Pendleton Lady Dogs Basketball

For the 2nd straight year Somarian “Slim” Webb has been named to the Allstate 3A team . Slim is an outstanding basketball player but beyond on that a great leader and a caring and determined young person. The Lady Bulldog program could not be prouder congratulations Slim

Excellent two weeks with season sweeps of West Oak followed by a season sweep of Seneca. This week is a very important series with Wren. First is the game at Wren on Tuesday followed a home game with Wren this Friday.

Great way to open conference play with a 57-31 home win vs BHP. Next up is the trip to BHP

Tryouts/practice begins on Monday November 2 @ 3:30 in main gym. Please make sure to have your physical, parent permission, and all other needed documentation completed on PlanetHS prior to practice.

Just wanted to welcome all our students but especially our players back to school. We encourage our players to adhere to the schools guidelines regarding the Covid Virus. We want everyone to have a productive and healthy year. Can not wait to see our girls back in the gym.

We are awaiting guidelines and information from the administration regarding our return to the court. As soon as a decision is made we will let everyone know. Hope everyone is staying safe

Congratulations to our award winners and to all of our team for their drive and resilience during an up and down season. We miss all of you more than you know we cannot wait until we have the opportunity to see all of you back in the gym.

Also a late congratulations to Coach Hedrick and his family on the recent birth of their 2nd child.

Honoring our lone Senior this year Karsen Cheek.

Hoping our team members are staying safe but active during current situation. We miss all of you and share the disappointment many of you feel having your respective spring sports season shortened. Want to remind you regardless of how you are spending time away from school this is a great time to continue working on your fundamentals including your form shooting and ball handling. Stay safe & stay active and keep those grades up.

One last note on our season. We are so grateful for the loyal and dedicated family and fans who’ve been with us all year. We had a great crowd last night despite the long drive. Another big thank you to our cheer team who made the trip last night as well. The support does not go unnoticed

Our all-Region Players Karsen Cheek and Somarian Webb. Well done

A huge shout out to our outstanding Sophomore Somarian “Slim” Webb who was named an All State performer this year. Could not be prouder of her. She works every day at her game and pushes herself and her teammates to continuously improve. The future is amazingly bright for our team and for Slim

We love you Slim Congratulations!!!!!!

A sad ending to a tough and challenging season. Proud of the fight we showed coming back from 13 down at half but our comeback fell a little short tonight at Clinton. Some notes and highlights from this season:

We began the season by welcoming 6 new players to our program including 4 freshman.

The season started rocky as we started the season without our lone senior and floor leader Karsen Cheek.

We began the season by losing 6 of our first 9 games against a very challenging non conference schedule.

As we continued to gel and improve the injury bug started to take its toll. We began the season with 2 key members of our team injured and unable to play. Shortly after the season began we lost a promising forward to a knee injury. The season started to turn after a home win vs Walhalla we then won the Pickens High School holiday tournament. Unfortunately during that tournament we lost another forward to a season ending knee injury. After Christmas we finished 2nd in the Laurens Christmas tournament. We continued fighting injuries losing players to nagging injuries as we started conference play. In total we lost over 90 games played due to injuries. We called upon 3 of our C Team members to join our team in order to have a full squad to practice We were forced to play players out of position but we continued to fight and scrap our way to a 2nd place finish and 1st round playoff home game vs Chesnee.

As we look to the future there numerous reasons to be optimistic about next year.

We expect our 3 injured players to return and be ready to make contributions to our depleted front court.

Including our injured players we return 14 players who finished the season on our team this year. We return experience and talent at every position.

Our conference next year will be challenging as Libert Powdersville and Crescent leave and we welcome Daniel,Wren and BHP to our league that will still havePendleton ,Seneca, and West Oak.

The two things we need in order to reach our goals next year: Is to have an active summer program with maximum participation so we can as a team work on those things we can improve on before the season starts. We are hoping also to have JV team in place next year which would help our program greatly.

Sadly tonight we say goodbye to a 4 year player our only Senior Karsen Cheek. Karsen fought nagging injuries this season but for the 2nd year in a row was voted an all region player. Karsen will be missed for her great personality her grit and her fighting spirit.

A personal note I’m very fortunate to be part of the Bulldog family and to work for one of the best basketball coaches this state has to offer. His talent and drive were on display this year with all the injuries and youth we had we continued to improve under his leadership.

Can’t wait to see what the future holds for this group. The road starts in June hope to see the gym full

Go Lady Bulldogs !!!!

Here is the latest: we will play tonight at Clinton @ 6:30. Players need to be at the school at 3:00.

After school practice has been canceled

Game tonight at Clinton has been postponed by Clinton School district officials.

We practice today from 4-5:15

Game is reset for tomorrow (Friday) @ 6:30.

Some scenes from Monday’s victory over Chesnee. Thank you Anderson Independent for you coverage of our team and the great pictures

1st Round victory over a very experienced and physical Chesnee ball club. It wasn’t pretty but a very determined effort. We move on to the 2nd round we will be playing Thursday @ Clinton game time is scheduled for 6:30. Hope to see a big Pendleton crowd on Thursday. Thank you to everyone who came out tonight. A huge thank you to our cheerleaders and our ROTC for being part of a great game atmosphere.

We are getting ready to host Chesnee at 6:30. Want wish our conference mates good luck as Seneca will host Broome, West Oak travels to Chapman and Powdersville goes to Southside.

Also good luck to those non conference opponents we played this season that qualified for post season play: Dixie,Westside,Pickens,Walhalla,Daniel, Peachtree Ridge and Palmetto.

Good luck and safe travels.

Spread the word we host Chesnee in a 1st round playoff game on Monday February 17@ 6:30. Hope to have a great home crowd.

Lady Bulldogs on Senior Day

A personal note: my apologies for the technical I received tonight vs Seneca. We strive to teach our players discipline and how to deal with bad calls by the referees. However I didn’t show that same discipline tonight and received a technical foul which hurt our team. I’ve apologized to Coach Wood and will address with our team soon.

Now on to the playoffs !

Coach Jones

First the bad news although we battled hard and to the end we fell short against Seneca tonight. We fought and kept clawing but came up a bit short.

The Good News because Crescent defeated West Oak tonight we officially finish in 2nd place and will host a first round playoff game this coming Monday February 17.

This weeks schedule:

Wednesday-no practice
Thursday- Main Gym 3:45-6
Friday- Main Gym 3:45-
Sunday-Main Gym 3-5
Monday- 1st round playoff game @ Home

Please spread the word regarding this new schedule.