Sports

Youth holds key for Lady Wildcat softball

Competition is keen as a youth movement grips Camden County High softball in Kayla Miller’s second season as head coach. The Lady Wildcats fielded seven seniors last season.

Bailey on board to coach ’Cat boys hoopsters

Camden County High School has welcomed David Bailey as its new boys basketball head coach. Bailey, the head boys coach the last four seasons at neighboring Charlton, was approved Tuesday by the Camden County Schools board. CCHS athletic director Welton Coffey noted Bailey’s youth and energy.

’Cat mat duo competes at nationals

Camden County High wrestler Ryder Wilder earned All-American honors and teammate Konlin Weaver won three matches at the U.S. Marine Corps 16-under and junior nationals last week in Fargo, N.D.

PSA gymnasts net 58 medals at AAU Nationals in Florida

Camden PSA Gymnastics won 58 total medals and three gymnasts earned All-American accolades at the AAU Nationals June 30 to July 3 in Orlando, Fla.

Stingrays set personal bests, notch GRPA state placings

High placements and personal-best times were the order of the weekend for the PSA Stingray swimmers at the Georgia Recreation and Park Association Class B state meet in Moultrie. “Our team had an incredible meet in Moultrie the past two days,” new Stingrays coach Lisa Ingram said Sunday.

Boomers’ Fayed, Rounds make waves at state

Elliott Fayed and William Rounds represented the Camden Boomer swimmers with strong performances last weekend in the state age-group long course championships and Junior Olympics at the Georgia Tech campus in Atlanta. Fayed, in the 11-12 boys division, placed second in the 200-meter breast (3:29.

Wildcat hoops shootout attracts huge fields

Hoopsters from more than two dozen schools in Georgia and Florida came to Kingsland last Thursday and Friday for two full days of games at four gyms.

Boomers win 14 events, place third in Waycross

Fourteen event wins highlighted the Camden Boomers’ third-place showing last Saturday at a South Georgia Swim League meet in Waycross. Mason Bellini won four events for the 7-8 boys, and Jillian Cash three for the 17-18 girls.

Runners tackle 5K, 10K courses at Independence Day festival

Many hours before fireworks fractured the night sky Tuesday at the St. Marys Kiwanis Independence Day Festival, 121 runners toed the starting line for the annual 5K and 10K runs beginning and ending at St. Marys United Methodist Church.

National Wrestling Coaches Association honors Wilder

Fresh off the Wildcats’ ninth straight sweep of the state duals and traditional titles, Camden County High head wrestling coach Jess Wilder has been selected as the National Wrestling Coaches Association (NWCA) Georgia Head Coach of the Year. “I’m appreciative. It’s an honor,” he said.