The students and communities served by the Mid-Carolina schools have been busy lately.

Mid-Carolina High hosted a ninth-grade parent orientation in the media center Sept. 15.

The MCHS guidance department also is spon-soring an Educational Opportunity College Fair on Friday, Oct. 28, from 1:45-2:30 p.m. The goal of this event — open to high school juniors and seniors — is to work with schools and coun-selors to provide a qual-ity program highlighting educational opportuni-

ties available to students beyond high school.

The PSAT will be ad-ministered at Mid-Caro-lina High on Wednesday, Oct. 13. This is the only administration at the school this year. Students should register in the MCHS guidance office. The cost is $14 and 70 slots are available, all on a first-come, first-served basis. Students who reg-ister should have com-pleted at least Algebra 2.

Several Mid-Carolina cross country runners also recently competed in the Prosperity’s Hop-pin’ 5K.

RUNNERS COMPETE — Several members of the Mid-Carolina High School cross country team competed in the Prosperity’s Hoppin’ 5K race Aug. 20. Pictured, from left, are Kate Sidener, Madison Cates, Keenan Boland, Dakota Murphy, Rebekah Odum, Justin Bedenbaugh and Emily Davis.

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SPORTS

Newberry, Mid-Carolina andWhitmire softball teams playedin the Newberry County Pre-season Tournament over theweekend. Newberry, Whitmire,Mid-Carolina, Batesburg,Strom Thurmond, Gilbert,Greenwood Christian andJefferson-Davis all competedin the two day event. WhileWhitmire lost two games toNewberry and StromThurmond; Mid-Carolinadefeated Gilbert, Greenwoodand Jefferson-Davis andNewberry defeated Whitmire,Batesburg-Leesville and StromThurmond but lost to Gilbert.

COUNTY ACTION

NHS softballfalls to Chapin

Last night the Chapinsoftball team defeatedNewberry 5-4.

The winning pitcher wasTaylor Morgan and losingone was Lauren Ruff.

Laprincia Cromer batted3-4 for the Bulldogs, Arna-sia Boyd was 2-4 and Dea-sia Davenport 2-3.

The team will playBatesburg-Leesville Thurs-day with J.V. at 5 and var-sity at 7 p.m.

The team’s player of theweek is senior shortstopLaprincia Cromer.

For week 1 she went 10-16 at the plate and was 11-11 on stolen bases.

“She is our inspirationalleader on the field. Whenshe gets on base we cancreate a lot of havoc,” saidcoach Joey Long.

Wolves splitsoftballtwinbill withLeMoyne

The Wolves relied on bigplate performances, in-cluding a grand slam bysenior Chelsie Hilbourn(Loris, S.C.) in the secondgame, as they swept Pfeif-fer, 7-0 and 5-1.Game One: Newberry 7,Pfeiffer 0

The Newberry Collegesoftball team picked up abig hitting performancefrom freshman CaseyStevens (Coral Springs,Fla.) as the Wolves pickedup a 6-0 win over Pfeifferin game one.

Newberry (11-12) pickedup its first shutout victoryof the season as FeliciaTaylor (Venice, Fla.) threwseven innings while allow-ing just four hits and strik-ing out six Pfeiffer (11-12)batters.

The Wolves scored a pairof runs in the top of thefirst inning after AissaGatewood (N. Charleston)led things off with a single

� See SOFTBALL, page 9

Newberry tied for fifth after first round in SalisburyThe No. 14 Newberry College

men’s golf team finished thefinal round of the RichardRendleman Invitational in a tiefor fourth place on Tuesday af-ternoon.

The Wolves shot a two daycombined score of 594 (296-298;+26) and tied with Lincoln Me-morial University (297-297).Newberry 21 birdies and 111made pars at the par-71, 6,665-yard Country Club of Salisbury.UNC Pembroke was the tourna-

ment champion with a 581 (292-289; +13).

Newberry placed two individ-uals in the top-10 with seniorBen Lown (North Augusta)tying for fourth place with a tworound total of 142 (73-69; E).Lown holed six birdies in thecompetition. Junior MatthewCampbell (Rome, N.Y.) shot a144 (70-74; +2) and finished inseventh place.

Sophomore Brooks Massey(Lexington) tied for 24th with a

two round stroke total of 150 (73-77; +8) and junior Matthew Killen(Yorkshire, England) shot a 158(80-78; +16) and tied for 59th.

Chandler Gruenemeier (Jack-sonville, Fla.) finished the com-petition with a 162 (80-82; +20)and tied for 73rd.

Jordan Walor from UNC Pem-broke was the individual cham-pion with a 139 (69-70; -3).

The Wolves next hit the linksat The Bearcat Golf Classic inGreenwood on March 28-29.

The No. 14 Newberry Collegemen’s golf program is tied forfifth place after the completion ofMonday’s first round at theRichard Rendleman Invitationalhosted by Catawba College.

The Wolves shot a first roundteam combined stroke total of296, 12-over par, at the par-71,6,665-yard Country Club of Sal-isbury golf course and trail tour-nament leaders UNC Pembrokeand Queens University of Char-lotte by four strokes.

Wolves in eighth after first day in Orlando but disqualified TuesdayThe No. 19 Newberry

College women’s golfteam was disqualifiedafter the final round ofthe Peggy Kirk Bell Invi-tational when the Wolveswere assessed a teampenalty for players hit-ting out of order.

Newberry held eighthplace (323-322) after thefirst two rounds werecompleted on Monday atthe par-72, 6,089-yardTuscawilla Country Club.Nova Southeastern Uni-versity overcame a fivestroke deficit from dayone to win the tourna-

ment with a team stroketotal of 914 (305-309-300;+50).

Individually, sopho-more Barbara Castro(Coruna, Spain) shot 30-over par with a combinedstroke total of 246 (79-81-86) and tied for 41st. Jun-ior Maria Luz Besio(Buenos Aires, Argentina)also tied for 41st with athree round progressionof 84-81-81.

Sophomore NataliaPerez (Bogota, Colombia)finished the tournament in45th with a 247 (83-81-83;+31). Julia Daneshfar (Tro-

phy Club, Texas) and LisaBrandl were each 17-overpar headed into Tuesday’splay, but were disquali-fied. Daneshfar shot 79-82and Brandl 82-79.

The No. 19 NewberryCollege women’s golfprogram finished the firsttwo rounds of the PeggyKirk Bell Invitational ineighth place on Monday

The Wolves shot a 69-over par combined stroketotal of 645 (323-322) andsit 32 strokes behind tour-nament leader FloridaSouthern College (310-303=613; +37) at the par-

72, 6,089-yard TuscawillaCountry Club.

Individually, sopho-more Barbara Castro(Coruna, Spain) is tied for26th with a 16-over parfirst day of 160 (79-81).Lisa Brandl (Nuremberg,Germany) and JuliaDaneshfar (Trophy Club,Texas) are both tied for31st with two round totalsof 161, 17-over par. Brandlshot 82-79 and Daneshfarregistered 79-82.

Sophomore NataliaPerez (Bogota, Colombia)is tied for 43rd with a 164(83-81; +20) while junior

Maria Luz Besio (BuenosAires, Argentina) shot a165 (84-81; +21) and istied for 48th.

Florida Southern’sMelanie Audette is in firstplace with a 4-over par148 (72-76) on day one ofthe tournament.

The Wolves partici-pated in the final roundof the Peggy Kirk Bell In-vitational on Tuesdaymorning.

Newberry competesnext at the PinehurstChallenge at the NationalGolf Course in Pinehurst,N.C. on March 21-22.

Whitmire fallsto Mid-Carolina

Whitmire’s softballteam lost to Mid-Carolina14-0 on Monday. The JVgirls lost 18-1 to Mid-Car-olina.

“We have been ‘snakebit’ as far as injuries go,”said baseball coach DanMcGlohorn. “We havestarting pitcher AlexCromer out and seniorcenter fielder VictoriaJenkins. We have beenplaying out of position.Even thought the scoredoes not reflect it, we arevery proud of our team.Our girls played with re-lentless effort and nevergave up. Mid-Carolina isa great team.

Their pitcher had adominating performance.

Whitmire only had onehit by Shamia Hunter.

“My team playedtremendously hard and

� See WHITMIRE, page 9

Bulldog golf team defeats ClintonThe Newberery High School

Bulldogs golf team defeated theClinton Red Devils 176-198 at TheLakeside Country Club on Monday.

Seniors Ben Bledsoe and TylerMills led the Bulldogs to victory.

Sloan Hazel shared metalisthonors with Ben Bledsoe with a 42in the nine hole contest.

Coaches Bob Bannister andGary McGlohorn said the youngteam is much better than last year

and have a good chance of havinga good year.

The team will be at Woodruff asthe 1-0 Bulldogs take on theWolverines at Three Pines Coun-try Club on today.

Newberry baseball team deviled in 15-5 loss� Wilson SennFor The Observer

Newberry High Schoolopened its home varsitybaseball season Mondayevening as the10-run

mercy rule fell into effectafter the fifth inning in a15-5 loss to Clinton HighSchool.

Trailing 2-0 in the sec-ond inning, Zach Stevens

prevented the shut-outwith a single, but an erroron his steal of second tookhim over to third base.

Stevens would scoreon a wild pitch later in

the inning.The Bulldogs would

get their final four runson the evening at the bot-tom of the third, as eight� See BASEBALL, page 9

ALL-STARS — ThreeNewberry Academy bas-ketball players were cho-

sen to compete in theSCISA A-AA North-South

All-Star basketballgames. The games were

held in Sumter. DerekSligh and Matt Bell were

chosen for the boysNorth team and JessicaCole was chosen for the

girls North team.

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Mid-CarolinaRecent and upcoming activities at Mid-Carolina

Congratulations to the students listed be-low for winning in the Newberry County Ag Expo Art Show.

All high school win-ners were MCHS stu-dents.

Ninth grade:• First place: James

Donkle.• Second place: Cris-

ta Laymon.• Third place: Megan

Duffy.10th grade:• First place: Stepha-

nie Kinard.

• Second place: Tai-sha Williams Caldwell.

• Third place: Bre-anna Phillips.

11th grade:• First place: Mi-

chelle Wise.• Second place: Jef-

fery Fellers.• Third place: Maria

Bedenbaugh.12th grade:• First place: Alex

Reyes.• Second place: Anna

Brenner.• Third place: Kalley

Laymon.

Ag expo names art show winners

Tanner O’Cain

Tanner O’Cain named Commended Student

Mid-Carolina is proud to announce Tanner O’Cain has been named a Com-mended Student in the 2012 National Merit Scholarship Corpora-tion.

O’Cain was pre-sented with a letter of commendation from principal Lynn Cary recognizing his scho-lastic talents.

About 34,000 Com-mended Students throughout the nation are being recognized for their exceptional academic promise. Al-though they will not continue in the 2012 competition for the National Merit Schol-arships, Commended Students placed among the top 5 percent of more than 1.5 million students who entered the 2012 competition

by taking the 2010 Pre-liminary SAT/Nation-al Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test.

“The young men and women being named Commended Students have demonstrated outstanding potential for academic success,” commented an NMSC spokesperson. “These students represent a valuable national re-source; recognizing their accomplishments as well as the key role their schools play in their academic devel-opment is vital to the advancement of educa-tional excellence in our nation. We hope that this recognition will help broaden their ed-ucation opportunities and encourage them as they continue their pursuit of academic success.”

CHORAL TALENT — Mekayla Manning and Shaina Kingsmore were selected for the prestigious American Choral Directors Association Honors Chorus and will perform with the chorus Oct. 7-8 at Converse College in Spartanburg.

Two selected for ACDA Honors Chorus

HONORED — The September Mid-Carolina Students of the Month are, from left, Bailey Doolittle, Kendall Kinard, Jessie Bush and Noel Lindler.

September Students of the MonthHONORED — The September Mid-Carolina Support Staff of the Month is custodian Reuben Martinez (left). The September Teacher of the Month is social studies teacher and student council sponsor Brea Amick.

Support staff, teacher of the month recipients

Exchange students of the month for SeptemberSTUDENTS OF THE MONTH — The Newberry Exchange Club recently awarded the Students of the Month for September. Pictured, from left, are Ian Elsmore of the Whitmire Community School, Olnisa Gray of Newberry High School and Brandarius Scarborough of Mid-Carolina High School. Congratulations to these fine students.