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Orangeburg-Wilkinson managed to slip by Lower Richland the last time these teams faced off, but that sure wasn't the case this time around. The Orangeburg-Wilkinson Bruins fell victim to a tough 20-8 defeat at the hands of the Lower Richland Diamond Hornets on Friday. Orangeburg-Wilkinson was given a dose of their own medicine in this game as Lower Richland apparently hadn't forgotten their loss the last time these teams played last Tuesday.

For Lower Richland's part, Jakayla Robinson made a splash while hitting and pitching. On the mound, she struck out ten batters over 4.2 innings while giving up just one earned run off one hit. Robinson was also big at the plate, scoring three runs and stealing six bases while going 1-for-3.

In other batting news, Lower Richland got a massive performance out of Melanie Lane, who scored three runs and stole six bases while getting on base in all four of her plate appearances. Another player making a difference was Ava Allen, who scored three runs and stole seven bases while getting on base in all four of her plate appearances.

Orangeburg-Wilkinson dropped their record down to 1-5 with that defeat, which was their seventh straight on the road dating back to last season. As for Lower Richland, their victory ended a nine-game drought at home dating back to last season and bumped them up to 2-8.

Both teams will have to hit the road in their upcoming games. Orangeburg-Wilkinson will take on Swansea at 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday. As for Lower Richland, they will head out on the road to face off against Dreher at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday. Lower Richland knows how to get runs on the board -- the squad has finished with flashy run totals in its past three contests -- so hopefully Dreher likes a good challenge.

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Orangeburg-Wilkinson came tearing into Saturday's game with three straight wins (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 13.7 runs) and they left with even more momentum. They sure made it a nail-biter, but they managed to escape with a 5-4 victory over the Northside Christian Academy Crusaders. This was payback for Orangeburg-Wilkinson, who suffered a 7-5 defeat the last time these two teams met.

Orangeburg-Wilkinson's win was truly a team effort as eight different players contributed at least one hit. One of them was Aaron Ulmer, who scored a run and stole a base while going 2-for-3.

On Northside Christian Academy's side, Luke Bohnsack put in work no matter where he played. He tossed 2.1 innings while giving up no earned runs off three hits (he also only allowed one walk). Bohnsack has been consistent recently: he hasn't given up more than two walks in three consecutive pitching appearances. Bohnsack was also stellar in the batter's box, going 2-for-4 with a home run, three RBI, and a triple.

In other batting news, Cade McNeill was cooking despite his team's loss, going 2-for-4 with a triple and a stolen base. Another player making a difference was Will Spotts, who scored a run while going 1-for-3.

Even though they lost, Northside Christian Academy was hitting in the corners and finished the game with three triples. That's the most triples they've managed all season.

The victory got Orangeburg-Wilkinson back to even at 7-7. As for Northside Christian Academy, their loss ended a six-game streak of wins at home dating back to last season and dropped them to 9-3.

Orangeburg-Wilkinson is on the road again on Tuesday to play Swansea at 6:00 p.m. Orangeburg-Wilkinson is strutting in with some hitting muscle, as they've averaged 7.7 runs per game this season. As for Northside Christian Academy, they will be playing at home against Palmetto Christian Academy at 6:00 p.m. on Monday. Northside Christian Academy's pitching crew has only allowed 3.5 runs per game this season, so Palmetto Christian Academy's hitters will have their work cut out for them.

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BALTIMORE, Md. (March 27, 2024)--Morgan State will travel to Orangeburg, S.C. this weekend to take on South Carolina State in a three-game Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) series at Lady Bulldog Field.

The Lady Bears and Lady Bulldogs will get underway with a doubleheader on Friday, March 29 at 1 p.m. and 3 p.m., before closing out the series with a single game on Saturday at 12 p.m.

Last season the two teams split the series in Baltimore, each winning a game. The Lady Bulldogs claimed Saturday's contest 5-3. On Sunday, Morgan State won the opener, 6-1. The Lady Bears held a 4-2 lead in the fifth inning of Game 2 when it was stopped due to darkness.

Morgan State (16-13, 5-1 MEAC) is coming off a tough 4-3 loss in eight innings at rival Towson on Tuesday. The loss ended a season-high six-game winning streak for Morgan State. Prior to the Towson contest, the Lady Bears swept visiting Maryland Eastern Shore in a three-game MEAC series, outscoring the Hawks 18-5.

South Carolina State (4-16, 2-4 MEAC) is coming off being swept by Howard on the road over the weekend, including a 7-0 loss in the finale on Sunday.

Morgan State leads the MEAC in pitching with an ERA 2.65 and fielding 96.3%. South Carolina is sixth in pitching (5.13 ERA) and sixth in fielding (93.5%).

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ORANGEBURG, S.C. (WCSC) - The Orangeburg County Coroner’s Office confirmed Tuesday that human remains found earlier this month in Holly Hill are those of a woman reported missing in August.

The coroner was able to confirm the remains were those of 49-year-old Melissa Aguilar using dental records, WIS-TV reported.

That’s news that Orangeburg County Sheriff Leroy Ravenell said he learned from Aguilar’s family, not from official channels, shortly before a Tuesday afternoon news conference on the case. That news conference seemed to raise more questions than provide answers, however.

Ravenell said family members told him that someone at the Orangeburg County Coroner’s Office told family members that the human remains discovered on Jan. 4 were those of Aguilar.

“After talking to the family, they informed me that they were informed by the coroner’s office that this was — this actually came back to be Melissa,” Ravenell said.

But the sheriff said his agency had not yet been informed of that confirmation and that he was trying to get a call through to the coroner’s office.

“Officially, we’re still waiting on our own word, but that’s what the family is telling me from the guy from the coroner’s office,” he said. “If that’s the case, I gave the family my condolences and told them that we will continue to pray for them and that this investigation, even though we were working it as a missing person, you know, I will tell you here and now that this was, this investigation, all the time was going in two different directions.”

Aguilar’s sister, Sarah Shipman, said they’ve been experiencing this lack of communication throughout the investigation.

“I don’t know if people know the locations of those two offices but they’re like a building apart,” Shipman said, “Not only did we get a lack of communication, but they can’t communicate with each other.”

Shipman said she filed a formal complaint against the Orangeburg County Sheriff’s Office through the Attorney General’s Office this past weekend, citing a lack of communication and transparency throughout the investigation.

She said she believes Tuesday’s news conference stemmed from her complaint, but a spokesperson for the agency said they had no knowledge of the complaint at the time.

Aguilar had been reported missing on Aug. 18 by an ex-boyfriend, the sheriff said. Ravenell said their job now is to find out the manner of death.

“And if it was some foul play, then you can be assured that we’ll find out and we will have somebody in custody if there was some foul play,” he said.

Ravenell said investigators questioned people in the months since Aguilar was reported missing, but said without the discovery of remains and the confirmation that the remains were those of Aguilar, they did not know whether anyone was responsible for her disappearance. But he said his agency has a “person of interest” in that disappearance.

“We talked to him, we had enough reason to think that we needed to get his phone and we needed to get this DVR and analyze it,” he said.

The sheriff did not name the person of interest or any possible connection with Aguilar.

Aguilar’s family said the remains were found less than a half-mile from her home.

After asking neighbors for an approximate location of where the remains had been found, Shipman, said she and Agular’s two daughters, Birttany Ranew and Shanna Brown went to the site the next day, hoping for what she called closure.

“As I was hugging my nieces and consoling them, I looked down and found my sister’s jawbone between my feet,” Shipman said on Wednesday.

As of then, the Orangeburg County Coroner’s Office had not confirmed to the family that the remains were of Aguilar. Deputies said the remains had been sent to the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division for processing and identification.

“We know her smile, and that smile was in the dirt, and you don’t unsee that, and you know someone’s smile,” Shipman said.

Shipman said investigators promised to collect the rest of the remains, but that when she and Brown returned to the scene the following day, they found what appeared to be several more bones and a tooth.

Ravenell defended his team amid questions about how family members could have found remains after they had supposedly been collected.

“The coroner collected the remains that were there,” Ravenell said.

When a reporter asked about the fact that it struck some people as unusual that there would still be remains left for the family to discover, Ravenell said it struck him as unusual as well.

“You know, it’s just that, just in a case of a dead body, the coroner comes and they pronounce and then they collect and remove. It’s the same thing,” he said.

Orangeburg County Coroner Samuetta Marshall said they “collected what they saw.” She said, although it’s not unusual, there was no boundary set up by law enforcement indicating where the remains were discovered.

Ravenell said he can understand the family being upset about the lack of answers they’ve received so far and said he wished he’d had the information they told him they had received from the coroner’s office.

“I would be upset. I would be angry with somebody. So I don’t hold anything against the family,” he said. “A lot of people would be way more outraged than they were.”

Moving forward, Shipman said she hopes the agency will show more respect to their family and provide answers regarding what happened to her sister.

“We were screaming this to Orangeburg the moment we saw her smile, it wasn’t relief, it was, ‘I told you so,’” Shipman said.

Sheriff Leroy Ravenell released the following statement:

“On Tuesday, I held a press conference with the sole purpose of informing the public after we had conferred with the family as to where an investigation stood into the recovery of human remains near Holly Hill on January 4, 2024. The community has a vested interest in their county and deserve to know where we stood.”

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