland.

Golf, hoop camps set for next week

After a July 4th holiday week in which no camps were held, there are two basketball and a golf camp which Kershaw County youngsters may attend next week. All three camps are under the direction of the Kershaw County Recreation Department.

KC Northern in the catbird's seat

Using a five-run top of the sixth, Kershaw County Northern rallied from a 3-2 deficit and pulled out a 7-4 win over Lamar in Wednesday night's winners' bracket game in the Sub-District A Dixie Youth baseball tournament at Camden's Woodward Park.

Marathon men

Three hours, more than 10 and a half innings, 12 hits, nine pitchers and 39 strikeouts after it started, it all ended when Mikael Nelson's chopper to second base plated Brett Jacobs with the only run in KC Northern's 1-0, 11-inning win over Bishopville.