A look at The State’s all-area baseball team and Players of the Year from Midlands-area high schools for the 2024 season. ——Player of the Year —— Caden Reeves, Chapin Player of the Year, reader’s choice (Fan vote) Brandon Cromer, Lexington All-Area Baseball Team ——First Team —— Foster Apple, Chapin: Senior pitcher/first baseman hit .308 with two homers and 10 RBIs. On the mound, Apple was … Continue reading Take a look: The State’s 2024 Midlands all-area high school baseball team

Monte Lee publicly made his interest known in the vacant South Carolina baseball head coaching job on Thursday. The Gamecocks assistant and former Clemson head coach discussed the topic during an interview on Teddy Heffner’s “Talking Sports” show on Columbia’s Fox 1400 AM. “I hope I get the opportunity,” Lee said during an interview that lasted about 30 minutes. “We’ll see how this thing goes.” … Continue reading Lee makes it known he wants USC baseball head coaching job

A look at The State’s Midlands girls and boys high school soccer players of the year and all-area teams and for the 2024 season. All-Area Girls Soccer Team -The State’s Co-Players of the Year- Darcy Ahern, Chapin and Maggie Heffernan, Lexington -Readers’ choice Player of the Year (Fan vote)- Maggie Heffernan, Lexington -The State’s All-Area First Team- Darcy Ahern, Chapin: Senior forward had 27 goals … Continue reading The State’s 2024 Midlands all-area high school boys, girls soccer teams

One person was killed Sunday in an early morning crash on a Midlands road, according to the South Carolina Highway Patrol. Nicholas Nathaniel Baker, a 41-year-old Elgin resident, died in what Kershaw County Coroner David West called an accident. The single-vehicle collision happened at about 2 a.m. in Kershaw County when a 2014 Toyota truck was driving north on Veterans Row, said Master Trooper Mitchell … Continue reading Driver killed when pickup truck runs off South Carolina road, Highway Patrol says

LOCAL SCHEDULE TODAY Coastal Plain League Florence at Lexington County, 7 p.m. MONDAY American Legion Manning-Santee at Murrells Inlet, 7 p.m. Coastal Plain League Florence Post 1 at Florence, 7 p.m. Junior Legion Horry at Darlington, 7 p.m. Sandlapper League Lee at Central, 6 p.m. Cheraw at Marlboro County, 6 p.m. North Central at McBee, 6 p.m. Trinity at Turbeville, 6 p.m. Kingstree at South … Continue reading Local / Television Schedule, June 8, 2024