Ian Guerin

Mike Hopkins, a former NCAA Division I head coach, has led the Conway Tigers to the lower state title game for the second time in four seasons. Hopkins has coached the team for nearly two decades.

Goose Creek defeated Conway 43-23 Monday night in the 5A lower state finals in Florence.

Class 5A No. 8 Carolina Forest scored the final four runs of the game to beat the Class 4A No. 5 Chiefs 4-3, picking up the Panthers' second win in as many games.

Antoine Rivens, the former Coastal Carolina assistant head coach, has been selected as the first football coach at Atlantic Collegiate Academy, according to multiple sources close to the school and coach.

Carolina Forest's baseball team struck first with a 9-0 victory in game one of the all-important Region V-5A series against Socastee, scoring seven of its runs via errors, a balk and even a quirky double steal without a pitch being thrown.

The Braves saw their 2023 campaign come to an end with a 1-0 loss to River Bluff in the first round of the Class 5A playoffs at home on Monday, thanks in large part to what Socastee coach Memo Suarez called the combination of an out-of-sorts start to the game and a “fluke” header goal off a throw in.

The North Myrtle Beach Chiefs defended their home field Friday with a 4-2 victory over James Island in the third round of the Class 4A baseball playoffs. With the win, coach Brian Alderson’s team earned a breather via a one-week break.

St. James, a Myrtle Beach area school, defeated River Bluff, a Columbia area school, in the South Carolina high school soccer playoffs Saturday to reach the lower state championship.

Carolina Forest fell 6-2 and 9-4 to visiting Wando in the Class 5A District 5 finals in a doubleheader in which Carolina Forest mistakes were too frequent to be ignored.

St. James lost 11-6 to visiting Chapin in the opening round of the Class 5A lower state tournament Friday after the Eagles hit two massive home runs in the top of the sixth inning to unknot what had been a tie game.