Prep Talk

Andrews waiting to name football coach

The Andrews head football coaching position will be open a little while longer.

Andrews Athletic Director Adrian Smith said Friday the school is not ready to name a new football coach at this time. Smith said the school had to wait until the next school board meeting sometime in early April before any announcement would be made.

All-Star basketball weekend takes off, get your rosters here

High school basketball takes center stage in the area with the Carolinas All-Star Basketball Classic and the North-South Senior All-Star Game here this week.

The games will hold their slam dunk and 3-point shooting contests on Friday night with the games on Saturday.

The Carolinas Classic will hold its dunk and 3-point contest at Myrtle Beach High School beginning at 7 p.m. Friday. The Carolinas Classic all-star game will be at Socastee High School on Saturday with the girls game at 6:30 p.m. and the boys at 8:30 p.m. 

The North-South dunk and 3-point contests begin at 7:30 p.m. Friday and the games are Saturday with the girls at 11 a.m. and the boys at 2 p.m. All of the North-South events will be at North Myrtle Beach High School.

Both all-star events feature three area players.

In the Carolinas Classic, Carolina Forest's Lakeitha Alston and Danielle Hennessey will be on the girls team while Georgetown's Kinard Gadsden-Gilliard will be on the boys team.

In the North-South event, Myrtle Beach forward Chris Gore and Aynor guard Marcus Smith are on the boys South team, while Andrews' Natia Gasque is on the girls South squad.

Rosters for both all-star events are below.

North-South rosters.

Carolinas Classic rosters: North Carolina and South Carolina (if you click on the rosters once open it should zoom in).

 

  

Aynor's Gee signs to play women's college basketball

  

Aynor's Kalaera Gee (at right in photo), a 5-foot-11 post player, will play women's college basketball at Allen University.

The senior signed with the Columbia school Thursday. She averaged 9.9 points, 9.3 rebounds and 5.2 steals per game this past season for the Blue Jackets.

Aynor girls coach Matt Burke (at left in photo) said Allen coaches felt Gee could help them in the paint as a rebounder.

Andrews close to finding new football coach

The Andrews Yellow Jackets may soon have a new head football coach.

Andrews Athletic Director Adrian Smith said Tuesday that the school has targeted its choice to replace Steve Hart, but the school has not made a formal offer to anyone.

Georgetown, Waccamaw move into baseball polls

The first regular-season baseball polls from the South Carolina Baseball Coaches Association were released Monday and two area teams jumped into the rankings.

Georgetown, coming off its fourth-place showing in a loaded IP Baseball Classic, is No. 9 in Class AAA after not being ranked in the preseason.

Four more Tigers sign

Four Conway football players took part in a signing ceremony Thursday at the high school. All four signed to play college football at Feather River Community College in Quincy, Calif.
The players are:
Steven Davis (second from right), a 6-foot-3, 225-pound defensive end/outside linebacker
Adren Fugate (second from left), a 5-10, 170-pound cornerback
Antwone Brunson (far left), a 5-8, 175-pound strong safety/outside linebacker
T.J. Hemingway (far right), a 5-7, 170-pound strong safety/outside linebacker

Week 1 S.C. soccer rankings

Sorry for the sporadic, at best, posts. I will try to pick it up.

Here are the latest S.C. soccer rankings.  The Socastee boys fell to No. 5 in Class AAA after opening at No. 2 in the preseason polls. North Myrtle Beach moved up to seventh from eighth
and Myrtle Beach stayed at No. 12. In Class AA, Waccamaw fell from second to fourth.

In girls soccer, Myrtle Beach dropped from ninth to 10th in AAA and Socastee stayed at 15th while Waccamaw remained No. 1 in Class AA/A.

Former Socastee football standout now a Gamecock

Former Socastee quarterback Willis Mills has earned a spot as a walk-on with the University of South Carolina football team.

Socastee football coach Tim Renfrow said Mills, who graduated from Socastee in 2008, did not enroll in a college in the fall and worked out some at the high school to prepare to tryout for the USC football team.

Georgetown's Leak picks college

 

In the photo (from left): Front row: Mother Diona Leak, Stephon Leak, Grandmother Jeannette Lawrence

Back row: Co-Athletic Director Al Hutchingson, Asst. Principal Paula Anderson, Father Leonard Leak, Pastor Floyd Knowlin, Principal Dr Mike Cafaro, Head Football Coach Tyrone Davis, Co-Athletic Director Carla Black

Georgetown's Stephon Leak signed Thursday to play football at Newberry College.

Leak played fullback and linebacker with the Bulldogs, but an ACL injury during the fifth game of last season kept him out for the rest of his senior campaign.

Wrestling excitement at North Myrtle Beach this weekend

The 2009 North/South All-Star wrestling event will be Friday and Saturday at North Myrtle Beach High School and will have a new format this year. Along with the traditional North All Stars vs. South All Stars matchup, a Team South Carolina will compete against Team Georgia.