Christ Church Spring Sports swinging into full gear

By Neill Kirkpatrick

Special to the HSSR

Greenville – Spring sports time in South Carolina is always a special time of year as it starts out when the weather is still cold and unpredictable but as it warms up flowers bloom, the air is crisp and at Christ Church Episcopal they are looking for another state championship in one or more of their spring sports.

The Spring Sports at CCE consist of Boy’s Golf, Boy’s Tennis, Boys and Girls Soccer, Boys and Girls Lacrosse and Boys and Girls Track and field and the Cavalier’s have won an incredible 65 state championships in six of those sports and have finished runner ups another 50 times in all eight of those sports.

Boys Golf and Tennis have won the most state titles in state history with 20 and 25 respectively while the boys soccer team won a national record 11 consecutive state championships.

This spring several of the Cavs sports are having outstanding seasons and looking to make deep runs in the playoffs with an eye on another state championship for the Cavs trophy case.

Girls soccer is off to a great start at 10-2-1/7-0 and will looking to play in their fourth straight championship game. They are led by seniors Amelia Spinks and Laura Morgan and juniors Catherine Morgan and Sophia Tzouvelekas and sophomore Sophia Mahfood.

The girls Lacrosse team is off to a 10-5/5-1 record and is looking to make another deep run in the playoffs. They are led by senior captains Foster Miller, Kathryn Toomey and junior captain Sydney Shaw.

The baseball is currently in fourth place in region 4 AAA play with three more region contests and two out regions games before the playoffs begin. They have played a tough schedule to get them ready for the playoffs. Last year the got hot in the playoffs and made the upper state finals. They are led Carter Phillips, Bo Lowrance, Blake Foral, Brady Cisson and Chris Killian. Phillips is the team’s top hitter with a .484 average while Lowrance is also hitting right at .400.

The boys tennis team is breaking in a new coach as well as new several new starters. Krish Patel, Ellis Trail and the doubles team of Carson Bowers and Hutch Lyman all return. Patel was the number three seed last season.

The boy’s lacrosse team sits at 7-7 currently with two teams games left before the playoffs. They made the second-round last season. Seniors Will Marquet, Aiden Feltman, Ryan Doherty, JT Harrell lead a young team.