The Wilson Hall football team has run a gauntlet in the early stages of the 2023 season.The Barons opened against one of the top teams in SCISA 3A in Hilton Head Christian before snapping a long losing streak against their biggest rival ...

It's always fun when Sumter School District meets in any field of play, and Friday's matchup between Sumter High and Crestwood on the gridiron should be no different.The unbeaten Gamecocks, who currently rank No. 3 in 5A in the latest S...

Seeing the LMA Swampcats and Wilson Hall Barons go head-to-head is always a favorite rivalry on the tri-county football schedule. We brought in each team's head coach to chat about prepping for the game, establishing the tone for the season, an...

The Friday night lights are warming up across the tri-county area. We brought in Mark Barnes and Willie Offord, the head coaches from Sumter High School and Lakewood High School to get their last thoughts before their teams duke it out in the s...

The Sumter baseball community lost a legend recently with the passing of Sam Crawford, the longtime soundtrack of the Sumter P-15's and USC Sumter Fire Ants.We brought in Wallie Jones, the longtime head coach of the P-15's and...

"Rain, rain, go away. Come again another day."With each day this week came rain. That meant the diamonds at Patriot Park, Riley Park and so many other fields were left empty almost all week.Entering Friday, the Lady Legends were h...

Don't look now, but Manning-Santee Post 68 is rolling.Heading into Friday's series finale with Charleston, Post 68 was 4-0. They didn't get the chance to finish one game on Tuesday because of weather but haven't run into much trouble ear...

The Sumter P-15 Lady Storm are one of the constants of American Legion softball in South Carolina.They were one of two Sumter teams in the fold from the start, but as they enter Year 3, things are looking a bit different.Head coac...

Most seniors want to leave high school with a perfect memory from their final year.For Clarendon Hall's Olivia Wilson, it was holding a state championship trophy.Wilson and the Lady Saints won their second-straight state title las...

The Sumter High softball team may be young, but they're starting to put the pieces together.The Lady Gamecocks may only have three seniors with a roster filled with eighth-graders and sophomores, but they're ready to compe...

Spring break has come and gone, so that means the march to the playoffs has officially begun for the Wilson Hall softball team.The Lady Barons have won the last two SCISA 3A state titles, and they're hoping to claim the first-ever 4A st...

This week on the Blitz we sit down with Former Lakewood baseball standout Landon DeLavanUnsure of what to expect from his upcoming season, the former All-State pitcher just wanted to help the team however he could, whether that meant st...

Former Lakewood standout Preston McDonald reached his own slice of history last week.The Florence-Darlington head coach won his 500th game on March 29 with a 5-2 win over Fayetteville Tech. It was a milestone years in the making and a n...

Two weeks ago, most of the sports world had never heard of Fairleigh Dickinson University or its point guard, former Lakewood star Grant Singleton.That's certainly not the case anymore.Singleton and FDU shocked the world last Frid...

Construction at the school affected the home track at Wilson Hall, forcing the team to host only modified meets or travel a bit more. On this episode of the Blitz, we sat down with head coach Rip Ripely to talk about how it feels to welcome a h...

Coach Bill DeLavan slid into the studio this week to chat with Tim about some Gator baseball.In this early season, Lakewood is battling the void left by a large graduating class last year. Including coach DeLavan's son Landon, who is no...

The energy in the Eagles' gym has been electric.Tim sat down in the studio with head coach Kevin Miller to talk about the mentality in his locker room as they get ready to go down to Aiken this weekend.With the community (and some...

For the first time in program history, the Crestwood Knights will make an appearance in the South Carolina High School League Basketball finals. As of...

For a third season in a row the Lady Gamecocks are back in the lower state playoffs. They'll face off against Stratford on Monday. We had head coach Jeff Schaffer in the studio this week to talk about their mentality ...

The Eagles played for the SCHSL 1A state championship in each of the last three seasons and now begin their trek back to the title game. They hope this is the year that snaps the streak of coming in second place.Scott's Branch closed the...

In their second season as a team, Ragin Prep boys basketball took down the Region III-1A title after a win against Sandhills Academy last week. Head coach Anthony Jackson came into the studio this week to discuss the process of bui...

This week on The Blitz we've got an over-the-phone chat with Manning's head wrestling coach Spencer Thomas. Participation in the sport has been a rollercoaster. Over the past two years they've gone from 13 members to 2, then back u...

Welcome back to another episode of The Blitz!This week, we had Coach Junko Allen in the studio to talk about Team Perseverance, a local sports organization that she spearheads. The group is starting a new, free afterschool ...

Sumter High wrestling has been bleeding members through graduation after the last few seasons with a limited cushion of younger wrestlers on the come-up.The program has one returning senior, and bus issues left them dead i...

Welcome back to another episode of The Blitz. In the studio this week we had Laurence Manning Academy's Head Boys Basketball Coach Will Epps to talk about the success of last season, rebuilding the team after graduations, and getti...