Congratulations to all the Irmo players. So proud of how you girls played as a team today and a well deserved win!! Good luck the rest of the season!!

Congrats to coach Puryear and the Irmo girls. Keep it up the rest of the season!!!

Congrats to Coach Puryear, great way to kick off his high school coaching career. Congrats to the Irmo players, they played great all game and had a lot of energy and commitment. Gina Cox covered a ton of ground in the final and did a near impossible job really well. Back at full strength, Irmo looked really good this weekend.

Thank you to all the teams that participated this weekend. We dodged the weather all the way up to the final, which was played in a steady rain.

All coaches, players and parents were very supportive and everyone seemed to enjoy the experience.

Congratulations to Irmo (coach Josh Puryear) and TL Hanna who were fantastic all weekend and gave us a great final match. Very sorry that TLH coach Katelyn Davis had to miss today's championship due to a death in the family. Big props to my friend Craig Joyner for hopping in the car early this morning (after what had to be a late night of St. Patrick's Day "fellowship") and covering for Katelyn.

Thanks to Mark Weaver for bringing back Ashley Ridge for a second consecutive year and BIG THANKS to Chris Fryland who brings Lexington every year. Chris always asks for the toughest matches I can give him and come May, his Lady Wildcats are ready for a run at the 4A state title.

As always, many thanks to our four York County teams: Fort Mill, Nation Ford, Northwestern and Clover. Nation Ford and Clover also provided us with a very competitive 3rd place match this afternoon.

First Presbyterian Day (Macon, GA) was a first-class team as usual and we are grateful that the 14 North Carolina teams cleared room on their schedules in order to participate. Charlotte Catholic, Myers Park, Weddington, Providence, Marvin Ridge and South Mecklenburg were all exceptional. AC Reynolds (Asheville, NC) would be in that category as well but they have been decimated by injury, most recently losing Shenny Lenhart (CESA Premier 94) and Sydney Maddox (CESA Premier 93). We wish both girls a speedy recovery.

Many thanks to our sponsor, Wells Fargo (Vilda Bird - the tents came in handy!), the staff at Manchester Meadows (Bill Berry, Richard Stutts), Fort Mill athletic trainers (Ben Merritt, Katie Runyon), Fort Mill Invitational Tournament Committee (Beth Parker, Gary Hatherly, Jamie Van Buskirk, Stephanie Rich), all of the Fort Mill parent volunteers (too many to list), volunteer scoreboard operators (Rick Fielden, Grayson Bagwell), ball girls (Fort Mill girls JV team), referees (Rick Rogers), tournament program designer (Jerry Howell) and printer (Mike Brown) and The Rock Hill Herald (Jason Chisari).

Last, but certainly not least, special thanks to the tournament photographers Phil Polito (Fort Mill) and Mike Witherspoon (Nation Ford) who worked the entire event and posted thousands of pictures available for viewing and downloading for FREE at:

http://www.mcwimages.com/Sports/Fort-Mill-Invitational-Soccer

Can't thank these two guys enough!

thank you for inviting my team, tc roberson. we had great time and enjoyed playing porter ridge.

For only a soph, Savannah McCaskill of Irmo played very composed and strong all weekend. Overall, there was a lot of strong teams, strong players, and strong competition all weekend!

Yellow Jackets fall to South Mecklenburg in girls soccer
The (Rock Hill) Herald
March 18, 2012
by Jason Chisari

http://www.heraldonline.com/2012/03/18/3828621/yellow-jackets-fall-to-south-mecklenburg.html

Who won the Nation Ford vs Clover game?

Congrats to the Lady Falcons!!! Sounds like a very good weekend.

Photos from all the matches are now loaded.

http://www.mcwimages.com/Sports/Fort-Mill-Invitational-Soccer

Once again, many thanks to Mike Witherspoon (Nation Ford) and Phil Polito (Fort Mill).