When Brian Alderson brought in one of his former college players to throw his team some batting practice on Monday, he knew there would be some deficiencies in the actual application between Frankie Everitte — now an equipment rep — and West Florence’s George Floyd.

Any of the baseball contenders in Region VI-4A know by now that it’s just a matter of time.

Chad Sarvis has coached enough baseball to know that the games can sometimes trend ugly. 

In what amounted to Ethan Salak’s last start as a pitcher to make sure his team makes the playoffs, the St. James hurler had more than enough pretty to outweigh the ugly.

Curtis Hudson was casually leaning over the protective rail into the dugout, his back to one of his hitters as he talked to a couple of his assistants.

Joey Worley resigned as the head baseball coach at Carolina Forest effective immediately, the now-former Panthers coach said late Friday night.

Locking up a playoff berth with a month to go in the season isn’t unheard of in high school baseball.

Tim Christy wasn’t upset that his team dropped a clunker in the Mingo Bay Baseball Tournament. No, the event is a shell of its former self this week, as travel and fan restrictions meant a 19-school field instead of one approaching 100 squads.

Cam Freeman and his North Myrtle Beach teammates had just seen one of the best pitching performances of the junior’s already stellar career. Freeman struck out 10 Hartsville batters and gave up just two hits.

By the time Jordan Murphy fouled off a pitch in the top of the eighth inning Monday against St. James, Socastee coach Curtis Hudson already understood that what he had just seen wasn’t Murphy’s best.

When Conway pitcher Brandon Eldridge plunked the opening hitter of the game, no one knew how much of a sign of things to come it was going to be.

The high school baseball season ended almost as soon as it began.

Jaquan Dixon sat in the dust as the McBee players celebrated their state title on Green Sea Floyds’ field.

Ninety minutes before his game started, Storm Harrelson was already bouncing around.

In any other game, St. James coach Robbie Centracchio may have been pleased with his team’s offensive production.

It took a little longer than St. James fans may have hoped, but Monday night worked about as well as possible for the Sharks baseball team.

North Myrtle Beach came into Thursday night with everything in its favor.

Two errors, two wild pitches and two runs.

Joey Worley has been around just long enough to start to understand the dynamic of the South Carolina baseball playoffs.

If not for the Mingo Bay Baseball Classic, Tim Christy may not be such a fan of the timing of spring break.

The first batter of the game not only reached base against St. James. Moments later, after a wild pitch, sacrifice bunt and fly ball, South Florence’s Korique Rainey scored.

The door bell rang at the Smith house, and a harmless prank was in full motion.

In the span of one game, Carolina Forest went from a team that was consistently failing in late-game situations to a team that avoided late drama.

Carolina Forest baseball fans won't remember Derek Rogers’ relatively unspectacular final three at-bats against Socastee last week.

Joey Yura had watched Socastee teammate Bryson Reeder give his team six-plus strong innings. Then, it was lefty Maddux Smith doing his thing for three more.

When Joey Worley studies the teams in his region, he sees a familiar sight: strong pitching, solid defense and scrappy lineups built to grind out games.

On Wednesday, Nov. 14, Loris High School’s Gage Smith and Tanner Kennedy signed letters of intent to attend college and play baseball. Smith committed to Lander and Kennedy to Erskine.

As the end of the school year approaches there’s always that “Goodbye” or “See you later” that the graduates will say to each other.

The Loris Lions varsity baseball was host to the Dillon Wildcats Monday of this past week. This was a make up game from the previous week. The Lions lost the lead in a 12-2 defeat to Dillon. The game was tied at two with Dillon batting in the top of the fifth when one of Dillon’s players dou…

The Loris Lions baseball team was at home Wednesday evening of this past week for a non-conference game against South Brunswick.

Joey Worley sees glimpses of what his players can do.

Last week Loris High School baseball team was host to the well-known Mingo Bay Tournament. There were teams here from Virginia, West Virginia, Ohio and New York, just to name a few.

The Loris Lions were on the road to Lake City Tuesday of this past week.

The North Myrtle Beach baseball team scored a 9-3 victory over host Myrtle Beach on Tuesday in a big Region 7-4A contest.

The Loris Lions faced the Myrtle Beach Lady Sea-hawks on their own turf Monday of this past week. Maddie Gore started the game for the Lions. She surrendered three runs on five hits over four innings, striking out four and walking zero. Jordan Guion-Brooks entered the game as relief throwing…

Loris Lions varsity baseball traveled to Waccamaw Tuesday of this past week. The Lions fell behind early and couldn’t come back in a 9-3 loss.

As his frustrated teammates plodded to the dugout after Friday’s disappointing 3-0 loss to West Florence, infielder Nolan Edwards offered a simple piece of encouragement.

Loris Varsity baseball team traveled to Marion Monday, March 5 coasting to an easy victory of 17-2.

In a season-opening showdown between two of the Grand Strand’s top baseball programs, St. James turned in an impressive performance in defeating Carolina Forest 6-3 at Shark Park.

Loris Lions baseball team traveled to Dillon Tuesday, Feb. 27, for what should have been the semi-finals of the Lacy Hardee Memorial Tournament. The Lions took an early lead but saw the Wildcats recapture the lead in the bottom of the second inning.

The Loris Lions baseball team traveled to Conway Monday of this past week in a matchup with the Conway Tigers.

The Loris Lions varsity baseball team began their preseason activities with a game against Marion this past week.