News & Scores

The Savannah Morning News selects the outstanding athletes in high school sports for their All Coastal Empire Best of Preps. Nominees for player of the year for the 23 state-sanctioned sports come from the First Team selections. Winter sports are basketball, swimming and wrestling. West Point signee Yenna Park and Will Harmon were selected for 1st Team honors in swimming. Garrett Lorfano was Honorable Mention for wresting.

The Coastal Empire High School Sports Awards banquet, presented by Georgia Ports will be held on Thursday, June 1, at 7 p.m., at the Johnny Mercer Theatre. 

After a great start to his collegiate golf career, Auburn's  Reed Lotter was named SEC Freshman of the Week, Lotter was rewarded for his performances at the Prestige Individual and the Dorado Beach Collegiate the past week. Through the first six rounds of his career, the SCDS Class of 2022 graduate has carded five at or below par, including four in the 60s. With the first SEC weekly honor of his career, Lotter becomes the 12^th different Tiger freshman to earn the award since its creation in 2014. Congratulations Reed!

Junior William Whitfield was the medalist at the 2023 Lowcountry Golf Invitational held at Berkley Hall and the Club at Savannah Harbor. During the 2-day event, Whitfield shot a total of 143 (73, 70) and tied with Rowan Sullivan of Porter-Gaud. Whitfield won the honor by a scorecard playoff (retrogression from #18 backward). The SCDS team finished 7th in the 12-team tournament carding 458.  

On February 23, surrounded by family, teammates, and friends, seniors Yenna Park and Kat Johnson signed their commitments to continue their athletic careers at the collegiate level. Yenna Park will swim at West Point and Kat Johnson will play basketball at Oglethorpe University. Congratulations to these two student athletes!

Four SCDS basketball teams won their SPAL Championships. The 5th Grade girls as the #2 seed beat the #1 BSS 24-14 to take home the trophy. The undefeated 6th Grade girls are back-to-back SPAL champions with their defeat of BSS. A three-peat for the 7th Grade girls as they easily defeated Calvary for their win. The 7th Grade boys finished the night with a big win over SCPS. The 5th Grade boys were the SPAL Runner-up, entering as the 6th seed and losing 21-29 to the #1 Calvary. Congratulations Hornets! A great basketball season for all the teams!

Rooster Bing threw 45'10" to take 1st place in the shot put at the Game Changers Alley Invite Track Meet at Richmond Hill High School. The boys 4x800m relay team set a new school record of 8:51.90 with a 3rd place finish. The new record is held by Noah Buchanan, Kent Burnett, Charlie Pope and John Ryan. Andrew Wynn finished 2nd in the 100m hurdles 17.23. Brown signee for track, Anna Pollak was 2nd in the 200m. 27.09 and the 400m. 100.82. Sarah Jane Schulze ran a 12:39.89 to finish 3rd in the 3200m.  Eva Beauchamp was 3rd in the 100m hurdles 17.97 and the 300m hurdles 51.00. The first HOME track meet is March 1 at 3:30 PM. 

The SCDS varsity baseball team defeated Pierce County 8-6 with Jackson Sammons hitting the first home run of the season. Dalton Brown also added a home run as the Hornets now have their entire team competing with the completion of wrestling and boys' basketball. The next HOME game for the Hornets is February 28 vs Johnson High School at 5:00 PM.

The varsity girls' basketball team finished 4th in the Region 3AAA Tournament and was eliminated in the first Round of the GHSA playoffs by Cross Creek of Augusta. They finished the season with a record of 22-6. The Region coaches selected Kat Johnson and Stella Oelschig for the First Team All Region. Honorable Mention honors were awarded to Julia McGoldrick, Fiona Wilson, Michael Grandy and Stone Wells. 

The 2023 soccer season has started and the Savannah Morning News selected Wesley Hooker, Madden Gerlach, Hyers Holland and Cash Rameriz as top players to watch as the season unfolds in the Coastal Empire. The Hornets are HOME against Bulloch Academy on the 21st at 7:00 PM. Support your favorite Hornet team this spring!

Congratulations to Noah Carney and Molly Fountain—Mr. and Miss SCDS 2023! Noah and Molly were selected by their classmates and teachers as the two students who best demonstrate the spirit of SCDS in terms of their good character, positive attitude, strong academics and exemplary extracurricular involvement. Congratulations!