At the beginning of the season, Johnsonville baseball head coach Scott Cook said he wanted to see his team get back to the top of Class A baseball in the state. Although, the Flashes fell short of the Class A lower state championship, they did meet the expectations of Cook.
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For a team so young, the 2012 Johnsonville High Schoolsoftball team certainly made their mark.
Born with a medical condition known as Amelia, Shannon Coleman has only a partial right arm that ends where his elbow is, which forces him to rely on his left arm for most things. For many people, living without a limb would be a considerable hardship and one that would most certainly qualify them as handicapped. Shannon, on the other hand, has taken the circumstances dealt to him and made the best of it.
Carrying on with what they started at the beginning of the playoffs, the Johnsonville Flashes soundly defeated the Branchville Yellow Jackets 11-3 on Wednesday, May 2 en route to a District V title.
JOHNSONVILLE, SC -- After a slump near the end of the regular season, the Johnsonville Flashes are playing their way through the playoffs the same way they did at the beginning of the season: with dominating pitching and timely hitting.
While a 6-10 record may not be the epitome of great baseball, Hemingway is looking at it as a sign of some good things to come.
Pitching depth and leadership have been the two driving forces behind Johnsonville’s perfect Class A Region 8-A record this year. Now, as the team enters the stretch run of the regular season before the playoffs, they’re hoping those strengths will propel the Flashes to a state title.
From the start, Johnsonville had control over the upstart Tigers and held a lead of 11-0 after the end of the first inning.
While the final numbers on the scoreboard weren’t the most important thing, alumni from Johnsonville High School and Hannah-Pamplico High School played as if they were the only things that mattered Saturday afternoon.
The Flashes scored three runs over the final two innings and benefited from a pair of Latta errors to defeat the Vikings 5-4 in a matchup of two teams ranked in the top five in Class A.
For the Johnsonville High School softball team, Wednesday night’s loss to Andrews is tough to take, but in the long term, the non-region game holds little meaning the Lady Flashes.
Throughout the past 27 years, every year has been different for the Johnsonville High School boys and girls track and field teams. Players come and go and the cycle of high school athletics carries on.
Hemingway’s High School’s class of 2012 may be remembered best for the accomplishments of its football team. On Monday, March 19, four members of that team signed to continue their football careers in college.
With patience at the plate and timely hitting, the Hemingway Lady Tigers were able to maintain their perfect record with a win over C.E. Murray on Thursday, March 15.
One look at the stat line from Johnsonville’s doubleheader with Creek Bridge reveals just how one-sided the contests were. Over a total of five innings (each game lasted 2.5 innings), Johnsonville accumulated 28 runs and only allowed two hits en rout to the sweep that brought their regular season record to 4-0.
In a game where fundamentals are paramount, the Hemingway High School baseball team simply could not execute the routine plays in their 15-2 loss to Lake View on Friday, March 9 in Hemingway.
The Johnsonville High School softball team took the best shot Hannah-Pamplico had to offer and still came out with a crucial win.
For Harris Avant, it didn’t take long to realize this year’s Johnsonville team was one of the best he’d ever coached. From the seats of the gymnasium at Francis Marion University in June of 2011, Avant watched as the Johnsonville High School boys basketball team practiced for the first time and knew, this team was unlike the others.
Friday afternoon, the Johnsonville Flashes boys basketball team took their fast-paced game to the road to Columbia for the Class A state championship match-up with Great Falls.
During a summer basketball camp at Francis Marion, Johnsonville coach Harris Avant began the process of tinkering with his team’s style of play.
After a loss to Lamar sent the Johnsonville High School baseball team home from the playoffs in April 2011, head coach Scott Cook and the Flashes are ready to hit the field again in 2012.
FLORENCE, SC -- The Johnsonville boys' basketball team beat Burke 54-52 to win the Class A lower state championship and advance to the state title game for the first time in the program’s history.
For the first time since 1981, the Johnsonville High School boys basketball team is going to the Class A lower state title game.
After a regular season that can only described as wholly successful, the Hemingway High School girls basketball team fell to C.E. Murray in the girls Class A quarterfinals Monday, Feb. 20.
In what has become a familiar script for the Johnsonville High School basketball team, the Flashes started slow, but finished strong in their second round Class A lower state playoff match-up with Bethune-Bowman on Friday night.
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