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CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - Four Lowcountry high school baseball teams punched their tickets to division championship games in the Hanahan Invitational Tournament on Wednesday.

In the Steadman Division Championship game, James Island will face Ashley Ridge. That game is set for 5 p.m. on Thursday at Hanahan High School.

In the Hatfield Division Championship game, Summerville will face Wando. That matchup is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, also at Hanahan High School.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13TH, 2022 Scores:

STEADMAN DIVISION

SITE: HANAHAN HIGH SCHOOL

GAME 37: 5:00 OCEAN LAKES, VA 1 VS. PROVIDENCE, NC 3

GAME 38: 7:30 HANAHAN, SC 2 VS. HICKORY GROVE, NC 1

SITE:

JAMES ISLAND CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL

GAME 39: 5:00 LUCY BECKHAM, SC 17 VS. OLYMPIC, NC 7

GAME 40: 7:30 OCEANSIDE COLLEGIATE, SC 0 VS. JAMES ISLAND, SC 10 – SEMIFINAL

SITE:

GOOSE CREEK HIGH SCHOOL (SEDGEFIELD MIDDLE SCHOOL)

GAME 42: 5:00 STRATFORD, SC 12 VS. PINEWOOD PREP, SC 13

GAME 43: 7:30 GOOSE CREEK, SC 4 VS. TIMBERLAND, SC 1

SITE:

ASHLEY RIDGE HIGH SCHOOL

GAME 44: 5:00 WOODLAND, SC 2 VS. REAGAN, NC 14

GAME 45: 7:30 ASHLEY RIDGE, SC 10 VS. ST. JOHN’S COLLEGE, DC 6 – SEMIFINAL

HATFIELD DIVISION

SITE:

SUMMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL (GREGG MIDDLE SCHOOL)

GAME 46: 5:00 HICKORY, VA 0 VS. ARDREY KELL, NC 10

GAME 47: 7:30 CATAWBA RIDGE, SC 2 VS SUMMERVILLE, SC 9 – SEMIFINAL

SITE:

WEST ASHLEY HIGH SCHOOL

GAME 48: 5:00 FORT DORCHESTER, SC 7 VS. HILTON HEAD, SC 2

GAME 49: 7:30 WEST ASHLEY, SC 6 VS. NANSEMOND RIVER, VA 7 9 INNINGS

SITE:

BISHOP ENGLAND HIGH SCHOOL

GAME 50: 5:00 BEAUFORT, SC 4 VS. RANDLEMAN, NC 7

GAME 51: 7:30 BISHOP ENGLAND, SC 6 VS. MAMARONECK, NY 3

SITE:

WANDO HIGH SCHOOL

GAME 52: 5:00 PHILIP SIMMONS, SC 5 VS. BAMBERG EHRHARDT, SC 4

GAME 53: 7:30 WANDO, SC 12 VS. ST. EDWARDS, OH 10 – SEMIFINAL

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Cross High School football coach Shaun Wright certainly could have found a lesser opponent to line up against for the Trojans’ first 7-on-7 of the summer but he wanted his group to get tested, and it’s always a plus to hang out with longtime fishing buddy Art Craig.

Craig’s Hanahan Hawks, a Class AAA program, have a nice collection of skill guys and one of the best young quarterbacks in the area. For the better part of 90 minutes at HHS, the Class A Trojans looked a bit overmatched on June 22.

Wright said his team didn’t get exposed, they got better.

“I thought today some of the kids who hadn’t been on this level, as far as varsity, got a chance to see exactly what varsity football was all about,” Wright said. “We started two freshmen back there in the secondary and the quarterback will be a first-year starter. I left a couple of our running backs at home so it gave some of our other guys a chance to show what they could do as far as competing. I thought as the day went on, you could see them get a little more confidence in what they were doing on defense. That fed into the offense.”

Wright’s bunch has been playing some catch up on the defensive side of the ball. Former defensive coordinator Brett Fields took a defensive position at Cane Bay High School, where he graduated from.

“It kind of feels like spring practice for us defensively,” Wright said. “We’re behind on defense, which puts us behind on offense because we have to spend so much time on defense. We play a lot of guys both ways.”

New defensive coordinator Jason Myers took over less than two weeks ago. Myers formerly coached at Timberland, C.E. Murray and Kingstree, his alma mater. He played college football at Newberry.

“I’m very grateful for Jason,” Wright said. “He brings intensity on that side of the ball we haven’t had in a long time. He wants to be at Cross. He has a passion for these kids and wants them to play hard. You’re talking about a guy who was just in arena football five years ago.”

The Trojans make a return trip to Hanahan on June 29 to tangle with the Hawks and West Ashley, and possibly Stall.

Cross will likely be a better version of itself now that it has one 7-on-7 game under its belt. It’s part of the process of getting dialed in for the real season. Practice begins in late July and the first games are Aug. 19.

The Trojans are aiming to get back to the top of their region when football season rolls around.

“We’ve not won a region championship since 2015,” Wright said. “You have to get a good seed in the playoffs because Class A is loaded. So many teams are going to be right there.”

Last fall, Cross made the Class A playoffs as the fourth-place team from the region and led top-seeded C.E. Murray after three quarters in the first round. The War Eagles eventually got on track and ended Cross’s season.

Jordan Fabian wasn't much of a morning person at the start of her college career, but after some struggles to excel on and off the field, she motivated herself to make changes. Now South Carolina softball's senior catcher is excelling in the classroom and on the diamond and recently received the Dodie Anderson Academic Enrichment Center MVP Award at the Gamecock Gala for her efforts.

"The biggest challenge was just doing it," said Fabian who will graduate in May with a degree in exercise science and then attend graduate school. "I think a lot of things can be done when you just make the decision to do it. One day I decided that I would do better and feel better if I made the decision to change."

When she first arrived on campus, Fabian struggled to be at her best for morning workouts, which usually started around 6:30 a.m. Being alert in her morning classes was also a struggle.

"I was not morning person, honestly, not until last year," Fabian said with a laugh. "My teammates joke that I could sleep almost anywhere. They make fun of me how easily I fall asleep anywhere. My freshman and sophomore year, I would fall asleep on the airport floor when we were traveling. My sophomore year, we were playing at a tournament in Florida, and we had some time in between games, and I took nap on the bench in the dugout. I go to bed a lot earlier now. Even when I went to bed at a reasonable time, I didn't like the mornings."

Fabian would eventually take charge of her sleeping habits, and it paid off.

"I just decided that I needed to be more awake for weights. The weight sessions that we have for the team in the fall are something that I really value. I'm going into strength and conditioning (as a career), so being in the gym is something I value, and I felt like I wasn't getting as much out of it. I was going in there, and I was taking nap on the floor before we started! So, I didn't feel like I was getting as much out of it as I should because I was half asleep. I saw a correlation with the effort and energy I put into the weight room, and it showed on the field, power-wise and speed-wise. That was a big step for my career."

"At the beginning, it did seem like graduation was a long way away, but now we have just a couple of weeks until it's all done."

After struggling offensively her first two years on the diamond, Fabian broke through last year and was tied for the team lead in home runs and was fourth in runs batted in. This season, Fabian took it up another level and hitting in the leadoff spot in the lineup, her batting average has hovered around .300 and she is second on the team in home runs and RBI, while leading the Gamecocks in runs scored, walks, and stolen bases. The success also carried over into the classroom.

"I just really wanted to get more value out of what I was doing in the mornings," Fabian said. "I was enjoying the classes I was in because I was learning about the body and how it functions. I realized how crucial sleep was, so I worked on my sleep schedule a little bit. As athletes, we don't sleep that much, but I wanted to get more out of what I was doing. No matter what the grades were, I was learning!

"They were definitely very tough classes. The first six semesters, I was taking two science classes per semester. The lectures for both of those and the labs every semester were very challenging. I did feel like that some people understood it a little easier than I did. It just clicked for them. It was frustrating too because I felt like I was understanding the material, but the exam grades weren't showing me that. That was frustrating."

During her transition the Hanahan, S.C., native was happy to see the hard work pay off but keeping herself motivated every day was still a challenge.

"Classes were a little harder to motivate myself to stay awake for," Fabian said. "Along the same lines, I wasn't getting as much out of them as I could have been. I've had a bunch of professors say that some of the most important stuff is said in the first ten minutes and the last ten minutes of class. I was definitely missing out on a lot of those first ten minutes when I was still walking in half asleep.

"Classes were definitely harder than high school. It was a lot of science classes with chemistry and anatomy. I really have only done poorly in two classes here. I get As and Bs mostly, and I might have one or two Cs on my transcript, but there were two not-so-greats on my transcript. I did retake those classes and did do very well the second time. They were challenging courses."

Fabian intends to come back and play next year with the extra season of eligibility granted due to the COVID-19 pandemic. She is appreciative of the tutors and academic advisors at "the Dodie" who helped keep her on the right path. Once she became more disciplined with her sleep schedule, she found herself more prepared to achieve her goals.

"At the beginning, it did seem like graduation was a long way away, but now we have just a couple of weeks until it's all done," Fabian said. "I didn't think I wouldn't graduate, but I definitely wasn't sure after my freshman year if I would be staying in exercise science just because of the science load. Now I just feel relieved and super-happy. It's rewarding."

More than 30 high school baseball teams from multiple states will compete for titles in the 52nd annual Hanahan Invitational Tournament set for April 11-14.

The tournament has two divisions named for former Hanahan High Hawks baseball coaches, Tom Hatfield and Bill Steadman. Hatfield started the HIT in 1970 as a way to get a few local teams together for games during spring break. Steadman followed Hatfield at HHS and the tournament eventually swelled into a premier spring break stop as more teams from outside South Carolina accepted invitations to visit the Lowcountry.

States represented in the 2022 HIT are South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Ohio and New York. Another squad will make its way into town from Washington, D.C.

“We do have some strong teams coming in,” Hanahan coach Brian Mitchell said. “We know locally we have some great teams but we have our hands full trying to win it. The team from D.C. is the team to beat. Their head coach is something like 316-80. They’re loaded. There is some quality baseball coming to town. We’re going to have to hunker down and play well.”

Eight of the local clubs are ranked inside the top 10 of their respective classifications by the South Carolina Baseball Coaches Association.

Last spring, Summerville High School rallied from a five-run deficit to edge Blessed Trinity from Roswell, Ga., with a run in the bottom of the seventh. It was the difference in the Green Wave’s 8-7 victory in the championship game. The 2021 field was smaller due to COVID concerns.

Summerville went on to capture the Class AAAAA Lower State title in 2021.

“It’s a good gauge to see how you’re playing going into the end of the season,” Mitchell said. “If you do well in the HIT, you’re going to go on and do well in the playoffs.”

Host sites for the first two days of the tournament are Hanahan, Goose Creek, James Island, Ashley Ridge, Summerville, West Ashley, Bishop England and Wando. Semifinal sites will be determined later. Hanahan will host the championship games on April 14.

There is also a junior varsity division, which was won by the host school last spring. Fifteen of the 17 squads set to compete are from the Charleston area.

52nd annual HIT schedule

(Monday, April 11)

Steadman Division

At Hanahan

2 p.m. – Timberland vs. May River

5 p.m. – Game 1 winner vs. Ocean Lakes, Va.

7:30 p.m. – Hanahan vs. Olympic, N.C.

At James Island Charter

5 p.m. – Lucy Beckham vs. Reagan, N.C.

7:30 p.m. – Stratford vs. James Island

At Goose Creek

2 p.m. – Beaufort vs. Cane Bay

5 p.m. – Game 1 winner vs. Oceanside

7:30 p.m. – Goose Creek vs. St. John’s (D.C.)

At Ashley Ridge

2 p.m. – Bamberg vs. Woodland

5 p.m. – Game 1 winner vs. Ardrey Kell, N.C.

7:30 p.m. – Ashley Ridge vs. Ben Lippen

Hatfield Division

At Summerville

5 p.m. – Pinewood Prep vs. Hickory, Va.

7:30 p.m. – Hickory Grove, N.C. vs. Summerville

At West Ashley

5 p.m. – Hilton Head vs. Randleman, N.C.

7:30 p.m. – Catawba Ridge vs. West Ashley

At Bishop England

5 p.m. – Fort Dorchester vs. Providence, N.C.

7:30 p.m. – St. Edwards, Ohio vs. Bishop England

At Wando

5 p.m. – Philip Simmons vs. Mamaroneck, N.Y.

7:30 p.m. – Nansemond River, Va. vs. Wando

It was almost an eight-hour day at the Hanahan ballpark in some oppressive heat, but the Hanahan Dixie Youth Minors (10U) got their pay day when it was all over.

Hanahan won twice on the final day of the District 7 tournament June 23, rallying for a 6-4 victory over Mt. Pleasant before pulling a similar escape in the championship game against Moncks Corner.

In the finale, Hanahan pitcher Hudson Tolbert hurled a complete game and infielder Luke Roe drove in three runs in the 8-3 victory. Catcher Jax Morrical chipped in a pair of RBIs.

Hanahan scored the final eight runs of the game after giving up three unearned runs in the top of the first.

Coach Matt Marlowe’s team, which finished 5-1 in the district, advances to the state tournament next month in Dillon. Their only loss was, 12-10, to Mt. Pleasant a day earlier. Marlowe said he was up until 2 in the morning after the loss.

“We cleaned up a lot of our mistakes we made the other night,” Marlowe said. “That was a big part of it today. We learned from it, moved on and went out and had some fun tonight. We hoped we were going to play two.”

They did.

Hanahan scored four runs in the bottom of the fifth to edge Mt. Pleasant, 6-4, to set up the nightcap in front of an energetic crowd.

Moncks Corner plated three unearned runs on three Hanahan errors in the bottom of the first inning but also gave one back in the top of the second on an error.

It settled into a pitcher’s duel before the fifth inning once again proved huge for Hanahan. It plated five runs to take the lead for good.

With two on and two out, Roe blooped a single down the left-field line to pull Hanahan within 3-2. The tying run came home on the same sequence when the ball got loose on the infield.

Tolbert then helped himself with a RBI single off the pitcher’s glove to put Hanahan up, 4-3. Later, with the bases loaded, Morrical delivered a two-run single down the right-field line as the lead doubled to 6-3.

Roe iced it in the top of the sixth with a two-run single up the middle.

“He’s been one of our most consistent hitters in the tournament and really we’ve had a lot of guys hit the ball well,” Marlowe said.

Tolbert, a lefty with good offspeed stuff, fanned four batters and allowed three hits.

Hanahan didn’t make an error after the first to help the southpaw and ended the first by throwing out a runner at the plate. Roe and Ryker Schnackenberg collected two hits each and outfielder Jackson Cribb made a nice diving grab in center to take away a hit from Moncks Corner in the bottom of the fourth.

“I felt very confident with this team, just knowing the skill level and the mindset we had,” Marlowe said. “We had to work through a little adversity, but that’s just typical of 9-and 10-year-old kids. One of the biggest things we achieved was taking it one game at a time. I made sure they knew they were out here for a reason. They were selected for a reason and they had to be confident in themselves and make plays.”

Hanahan won three games (Mt. Pleasant 10-0, Moncks Corner 13-1 and St. Andrew’s 16-4) before losing to Mt. Pleasant on June 22.

Coach Marlowe is assisted by Chris Tolbert and Thomas Hole.

“I’m excited. We’ve got to brush up on some things for the state tournament,” Marlowe said. “We want to see where we can make some improvements. Hopefully we can go up there and put on a good show.”