After a 1-9 season, Lancaster (SC) wins its second SCHSL football playoff game

Bruins reach third round of South Carolina high school football playoffs for first time in 15 years

MT. PLEASANT, SOUTH CAROLINA – They call it the second season for a reason.

In the case of the Lancaster football team, which went just 1-9 during the regular season, the post-season has truly been a second lease on life. After Friday's 38-20 road win at Lucy Beckham, the Bruins have now won more playoff games in 2023 than they did during the entire regular season campaign.

Lancaster has also now advanced to the third round of the SCHSL 4A state playoffs, something it hasn't done in 15 years.

The Bruins, the 13th seed, were dominant in this one, building a 16-6 lead after one quarter and never looking back. They led 24-14 at the half and stretched that margin to 38-20 after three quarters.

Second-seeded Lucy Beckham went 9-1 in the reuglar season and was coming off a 37-7 rout of West Florence in last week's playoff opener.

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Published Nov 11, 2023

GARY ADORNATO

Gary Adornato began covering high school sports with the Baltimore Sun in 1982, while still a mass communications major at Towson University, and in 2003 became one of the first journalists to cover high school sports online while operating MIAASports.com, the official website of the Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association. Later, Adornato pioneered market-wide coverage of high school sports with DigitalSports.com, introducing video highlights and player interviews while assembling an award-winning editorial staff. In 2010, he launched VarsitySportsNetwork.com which became the premier source of high school media coverage in the state of Maryland. In 2022, he sold VSN to The Baltimore Banner and joined SBLive Sports as the company's East Coast Managing Editor.

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