Darlington Raceway has Labor Day schedule plan
NASCAR returns to Darlington Raceway for an expanded two days of racing action Sept. 5-6.
FMU Golf Team honored with GCAA academic award
For the seventh year, the Francis Marion University golf team has received a Golf Coaches Association of America All-Academic Team Award, this time for the 2019-20 academic year. To be eligible for GCAA team recognition, a school must register a team grade point average of 3.00 or higher for the entire academic year. Francis Marion was one of 142 NCAA Division I members nationwide to earn this honor, and the Patriots were one of nine...
Trinity-Byrnes welcomes new basketball coach
Cornelius Snead will be joining the Trinity-Byrnes Athletic Department for the 2020-21 year as the Head Girls’ Basketball Coach.
Vikings new coach prepping for post-pandemic football
by Samantha Lyles Staff Writer slyles@newsandpress.net When the Pee Dee Vikings semi-pro football team returns to the field in August, they’re hoping to bring an energized and positive spectacle to fans starved for live sporting events. Part of that big energy will come from new head coach Lindsey Robertson, taking on that role at the request of team owner Jay Charles. “Lindsey has been with us since the beginning and he knows...
How the school district and the Raceway beat COVID-19
By Bobby Bryant Editor editor@newsandpress.net As I’m writing this, the Darlington Raceway has completed three NASCAR races under COVID-19 quarantine conditions and the Darlington County School District is preparing to hold four high-school graduations, also under quarantine rules. If nothing goes wrong – in other words, if there are no more drenching rainstorms – then, by the time you read this, the DCSD should have put on outdoor...
County recreation agency cancels spring sports lineup
All Darlington County Parks, Recreation & Tourism spring sports for 2020 have been canceled because of COVID-19 concerns, the agency says.