The Lake City High School Varsity Panthers will open the 2009 football season on Friday.

The New England Patriots obtained defensive end Derrick Burgess , a Lake City native, on Thursday after the two-time Pro Bowl player held out of the Oakland Raiders training camp in hopes of being traded.

Wilson and Lake City could not put away the incident that linked them until Friday morning, when high school football practice kicked off, and the 2009 season officially began.

With the Southern 500 as a backdrop, the Lake City Football team traveled to Darlington Raceway on May 8 and 9 to brave the heat in the name of charity.

Two Lake City High School baseball players have been selected by the South Carolina Baseball Coaches Association to play in the North/South All-Star game from June 10 to 13 at Coastal Carolina University.

The undefeated Lake City High School varsity baseball team will travel to Myrtle Beach on Thursday and play host to the Seahakws on Friday at 6 p.m. The team took two wins over South Florence and Socastee last week to remain perfect on the season at 8-0 overall and 2-0 in Region VII-3A.

Coach Jason Cook already knows one thing about his current Lake City High School baseball squad: They’re resilient.

Four Lake City High School varsity baseball players who started playing baseball at the ages of 4 and 5 said they’ve never lost interest in the sport.

Carvers Bay’s Girls Varsity Softball Team got off to a good start this season, winning the Latta Pre-Season Tournament, then putting up wins against Hemingway, Lake City and Lake View.

The Lake City High School baseball team will play host to Socastee on Tuesday, after opening its Region VII-AAA schedule Friday with a 6-2 win over North Myrtle Beach.

Lake City football coach Justin Gentry is one of the three finalists for the Emerald High School athletic director/football coaching position, Greenwood School District 50 announced in a press release Friday.

A Lake City High School teacher is on medical leave after she was diagnosed with breast cancer. Since then, the art and building construction students have used their skills to help their teacher.

In home wins over Darlington and Swansea, Lake City had very little trouble scoring in the first two rounds of the Class 3A boys basketball playoffs, especially from 3-point range.

On Friday night against Swansea, Lake City looked like a team still feeling the effects of a near-collapse against Darlington on Tuesday. But the Panthers shook off their early rust in defeating Swansea 77-62 on Friday in the second of the Class 3A boys playoffs.

Some days, Corey Baker still has trouble believing it. The Lake City junior was in his first year of basketball in 2006 when the Panthers finished the season with just two wins.