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Page 4 - Wednesday, March 20, 2024 The Sylvania Times thesy lvaniatimes .com LADY GAMECOCKS BLAST PAST BRYAN COUNTY 6-1 Playing their first region match of the season with their full injury-free starting lineup, the SCHS Lady Gamecock soccer team of Terry Markovcic led 1-0 at the half before exploding for five second half goals in a 6-1 rout of homestanding Bryan County’s Lady Redskins on March 11. The only match of last week for the Red and White, the win avenged a 1-0 loss for SCHS to BCHS in Kelly Memorial Stadium on February 22. SCHS hosted Claxton yesterday and will head to Savannah tomorrow afternoon for a rematch with the Lady Wolverines of Woodville-Tomkins. The final region match of the season will be on March 26 in Metter. With a 6-3 overall record, the Lady Gamecocks still sit in fourth place in the 3-A D1 standings with their 2-3 region record. Ahead of SCHS are still Metter at 4-1 and Claxton and Bryan County at 4-2. Woodville-Tompkins is 0-6. Region games yesterday had Claxton at SCHS and Metter at Woodville-Tompkins. Tomorrow SCHS will be at Woodville-Tompkins and Friday Metter will be at Bryan County. SCHS now easily owns a head to head tiebreaker with Bryan County. On February 22 a controversial penalty awarded Bryan County a PK which they converted. SCHS got the same opportunity in the second half and did not convert. While the Lady Gamecocks dominated time of possession throughout that match, they could not convert any of their field shots. Last Monday SCHS outshot their hosts by a 29-9 margin, converting on five from the field and one via the penalty. Freshman Anna Kate Withrow got the scoring going with a dribble by the defenders at 30:41 of the first half. Beginning at the 29:46 mark of the second half, a scoring barrage by the Red and White began. It was Maddison Mitchell on a header off of a corner by Kaylin Long, followed by goals by Long (24:15), Withrow (14:38 and 11:21), and a penalty kick by Charlie Brannen. BCH scored their lone goal with just 3:51 remaining from a PK. Julia Dews had two saves. Rosa Campbell (20) is one of three freshmen who have started regularly this season (photo by Dana Doss) Kaylin Long (17) is about to execute a comer kick. The Lady Gamecocks have scored off three comer kicks in the past two games (photo by Dana Doss) With a team-leading 16 goals freshman Anna Kate Withrow heads around a Bryan County defender (photo by Dana Doss) Junior defender Alyssa Foxworth (26) responds to a high bounce (photo by Dana Doss) BASEBALL SPLITS WITH METTER, THIRD GAME RAINED OUT After earning a split with three-time defending Region 3-A champion Metter’s Tigers in Sylvania on March 12, Josh Sheley’s baseball Gamecocks had their hottest pitcher ready to go in Metter on March 15 for the series finale. With a 1-0 lead in the second inning on Friday the rains came washing out game three. It will be made up at a later date after regularly scheduled region play ends on March 29. This week the Roosters hosted Bryan County in a double header yesterday and will go to Pembroke on Friday. Next week the Red and White will travel to Claxton for two on March 26 with the Tigers coming to Sylvania on March 29. The first week’s action in the four-team Region 3-A D1 saw Bryan County sweep Claxton 8-4, 17-0, and 6-5 along with the SCHS-MHS split. Obviously this week while the Gamecocks and Redskins are battling Claxton and Metter will face off. Following a horrible perfomiance in the first game of the March 12 doubleheader the Gamecocks responded with a much better effort in game two. After spotting the Tigers a deuce in the first, by the third inning the game was knotted at 3-3 with SCHS taking the lead at 4-3 in the fifth. Three more in the sixth gave the Gamecocks their 7-3 win. The all important sixth saw Miyon Fulcher reach on an error, eventually scoring on a wild pitch, Rylan Robbins walked and eventually scored on a sac fly by Worth Brown, and Holland Zipperer scored on a single by Slate Thompson. Gatlin Scott (2-1, 6.16) pitched six with DeMarko Ward finishing. Scott allowed seven hits and two earned mns while striking out eight. Brown and Thompson had two hits each with Thompson picking up three rbi. Defensively the Red and White cut their errors from nine to one. In a very forgettable opening to the three game series, the Gamecocks and then-winless Tigers started nip and tuck with the game tied at 4-4 after 4-4 and MHS up by 5-4 after five. The Red and White then imploded. In the sixth the visitors plated five runs on a single hit. Included, in addition to the hit, were three walks, and four infield errors. Five hits and two more infield errors added to the Tiger total in the seventh to make the final 14-5. White led the offense with a pair of hits and two rbi and Brown had two rbi. A quartet of pitchers saw Greyson Garvin (0-3, 6.56) pitch creditably into the sixth but unable to overcome the porous defense. Zipperer, Billy Williams, and Ward also hurled over the final two frames. The group saw nine infield errors behind them. The Roosters were also 3-15 with runners in scoring position. Rylan Robbins (3-1, 2.40) was the starter on Friday. Right: Gamecock freshman lefty Greyson Garvin pitches to the plate as Metter's Dallas Jones appears to be headed to second (photo by Kaitlyn Snow Stossmeister) Left: The view from the outfield as Metter right fielder Case West eyes SCHS batter Slate Thompson (photo by Kaitlyn Snow Stossmeister) SYLVANIA FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH BAR-B-Q MARCH 27, 2024 $10 Pork or Chicken Plates with Sides & Dessert ' m L* PICK UP 3:30-6:30. TAKE OUT ONLY CROSS & FLAME BUILDING--LOCATED BEHIND THE CHURCH SCMS SOCCER AND BASEBALL HAD BIG WEEKS SCMS eighth grader Jay Conley Smith tries to dodge an errant pitch (photo by Kaitlyn Snow Stossmeister) While the SCMS soccer Lady Gamecocks were finishing up their regular season last week, the SCMS baseball Gamecocks were just beginning their region schedule. Soccer finished with a single loss on the season for second place while the Gamecocks swept ECI to open. Soccer plays this afternoon at Toombs County in the region tournament after a first round bye while baseball hosted Jenkins County Monday and goes to Millen today. The soccer championship will be on Saturday at 10:00 at either Toombs County or Kelly Memorial Stadium. For the Lady Gamecocks a pair of region wins, 3-0 over South Tattnall and 4-0 over Bryan County, gave them a 5-1 region record. In the win over South Tattnall Mica Shipes had two goals and Addi Kullberg one while against Bryan Kullberg had three goals and Rain Cail one. Caroline Kullberg had five saves in the two games. For baseball the week saw a 7-6 win in Twin City and a 7-4 win at SCMS. On the road Wyatt Brown was three for three with two rbi while Landon Teston and Haynes Sell had two hits each. Rhett Robbins went the first five for the win. Brown and JC SEE SCMS ON PAGE 8 jVJ A 3 JC w i rrnmr \rmm. /ffi» WQk 540 E Winthrope Ave - Millen, GA 30442 Proud Supporter of The #1 Jenkins County Times!
