By CAM HUFFMAN   chuffman@aikenstandard.com   5/21/2012 11:39 PM   

Devante Butler helped take Aiken High School all the way to the Class AAAA Lower State basketball championship game in February, and now he’s looking to take his family somewhere it hasn’t been before. The Hornet senior signed a letter of ...

By CAM HUFFMAN   chuffman@aikenstandard.com   5/21/2012 11:36 PM   

The bats have fallen silent as high school baseball and softball has come to an end around the state, but when the honors were handed out for the recently-completed season, area players made plenty of noise. BASEBALL Taylor Hearn (Williston-Elko) ...

By CAM HUFFMAN   Sports editor   5/20/2012 11:31 PM   

Dekoda Watson said he never would be where he is today - living his dream as an NFL player - if it weren't for the Aiken community and South Aiken High School. Now the Tampa Bay Buccaneer linebacker wants to give back. Watson will host the Dekoda Wa ...

By GENE SAPAKOFF   Post and Courier   5/19/2012 11:48 PM   

COLUMBIA -- LSU wrestled an SEC regular season baseball championship away from South Carolina on Saturday with a 3-2 victory in a 10-inning thriller televised nationally. The series opener Friday afternoon might have been better, with Kevin Gausman t ...

By NOAH FEIT   Staff writer   5/19/2012 11:47 PM   

COLUMBIA -- Chris Steele has fond memories of Memorial Stadium in Columbia. In 2009, that's where he watched his brother, Michael Poole, win a state championship playing for the South Aiken High School boys' soccer team. The next year, Steele was a ...

By NOAH FEIT   Staff writer   5/19/2012 12:25 AM   

While no high school soccer teams from the Aiken region will play for a state championship today at Memorial Stadium in Columbia, that doesn't mean the area won't be represented. Aiken resident and former South Aiken High School player Chris Steele h ...

Staff reports     5/19/2012 12:10 AM   

With spring football coming to a close, area teams are beginning to fill some gaps for the fall. Class AAAA Aiken - After a 4-7 campaign last year that included a four-loss stretch, the Hornets will be looking to return to the winning ways that saw ...

USCA Sports Information     5/19/2012 12:10 AM   

SIMPSONVILLE, Ky. -- The nationally ninth-ranked USC Aiken golf team fell 4-1 to national No. 2 Nova Southeastern during the quarterfinals of the 2012 NCAA Division II Men's Golf Championship at the par-72, 7,092-yard Cardinal Club Golf Course. The n ...

Staff reports     5/18/2012 3:34 PM   

The ASTV crew will bring you Game of the Week tonight on ASTV Channel 95 on Atlantic Broadband and online at aikenstandard.com/astv/gameofweek/.    The game this week is North Augusta High School's Spring Game will be hosted by sports ed ...

By CAM HUFFMAN   Sports editor   5/18/2012 12:17 AM   

Aiken Technical College's first trip to the National Junior College Athletic Association Division I Softball National Championships got off to a horrible start, but the finish of the first game was encouraging. The 16th-seeded Knights gave up seven ...

USCA Sports Information     5/18/2012 12:17 AM   

Aranas and Miller named all-region COLUMBUS, Ga. -- USC Aiken baseball players Nick Aranas and Josh Miller have been tabbed to the 2012 Daktronics NCAA Division II All-Southeast Region teams. Aranas was tabbed to the first team as an outfielder, ...

USCA Sports Information     5/18/2012 12:17 AM   

SIMPSONVILLE, Ky. - The nationally ninth-ranked USC Aiken golf team advanced to match play at the 2012 NCAA Division II Men's Golf Championship at the par-72, 7,092-yard Cardinal Club Golf Course with a seventh-place finish in stroke play. The Pace ...

By BILL BENGTSON   bbengtson@northaugustastar.com   5/18/2012 12:14 AM   

Grant Smith has been with North Augusta High School's swim team since seventh grade, and the years of practice, practice and more practice paid off this week as he secured a scholarship to compete for Pfeiffer University in North Carolina. He signed ...

Staff reports   Staff reports   5/16/2012 11:25 PM   

SIMPSONVILLE, Ky. -- The ninth-ranked USC Aiken golf team is tied for eighth following two rounds of stroke play at the NCAA Division II Men's Golf Championship. Today's third and final round of stroke play is scheduled to begin at 7:30 a.m. at th ...

By CAM HUFFMAN   Sports editor   5/16/2012 1:00 AM   

Aiken Technical College will play its first-ever game in the National Junior College Athletic Association Softball Championship in St. George, Utah today, but the schedule makers didn't exactly give the Knights a welcome present. ATC (33-29), the 16t ...

BY DARRYL SLATER AND TRAVIS SAWCHIK   postandcourier.com   5/16/2012 11:00 PM   

The University of South Carolina's athletic department made $83.813 million last year, according to a database released this week by USA Today. USC spent $80.525 million. The school ranked 20th in revenue among the 227 schools in the database and 19t ...

By CAM HUFFMAN   Sports editor   5/15/2012 11:40 PM   

North Augusta High School's Matt NeSmith completed the job to capture a Class AAAA individual state championship Tuesday, but the South Aiken High School golf team couldn't close the deal on a team title. The Lower State champion Thoroughbreds, who e ...

By NOAH FEIT   Staff writer   5/15/2012 11:40 PM   

The Class AAAA Lower State final between the boys' soccer teams from South Aiken and Wando was delayed for more than 40 minutes in the second half because of thunder storms. But lightning struck - in the figurative sense - much earlier. In the first ...

By NOAH FEIT   Staff writer   5/15/2012 11:40 PM   

GRANITEVILLE -- It was a tough year for the boys' basketball team at Midland Valley High School. The Mustangs failed to make the playoffs in something of a transition season, where head coach Mark Snelgrove had to rely on a group of younger and inexp ...

By DARRYL SLATER   dslater@postandcourier.com   5/15/2012 11:40 PM   

SALEM, Va. -- Several thousand people milled about the concourse at Salem Memorial Baseball Stadium, many of them college students enjoying discounted beer night for last Thursday's game between the Salem Red Sox and Potomac Nationals. The game itse ...