WE MEANT TO POST THIS DURING THE WEEKEND. WE'LL HAVE MORE, BUT AM LOOKING FOR SOME INPUT.
Two weeks have passed since the SCHSL and SCISA State Championships were held in Columbia and listed below are some notes, stats, and miscellaneous information compiled during the 2006 season.
BOYS***4A State Champion Northwestern tied the boys state record for victories in a season with 26 ... The Trojans finished 26-2-0 and tied 3A Brookland-Cayce, which posted a 26-2-1 mark in 2001 ... The state title was the first for Northwestern after finishing as Runners-Up in 2003 and 2004.
***Spring Valley made its first State Championship appearance since 1988 and the Vikings finished as Runners-Up for the fourth time (1982, 1987, and 1988) ... SVHS faced the Palmetto State's toughest schedule in 2006 according to the Massey Ratings.
***Riverside maintained the Upper State's stronghold on the Class 3A State Championship as the Warriors collected the program's sixth 3A title since 1993 and Riverside's 11th overall ... No Lower State team has captured the state title in Class 3A since the inception of this championship in 1993.
***Dreher returned to the State Finals for the first time since 1999 (3A) and the third time overall (1992, 3A/2A/1A) ... The Blue Devils tallied a school-record 21 wins this spring and won the Region 5-3A title for the second time in three seasons ... This region (Airport, Brookland-Cayce, Chapin, and Strom Thurmond) qualified as the second toughest conference in the state regardless of classification behind only Region 5-4A, which featured playoff teams Spring Valley, Irmo, Dutch Fork, Ridge View, Richland Northeast, and Lower Richland.
***Bishop England won the Class 2A State Championship for the second-straight year and for the third time overall since 2001 (first year of a solo 2A State Championship) ... The Battling Bishops have appeared in all six 2A State Finals ... In addition, BE has now won 10 State Championships since 1984 and have qualified for the state title match 16 times.
***Walhalla made its first trip to Columbia for the Class 2A State Championship after claiming the Upper State crown ... The Razorbacks ended Emerald's two-year reign as Upper State Champions.
***In Class 1A, Lincoln became the fifth team in six seasons to represent the Lower State in the title match ... Only Buford of the Lower State has appeared more than once in the 1A State Championship, while the Upper State opponent was once again Christ Church, which won the Championship for the sixth consecutive year ... The Cavaliers are now 7-0 in State Championshp appearances as CCES won the Class 2A/1A crown in 1996 and every 1A title since 2001.
***Just 10 teams reached the 20-win plateau this spring ... In 4A, five teams (Northwestern, Spring Valley, Wando, Hilton Head, and Fort Mill) posted 20 or more victories and five squads (Riverside, Dreher, Daniel, Greenville, and North Myrtle Beach) from the 3A ranks hit that number as well.
***13 teams scored more than 100 goals this spring -- Northwestern (180), Greenville (152), Daniel (145), Lincoln (138), Lakewood (126), Dreher (120), North Myrtle Beach (114), Spring Valley (110), Riverside (108), Wando (106), Fort Mill (103), Eastside (102), and Bluffton (101).
*** Only 10 teams allowed 20 or less goals this spring -- Greenville (8), North Myrtle Beach (12), Fort Mill (15), Northwestern (15), Wando (17), Academic Magnet (18), Bishop England (18), Batesburg-Leesville (19), Dorman (19), Spring Valley (20).
***Massey Power Ratings -- these have been compiled using straight stats from the Scoreboard (therefore, games decided by penalty kick shootouts have been recorded as Wins/Losses instead of Ties and non-SC matches do not count) ... #1 Northwestern, #2 Greenville, #3 Spring Valley, #4 Dreher, #5 Wando, #6 Riverside, #7 Fort Mill, #8 Irmo, #9 Lexington, #10 Mauldin, #11 Hilton Head, #12 Eastside, #13 Dutch Fork, #14 Bishop England, #15 Daniel, #16 Dorman, #17 North Myrtle Beach, #18 James Island, #19 South Aiken, and #20 Brookland-Cayce ... The rest can be found at
http://www.mratings.com/rate.php?lg=hssb&sub=SC .
***Toughest schedules according to the Massey Ratings -- #1 Spring Valley, #2 Mauldin, #3 Irmo, #4 Dorman, #6 Dutch Fork, #7 Northwestern, #8 James Island, #9 Riverside, #10 Wando, #11 Brookland-Cayce, #12 Lexington, #13 Eastside, #14 Ridge View, #15 Hilton Head, #16 Chapin, #17 Summerville, #18 Socastee, #19 Dreher, and #20 Spartanburg.
OTHERIf you have any questions, comments, suggestions, etc., about this past spring please reply in this thread and I'll check back accordingly. We'll have a girls release as well in time.
