BLYTHEWOOD – Blythewood’s baseball team rode into the 5A upper state championship game as gracefully as Zach Bailes ran home on a wild pitch against J.L. Mann Saturday afternoon. With the score even at 5, the bases loaded and Nate Hinson at the plate, Patriots relief pitcher Dylan Howard fired the ball low and away […]
Bengals take District IV title
May 2, 2019 By
BLYTHEWOOD – In the last inning of the final game of the District IV Tournament Monday night, Blythewood finally dealt Riverside, which had topped the Bengals 5-3 in the first game, a crushing blow. The Bengals’ four-run seventh inning prevented an early exit from the 5A postseason. Josh Cowan setting the Warriors down on two […]
Bengals dismantle Greenwood
April 26, 2019 By
BLYTHEWOOD – With Landon Lucas on the mound and Jansen Stokes at the plate, the Blythewood Baseball team didn’t take much time in dismantling Greenwood Thursday night. Lucas 1-hit the Eagles in six innings, while Stokes slammed two home runs and drove in four runs in a 7-0 shutout in the second round of the […]
Blythewood wins playoff opener over Byrnes
April 25, 2019 By
The Blythewood baseball team had an opportunity for a big inning Tuesday night. Instead, the Bengals eked out a victory using baserunning and gut-check pitching against Byrnes in the opening game of the 5A District IV Tournament. Blythewood scored two runs apiece in the third and fourth innings, then blunted a 2-run Rebels Rally in […]
BHS hosts Diamond Invitational
April 25, 2019 By
BLYTHEWOOD – Blythewood baseball looked to repeat as SC Diamond Invitational champion last week, but Dorman proved too strong at the plate and on the mound. The Bengals, hosting the tournament in its ninth year, beat Wren 11-1, fell to the Cavaliers in a 3-0 shutout, topped Dutch Fork 7-2 and lost 3-1 to Chapin […]
Diamond Invitational underway
April 18, 2019 By
BLYTHEWOOD – The Blythewood baseball team finished the Region 4-5A slate of games in strong fashion, with series sweeps over Irmo, Sumter, and Spring Valley, and taking two out of three games against Lugoff-Elgin. Now the Bengals set their sights on the South Carolina Diamond Invitational, which opened Wednesday. “We’re going to have some really […]
Bengals sweep Vikings, clinch Region
April 18, 2019 By
BLYTHEWOOD – Within the first four at-bats of the first game of its Region 4-5A series against Spring Valley Wednesday, Blythewood was up 4-0 thanks to a Jansen Stokes Grand Slam. The Bengals cruised to a 10-3 victory at Spring Valley that day to clinch their first region championship since 2014, then dominated the Vikings […]
Bengals take series with Lugoff-Elgin
April 11, 2019 By
BLYTHEWOOD– Blythewood capped last week’s three-game series against Lugoff-Elgin with an 11-7 final at Bengal Field. Big Blythewood bats put the Bengals ahead 10-0 after three, but the Demons plated seven runs in the fifth inning to keep them alive. The Bengals tacked on an insurance run in the sixth and silenced Lugoff-Elgin to run […]
Bengals notch 8th win in a row, launch initiative
April 4, 2019 By
BLYTHEWOOD – High school sports draw some of the most passionate and dedicated fan bases in the country, but all too often that passion can breakdown into distasteful and distracting rants against those tasked with officiating the contest. That ire has depleted the pool of willing referees, but the Blythewood athletic department is taking steps […]
Pig at the Park
March 28, 2019 By
BLYTHEWOOD – The first BHS Baseball game of the season included the annual BBQ fundraiser. Parents manning the sales booth included, from left: Leslie Leppert, Kiersten Rollings, Danielle Hucks, Susan Valseechi, Tina Lucas, Teri Todd and Bettina Weisinger.
