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thesy lvaniatimes .com The Sylvania Times Wednesday, August 31, 2022 - Page 13 2022 Screven County High School Marching Band Screven County High School Marching Band is ready to "Dance " all over the competition Sam Eades Publisher/Writer Screven County High School Band is ready to "dance" the night away with this season’s football game entertainment. Band Director, Hank Carter states, "the 2022 SCHS Marching Band is larger this year and will be featuring more in the field performance.” This year’s theme is Wanna Dance? featuring great songs like, BEYOND FOOTBALL SYLVANIA HIGH ATHLETICS Burton Kemp PARTXV Sports Editor With the evolution of football in 1932 and the dissolution of basketball after 1935, what about the other sports at Sylvania High in the mid-to-late thirties? In :erms of local news coverage everything else was pushed far into the background. With basketball gone as it had nowhere to play, there were no winter sports. Tennis and track existed on a very irregular basis. There was always baseball but oftentimes it featured a schedule containing only Dther schools within the county. More often than not it was the summer Screven bounty Baseball League and not First District high school baseball. Apparently myone was eligible for the summer league. Earlier mention was made that tennis started in 1933. It had quick success n the early years with the doubles team of John C. Hollingsworth and J. D. Williams placing third in the district in 1933 and second in 1934. Bill Williams was runner up in the district in singles for both years. In 1936 J. D. Willimas won :he district singles title and, along with David Williams, was runner-up in the ioubles competition. The year 1937 saw Robert Hollingsworth finish second in singles while the girls doubles team of Maggie Arnett and Linda Mills reached :he quarterfinals. Based on available materials it appears that when this group of students graduated the sport of tennis went the way of the sport of basketball. Track, another spring sport, was handled much like tennis and basketball in the 40s. If a particular athletic was good enough to excel in the district meet, then SHS :ielded a track team. For example, on April 1,1936 Linton Williams won the district pole vault with a iump of 10’ 3” and J. D. Williams placed third in the too yard dash. Beyond that :he school appears to have not fielded track teams. The more popular baseball never faded out of the picture because of the constant excitement exhibited towards so-called “semi-pro” league teams playing in the irea. Still the team seldom ventured out of the county to play a game. A lot of lews was made by the 1934 baseball team when the merchants of Sylvania gave :hem new uniforms to be distributed by coaches Hugh Cheek and Joe Marion. Mr. Jheek was quoted in the Sylvania Telephone as saying that it wasn’t a good policy :o let boys play a game in new suits the first time out. He said they are often too iusy brushing dust off to play a good game. Despite this the boys broke in the new iniforms with a 5-4 victory over Springfield. The lineup for this team included catcher Jim Moore, pitcher John C. Hollingsworth, first baseman Ham Moore, second baseman Gardner New or Lansing Reddick, shortstop Alfred Morgan, third laseman Jesse Griffin or ??? Hall, and outfielders ??? Williams, Charles Avert, anc W Griffin. Most teams would have to be judged by 1939 standards. Led by Screven County Athletic Hall of Famer Cyril Slappey the team recorded a 6-0 record and won the county championship by defeating Newington 13-5. Recording four of the team’s six wins, Slappey struck out 65 batters and gave up but seven hits. In addition to SHS and Newington the other county teams in 1939 were Rocky Ford, Bay Branch, Jackson, Hiltonia, and Oliver. Other noteworthy achievements in baseball, :hough not for Sylvania High, included A. D. Rudd’s no-hit, no-run, 19 strike- Dut performance against Oliver in 1937. His catcher was Jim Moore (on the first "ootball team back in 1932) who later played football, basketball, and baseball at Brewton Parker and baseball with the Savannah Indians of the SALLY League. While there were very few recorded Sylvania High games, there was plenty of ocal baseball recorded in the Augusta Chronicle. All the way back to 1905 there was local baseball. The June 21,1905 paper “chronicled” a “hard fought battle on the field of sweatland” as Sylvania defeated Waynesboro 5-1. The Sylvania pitcher was Archer ind the catcher was Mell. The Waynesboro battery was Archer and Sullivan. The paper said “both pitchers lad about the same number of strikeouts.” In virtually every summer there was a Screven County Baseball League. Early on Millen, which was in Screven County until 1905, was in the league. Sylvania, Rocky Ford (sometimes Rocky Ford- Dover), Newington (sometimes Newington-Oliver), Hiltonia (sometimes Hiltonia- vVoodcliff). Hiltonia was nicknamed The Outlaws. There is probably an entire irticle that could be devoted to this. In the summer of 1933 there was the Georgia-Carolina Baseball League with Graniteville, Barnwell, Sylvania, Millen, Thomson, Bamberg, St. Matthews, and Augusta. The Chronicle kept weekly standings and printed box scores. This was ipparently viewed significantly. One story, July 12,1933, had a headline that said ‘Late inning rally starts fight but spells GMCO win. Umpire and pitcher throw :ists over winning run against Sylvania.” GMCO was the Graniteville Mining Company. They were the Rocks while Sylvania was the Sylphs. Thanks to Larry Waters for the Augusta Chronicle materials. “I wanna dance with somebody”, by Whitney Houston, “Conga”, by Gloria Estefen, and “Shut up and Dance”, by Walk the Moon. “I am happy to say that the band will consists of 63 members this year. We are excited to have a large rookie class from the Middle School to that moved up this year as freshman. The band will also include a few eighth graders from the current Middle School. " The annual SCHS Marching Band camp was held July 14 - 22 to prepare band members for the upcoming season. "With the large rookie class this year, we had to spend a lot of time on marching and preparing them for the big field show", states Mr. Carter. Hank goes on to say, "We have a good group this year. I couldn't have pulled all this together without the help of “Tito Smith (Ms. O) our Middle School Band Director, Latoya Flowers, Color Guard coordinator, Ta'Nya Albright, Color Guard Instructor, and of course, Mr. Karry Thompson, Jr. as our Percussion Instructor." This year’s band features, Jacob Carter as Drum Major and Band Captain, Ahmahd Bailey. (Pictured) The SCHS Marching Band will also include a large Color Guard section that performs with flags and will also dance. The band itself practices two times per week and the Color Guard and Dancers practice three times per week. Band Director, Hank Carter is working on his 6th year at Screven County High School. He has been employed in similar positions in Georgia for 20 plus years. Previously serving at Lee County High School and Effingham County High School. Along with being Band Director at SCHS, Carter also teaches, music technology, that features classes on writing songs, and has a recording studio where students can learn about recording vocals, voice overs, and how to use sound equipment, etc. Mr. Carter also started a jazz class for those with a love for Jazz and interested in playing jazz classics. For the 2022 season, the band will have many opportunities to perform. Along with the football games, they will take part in two band competitions this year. Southeast Bulloch Band Competition at the end of September and The South Effingham Band Competition in October. The SCHS concert Band will start performances in October. The Symphonic Band will hold its annual Christmas concert this year on December 6, 2022. Also, the SCHS band has been requested to perform with the Carolina Band at one of the University of South Carolina football games. And the great SCHSB Percussion Section is very excited that they will be able to 'i t SCHS Marching Band Drum Major, Jacob Carter SCHS Marching Band Band Captain, Ahmahd Bailey battle it out with other percussion sections at the Cadence Showcase. This showcase features only percussion sections of High School Bands throughout the United States. WESTSIDE’S PATRIOTS AT KELLY MEMORIAL mWMMBAY Coming off their best season since the last time they won a state playoff game in 2002,the Westside Patriots will invade Kelly Memorial Stadium Friday night in hopes of getting back on track in 2022 before beginning their Region 4AA schedule with Josey in two weeks. Homestanding SCHS will be looking to improve to 3-0 for the first time since the unbeaten regular season of 2017. Kickoff is scheduled for 7:30. Under new coach Lee Hutto a season ago the Pats were 4AA runners-up to Putnam County and stunned Vidalia 23-21 in the opening round of the AA state playoffs before falling to 6AA champion South Atlanta 22-17 in the second round. Their 9-3 record and state playoff win were the program’s best since 2002. In 2020 the team, which forfeited four wins, went 6-5 with its first playoff since 2013. They finished 6-5. Hutto has won a region championship at Warren County. The early season for Westside has been disappointing. In their opener a 32-3 loss to AAAA Hephzibah started with the Rebels scoring late in the first quarter on a blocked punt. The Patriots, who have been at home for their first two games, came back with a 44 yard field goal. A late first half fumble enabled HHS to go up by two TDs at the half and WHS never got back in the game. In a 41 -7 loss to powerhouse Class A D2 power Aquinas last week the game was 7-7 after one quarter and just 13-7 at half. On the last play of the first half Westside barely missed a long field goal. To start the third quarter the Irish intercepted a pass, scored quickly, and then went on to score on three consecutive scores after that. Westside is an extremely young team with two seniors on offense and one on defense. Offensively they ran from a type of pistol formation with an A back while on defense they like to ran a three man front and walk linebackers up. Their offensive line is almost completely sophomores and is huge. When they get things going downhill they enable their runners to make big gains. This will be the 18 th meeting between Westside and SCHS. The Gamecocks have won 12 of the previous 17 that includes the last six in a row and 11 of the last 12 meetings. There were intermittent meetings until 2012 when the schools met for eight consecutive seasons, six of them as either Region 3AAor Region 4AA games. The last meeting in 2019 saw the Roosters score with 6:30 remaining to win 15-9. Gary Hawkins rushed for 167 yards and scored twice and went in for a two point conversion. SCHS did not attempt a pass. There were several freshmen on that team in 2019, most of whom have since left the program. The last game at Kelly Memorial Stadium was Friday the 13 th of September and a 16-0 SCHS win. Screven County Schools Breakfast *A11 breakfast meals are served with cereal & yogurt, choice of fruit, grab and go breakfast, milk and fruit juice. Monday, September 5 - Tuesday, September 6 - NO SCHOOL Cinnamon Roll or Granola Bar & Yogurt Wednesday, September 7 - Thursday, September 8 - Waffles, Sausage Links or Cereal Ham & Cheese Biscuit or Granola Bar & Yogurt Friday, September 9 Assorted Muffins, Bacon SCES & SCMS/SCHS Lunch Menu *A11 meals are served with a choice of fruit and milk. Monday, September 5 - NO SCHOOL Elem Choice: M/HS: Wednesday, September 7 - BeefNachos, Lettuce, Tomato/Cheese, Mexicali Com, Black Beans Elem Choice: PB&J Meals M/HS Choice: Cheese Entree Salad Friday, September 9 — Pizza, Side Salad, Celery Dippers Elem Choice: PB&J Meal M/HS Choice: Deli Sub Tuesday, September 6 - Chi-Fil-A Sandwich, Fries, Green Beans Elem Choice: Hot Ham & Cheese M/HS Choice: Deli Sub Thursday, September 8 - Chicken Tenders, Rolls, Sweet Potato Fries, Green Beans Elem Choice: Deli Sub M/HS Choice: Chicken Entree Salad
