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  • Blythewood girls claim Upper State title

    Blythewood’s girls track and field team won their second consecutive Upper State title on Saturday. | Contributed

    DUNCAN, SC – Blythewood High School’s girls continue to dominate, this time at the Upper State Track and Field Championships hosted by Byrnes High School last Saturday.

    The Bengal girls finished atop the podium with a score of 146. Hillcrest finished second, almost 100 points behind Blythewood with a score of 57. Blythewood’s boys’ team finished in eighth place with a score of 39. Spring Valley finished first at 116.

    The milestone was highlighted by four Bengals who set new school records.

    Aminah Rhone set a new school record with her first place finish in the 400 meter hurdles with a time of 1:02.31.

    Santana Wright took first place and the new school record in discus at 162-1.

    Deangelo Brooks hold the school record in the 100 meter dash with a time of 10.64 seconds. Brooks placed fourth in the event.

    Anna Kelly broke the school record in 3200m with her time of 11:20.65. Kelly finished eighth in the event.

    Blythewood Girls

    Olivia Taylor, Aminah Rhone, and Alexis Jones had first place finishes for Blythewood.

    Taylor finished first in the 200 meter dash at 23.99 and in the 400 meter dash at 54.92. Taylor finished third in the 100 meter dash at 12.05. All three times were her fastest of the season. She also finished fourth in long jump at the 5.4m mark.

    Rhone finished first in 100 meter hurdles (14.63) and in 400 meter hurdles (1:02.31). Rhone also placed fourth in the 200 meter dash with her season-best time of 24.82 seconds.

    Jones took first place high jump at 1.5m.

    Blythewood’s 4x400m relay team also finished in first place with their season-best time of 3:57.02.

    Other top finishers were

    • Peyton Hightower: 2nd in 400m dash at 56.01
    • Hayley Hightower: 2nd in 400m dash at 2:18.46
    • Patience Lisbon: 2nd in 100m hurdles at 14.96 (SB) and 5th in 400m hurdles at 1:05.86 (SB)
    • Dara Bolt: 2nd in triple jump at 11.51m
    • Aniya Fluker: 3rd in shot put at 11.32m
    • Madison Ross: 4th in 400m hurdles at 1:05.27 (SB)
    • Romell Garway: 5th in triple jump at 11.24m
    • The 4×800 relay team finished second with a season-best 9:43.95.

    Blythewood Boys

    Santana Wright’s top finish in discus was Blythewood’s only first place finish on the day.

    Graeysen Manning placed fourth in the 1600 meter run at 4:29.11, his season best.

    Ashton Pouncie finished fifth in the 400 meter dash at 50.52.

    Both teams qualified for the 5A State Championship meet on Friday at Spring Valley High School.

    The Blythewood girls look reclaim their 2023 title and establish their dynasty. The Bengal girls finished second in 2022.

  • Bengals are back on track

    Photos: Anthony Montgomery

    HOPKINS – Blythewood’s Track and Field team competed in the Diamond Hornet’s Invitational on March 4 at Lower Richland.

    Pulling first place finishes for the girls’  were Hailey Duncan, Arianna Williams, Jasmine Young, Keaundrea Bateman and the girls 4×100, 4×400 and 4×800 relays.

    The girls had 19 top-five finishes, and the boys had 13 top-five finishes.

  • BHS to induct first Hall of Fame class

    BLYTHEWOOD – The Blythewood High School (BHS) Athletic Hall of Fame announced its inaugural induction class.

    Created in 2019 to recognize the outstanding contributions to Blythewood High School athletics, the Hall of Fame will honor five inductees at a banquet on Thursday, Oct. 31. The inductees will also be recognized at Blythewood’s final regular season varsity football game on Friday, Nov. 1.

    The first Bengals inducted will be Nicole Quinlan Durig (2008) – volleyball and track; Grayson Greiner (2011) – baseball; Vince Lowry – first BHS Athletic Director; Richard Mounce (2008) – football and baseball;, and Jeff Scott – first BHS varsity football coach.

    Tickets to the Induction Banquet, held at Columbia Country Club, are available to the public for $25. Ticket inquiries may be directed to Buzzy Myers (buzzmy- ers@live.com) or current BHS Athletic Director Barry Mizzell (bmizzell@richland2.org).