Gaffney Middle falls to McCracken

McCracken topped Gaffney Middle School, 26-6, on Thursday.

Copeland rushes

for 3 TDs in loss

Joey Copeland rushed for three touchdowns but it wasn't enough as the Gaffney jayvees lost 42-34 to Byrnes on Thursday.

C.J. Miller also scored twice for the Indians, who fall to 2-3.

Gaffney freshmen

nipped by Byrnes

In ninth-grade football action on Thursday, Marquis Jackson rushed for three touchdowns and Shaq Davidson threw for two and rushed for another in a 36- 34 loss to Indians.

Thomas Hardy and O'Bryant Davidson both caught touchdown passes for the Indians.

Lady Saints

edge Queens

The Lady Saints soccer team picked up its second win in a row with a 2-1 victory against Queens University on Saturday afternoon at the Queens Sport Complex.

Limestone improves to 1-2 in Conference Carolinas play and 2-7 overall. The Royals are 1-2-1 in the league and 2-8-1 overall.

Queens got on the board only 11 minutes into the contest as Megan Sload took advantage of a rebound to put the ball in the net. The Lady Saints scored their first goal on a corner kick in the 42nd minute. Diane Boyce, who normally plays goalkeeper, took to the pitch as a field player and served the ball into the box where Alexis Brothers connected for her first goal of the season.

Vanessa Jarrett scored Limestone's game-winning goal in the 78th minute as she took advantage of a one-versus-one situation.

Goalkeeper Brittany Clark made nine saves for Limestone, while Kristen Kornacki had no saves for Queens.

The Royals outshot the Lady Saints 24-5, and had 5 corner kicks compared to Limestone's 3.

Limestone travels to Due West, S.C., to play Erskine College on Sept. 30, at 5 p.m.

Braves to hold

tryouts Oct 1, 3

The Gaffney Braves 13 and under baseball team will be holding tryouts on Oct. 1 and Oct. 3.

The team practices and plays in Gaffney and plans to participate in five additional tournaments this fall.

For more information, call Steve Byars at 864-490-4972.

Lions earn first win

in two years

Matthew Stafford held his head down on the bench for the final snap. Dominic Raiola couldn 't watch, either, fearing a 20th loss in a row and 100th setback of his nine-season career.

When Detroit's leaders looked up and saw Washington was out of time, they saw what they were hoping to see Sunday.

Lions 19, Redskins 14.

Believe it. Finally.

“We not only got the monkey off our back, we got King Kong off our back,” said Lions owner William Clay Ford. “I'm hoping that this gets us over that hump and gives us a winning attitude.”

Detroit (1-2) hadn't won since Dec. 23, 2007 and its 19-game skid matched the second longest in NFL history. The Lions no longer have to hear about Tampa Bay's record 26-game losing streak.Raiola blew kisses to the crowd of 40,896 that was the smallest at Ford Field and the fewest to watch a Lions home game in 20 years after time expired with Washington stalled at the Detroit 24 yard line.