Monday’s area sports briefs | Lowcountry Prep girls into state semifinals - Sports

SUMTER For the past three years, Wardlaw Academy has had the Lowcountry Prep girls basketball team’s number, knocking the Fighting Marlins out of the state playoffs each year.

The result was different on Monday.

Lowcountry used a 35-point first half en route to a 54-42 win over Wardlaw Academy in the quarterfinals of the SCISA Class A state playoffs. It will now play the winner of Clarendon Hall-Newberry Academy in the semifinals.

“It feels really good to beat Wardlaw,” Fighting Marlins coach Danny Bell said. “It is something we haven’t done. We played really well. If we play defense like we did tonight, we should be able to achieve what we set out to do.”

Rachael Exum, who scored the first 13 points of the game, led the way for Lowcountry Prep with 32 points. Leldon McClary dished out 14 assists and Sydney Derrick came a block shy of a triple-double with 10 points, 13 rebounds and nine blocks for the Fighting Marlins.

• WARDLAW ACADEMY (42) – Katielin Reardon 37, Katherine Geinn 1, Parker Wilkes 4

• LOWCOUNTRY PREP (54) – Rachael Exum 32, Leldon McClary 6, Sydney Derrick 10, Eliz Zieser 6

Wardlaw Academy	11	6	7	18	–	42
Lowcountry Prep	18	17	5	14	–	54

• 3-point goals: Wardlaw Academy 5 (Reardon 5); Lowcountry Prep 4 (Exum, McClary, Derrick 2). Team fouls: Wardlaw Academy 11, Lowcountry Prep 8. Fouled out: None. Technical fouls: None.

• Records: Wardlaw Academy (14-9); Lowcountry Prep (20-4).

CCU softball

• CHARLOTTE, N.C. Coastal Carolina swept the weekly Big South softball honors, with Kory Hayden winning player of the week and Kiana Quolas taking pitcher of the week honors.

Hayden batted .429 with three home runs and six RBIs as the Chanticleers went 3-2 at the Florida State Tournament.

Quolas won all three games on the mound, finishing with a 1.80 ERA and 13 strikeouts.

CCU women’s golf

• PARRISH, Fla. The Coastal Carolina women’s golf team shot 28-over 297-307–604 on Monday in the opening pair of rounds in the Central District Invitational.

The Chants were 20 strokes behind leader Oklahoma.

Brittany Henderson (73-73–146) was tied for 11th, Kaitlin Higginbotham (73-78–151) was tied for 25th, Frida Castillo (75-77–152) was tied for 33rd, Jessica Alexander (76-79–155) was tied for 50th and Courtney Boe (79-85) was in 75th.

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