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Hardeeville High began the SCHSL Class A soccer playoffs last Thursday with a quarterfinal game against Military Magnet.
It was the third-seeded Hurricanes' first game in 10 days and throughout the first half it appeared Hardeeville was more concerned about kicking the ball through the football goal posts then into the Eagles' net.
The team was sluggish, quiet and apparently unmotivated.
Why?
"We knew we were going to smoke them and we were nonchalant," Hardeeville coach Todd Roberson said.

Hardeeville's soccer team lost 1-0 at Academic Magnet in the SCHSL Class A Lower State final. Top-seeded Academic Magnet scored with about 5:50 remaining in the second half.

Ridgeland High's Shaquilla Mitchell won two Class AA girls state titles this weekend at the SCHSL track and field championships.

Mitchell took first in the high jump (5 feet, 6 inches) and triple jump (39-4 1/2). She was second in the long jump (17-4).

Read more about Mitchell in this week's Jasper County Sun.

Hardeeville's boys soccer team defeated host Bamberg-Ehrhardt 2-1 on Saturday in a SCHSL Class A Lower State semifinal. Alex de La Fuentes scored twice. Third-seeded Hardeeville advances to Tuesday's Lower State final at top-seeded Academic Magnet at 6:30 p.m.

The Hurricanes defeated Military Magnet 6-0 Thursday night to advance to the semifinals.

Todd Roberson thinks Hardeeville's boys soccer team is playing the best its played all season, which is a reason why the first-year Hurricanes coach expects his team to advance deep into the SCHSL Class A Lower State playoffs.
"I think we are playing our best now," Roberson said. "The kids are comfortable and know who they have to beat to move on."

Shaquilla Mitchell can't wait to go to college.
"I'm not nervous, I'm ready to leave," said Mitchell, who excels for Ridgeland High in the girls high jump, triple jump and long jump.
Last week Mitchell, a senior, signed a National Letter of Intent to compete for the women's track team at Hutchinson Community College in Hutchinson, Kan.
Hutchinson CC is a Division III school in the National Junior College Athletic Association.

The start of high school football season began on Monday with spring practices. Here is a look at what the teams are working on.

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Five consecutive wins last weekend in the SCISA Class AAA state softball playoffs propelled Thomas Heyward into this week's championship series.
But on Tuesday evening, in the second game of the best-of-three championship series, the Rebels' fifth loss of the season to region nemesis Northwood Academy ended their season.
Host Thomas Heyward allowed two first-inning runs and left five runners on base in the last four innings en route to a 5-1 loss.
The Rebels lost 5-1 to Northwood in Game 1 and lost all five meetings with the Chargers this season.

Thomas Heyward's softball team's season ended Tuesday with a 5-1 loss to Northwood in the second game of the best-of-three series for SCISA's Class AAA state title.

The Rebels had lost 5-1 to host Northwood on Monday.

Thomas Heyward sophomores Ashlie Layman and Andrea Daring were named to SCISA's North-South all-star game, according to athletics director Philip Rhodes.
The all-state team is expected to be revealed this week.

Hardeeville's boys soccer team received a No. 3 seed and a first round bye in the SCHSL Class A state playoffs. Hardeeville will host Military Magnet in the first round on Thursday at 6 p.m.