Sports briefs: Boosters offer chance to win $1,000
Buy a golf ball, chance to win $1,000
The Fort Mill High School Athletic Booster Club will host its first Golf Ball Drop just before kick off at the Sept. 18 varsity football game. Money raised from this event will go toward scoreboards and field improvements around campus.
For $20 a ball, participants will have the chance to win up to $1,000 by being closest to the pin. Numbered balls will be dropped from a ladder fire truck onto the football practice field. The ball that ends up closest to a prize spot wins. Cash prizes will be $1,000 for closest to the pin, $500 for second closest, $250 for third and for $20 furthest. Other prizes and gift cards from restaurants and stores in the local area will also be given as prizes.
Ball tickets can be purchased at FMHS events, from student athletes or at fortmillathletics.com/athleticboosters.
Lady Jackets open with 2 wins
The Fort Mill girls’ tennis team opened the 2015 season with two wins.
The Lady Jackets beat Gaffney 7-0. Winning for Fort Mill was No. 1 singles Elizabeth Fitzgerald 6-0, 6-0; No. 2 singles Rachel Brooks 6-1, 6-1; No. 3 singles Shreya Katti 6-0, 6-0; No. 4 singles Reagan Paff 6-1, 6-0 and No. 5 singles Ellie Prain 6-0, 6-0. Winning in doubles was Jessica Brewer and Abigail Thibodeau 6-0, 6-2 in No. 2 doubles and Fitzgerald and Brooks 8-0 in No. 1 doubles.
Against Cuthbertson, after a four hour match, the Lady Jackets got the 5-4 win. Winning for Fort Mill in singles play was Fitzgerald 6-1, 6-1; Katti 7-5, 7-5; and Paff 6-3, 7-6. Fitzgerald and Brooks won 8-0 in doubles, as did Paff and Prain winning 9-7 to clinch the win.
Lady Falcons win invitational
The Nation Ford Lady Falcons volleyball team won their own tournament, the Nation Ford Invitational, Saturday beating 16 teams and dropping only two matches. The Lady Falcons beat Ashley Hall 25-15, 25-20 in the finals.
Jessica Kemp was tournament MVP and made the All-Tournament team for Nation Ford along with Clarissa Bates and Madison Garner. Fort Mill finished eighth in the tournament.
Try-outs open for youth baseball team
The Carolina Bears Baseball program will hold tryouts soon for openings on its 11U and 12U teams for the fall and spring seasons.
The Bears are a nonprofit local team designed to provide young baseball players the opportunity to enhance their skills and potential in a competitive program and prepare them for high school baseball and beyond. It offers local players the chance to play competitive baseball in a fun and positive atmosphere that is affordable and has minimal travel.
To request a tryout call 803-412-6674 or email johnj@usaweb.com.
Tega Cay baseball, soccer refs needed
Tega Cay Parks and Recreation needs youth baseball and soccer officials for the fall sports season.
For information, contact Joey Blethen at 803-548-3787 or jblethen@tegacaysc.gov.
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This story was originally published August 31, 2015 at 10:07 AM with the headline "Sports briefs: Boosters offer chance to win $1,000."