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Waccamaw High’s softball team will try and keep its state championship hopes alive tonight after losing 3-2 to Crescent on Monday night.
Waccamaw fell behind early in Monday night’s game, givi ... ]]> Wed, 15 May 2013 12:13:15 GMT http://www.gtowntimes.com/sports/Waccamaw-falls-in-game-one csokoloski@gtowntimes.com

Georgetown County high school athletes won eight individual state track titles plus three relay titles and a team title over the weekend.
Individual winners were:
* Grace Barnett of Waccamaw: first in 800 ... ]]> Wed, 15 May 2013 12:28:45 GMT http://www.gtowntimes.com/sports/State-track-results The Wahoos competed in their fir ... ]]> Wed, 15 May 2013 12:35:45 GMT http://www.gtowntimes.com/sports/YMCA-Wahoos-move-up-to-Olympic-size-pools csokoloski@gtowntimes.com

Andrews High School football coach Steve Blanchard will not return next season.
Although he plans to remain at the school as a teacher and co-athletic director, Blanchard said Saturday it was time to move ... ]]> Wed, 15 May 2013 12:31:29 GMT http://www.gtowntimes.com/sports/Andrews-football-coach-resigns csokoloski@gtowntimes.com

More than 1,000 of the country’s best shooters, plus their families, are in Georgetown County this week for the National Sporting Clays Association’s U.S. Open at Back Wood Quail Club.
Tucked ... ]]> Tue, 14 May 2013 10:42:31 GMT http://www.gtowntimes.com/sports/US-Open2013-05-14T07-43-17 Each year, a family shares their MUSC experience as a tribute to where the money g ... ]]> Tue, 14 May 2013 10:46:17 GMT http://www.gtowntimes.com/sports/Log-a-Load-fundraiser csokoloski@gtowntimes.com

Eleven days after losing to Dillon in the Region VIII-AA championship game, Waccamaw’s softball team got a modicum of revenge on Friday night, beating the Wildcats 13-3 in the Lower State playoffs.
... ]]> Wed, 08 May 2013 11:25:23 GMT http://www.gtowntimes.com/sports/Waccamaw-pounds-Dillon-13-3 csokoloski@gtowntimes.com

Georgetown County high school athletes brought home 14 individual titles and four relay titles at Lower State track and field championships on Saturday.

Class A

Carvers Bay athletes brought home nine in ... ]]> Wed, 08 May 2013 13:13:55 GMT http://www.gtowntimes.com/sports/Lower-State-track csokoloski@gtowntimes.com

Waccamaw High’s softball team has been resting since Saturday afternoon, waiting to see whether they’ll face Andrews or Loris in the District VII-AA championship game.
The Lady Yellow Jackets ... ]]> Wed, 01 May 2013 16:52:30 GMT http://www.gtowntimes.com/sports/Waccamaw-softball csokoloski@gtowntimes.com

Waccamaw had more errors than hits in a 12-4 loss to region rival Dillon on Saturday in the Class AA playoffs.
“I don’t think there’s too many people you’re going to beat that way, ... ]]> Wed, 01 May 2013 16:58:48 GMT http://www.gtowntimes.com/sports/Waccamaw-baseball More than 100,000 alligators live from the Midlands to the coast of South Carolina and th ... ]]> Wed, 01 May 2013 17:01:28 GMT http://www.gtowntimes.com/sports/Alligator-hunting-season csokoloski@gtowntimes.com

While spring high school sports are winding down around Georgetown County, AAU basketball season is heating up.
AAU is for kids who are serious about playing basketball in college, said Jeff Bombich, coac ... ]]> Mon, 29 Apr 2013 12:39:38 GMT http://www.gtowntimes.com/sports/AAU-basketball Georgetown got single runs in the first, sixth and seventh innings to beat Waccamaw 3-2 on Tuesday night. It was the Lady Warriors first ho ... ]]> Mon, 29 Apr 2013 12:42:32 GMT http://www.gtowntimes.com/sports/GHS-softball csokoloski@gtowntimes.com

Region champions.
Those two words have not been used to describe Waccamaw High’s baseball team since 1999. And that year the Warriors were still a Class A school.
The 2013 Waccamaw squad beat Aynor ... ]]> Wed, 24 Apr 2013 12:32:41 GMT http://www.gtowntimes.com/sports/Warriors-win-Region-VIII csokoloski@gtowntimes.com

Waccamaw and Dillon battled for the Region VIII-AA softball title on Monday night.
In the end, the Wildcats got the 10-8 victory and three Lady Warriors got trips to the hospital.
“We didn’t p ... ]]> Wed, 24 Apr 2013 12:36:06 GMT http://www.gtowntimes.com/sports/Lady-Warriors-fall-to-Dillon-in-region-final The Geathers Elite Performance Football Camp will be from 8 a.m. to noon at Carvers Bay High School.
There is no fee for the first 150 boys to sign up.
Registration packets c ... ]]> Wed, 24 Apr 2013 12:37:17 GMT http://www.gtowntimes.com/sports/Geathers-returns-home-to-host-football-camp csokoloski@gtowntimes.com

Justin Busby made his Waccamaw High varsity pitching debut last week, getting three outs in the seventh inning to preserve the Warriors’ 6-4 win over St. James.
Busby, an eighth-grader, came in with ... ]]> Mon, 22 Apr 2013 17:36:20 GMT http://www.gtowntimes.com/sports/Waccamaw-beats-St--James-6-4 csokoloski@gtowntimes.com

The Waccamaw High softball team’s 5-4 win over Dillon on April 12 was the team’s 14th in a row, and the 350th for coach Scott Streiffert at the school.
Add in two years of coaching at West Col ... ]]> Mon, 22 Apr 2013 17:39:28 GMT http://www.gtowntimes.com/sports/Streiffert-gets-350th-victory-at-Waccamaw Two North Carolina teams, Cardinal Gibbons and Cape Fear, took the top two spots after two days of competition. Both teams won state titles last y ... ]]> Wed, 17 Apr 2013 13:49:41 GMT http://www.gtowntimes.com/sports/Champions-Challenge csokoloski@gtowntimes.com

Georgetown County officially opened its two newest recreation facilities in Pawleys Island last week.
Retreat Park, which cost $1.8 million and features two 300-foot baseball fields, has already been host ... ]]> Wed, 17 Apr 2013 13:53:11 GMT http://www.gtowntimes.com/sports/Recreation-center-ribbon-cuttings The Wahoos took a first place overall. The Myrtle Beach Marlins finished second, and the Conway Tigersharks placed third overall. ... ]]> Fri, 12 Apr 2013 11:52:08 GMT http://www.gtowntimes.com/sports/Wahoo-swim-meet The Sharks scored four runs in the first inning, one in the second, three in the fourth and one in the sixth to end the game.
Joseph ... ]]> Fri, 12 Apr 2013 11:55:22 GMT http://www.gtowntimes.com/sports/Andrews-loses-to-St--James csokoloski@gtowntimes.com

Waccamaw High’s softball team beat Hannah-Pamplico 11-2 on Saturday to reclaim the Waccamaw Invitational title.
It was the Lady Warriors 12th championship in the tournament’s 16-year history. ... ]]> Wed, 10 Apr 2013 11:02:33 GMT http://www.gtowntimes.com/sports/Waccamaw-Invitational2013-04-10T08-03-30 csokoloski@gtowntimes.com

Tommy Gaither retired two years ago after 20 years with the Georgetown County School District, but that doesn’t mean his commitment to children has ended.
Gaither, a former college and high school b ... ]]> Wed, 10 Apr 2013 11:09:22 GMT http://www.gtowntimes.com/sports/First-Tee Post and Courier

Entries are now being accepted for the 113th U.S. Women’s Amateur that will be played Aug. 5-11 at the Country Club of Charleston.
Sectional qualifying will be held July 1 at Kiawah Island Golf Resort’s ... ]]> Wed, 10 Apr 2013 12:03:58 GMT http://www.gtowntimes.com/sports/US-Open