BLYTHEWOOD – Westwood head coach Mike McDerrmott has been saying all year that this year’s Redhawks are a team that needed to invest in good diamond habits and staying patient while the young team gets adjusted. Consider last week an obstacle successfully attained. After Richland Northeast powered past an unarmed Westwood team in a 16-0, […]
Fresh off season’s first victory, Westwood blanked at RNE
April 29, 2021 By
BLYTHEWOOD – The Westwood baseball team finally scored its first victory of the season Thursday, an 11-5 romp over Irmo at the Westwood baseball field. The Redhawks were looking to follow up with another victory on the road at Richland Northeast Monday night, but the Cavaliers bats wouldn’t stand for it. RNE burst out to […]
Westwood falls at Irmo, Dreher
April 22, 2021 By
IRMO – Down 7-4 at Irmo Monday night, Westwood picked up two runs in the top of the sixth to get to within one run of tying the Yellow Jackets. Unfortunately for the Redhawks, Irmo starting pitcher Nick Keisler and his reliever Jesse English worked a clean seventh inning and the Yellow Jackets escaped with […]
Westwood gets playing time in SCDI, later falls to Dreher
April 15, 2021 By
BLYTHEWOOD – The Westwood baseball team got in a lot of work at the South Carolina Diamond Invitational last week, but unfortunately narrowly missed getting a win. When the Redhawks took the field for the second half of Region 4-4A competition Monday night, they fell 10-1 to Dreher at the Westwood baseball field. The Redhawks […]
AC Flora shuts out Westwood in Region 4-4A opener
March 25, 2021 By
BLYTHEWOOD – A.C. Flora didn’t bring out the big bats at Westwood Monday night. Instead, the Falcons quietly built a 10-run lead on the Redhawks that drew the game to a close after six innings. Westwood starting pitcher John Janco threw three innings of one-hit ball, but over the next three frames Flora scored two, […]
Happy to be here: Blythewood hosts Westwood for first time since March 2019
March 18, 2021 By
BLYTHEWOOD – Succinctly, the Blythewood baseball team eventually got around a strong pitching performance from Westwood’s John Janco, while three Bengals pitchers 2-hit the Redhawks in a 9-0 season-opening victory. What went unsaid—as the nation hopes to move out of the shadow of the Covid-19 global pandemic—was the joy of playing a game that mattered […]
WHS names new head baseball coach
May 21, 2020 By
BLYTHEWOOD – Westwood High has selected Michael McDermott as its new head baseball coach and head strength coach. McDermott served this abbreviated season as the interim head coach, taking over for Vince Connor. McDermott has been part of the staff for 4 years in an assistant role. “Mike does a great job working with our […]
Westwood Baseball: Finding the Life Lessons
April 23, 2020 By
The Westwood baseball team had a lot to prove this season. Like any other program looking down the road at a long building period, the Redhawks were intent on practicing hard, playing hard, and no matter what the score was on the scoreboard, enjoying the time on the field. Five games into the season, the […]
Redhawks fall to Airport
March 19, 2020 By
BLYTHEWOOD – Westwood baseball would have taken on Richland Northeast Tuesday night were it not for the ongoing precautions taken to reduce the spread of the Coronavirus. On Sunday, Gov. Henry McMaster ordered all South Carolina public schools closed through March 31. Then on Monday, South Carolina High School League officials decided to suspend all […]
Westwood wraps up Red Bank Invitational
March 12, 2020 By
LEXINGTON – Westwood baseball wrapped up preseason in last week’s Red Bank Invitational at White Knoll High School. The Redhawks fell to Newberry in Friday’s game. Tied at eight in the bottom of the fifth, a Newberry single scored what would be the winning run. The Redhawks put up seven hits in the 8-9 loss […]
