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There they were, sitting side by side at a table at the South Carolina High School League getting ready to be drilled by media from around the state.

Carolina Panthers coach John Fox refused to apologize for ugly wins earlier in the season, and on Monday he declined the opportunity to suggest his defense was anything other than good enough.

Never bet against Dabo.

COLUMBIA -- Did most of you realize what Chester did last Friday night for a return ticket to the Class AAA state championship game?

CHARLOTTE -- For all the fireworks by both offenses, the Panthers' two most important players in Sunday's 35-31 win at Green Bay might have been their returner and their left guard.

South Carolina lost two assistant coaches Sunday, although only one left of his own volition.

The Carolina Panthers should have been trudging into a snowy Green Bay night wondering for the second week in a row if they're really as good as their record would indicate. Instead, they were celebrating an improbable come-from-behind victory Sunday, thanks to late back-to-back-to-back big plays by Mark Jones, Steve Smith and DeAngelo Williams -- and a Green Bay Packers team that seemed intent on giving the game away.

Ashley Fann's three-point play with 15 seconds remaining Sunday clinched a 54-49 victory for the Winthrop women's basketball team over Tennessee-Martin on the final day of the Xavier Tournament.

For the second year in a row, the Northwestern girls basketball team showed up among those schools in the state preseason poll. The Trojans are ranked No. 6.

CENTRAL — It was the defining moment in the Chester Cyclones’ football season.