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Eleven Florence Christian student-athletes All-Rregion selections

Dennis Brunson hssr.com Associate Editor • Jun 20, 2024

FCS football head coach Neil Minton pleased with spring practice

            Florence – Florence Christian School had 11 student-athletes in four varsity sports earn All-Region honors.

 

           Making All-Region for boys soccer were Brooks Poston, Chris Rishmawi and Corey Hebler. Head Coach Garrett Coker was selected as the Region Coach of the Year.

 

           All-Region selections for baseball were Tanner Lewis, Landon Hardy, Gavin Holt and Jackson McGregor. Thomas Gainey and Wallace Jordan were All-Region for boys golf, and Anna Kate Huggins and Emily Touchberry were softball All-Region selections.

 

           FCS honored its student-athletes at its annual Spring Athletic Awards with team awards. For boys soccer, Poston received Best Offense, Hebler was Best Defensive Player, Hudson Spence was Most Improved and Connor Lee won the Coach’s Award.

 

           In baseball, Hardy won Best Offensive Player while Best Defensive Player was shared by Gray and Lewis. Stone Poston won the Coach’s Award, and Holt and Pierce Matthews both won Most Improved.

 

           Gainey was named Most Outstanding Player for boys golf. Michael Cook was named Most Improved and Jordan won the Coach’s Award.

 

           For softball, Huggins was named Best Offensive Player, while Touchberry was named Most Improved. Payton White was selected Best Defensinve Player and the Coach’s Award went to Addison Singleton.

 

           Florence Christian also honored its SCISA Scholar Athletes, which goes to those who have maintained at least a 90 average in the classroom while playing in at least two varsity sports over the course of the school year.

 

           Florence Christian had 27 earn the honor. They are Lily Altman, Chelsea Andrews, Jameson Berry, Camila Canavati, Morgan Carter, Izzi Caudill, Wyatt Clark, Emily Cole, Zoe Dowse, Landon Feagin, Caleb Forehand, Dylan Fredrick, Pierson Gray, Emma Godwin, Elise Hicks, Gavin Holt, Anna Kate Huggins, Brylee Joyner, Leah Lambert, Dakota Lawson, Addie Lee, Andrew Miller, Madison Grace Montrose, Josh Munn, Brooks Poston, Addison Singleton and Carson Stone.

 

           Madison Grace Montrose won the Female Christian Character award while Jameson Berry won the Male Christian Character award.

 

           MINTON HAPPY WITH SPRING FOOTBALL PRACTICE

 

           Neil Minton is one of the longest tenured football head coaches in SCISA. He is preparing to begin his 13th season at Florence Christian, so there isn’t too much he hasn’t seen or heard.

 

           However, he was pleased with what the Eagles were able to accomplish with spring practice.

 

           “We had a great spring,” Minton said. “We are excited about the season. We graduated some very good players but return a lot of young hard-working men “

 

           FCS will need someone to step up to fill the role of graduated running back Juels Huntley. He rushed for 1,926 yards and 27 touchdowns and caught 11 passes for 86 yards.

 

           The leading returning rusher is rising junior Josh Davis, who had 293 yards and two TDs. Rising senior Cody Wallace had 162 yards and one TD, and rising sophomore Andrew Miller had 152 yards and two TDs.

 

           Rising juniors Holt and Feagin are both expected back to compete at quarterback.

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By Neill Kirkpatrick • 20 Jun, 2024
By Neill Kirkpatrick Hemingway – The Hemingway track and field teams have had a successful season as they have several runners on both boys and girl’s teams eyeing a trip to lower state. “Right now, we have been doing well but we have an incredibly young team. They have been working hard and getting better every day,” said assistant and track coach Joseph Cooper . “We do not have a track, so we have to train with what we have. Our kids our resilient and make the best of the situation.” The Tigers’ strengths are in the sprinting events for both teams. The girls are led by sophomores Elisha Singletary and Shakiya Cooper and eighth graders Kennedi Hayward and Leanna Washington and seventh grader Rayne Bell . These girls run the 100, 200 and make up the four x100 relay team. Singletary, arguably the best athlete at Hemingway, also runs the 100-meter hurdle and does the long jump in the field events. She ran a 20.34 at the lower state meet and she also qualified in the long jump. Loyalty Anderson and Honesty Anderson also run the 100-meter hurdles. Senior Leilani Pressley leads the field performers throwing the shot put and discus. Joining her in the discus is Dianna Smith and Staresha Turner in shot put. The boys’ team is also led by two seniors in Jerel Hampton and Jordan Petersen . They both run the one hundred and the 4 x 100 relay while Hampton is the Tigers top 200-meter runner. He has run a team best 12.32 in the 110 and he ran a 24.26 at lower state which was a new PR. Three sophomores in Alexander Timmons , Jeric Nesmith and Tony Holmes make up the rest of the 4 x100. Nesmith also runs the 400 meters, and he is looking to run a sub 60 second 400 at the region meet. He clocked 12.72 in the 100. The 4x100 ran a season best 47.97 at lower state. Alexander Timmons and Tony Holmes also sophomores run the 400 meters and 800 meters, respectively. Holmes ran a 2:28.50 at lower state. It was just off his PR. In the field events Robert Cooper competes in both the shot put and the discus and is joined by Joshua Eaddy in the discus.

Palmetto Christian Academy growing as an athletic program

By Neill Kirkpatrick • 20 Jun, 2024
By Neill Kirkpatrick Special to the HSSR Mt. Pleasant – Palmetto Christian Academy wrapped up a good athletic year with a good spring as the boys’ and girls’ soccer teams reached the play-offs, the boy’s golf team made the state tournament, track and field finished in the top 10 and the baseball team despite being very young made great strides. Athletic Director Dan Hoover told the HSSR last summer, “Our parents want a Christian education for their kids and covenant relationship to the school. We have built our athletic programs around those ideals.” On the pitch the Eagles earned play-off spots for both the boy’s and girl’s teams. The boys’ team finished the year 4-5-1 with their season ending in the first round of the SCISA AAA tournament. They were led by junior SCISA All State selection Evans Baker . Lady Eagles lost in heartbreaking fashion to Spartanburg Christian Academy , after finishing the match tied and remaining that way after an overtime period. They lost 8-7 in a shoot-out. They will say good-bye to four seniors Bella De Los Reyes , Autumn Benton , Anne Lancaster , and Ana Taylor . The boy’s golf team finished 9 th at the SCISA state meet with a score of 758. Jack Semeraro led the way shotting 167 over the two-day tournament 167. He was followed by Joseph Terry at 192, Anna Claire Romine at 190, Miles Johnson at 209 and Simms O’Neil at 232. The Eagles finished the year with two top ten finishes at the SCISA state meet as the boy’s team placed 7 th and the girl’s finished 9 th . The boys were led by senior Hans Payne . He won a gold and a silver medal for the Eagles in the 1600 and 800, respectively. He won the 1600 by .01 in a new PR OF 4:32.47. In the 800 he also set a new PR of 2:04.76. He did all this after overcoming an early season injury, The Eagles won gold and silver in the Pole Vault as juniors Sam Smith and Gavin Wease went one-two. Smith’s vault of 14-08 was new school and PR. Eighth grader Alex Corley , who is ranked the top eighth grade Javelin thrower in the country, won gold with a throw of 149-05. It was a new school record. The girls’ team was led by sophomore Josie Hurley . She won silver in the 1600 in a new PR of 5:47.69 and bronze in 800 with a new PR of 2:32.83. Also medaling for the Lady Eagles was the 4x100 relay team as they finished third. Two eighth graders Margaret Askins and Anna Grace Works , freshmen Sydney Geiger , and seventh grader Lola Praise Perry made up the team.
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