TURBEVILLE -- Dawn Staley should’ve stayed for the fireworks. East Clarendon High School’s varsity boys and girls basketball swept Mullins on Friday night, punctuated by the EC boys winning a 42-40 overtime thriller in the second game. more

Sumter High School’s varsity boys basketball team improved to 11-9 and 1-2 in region play with a 61-41 road victory over Spring Valley on Friday. more

Lee Central High School’s varsity boys basketball team improved to 18-3 overall and 7-0 in region play with a 83-56 victory over Central on Friday. more

Lee Central High School’s varsity girls basketball team beat Central 74-18, improving to 11-5 overall and 6-1 in region play. more

Wilson Hall boys head basketball coach Eddie Talley had the rare opportunity to celebrate two coaching wins on Friday at Nash Student Center. The first was as part of a ceremony at halftime of the boys SCISA III-3A contest against Laurence Manning Academy honoring his 2000 state championship team. The second came as his young team fed off a charged atmosphere that featured dueling student sections to earn a 46-42 upset win over its rivals from Clarendon County. more

Sumter’s varsity girls basketball team improved to 15-3 overall and 3-0 in region play with a 55-40 victory over Spring Valley on Friday. more

Lakewood’s varsity girls basketball team lost to Dreher 64-35 on Friday, falling to 0-4 in conference play. more

Lakewood’s varsity boys basketball team beat Dreher 58-46 on Friday, improving to 2-2 in conference play. more

BISHOPVILLE -- It's rare for both the varsity boys and girls basketball teams at any given school to be undefeated in region play after five games. It's even more rare when it happens to two schools in the same region - and they get to face one … more

Thomas Sumter Academy’s varsity boys basketball team fell to 1-11 overall and 0-4 in region play with a 44-41 loss to Williamsburg Academy on Tuesday. more

The Scott’s Branch varsity boys basketball team fell to 11-6 overall and 3-1 in region play with a 53-51 at C.E. Murray on Tuesday. more

The Scott’s Branch varsity girls basketball team improved to 10-3 overall and 4-0 in region play with a 71-40 victory over C.E. Murray on Tuesday. more

Thomas Sumter Academy’s varsity girls basketball team improved to 5-8 overall and 3-1 in region play with a 50-26 victory over Williamsburg Academy on Tuesday. more

Robert E. Lee Academy’s varsity girls basketball team improved to 9-1 overall with a 56-13 victory over Clarendon Hall on Tuesday. more

Sumter High School’s varsity girls basketball team improved to 14-3 overall and 2-0 in region play with a 60-32 road victory over Blythewood on Tuesday. more

East Clarendon’s varsity boys basketball team improved to 13-3 overall and a perfect 7-0 in region play with a 76-48 victory over Andrews on Tuesday. more

Lee Central’s varsity boys basketball team fell 69-63 to A.C. Flora at the MLK Bash in Columbia on Monday. more

Laurence Manning Academy’s varsity girls basketball team improved to 8-6 on the season and 2-1 in region play with a 41-35 victory over Orangeburg Prep on Friday. more

Laurence Manning Academy’s varsity boys basketball team improved to 13-5 on the season and 2-1 in region play with a 58-48 victory over Orangeburg Prep on Friday. more

Crestwood High School's varsity girls basketball team opened the second quarter of Friday's Region IV-4A game with Lower Richland on a 13-2 run that broke open what had been a close game and helped propel the Lady Knights to a 61-42 win at The Castle. more