Those who were really paying attention figured Conway was going to have every chance of repeating on its region championship from a year ago. Read more
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With three new coaches in his region this year, Emmanuel Dewalt knows recent history won’t be much help in scouting.
Coming off of the bench is not something any athlete aspires to do.Â
There is no sophomore slump for Coastal Carolina point guard Devante Jones.Â
Defense wins championships. It’s a cliche that has been used by sports fans for decades.Â
EDITOR’S NOTE: Each week throughout the end of the regular season, MyHorryNews.com will publish this one-stop shop for area basketball updates. It will include notes from around the area, region games to watch in the week ahead, region standings and Horry County stats leaders.
North Myrtle Beach had finally put together enough of a run to threaten Myrtle Beach.
By Ted Ackley
Carolina Forest’s wrestling team lost five seniors from the group that qualified for the postseason last winter, but their goals haven’t changed.
The Panthers get a fresh start Friday.
MYRTLE TRACE (Week 14) Tom Flinchbaugh 603, Skip Bennett 599, Al Wellman 543, Ted Ackley 502, George Thompson 498, Ed McCorkindale 498, Susan Lyons 473, Annette Krapf 432, Janet McGrady 423
After Coastal Carolina mounted a 17-point comeback and pulled out a 92-88 win against their old foe Winthrop last month, CCU head coach Cliff Ellis reflected on the history of the rivalry.
The lights dimmed in Littlejohn Coliseum on the campus of Clemson University. The spotlights popped on, the band played Tiger Rag and the crowd roared.
The Myrtle Beach High boys basketball team's season traditionally consists of four distinct phases — football season, the Beach Ball Classic, the region schedule and the playoffs.
Former Conway baseball standout Reid Hardwick made a couple of stops along the way before finding everything he was looking for at Charleston Southern University.
Conway wrestler Austin Collins has some unfinished business he wants to take care of in 2020.
’Tis the season for sports in Myrtle Beach.
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Coastal’s women’s team off to best start in program history
After a rough ending to the 2019 Myrtle Beach Invitational that saw Coastal Carolina lose sophomore guard Ebrima Dibba for the season, the Chanticleers have turned things around and are on a four-game winning streak heading into the start of Sun Belt Conference play.
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Luke Doty’s high school career ended before it should have.
Marc Morris knows that Mason Garcia wasn’t just a really good football player who spurred a deep playoff run.
If Kenny Byrd was a quarterback or tailback, his 2019 production would have been more highly lauded.
The Loris High School fall sports athletes were honored during the school’s annual banquet that took place Dec. 4.
Players for the annual Touchstone Energy Cooperatives Bowl are checked in and have commenced practices for the all-star game.
COLUMBIA | Ryan Burger hung his head and answered questions.
COLUMBIA |Â Eventually, all those deficits were going to cost the Myrtle Beach football team.
The score will be updated throughout the night.
COLUMBIA | Out of habit, Luke Doty kept putting his hand in his pocket, covering up the surgical scar on his right hand.
The area’s girls basketball programs are going to knock each other around a good bit in the next six weeks.
COLUMBIA | Jaquan Dixon and Bubba Elliott were statistical monsters all season.
COLUMBIA | Before Green Sea Floyds made its second straight trip to Columbia for the final weekend of the SCHSL football season, Donnie Kiefer said his team was in a spot where anything less than a championship would be a disappointment.
COLUMBIA | Domination.
Green Sea Floyds 48 Ridge Spring-Monetta 12 (FINAL)
While watching footage of Sam Snaith, Coastal Carolina coaches noticed three things that made the Welsh talent seem like a strong fit for the program.
Conway High School fall sports athletes are racking up postseason laurels in unprecedented fashion.
There may be high schools in South Carolina that have sent more athletes to the annual Shrine Bowl Game of the Carolinas, but it’s doubtful anyone has produced more Shrine Bowl players than one Conway High School family.
The Coastal Carolina men’s soccer team saw its remarkable 2019 campaign come to an end last week in a 1-0 loss in double overtime to No. 5 Southern Methodist in Dallas.
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The Coastal Carolina men’s basketball team wrapped up their 2019 Myrtle Beach Invitational run Nov. 24 with a 81-56 loss to Mississippi State.
IRMO — Surrounded by his players on the Dutch Fork field, Carolina Forest coach Marc Morris acknowledged what his team already knew.
Green Sea Floyds fans remember when the Trojans couldn't win a ballgame, let alone a state title.Â
The contradiction is stark.
Myrtle Beach’s coaching staff had already scanned through three full Wren games by the end of Saturday, and had six more to go over before bringing in players for film study.
Myrtle Beach is leaving open all available possibilities to get star quarterback Luke Doty back on the field for Saturday’s Class 4A state championship game, even if that means the standout senior playing another position.
Green Sea Floyds will be going for a second consecutive Class A state championship on Friday when it takes on Ridge Spring-Monetta at Benedict College in Columbia.
There are new faces and players in different positions.
The Coastal Carolina Chanticleers snapped a three-game losing streak with a 24-21 win over Texas State Saturday in front of a crowd of more than 15,000 people at Brooks Stadium.
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