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The North Myrtle Beach High School boys volleyball team was knocked out of the 5A Division 2 SCHSL playoffs on Monday, October 20. The Chiefs were eliminated when they visited Conway High School for a first-round playoff match. The Chiefs volleyball program has made strides since the program began. This year the team was 12-14 overall and 2-8 in Region 6, a fifth place finish. Conway beat the Chiefs 3-0 (19-25, 18-25, 18-25) to move on in the playoffs.

By John Smithson The NMB High School Lady Chiefs volleyball team capped off their run to today’s SCHSL state championship game with a 3-1 win over Conway at the high school gym on Monday. The Chiefs and Tigers both brought their fans to cheer on two 6AAAAA region teams in the final match before a trip to Columbia. Conway had won seven matches in a row and had dispatched Myrtle Beach to earn a match with the Chiefs. The Tigers stayed with the Chiefs in the first set, trailing 9-8. The Chiefs used five kills from Madison Johnson and led …

By John Smithson The Lady Chiefs Fenna Hollo topped all competition in the girls 5K at last Wednesday’s cross country 6AAAAA Region Championships at the NMB Sports Complex. Hollo won the best of the region title as she finished first in her race with a time of 18:24.09, beating the second-place runner by over one minute when she crossed the finish line. She also ran faster than every region male runner except for the top ten finishers in their race. Robyn Walsh finished the girls race in eighth place and her sister Ravyn finished eleventh. They both joined Hollo on …

By John Smithson The NMB High School Lady Chiefs won their second round SCHSL 5A playoff match 3-0 last Monday over an overmatched Berkeley team. Last Wednesday the Chiefs took on Lucy Beckham in round three and held on for a 3-2 victory and place in the Lower State Championship match on Monday. The match with the Bengals was the third time the two teams had met this season. The Chiefs had won 2-1 in a tournament on October 10 and the Chiefs traveled to Mt. Pleasant on October 16 for their last regular season match before the playoffs. The …

By John Smithson The North Myrtle Beach girls tennis team made the SCHSL 5A playoffs and faced St. James at home last Thursday afternoon. The Lady Chiefs and the Lady Sharks split their two matches this season, but the Chiefs earned the home court advantage. Chiefs coach Brian Paterson explained the home playoff match. “We beat them 4-3 and they beat us 3-4, but we won more matches due to our two, three and five players winning six out of six in those matches.” Unfortunately, the Sharks came out on top last Thursday 4-3 and eliminated the Chiefs. Paterson still …

By John Smithson The number one seed Lady Chiefs volleyball team won their second-round match Monday night over Berkeley 3-0 at North Myrtle Beach. The Chiefs had a bye in the first round of the SCHSL 5A Division 2 playoffs and Berkeley (7-17) came into North Myrtle Beach after beating West Florence in their first round match. The Chiefs got off to a slow start as the Lady Stags stayed within four points of the Chiefs until the Chiefs led 20-16. At that point Clara Cloninger had five kills to put away Berkeley 25-17. The Chiefs raced out to a …

By John Smithson The North Myrtle Beach Chiefs football team was on the cusp of another region win last Friday night but ended their home season at The Hank with another disappointing loss, this time to the St. James Sharks by a 20-17 score. The Chiefs won the toss, deferred to the second half and kicked off to the Sharks. The Sharks Elijah Ochoa caught the ball at his four-yard line and evaded the Chiefs special team players as he ran 96 yards for a touchdown, the PAT was good, and the Chiefs were down 7-0 after 18 seconds off …

By John Smithson Fenna Hollo continued her domination of Horry County cross country races this fall as she won the girls 5000-meter race at the Horry County Championship meet last Wednesday at the North Myrtle Beach Sports Complex. Hollo is a freshman member of the North Myrtle Beach Lady Chiefs cross country team and has literally run away with the title of Horry County’s best female runner in this year’s meets. Hollo won the race with a time of 19:21, easily beating Socastee’s sophomore runner Layla Holladay with a time of 19:57. The Lady Chiefs team had stiff competition in …

By John Smithson Let’s hope Yogi was right and it’s “déjà vu all over again.” The North Myrtle Beach Lady Chiefs are already 6-5A region champs. They are the number 1 or 2 volleyball team in the state’s 5A classification. They ended their regular season with a 33-5 record, most of those losses against top ten teams in the state in grueling tournament play. Seems a lot like last year. Let’s not get too far ahead of ourselves. The Chiefs had one last regular season match last week, another go-round with Lucy Beckham in Mt. Pleasant. Like most matches with …

By John Smithson The North Myrtle Beach Chiefs football team knew that last Friday’s game at The Hank with Carolina Forest was going to be a challenge. They tried to score first and slow the game down in order to slow down the Panthers offense. They actually did that for a few minutes. But reality set in and the Panthers overcame a 7-0 Chiefs lead, scored 35 first half points and won 49-7. The Chiefs Reo Stevenson took the opening Panthers kickoff nine yards to the Chiefs 35 yard-line. Keith Allison was stopped on first down for no gain and …