Hannah-Pamplico breaks string of losing seasons with 9-3 campaign

Dennis Brunson hssr.com Associate Editor • January 10, 2025

Raiders reach third round of Class A state playoffs

Pamplico Hannah-Pamplico High School had five straight losing football seasons

before this year. The Raiders put together a 9-3 campaign and advanced to the third round of the

Class A state playoffs.


While that was certainly all well and good, H-P feels like it could have been an even

more memorable season. That’s because its season came to an end with a 12-7 loss to Cross,

which went on to beat Lake View for the lower state title.


“We felt like it definitely could have been us (playing for the state title),” said Hannah-Pamplico

head coach Trey Woodberry. “We wanted another shot at Lake View (which beat the Raiders 30-7 to win

the Region 6 title). It was 7-7 at halftime, but they had a Pick 6 (a scoring interception return) go 75 yards

for a touchdown. It then got away from us. I thought we would have competed a lot better if we played

them again.”


Instead, Hannah-Pamplico came up short against Cross, which went on to beat Lake View 36-7

before losing to Abbeville 58-20 in the state championship contest. The game was scoreless at halftime

and the Raiders were driving in for a touchdown early in the second half. However, they fumbled the ball

and Cross recovered, returning it 90 yards for a touchdown.


The Trojans scored again in the third quarter to take a 12-0 lead into the final stanza. Hannah-

Pamplico cut it to 12-7 in the fourth quarter but couldn’t put any other points on the board.


“We had other chances that we didn’t capitalize on,” said Woodberry, whose team went just 3-8 a

year ago. “Cross played really well on defense, and I think their (postseason) experience helped them. We

were on the road, in the cold, and we hadn’t been that far in the playoffs before against a team which had

that experience.


“I don’t know if anybody could have beat Abbeville, but we sure would have liked to had a

chance.”


Hannah-Pamplico rolled to easy victories in the first two rounds of the playoffs, beating Military

Magnet 43-6 and Denmark-Olar 40-6 in home games.


Hannah-Pamplico made its run despite playing half of the season without its leading rusher in

senior running back Jamarcus Williams. He tore the anterior cruciate ligament on the third play of the

game against Green Sea Floyds, which was the Raiders’ seventh of 12 games.


“Jamarcus had almost 1,000 yards rushing before the injury, and he didn’t play much in the

second half of those games,” Woodberry said.


Wiliams, who was selected to the All-Region 7 first team, ran for 909 yards and six touchdowns

on 109 carries. He finished his career with 3,649 yards and 28 touchdowns on 397 carries while catching

10 passes for 154 yards and two more scores. Williams also returned a kickoff for a touchdown and had

76 tackles and three interceptions as a cornerback on defense.


Hannah-Pamplico did have senior Wade Poston at quarterback all year, and he was selected as

the Region 7 offensive Player of the Year. Poston completed 112 of 185 passes for 1,777 yards and 23

touchdowns while rushing for 612 yards and nine more scores on 97 rushes.


A 4-year varsity starter, Poston completed 342 of 595 passes for 5,122 yards and 58 touchdowns.

He ran for 1,959 yards and 32 touchdowns on 298 carries.


Poston and fellow senior Tylin Jenkins were both selected to the South Carolina Football

Coaches Association Class A All-State team. Jenkins, who starred at both wide receiver and cornerback,

was named the Region 7 Athlete of the Year.


Jenkins caught 33 passes for 537 yards and 12 touchdowns on offense. In the secondary, he had

48 tackles and three interceptions.


Joining those three on the All-Region team were senior offensive lineman Will Faulkenberry,

senior offensive lineman Mason Hanna, junior linebacker Chris Eldridge, senior defensive back

Demarion Sparks and senior linebacker Brandon Cox.


Cox led the Raiders in tackles with 100 while Eldridge had 64. Sparks had four interceptions

while coming up with 38 catches for 459 yards and seven touchdowns as a wide receiver.


Senior CJ Woodbury was a second-team selection as a wide receiver.


Woodberry thought Hannah-Pamplico made major gains as the season went along.


“I think we definitely improved, especially on the defensive side of ball,” he said. “Offensively,

we played well even after we lost people to injury. We had people who stepped up and played well, and

then Wade Poston had a great year.”


After the loss to Lake View, Hannah-Pamplico only allowed 59 points in the final six games.

Other key defensive contributors were junior outside linebacker Davis Kimbrough with 95 tackles, senior

defensive end Jaquann Bryant with 81 tackles, Woodbury, a cornerback on defense, with 78 tackles and

sophomore free safety Jonah Poston with 62 tackles.


Junior defensive end Xavier Self led the team in quarterback sacks with four.


Eldridge took on most of the running chores after the loss of Williams. Junior Darius Williams

also saw action at running back.


Hannah-Pamplico loses 10 seniors to graduation, eight of whom started on at least one side of the

football.


“We’ve got a lot coming back on defense, but on offense we’re pretty much starting over,”

Woodberry said. “We’re going to have to replace our quarterback, running back, our right guard

(Faulkenberry) and Hanna at tackle. We will have to find new receivers with the loss of Jenkins, Sparks

and Woodbury.


“We’re just going to have to put in the work this offseason to get ready for next year.”


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By Billy G. Baker Publisher Bamberg —The Class AA HSSR third ranked Barnwell Warhorses and the Class A Bamberg - Ehrhardt Raider baseball teams have both already won region titles, and they will both host four-team district play-offs in early May, so they met in a play-off tune-up game on Tuesday night with Barnwell winning 12-1. The two teams also met on April, 9 with Barnwell prevailing 3-0 in that game. Barnwell senior ace pitcher Cameron Austin, a five time all-region and four-time all-state honoree , improved his record to 5-2 on the season working five innings against the Raiders. Austin had six K’s and allowed only four hits. On the season, Austin has worked 39.1 innings with 58 K’s with a 1.23 ERA. The top hitters for Barnwell in the win were outfielder Tommy Reid with two hits, while Austin collected three RBI’s and scored two runs. Three players, Hayden Pierce, senior catcher Kaleb McCormack, and third baseman Trey Boleman , each had one hit and one RBI respectively . Carl Hines added a hit also. Bamberg was hampered by giving up 10 walks and four errors during the game. The Raiders were led at the plate by left-fielder Weston Stokes who went 2-of- three. He also saw late action on the mound. The team’s other two hits came from second baseman Dakota Black and center fielder Brent Amaker . The starting pitcher for B-E was Cooper Sandifer who worked 4.2 innings, giving up three hits with six K’s. After the game, Barnwell head coach Cody McCollum shared some thoughts with the HSSR. “We always have a good chance of winning with Cameron on the mound, especially when he is throwing strikes, and the guys are playing good defense behind him; and we are swinging the bats well,” said Coach McCollum, who played baseball at Barnwell where he graduated in 2012. “They walked a lot of guys tonight and that helped us too. “Winning the region was something I talked about with the boys at the beginning of the season because I felt like this team was good enough to go undefeated in the region,” said Coach McCollum. “We fell a little short last year, losing a region game to Edisto, and that stuck in the back of our heads, and this year our expectation was to go 10-0 in the region. “Our other internal goal is to win at least 20 games before the playoffs start and we are 18-4 right now, with four games left,” said Coach McCollum. “We need to win at least two more. We play Batesburg - Leesville tomorrow, (April, 23), South Aiken twice next week, and Woodland one more time. We are going to try hard to get two more wins.” Coach McCollum said that Austin, batting .468 with 26 RBI’s and six home runs, has played more third base, when not pitching this season. “Before I came back to Barnwell last year, I was at Hampton, and I had to coach against him, and I glad he is now on my team. He’s a very good player.” Coach McCollum said Barnwell has relied on Austin, and three other seniors for most of the load this season. “We have a sophomore and a freshman starting in the middle, and we have two sophomore starters in the outfield, and a junior started in center field tonight,” said Coach McCollum. “We are kind of young and old at the same time. “The other seniors are Kaleb McCormack , our catcher, who has improved his hitting this season along with and Trey Boleman who started at third tonight and Hayden Pierce was at first tonight, and he hit a double off the wall. Kaleb is a very good on defense behind the plate and we feel good about him, behind the plate, regardless of who is pitching.” Case Davis is a freshman starting shortstop with a .411 batting average. Pierce is at .390 and McCormick is at .289 with 16 RBI’s and a .999 fielding percentage. Joe Huggins is the DH and he is hitting .367. Sophomore Dakota Black starts at second. Tommy Reid is a junior center fielder currently batting .333.  Vincent Gibson is a sophomore in the outfield for Barnwell. Jax Mead is a sophomore starting at second base. Caiden Roland is the sophomore starting right fielder. Some additional Barnwell pitching depth has come from, Pierce (5-0, 35 K’s, ERA 2.54), along with Bradley Richardson (2-0, 9 K’s), Boleman (26-K’s) and Davis (24 K’s with a 1.07 ERA). After the game, Bamberg Ehrhardt (8-6) head coach Gene Schwarting told the HSSR, “We have three 8 graders who start for us, two 9 th graders, one sophomore, a junior and two seniors so for the most part we are a young team,” said Coach Schwarting. “Our two seniors, Weston Stokes and Brent Amaker are co-captains” Stokes is the team’s number one pitcher. Stokes started in left against Barnwell and batted lead-off. Amaker started in center and batted third. Nasi Singleton, an 8 th grader , will typically start in the outfield and Garrett Wade usually starts at third base. Chip Brewer, or Stokes, will start at short and Dakota Black is at second while 8 th grader Chase Collins holds down first. Asiel Graham is usually the starting B-E catcher, backed up by Davis Ehrhardt . Singleton is the top hitter for the Raider at .477 and 8 RBI’s. Stokes is at .410 and 12 RBI’s. Black is third on the hit index at .333 and 15 RBI’s. Other top hitters include: Amaker (.317 with 17 RBI’s & a HR), Wade (.306 & 10 RBI’s) along with Cooper Sandifer (.300 & five RBI’s). Stokes has 26 innings pitched with 48 K’s. Sandifer has worked 22.1 innings on the mound with 38 K’s, and Brewer has 14 innings pitched to date with 25 K’s. “In terms of our pitching this season, it has been pretty good, but at times it has also been like a roller- coaster,” said Coach Schwarting. “We will pitch well one game, and not so well the next game. 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These players are some of the best talent South Carolina has on the softball diamond. Since the switch to fast pitch ball, student athletes playing softball are stepping up to the next level play. We salute these ladies and wish them all the best in the future. (Coaches please Nominate your Players at hsreport@aol.com ) HSSR 2025 SC Senor Softball Prospects 1. Ainsley Bennett-Summerville-P- SC (2 Time Gatorade POY) 2. Maddie Johnson-Aynor-RHP-67 MPH-CLEMSON 3. Sarah Rocheleau-Catawba Ridge-OF-(All-State) CLEMSON 4. Mandy Wells-Clarendon Hall-SS (35 Career HR/.531 career) 5. Melanie Edwards-Summerville-1B- (All-State) UNC-C 6. Ellanie Yarrell-Byrnes-P-C-(’24 R-POY) SC State 7. Abby Driscoll-Summerville-C-(All-State) C of C 8. Jaidyn Devore-Barnwell-P-(538 Career K’s)-HOWARD 9. Maddie Wiant-Byrnes-P-(Mid 60’s)-Winthrop 10. Addison Miller-Oceanside Collegiate-3B—(.468, 30-RBI) TOWSON 11. Maddie Berry-Latta-P-(All-State-65 MPH) Wofford 12. Cierra Grice-Dillon -3B/C-(3X All-State)-PC 13. 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