COLUMBIA – The Blythewood JROTC Bengal Battalion worked with two other JROTC programs on March 5 to acquire all the necessary resources to prepare 20,000 instant oatmeal meals with Harvest Pack, a humanitarian, hunger-relief, nonprofit organization. Blythewood cadets were split into teams with cadets from other schools working in assembly lines to create the packages. […]
Three Bengals are National Merit Finalists
March 17, 2022 By
Blythewood High School students Evan Cox, Macy Collins, center, and Grace Gattman have been named as Finalists in the 2022 National Merit Scholarship competition.
Bengals win 4 straight to open season, wins IP Classic
March 10, 2022 By
GEORGETOWN – The Blythewood baseball team caught fire in the season-opening IP Classic tournament at Mike Johnson Field, winning four straight games from Thursday to Sunday. The Bengals topped Boiling Springs 10-4 Thursday, York 9-4 Friday, defending 4A state champion A.C. Flora 7-2 Saturday, and Berkeley 7-2 in the championship game Sunday. Landon Penfield was […]
Back On [The] Track
March 10, 2022 By
HOPKINS – Westwood, Blythewood and Fairfield Central’s track and field teams hit the ground running in Lower Richland’s annual Diamond Hornet Invitational last Saturday. The Bengal girls’ team finished first place of 31 teams. The Blythewood boys’ team finished in fifth and Westwood boys finished sixth out of 35 teams. Westwood will host the Redhawk […]
Westwood, Blythewood wrestlers finish strong in individual tourney
March 3, 2022 By
ANDERSON – Westwood senior Drake Lesher, wrestling in the 195-pound weight class, finished in second to a Greenwood wrestler at the 4A individual state meet. Lesher defeated a West Florence opponent in the quarterfinal and won his semifinal match against South Florence by a second round pin. “I’m am so proud of this young man […]
LAX is back
March 3, 2022 By
BLYTHEWOOD – The Bengals girls hosted Spring Valley in their season opener last Wednesday. The Vikings escaped with a narrow 8-7 win. Blythewood dropped a non-region game to Nation Ford 7-10 on Monday, but rebounded back against Mid-Carolina on Tuesday, picking up their first win of the young season with an 8-1 final.
Bengals Clean Up Blythewood
March 3, 2022 By
BLYTHEWOOD – Blythewood High School’s Bengal Battalion spent the morning of Friday, Feb. 11 cleaning up Wilson Boulevard from Farrow Rd. to Blythewood Rd. as part of the Keep the Midlands Beautiful Adopt-a-Highway clean-up program. As a part of their physical training, 118 JROTC students picked up trash on roadside and placed it in 18 […]
Two Bengal wrestlers qualify for 5A individual championships
February 24, 2022 By
ANDERSON – Blythewood seniors Matt Clack (126-pound weight class) and Eric Montgomery (170) qualified for the Class 5A individual state championships held at the Anderson Civic Center Friday and Saturday. Clark took first in his weight class in the upper state tournament last weekend, while Montgomery took third. Eight wrestlers in each weight class will […]
Bengals drop region game to Ridge View
February 17, 2022 By
BLYTHEWOOD – The Blythewood boys basketball team finished the regular season 9-14 overall and 3-5 in Region 4-5A after Friday night’s 77-56 loss at Region 4 champion Ridge View. The Blazers outscored the Bengals 20-14 in the first quarter and 16-12 in the second to take a 36-26 lead into intermission. Ridge View matched Blythewood […]
Making history on the mat
February 10, 2022 By
Bengal wrestling captain Matt Clack scored his 100th victory in the 5-A Region Duals. With a 100-22 overall career record, Clack, a senior, joins an exclusive club not only at Blythewood but in SC wrestling history. On Feb. 5, the Bengals, ranked 14, secured their first playoff win in school history, defeating #17 Ft. Mill […]
