Sports

Of the 11 Greer-area teams that made the playoffs this season, six are still dancing after the first two games. Here’s the schedule for the third round:

BOYS
Feb. 20
Byrnes vs. T.L. Hanna
(7 p.m.)

Feb. 21
Blue Ridge at Wren
(7 p.m.)

CRUSADER CORNER

North Greenville wrapped up indoor season on Monday afternoon with a fourth-place finish at the Conference Carolinas Championships at JDL Fast Track.  

Greer head coach Devin Liferidge knows the Jackets sometimes don’t make it easy on themselves.

But somehow, they always find a way to make it work.

Cole Bellinger is a senior multi-faceted athlete for the Greer Yellow Jackets baseball team. Bellinger maintained a .441 batting average last season for Greer and signed last week to continue his baseball career at Lander next year. He spoke to The Greer Citizen about his favorite career moments and plans for the future.

In Wednesday night’s upper state championship match, Eastside wrestling dominated Greenwood from the start in a convincing 57-12 victory. The Iron Eagles advanced to Saturday’s state championship with the win.

Halfway through the second quarter of Tuesday’s region title game against Landrum, GMC center Jack Pfister motioned to the bench. He needed to come out of the game, and he needed to come out now.

Pfister wasn’t injured. He wasn’t gassed and seeking a quick breather. He wasn’t in foul trouble, either.

Late in the third quarter, Riverside forward Mikkel Skinner caught a pass in the paint. He backed down his man and flipped the ball up toward the basket. Skinner’s arm was hacked on the way up. The shot went in anyway.

“And-one!” Skinner’s teammates shouted. They high-fived him on the way to the free-throw line.

For the third consecutive year, Greer gym Boxing At the Depot hosted the South Carolina Golden Gloves boxing tournament at the Spartanburg Memorial Auditorium. Bouts were held Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights, and 16 championship belts were awarded to fighters in different weight classes.