Sports

Bishop England-Porter-Gaud-Hanahan United High School Hockey wins state championship

As a parent of two Hanahan student-athletes, Scott Brown knows all about the intense athletic rivalry between Hanahan and Bishop England. He, and anyone else who follows local high school sports in the Lowcountry, also knows just how intense the Bishop England-Porter-Gaud rivalry can be. But funny...

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BE Dance Team headed to Nationals

For the past six years, Patrice Christian has coached the Bishop England Dance Team, also known as the BE Pom Squad. Christian and her team of girls work tirelessly throughout the year, including summer months, preparing for team camp and various sports’ seasons, where they perform dance routines...

Big green basketball machine rolls into the state championship

The Father Kelly Express, the official team bus of the Bishop England Athletic Department, suffered a breakdown Thursday. That forced the Bishops to find an alternate mode of transportation to Saturday’s Class AA girls’ Lower State basketball championship, which was contested in Florence. But there...

Hanahan's Bret Hines continues the Hines' Citadel baseball tradition

If Lee “Bunkie” Hines were to write a book about his family’s athletic accomplishments, he could title it “My Three Sons” or, perhaps, “Father Knows Best.” Hines played baseball for The Citadel back in the 1980s and went from performer to parent as three of his sons played for the Bulldogs: Bryce,...

BE Baseball 2016: Great Expectations

The annual theme of the Bishop England baseball program just might be “great expectations.” Always one of the top programs in the Palmetto State, the Bishops are ranked No. 4 in the state preseason poll of Class AA teams, according to the state baseball coaches’ association. The Bishops struggled...

Hanahan baseball has impressive numbers!

The Hanahan Hawks baseball team posted an 18-10 record last spring. But the numbers coach Brian Mitchell talks about are 56 and 35 as the 2016 season nears. The 56 is the number of players in the Hanahan program. Thirty-five of those players play either varsity or junior varsity baseball. “We have...

Stephens and Bouchard enter 2016 Volvo Car Open

Sloane Stephens and Eugenie Bouchard have committed to play in the inaugural Volvo Car Open (formerly the Family Circle Cup), April 2 – 10, 2016. They join Angelique Kerber, Venus Williams, Belinda Bencic, Lucie Safarova, Madison Keys, Andrea Petkovic and more in the player field forming for the...

Wilson places second at Dustin Johnson World Junior Golf Championship

Jamie Wilson’s final tune-up for his senior golf season at Bishop England was a stunning success. But then that’s to be expected from Wilson, one of the top junior golfers in the state, South and country. Wilson recently placed second in the inaugural Dustin Johnson World Junior Golf Championship...

Three additional past champions return for the 2016 Volvo Car Open

Jelena Jankovic, the 2007 Family Circle Cup champion, Sabine Lisicki, the 2009 Family Circle Cup champion and Samantha Stosur, the 2010 Family Circle Cup champion, will all return to Daniel Island for the inaugural Volvo Car Open, April 2 – 10. The three former champions join fellow champs Venus...