After splitting with conference foe, Lake City’s Carolina Academy, just a day earlier, Pee Dee Academy’s baseball and softball teams welcomed another conference power, Kingstree’s Williamsburg Academy, to Mullins this past Friday night for a pair of crucial games.

I never planned for my senior year to be like this, Samantha McKenzie, Pee Dee Academy student, says. Fast facts about Samantha: 1. Kelly Clarkson is one of her favorite musical artists; 2. Sweet Home Alabama is one of her favorite movies; and 3. Raymond Felton is one of her favorite players, along with Candace Parker.

Pee Dee Academy’s annual Alumni Basketball Game will be at the school in the David C. Bult Gym on March 21. Game time is 4 p.m.

After two years of new-found success, a group of seven seniors leads Pee Dee Academy into this spring’s baseball season. They also enter the season with a new coach.

For most of Thursday’s SCISA basketball Class 2A state semifinal, Pee Dee Academy coach Jerry Coleman thought his team was right where it needed to be. Unfortunately for Pee Dee, the last part of the fourth quarter was when some of the Eagles’ bad tendencies showed up.

Three varsity basketball teams from Marion County continue to fight through playoffs for a title: The Pee Dee Academy girls, Marion High School girls and Mullins High School boys teams are playing either today or Saturday.

Monday’s tournament win puts Pee Dee Academy girls 23-5 for the year and pits them against either Thomas Sumter or First Baptist at 6:30 p.m. Thursday in Sumter in the state playoffs.

In December 2008, Larry Watt, executive director of the The South Carolina Independent Schools, presented the “Coadjutor Award” for 2008 to Josie H. Snipes, Pee Dee Academy’s Assistant Headmaster.

Pee Dee Academy announces its Honor Roll for the second nine weeks ...

Tradition never graduates. Pee Dee Academy girls basketball coach Jerry Coleman placed the quote in a spot where he was sure all of his players could see it.

After splitting their first two games of the post-Christmas girl’s basketball tournament at South Florence High School during the Christmas break, Pee Dee was placed into the fifth-place game versus Dillon High School.

It took about two seconds for the veteran coach of over 25 years to see he had been left a lump of coal in his stocking ...

Pee Dee Academy interior linemen T.J. Bass and Jamie Estes represented the Golden Eagle football team after being selected to play in the SCISA North-South All-Star football game earlier this month at Orange-burg Prep.

On the day after Christmas, the Lady Golden Eagles will participate in the tournament at South Florence High School and will face defending 3A State Champion, Myrtle Beach in the opener at 3 p.m. When they return from the Christmas break, Pee Dee Academy’‘s boys will play Trintiy on Jan. 6 at home.

When is your favorite Marion County High School basketball team taking to the court? Look and see…