In recent years, boys’ and girls’ basketball teams from Lower Richland, Richland Northeast, Irmo, Lexington, Columbia, Dreher, and Dutch Fork have been finalists in the SC High School League championships.

Cardinal Newman has represented SCISA in its state finals twice in the past three seasons. But this year only the Lady Silver Foxes of Dutch Fork were able to get to an SCHSL final game. Dorman steamrolled them with aggressive play offensively and on defensively.

Kudos can and should be handed out to the Lower Richland, Richland Northeast, and Keenan boys who came up one game short of making it to the big show at the Colonial Center this past weekend.

The CN Lady Cardinals was the only other area team to advance to a title game but lost in the Independent Schools Association finals to Hilton Head Prep.

Notably, game scoring records were tied or broken Saturday when Hunter–Kinard–Tyler defeated Hemingway 100–89 for the Class A boys’ championship. That smashed the mark for most points by a winning team and a losing team.

In the AAA final, Greer tied the record for most points while Lake Marion’s 97 points broke the same record for most points by non–wining team.