Before the Hillsboro Post 129 ball club took the field Friday night, head coach Ritchie Butler told his team to play as one.

The 1976-77 SCOL basketball season was about to get under way. Washington C.H., Wilmington and Miami Trace were the preseason picks to battle it out for the top rung. John Woolums was back at Miami Trace for his second year.

Keeping score for baseball has become a lost art. Don't ask me how or why, but the majority of people I know either have no interest in keeping score for a baseball game or they have no idea what all the numbers, lines and letters all mean to keep track of the game in the first place.

The Historical Society of Lynchburg is looking for information regarding the sport of baseball.

Luke Magulac is shown sliding into home plate for KFC in a recent Little League baseball game.

The schedule for the Hillsboro 2010 Tournament of Champions has been announced.

If I may take a brief respite from my journey through 70 or more years of South Central League action, I would like to comment on a couple of related topics, which some sports-oriented people may find interesting.

LeBron James picks the Miami Heat over the Cleveland Cavs, and Highland County sports editor Stephen Forsha agrees with "The King."

With the start of the 2010 high school football season just a mere 48 days away from kicking off, there are many questions that a person might have before things start to pick up, before the start of full contact summer camps, conditioning, scrimmage, two-a-days and, yes, the regular season. Like everyone else, I have questions before this season starts and so with that, here are four questions that intrigue me the most before the start of the season.

The annual "Bud Kilmer" 3-on-3 Basketball Tournament will begin at 5 p.m. Sunday, July 11 at Whiteoak High School.

In a game where both teams combined for nine errors, it was the Hillsboro Post 129 team that came up on the short end of the winning column, dropping their second straight game, this time to Gallipolis Post 27, 7-5 at Rio Grande Tuesday night.

Information available for the 2010 Hillsboro Youth Football Camp.

Pictured are the East Clinton girls Major softball champions

The Hillsboro Indians, Legends 10-under, won the Fairborn Blast Tournament, going 5-0,  defeating a team that hadn't lost in five years.  Now the Hillsboro team will be going to Cleveland on July 19-23 for the Nationals for 10-under.

On Independence Day, the wooden bats of Hillsboro Post 129 were unable to provide any fireworks in the championship game of the Southwest Wooden Bat Classic in Washington C.H.