Boy's Cross Country
9/28
On Saturday the boys cross country team competed in the Low Country Invitational in Charleston. The varsity team finished 6th out of 36 schools. Leading the way was Jacob Ho in 13th (17:15), George Wells in 15th (17:18), Tyler Shuler in 52nd (18:09), Jaden Bowden in 67th (18:28) and Ethan Taylor in 74th (18:34). The JV team won the JV race out of 22 schools by scoring 39 points and Daniel Boone High School was 2nd with 47 points. Jareer Imran was 2nd (18:36), Mark Wild was 5th (18:50), Jack Stacy was 8th (19:02), Henry Pettis was 10th (19:15), and David Conroy was 14th (19:37)
Girl's Golf
The lady Vikings took on the Lady Cardinals from Cardinal Newman at Woodcreek, along with several other teams, Lawrence Manning, Fox Creek, Northside Christian, and several individual players. Cardinal Newman was too strong from 1 thru 4 and took the match by 32 strokes over Spring Valley's team score of 200, which was 24 strokes better than the rest of the teams for an overall 2nd place.
9/17
The lady Vikings traveled to Camden country club to take on region foe Lugoff Elgin's lady Demon's. The lady Vikings were victorious putting up a team score of 209 to Lugoff-Elgin's 241. Other lady Vikings contributing to overall team score were: Maddie Webster, Mary Freeman, and Elaine Craig.
9/18
9/19
The first 18 hole tournament of the season was the Lady Bengal Invitational hosted by Blythewood and played at Columbia Country club. It was a perfect golfing day. There were 17 teams that traveled from all over the state to participate. The lady Vikings finished the tournament in 10th place. Of 89 players, lady Viking Millie Spivey finished in 25th place, as low medalist for Spring Valley. Other contributors for overall team score were: Maddie Webster, Elaine Craig, and Millie Sox.
9/26
The lady Vikings returning to their home course to get revenge on the lady Cardinals from Cardinal Newman on Thursday. The lady Vikings put up a good fight with some great scoring, but couldn't quite keep up with the lady Cards talent. Sophomore Maddie Webster finished the day strong as low medalist for the lady Vikings shooting her career and season-low of 41. The team also shot their lowest 9 hole team score of the season with a 7 stroke improvement. Other lady Vikings contributing to team score were: Millie Spivey, Millie Sox, and Mary Freeman. The lady Vikings will be wrapping up their season over the next couple of weeks. They will be playing in the Smith Memorial tournament, which is also known as the "Pink Out" tournament on Thursday, October 3rd. Then finishing up their 9 hole match season with a re-scheduled match against White Knoll on October 8th at the Woodlands, which will also be "Senior Night".
Football
B
After falling behind 20-0 in the first half the defense stiffened holding Lexington to only 6 points in the 2nd half. The offense added 20 points in the 2nd half and Lexington Freshman defeated the Viking Freshman 26-20.
V
The SV varsity football team lost Friday night to Lexington HS 44-27. The Vikings were led on offense by QB DeQuandre Smith was 21 of 35 for 214 yards 3 Passing TD’s and had 16 rushes for 88 yards and 1 Rushing TD. Ty Hill had 4 catches for 106 yards and 1 TD. He had a 78-yard touchdown pass. Hunter Rogers had 2 catches for 27 yards and a TD. Quanta Jackson had 9 catches for 93 yards and a TD. Defensively Danny Evans had 4 tackles and 2 tackles for loss. David Squires had 9 tackles.
The Vikings start region play this Friday at Irmo at 7:30. This is a huge game and will be the Sonic Friday Night Game of the week.