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SCHS TENNIS TEAMS REPEAT AS
REGION 3A CHAMPIONS
GAMECOCKS TAKE THE
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LADY GAMECOCKS OUTLAST
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Taking barely an hour the SCHS Gamecock tennis team of Kyle Reynolds rolled
past ECI 3-0 to make it back to back Region 3A tennis titles. Pushed back a day
by rain, the Red and White claimed their title on their brand new home courts on
April Fool’s Day. The two wins moved the
record for the Red and White to 10-7 after
a 2-6 start against some extremely tough
competition.
Statesboro will be the host for the final
regular season match on April 12 with the
state tournament starting the next week. By
April 21 that first round of state must be
completed. SCHS will host the Region 1A
number four team. In last season’s brackets
the region did not have a fourth place team.
In the championship match ECI was at
tempting to reverse a 5-0 defeat they suf
fered on their home courts on March 22.
To hopefully obtain their goal the Bulldogs
presented an almost entirely new lineup.
Only their number one singles player, who
took SCHS number one Attison Lee to three
sets in Twin City, was the same. The re
sult, however, was exactly the same. The
Gamecocks won with Thomas Milner (6-
3, 6-3), Mason Forehand (6-0, 7-5), and
River Reynolds/John Boswell (6-3, 6-4)
finishing. Lee won his first set 7-6 (5) and
had not started his second set while Zach
Thompson/ Jeremiah Stuart were up 6-4,
4-3 when both were pulled.
Their morning semifinal presented less
than a challenge to the Gamecocks as they
rolled past the Tigers 3-0 and were up a
set and a 3-0 second set in the other two.
In play the team lost a total of two games.
The three shutout wins went to Lee, Milner,
and Thompson/Stuart while Forehand was
6-0, 3-0 before being pulled and Reynolds/
Boswell were 6-2, 3-0 when pulled. SCHS
was most certainly on its way to a 5-0 win.
For the season the Gamecock starting line
up has Lee at 7-7, Milner at 12-5, Forehand at 10-3, Reynolds/Boswell at 10-4, and
Thompson/Stuart at 7-5. For the boys the region championship was the 17th for the
program since the current format was set up in 1990. A season ago the team started
slowly, eventually advancing to the state championship match before being ousted
from the playoffs.
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Surviving some early scares in the championship match, the Screven County Lady
Gamecocks of Kyle Reynolds claimed their second consecutive Region 3 A champi
onship with a 3-1 victory over the homestanding Claxton Lady Tigers last Wednes
day. The pair of wins from the day lifted
the team’s overall record to 11-6 and
gave them seven consecutive wins over
3 A opponents on the season The title was
the girls programs’ 21st since 1990 and
the origins of the current format of team
tennis.
The championship bout between the
home team and the Lady Gamecocks
was a rematch of the March 23rd match
on the locals’ courts won by SCHS 3-2.
Prior to the tournament Claxton switched
their two and three singles hoping to get
their extra win over Lyla Johnson at
number two singles. They didn’t.
In the finals Claxton picked up the first
win as Emma Rose Griner fell 2-6, 0-6.
The doubles team of Katheryn Davis/
Samantha Forehand evened the count
at 1 -1 with a 6-0, 6-2 win. At that point
SCHS was up a set in two matches and
down a set in the other. Madison Scott/
Garyn Howard came off with a 6-2, 6-2
win. At number one Emma Webb lost
her first set 6-7 (6) while Johnson won
hers 6-3. Johnson fell behind early in her
second set to create anxious moments but
rebounded to win the second set 6-4. At
that point Webb was pulled 5-5 in the sec
ond set.
SCHS faced Metter in the region semifi
nals in the morning. The match was over
very, very quickly as Metter’s team of
Lady Tigers carried no swat at all. In the
five matches MHS won just five games.
Webb, Griner, and the team of Davis/
Forehand each lost one game in their two
sets while Scott/Howard lost a game in
each set, and Johnson pitched a shutout.
With a final regular season match up on April 12 in Statesboro, the Lady Game
cocks will start the state playoffs the following week and that match must be com
pleted by April 21. They will host the fourth seeded team from Region 1. Records for
the lineup show Webb at 10-6, Johnson at 12-5, Griner 5-5, Scott/Howard at 11-6, and the
Davis/ Forehand at 10-3.
Winning the Region 3 A Boys Championship on April 1 with a win over ECI were Tucker Thomas, Landon
Forehand, Kade Chandler, Thomas Milner, Zach Thompson, River Reynolds with the trophy, Jeremiah Stuart,
Attison Lee, Mason Forehand, John Boswell, Bo Doss, Josh Patel
Winning the Region 3 A Girls Championship on March 30 were Katheryn Davis, Samantha Forehand, Emma
Webb, Emma Rose Griner, Garyn Howard, Madison Scott holding the trophy, Jayla Lovett, Lyla Johnson, Lilia
Burch, Emma Polk, Kerrigan Bogart.
Around
the horn
Spring break slow
down is upon us
Burton Kemp
Just as a year ago and
just like any knowledge
able Gamecock and Re
gion 3A fan predicted,
the SCHS athletic pro
gram brought home
three region champion
ships over the past two
weeks. First soccer, then
girls’ tennis, and then
boys’ tennis all did what
they were supposed to
do. Three teams with
the proverbial bulls-eye
on their back lived up to
their expectations. And
though the soccer team
took a surprising late hit,
they all did it quite eas
ily
But after the excitement
of last week, the bore
dom that is this week of
spring break has begun.
There is no tennis, no
soccer, no track, and no
middle school athletics
this week. There was
a scheduled baseball
game here yesterday and
another one tomorrow
at Claxton and nothing
else. Even with the end
of the break, things will
move more slowly. Ten
nis has a regular season
match scheduled for
Monday and that finish
es their regular season
and the playoffs begin.
Baseball will have two
weeks of regular sea
son remaining and track
is supposed to have a
home meet on the 14th.
Put the 18th on your cal
endar for that is the next
time soccer will play at
Kelly Memorial Stadium
and it will be the second
round of state play.
For football fans hop
ing for a rebound,
spring practice is fast
approaching. Accord
ing to Head Coach Ron
Duncan practice will
start on Monday, May 2.
Beyond that virtually no
plans are finalized. One
thing is for sure there
are a lot of holes that
he and his staff must fill
and spring ineligibility
is going to make that a
lot tougher. Two years of
COVID-inflated grades
caught up with a lot of
student-athletes in Janu
ary. Hopefully those af
fected are hard at work
for this semester. Student
comes first in student-
athlete. This fall Effing
ham County will be here
for the annual scrim
mage on August 12 and
GSIC (Georgia School
for Innovation and Clas
sics) will be here for
the season lidlifter the
following week. There
are six home games this
season. One of my big
questions- will there be
a Gamecocktv this year?
We lost our producer
and no one has stepped
up as of yet.
If you are a soccer
fan beyond SCHS, you
know that last week the
US Men clinched a spot
in the World Cup. They
did it with a 2-0 loss to
homestanding Costa
Rica. All they had to
do was not lose by six
goals. The USMNT
got to that point with a
5-1 win over Panama.
Amazing how hard we
have to work to beat the
teams from these small
countries (See my oft-
quoted Kornheiser’s
Soccer Population The
ory which never, ever
works for us). The
men’s world cup begins
in November in Qatar.
We did not qualify for
the last World Cup. All
the while the USWNT
has won the last two
World Cups. I failed to
mention it a few weeks
ago, but the women did
win a court battle a few
weeks ago to get equal
pay as the men. They
never, ever should have
had to go to court to get
it.
Let’s quickly check
on our collegiate soft-
ball players. Karleigh
Crews is still the back
up catcher at Brewton
Parker. The Lady Bar
ons are an up and com
ing program after some
really down years. Way
up in Lynchburg VA
Kara Canetto, a senior
with another year of
eligibility, is hitting
a solid .280 for t h e
Liberty Lady Flames.
LU is currently 9-0 in
Atlantic Sun play and
25-12 overall. Ten of
their losses have come
to Power-5 conference
teams.
Last in a truly Around
the Horn column with
nothing major to talk
about at all, major
league baseball starts
tomorrow. A huge
question is- has your
life been a) better
without baseball
b) devoid of meaning
without baseball
c) no different because
I don’t watch baseball
anyway d) some com
bination of a and c. I
will watch when I can
but I personally, my
life has been no differ
ent without baseball
on television.
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