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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 2008
Page
17
Travis Kvapil won the pole at Talladega Superspeedway with a 187.364 mph lap in his Yates Racing Ford for his 100th career start. Casey Mears qualified second in a Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet.
Chris Smelley threw three touchdown passes and 327 yards as South Carolina beat Mississippi 31 24. The Gamecocks built a 17 14 halftime lead with a 29 yard fumble return by Nathan Peppers and controlled the fourth quarter with an 11 play 95 yard drive to seal the win. Ole Miss drop to 3 3 1 2 SEC while South Carolina improves to 4 2 2 SEC East hopes.
After Bruce Zuehlke was placed on paid administrative leave the Midland Valley High School community has seen no public update. Officials refuse to discuss the case calling it a personnel matter while the Aiken Standard seeks records under FOIA. Zuehlke, a 16 year MVHS veteran and 1997 Class AAA state champion coach, led the Mustang baseball team to last season’s Lower State final where they fell 8 1 to Brookland Cayce.
Lexington High School won the Region V-AAAA meet by 267.5 points at USC Aiken Natatorium with Aiken High finishing second. The Hornets, 4-2 this season, earned eight boys to next week’s state meet in Rock Hill. Steven Kekacs won 200 and 500 yard freestyle. Richard Droghini took 200 IM and 100 fly. Girls finished fourth behind North Augusta and Lexington won girls.
Vanderbilt upsets 13th ranked Auburn 14 13 to stay undefeated at 5 0 and top of SEC East Mackenzi Adams threw for 153 yards and two touchdowns after entering as a reserve Justin Wheeler caught five passes for 52 yards including a 15 yard TD pass Myron Lewis sealed the win with an interception late in the fourth quarter marking Vanderbilt s first top 25 appearance since 1984 and first series win since 1955 over Auburn in this rivalry
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