Varsity Baseball
The varsity baseball team began their season this weekend by playing in the Comporium Invitational at Gilbert High School. After several days of rain the Vikings finally took to the field Saturday morning defeating JL Mann behind a strong pitching performance by Eric Laughead. Laughead also contributed with 2 hits and 3 RBIs.
On Sunday the Vikings took to the field again defeating Chapin 2-1. Sophomore Mark Duroux and junior Tyler Baker combined to throw a 1 hitter while Sophomore Matthew Ross contributed with a single and a RBI.
The Vikings finished the weekend 2-1 and will travel to Sumter on Tuesday, March 11th to take on the top ranked Sumter Gamecocks. Their first home game will be Sat. 3/15 at 6:00 vs Dutch Fork.
Girls Track & Field
The Lady Viking Track & Field Team had an excellent showing at the Diamond Hornet Invitational at Lower Richland High School on Saturday. We took 2nd of 22 teams, falling 9 points behind Beaufort, but beating all of our local competition there. The team left with a lot of medals around their necks and a trophy in hand, and that is an excellent start to the season.
Some highlights include:
-Claudia Cannon (9th grade) won Distance MVP of the meet and placed 1st in the 1 mile with a time of 5:20.
-Kennay Agnew placed 2nd in the varsity 100m dash with a time of 12.4 and 3rd in the 200m dash.
-Shauntel Smullen placed 2nd and Kailyn Tailor 3rd in the 800m run.
-Hannah Staudt placed 3rd in pole vault.
-Martina Novotny ran an excellent 1 mile race and placed 7th in the 2 mile.
-Tamara McMichael placed 8th of 32 in the 100m Hurdles.
-Teana Gibbs won the JV open 100m dash.
We look forward to continuing this momentum at our meet this Tuesday, March 11th at home.
Boys Lacrosse
In a Friday night tilt, the boy's lacrosse team played across town at Irmo. The Vikings won 11 - 6 in another key Region game. DeShan Wilson led the offense with 3 goals and 2 assists. Other scores were Matthew Hogue (3 goals, 1 assist), Paul Currey (2 goals, 1 assist) and Noah Diamond (1 goal, 1 assist). Gerard Smith and Jay Johnson both notched a goal while Clay Armstrong added an assist.
Defensively, Connor Sears had 18 saves while the defensive unit of Suraj Vytla, Darius Gallman, Andrew Lokanstov and Emmanuel Alamo stopped 6 of 8 extra man situations while forcing 17 turnovers.