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By John Smithson The NMB Lady Chiefs battled all season long, earned a place in the SCHSL playoffs with their first win ever against Socastee but then lost 17-14 to the Lady Sharks last Tuesday night at St. James. The Chiefs split their season series with the Lady Sharks, winning their first game 11-9 before losing 16-8 on April 13th. This time they played hard but were outshot by the Sharks and lost enough draws to make a difference in possession chances. The Chiefs scoring came from three freshmen players, Aryanna Kipybida with 7 goals and three assists, Sydney McClannan …

By John Smithson The North Myrtle Beach Chiefs boys lacrosse team made it to the first round of the SCHSL playoffs, beat Socastee 7-6 last Monday at The Hank, but lost to Lucy Beckham 19-2 in Mt. Pleasant last Friday night in their second round of the playoffs. The Chiefs split with the Braves in the regular season but found a way to win a hotly contested third matchup of the two teams. The Chiefs got off to a quick start in the game, leading 4-1 after the first quarter. Socastee was held to one goal in each of the …

By John Smithson The North Myrtle Beach Chiefs baseball team ended their regular season schedule last week with wins over the Carolina Forest Panthers and South Florence Bruins. The Chiefs raised their record to 21-5 with four consecutive wins in their final four regular season games and set themselves up as a number one seed in the SCHSL playoffs. The Chiefs win over Carolina Forest was especially welcomed by the Chiefs. They knocked out one of the Panthers ace pitchers Parker Reavis, scoring six runs on Reavis who had allowed one run and struck out 13 Chiefs in a 3-1 …

By John Smithson The North Myrtle Beach High School varsity boys and girls soccer teams are closing out their regular season schedule this week after finishing most 6AAAAA region matches last week. The boys team finished their region play last week with losses to the only teams that beat them this spring. Last Tuesday the Chiefs traveled to St. James for their second meeting with the Sharks. The Chiefs finished the first half trailing 2-0 and finished the match losing 4-1. Cristhian Vasquez scored the Chiefs goal and Tomas Arroyo had seven saves. Last Thursday Myrtle Beach visited The Hank …

By John Smithson The NMB Chiefs baseball team got back on the winning track last week sweeping the Myrtle Beach Seahawks in a three-game series 10-0, 22-0 and 12-3. The Chiefs began their winning streak on senior night last Monday at The Hank. Sawyer Smith started a two-run rally in the bottom of the first with a double. Porter Anglin ran for Smith and went to second when Kaden Lank was hit by a pitch. Trevor Mitchetti singled in Anglin and Lank eventually scored on an error. Gabe Priest walked to open the Chiefs second and was sacrificed to second. …

By John Smithson The NMB Lady Chiefs softball team won the first two games of their series with Myrtle Beach last week. The Chiefs were home last Monday night for their first game. The Lady Seahawks had runners on first and second with one out, but a 1-5-3 double play ended the top of the first with no damage by the visitors. The Chiefs got the scoring started in the first with Carolina Porter drawing a walk and Capri Laughlin hit by a pitch, putting them on first and second.  A passed ball moved them to second and third. Sadie …

By John Smithson The North Myrtle Beach Lady Chiefs lacrosse team finished their regular season last Wednesday night with an 11-9 victory over the visiting Socastee Lady Braves at The Hank. The Chiefs led 5-4 at halftime and increased their lead to 11-6 with five minutes left in the fourth quarter. The Lady Braves rallied for three late goals to narrow the Chiefs lead to 11-9 but the Chiefs controlled the final minutes and held on for their first-ever victory over Socastee. The Chiefs jumped and celebrated when the horn sounded and were even happier when they found out that …

By John Smitson Sophomore Corbin Delamore won the 5A Region 6 individual golf championship yesterday with a 74 score in a playoff. Delamore is the second seeded player on the Chiefs team that came in fourth in the team championship. His score got him into a playoff which he won for the region individual title. The Chiefs team shot a 337 as a foursome. Jacob Smith shot an 88, Braiden Brunson a 90, and Thomas Anderson an 85. The Chiefs were fourth with their 337 score. St. James won the team championship with a 319. Myrtle Beach was second with …

By John Smithson Chiefs boys soccer — The NMB Chiefs boys soccer team won their last three matches. They started their streak with an April 7th 4-0 win over visiting Gaffney. The Chiefs and Indians each scored two first-half goals for a 2-2 tie. The Chiefs shut out the Indians in the second half, scored two more goals and claimed a   4-2 win. Christhian Vasquez scored three goals for the Chiefs and Danielle Vespoli scored the other goal. Aiden Trevino, Jose Carpio, Rowan Smith and Randy Suchite Ramirez each had an assist in the victory. Tomas Arroyo had three …

By John Smithson The North Myrtle Beach Chiefs baseball team got back to 6AAAAA region baseball last Monday as they began a three-game series at St. James. Needing some wins to challenge first-place Carolina Forest, the Chiefs instead lost two of the three games to the Sharks. The opener went bad quickly. The Chiefs got a first inning single from Sawyer Smith but that was it. The Sharks opened the bottom of the first with a single. Sawyer Smith struck out two in a row but then gave up a home run to Luke Kesslar for a 2-0 Sharks lead. …